Monday, November 23, 2009

Armadillo!



Cheryl gave me this little armadillo years ago... I take him with me wherever I go. He has seen better days, on his trip to Nova Scotia he lost an ear. Here he watches over my progress on the square at Via Colori this past weekend.

2 comments:

Biddie said...

poor Dilly the 'dillo - hope his hearing is better than mine ...

Went out to your flickr pictures - your chalk paintig is huge - how long did it take you to do it? I love the intensity of color in those chalks. The butterflies are a beautiful addition to your Degas gal!!

Michael-Ann said...

Hi Mom :-)

The painting is 10'x10', I started at 9am and finished @3pm. People commented on how fast I worked, but I didn't take any breaks. I was worried I wouldn't finish by the end of the day... cut out a lot of the butterflies I had originally planned to do.

For the most part I was pleased with how she turned out. But I've been talking to Gordy about creating a mathematical program that generates the grid for 3-D representation in hopes that I could leverage that same perspective equation to work around the distortion that resulted in her looking so "busty" in photographs.

I am INCREDIBLY sore today: butt, legs and neck muscles... more so then when I was trying ashganda yoga!!

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