Merry Christmas!

Movement

I installed a fan in our house today, so I figure it was a fitting subject for this week's homework...

HOMEWORK YAY!

This week: movement

here is Mother and Daughter

One of my softball players...

Bzzzzzzzzzz

Still Life

It's been a while since I posted a still life, one of my favorite things to photograph, so here's a new one.

Bugs and stuff

More from when Rusty and Jim came to visit.

Pics with Rusty and Stutz

Last week Rusty came up to visit and almost killed himself! So in honor of Jim, his birthday, parking violations and pubes in sundaes... here's a few pictures I took when we went out.

DISCLAIMER: Jim took the picture of Stutz getting his diploma er ticket, I think Jim was more interested in the girl wearing the black bra than the actual transaction taking place :D

Rusty taking a picture of me taking a picture of Jim.

Jim with with Lisa, the hostess at Applebee's in Chesterton, IN.

Jim's Pube Sundae

Stutz making friends with the local law enforcement

while doing his impersonation of Gilbert Gottfried.

Weekend Homework

Here's one I took of my niece at Thanksgiving last year. She was sitting in the sink to get cleaned up after dinner but she wasn't done yet. You can't see it in this picture but in the other hand was a drumstick as big as her leg :)

I love this one.

totally didn't notice the bug on the left when i took this picture.

Well for our new "homework" I thought I would share some of my favorite shots from the summer:

HomeWORK YAY!

Back from a lengthy Hiatus, the weekly homework has been revived using ancient glyphs and dirt from Transylvania! Just don't let it bite you. Due before Monday lets do any picture you took that you really like, and hopefully we can find an element or principle of art in there. We'll get back on that bandwagon next week so make sure you check back to find out what next weeks is!

Portrait

here is a portrait that I did today...I think its the best portrait I have ever taken...I love this Picture..

thoughts.....

This is a picure that I go back and forth on....Some days i like it...others...not so much...What do you guys think?

SHAPE

Shape

Well here is my post for the week on SHAPE.

For those who didn't know...the St Louis Arch was fabricated and built in Warren, PA at PDM (Pittsburgh-Des Moines) and it was shipped by rail to St Louis in 8' tri-angular sections.

So there is a lil history lesson...

This is just one of the Many pictures I took from atop of the St Louis Arch. You can get some pretty amazing pictures from 630 feet in the air. I have more that I will post later

By my estimation we have done 6 of the 15 Elements & Principles of art, so 9 more to go. What say we go for SHAPE next week?!

1. form
2. line
3. shape
4. color
5. texture
6. space
7. value
8. emphasis
9. balance
10. harmony
11. variety
12. movement
13. rhythm
14. proportion
15. unity

New Lens

Well while i was in the hospital my new lens came in the mail. its a 70-300...its pretty nice....so i will hopefully have some spare time to take some pictures....

Creative License

It's weird what you find in your backyard. These pictures were taken at a now closed ammunitions factory. Located in the corn fields of Indiana, Kingsbury Ordinance Plant which produced shells, cartridges and mortar rounds for World War II and the Korean conflict.
After the closure of the facility, portions were sold off to commercial land owners which lease the buildings to businesses. The land was deeded to the state of Indiana in 1965 by the federal General Services Administration, and wildlife management began at that time. Now known primarily as the Kingsbury Fish and Wildlife Area. Offering wetland trapping, fishing, hunting and a shooting range, its a great location with acres of land to explore. I hope you enjoy these as much as I had taking them

Color

Here we go

Lines

i am going with Lines...there are so many different lines here...with the nest and the birds feathers...

EMPHASIS

HOMEWORK YAY!

HOMEWORK IS BACK!!!!!!!!

For this week you may REDO any of the previous weeks, if you had an idea that you didn't get to do or if there was a week you think you could do better, now is your chance.  Lets see what ya got!

what happened

What happened to this place? Why have we stopped posting? I honestly enjoyed doing weekly assignments and getting feed back from those who know more about this art than i do. Can we please get this going again?

homework

This is my shot at emphasizing the flowers.....

HOMEWORK

After last weeks huge success...  I was about to quit posting new assignments.  But after enough people called and wrote in I started to feel like a FOX television show and decided to post a new homework.  They only difference being unlike Seth MacFarlane I'm not getting and additional 100 Million dollars to keep going.  Sure he has to give half away in taxes, but that still leaves 50 Million... and THATS a lot of hookers!

If you've lasted this long through the post then you'll be delighted to know that this weeks (short) homework assignment is emPhasis.  

More after the break and be sure to scroll down to watch the video!

Value

OK..sorry mine is late but, I just got the internet at my new place.

VALUE