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This was done with 5th grade to teach perspective. They had to have 1 vanishing point and 9 or more boxes. They had to create a "connector" to connect the boxes together. I saw everything from stretch limousines, to hotdogs, to giraffe necks. Color pencil, used complementary colors for shadowed sides, used tints for highlighted sides. Took forever, but they learned a lot.
My boyfriend Aaron having fun standing on a stump at the edge of a bamboo forest. The necklace he is wearing is one that I made for him. It is made out of glass.
In crowds, seagulls, like people, seem raucous, greedy, and messy. Alone, they seem much lovelier. It's all in your perspective. Question: Does truth and wisdom come from choosing the right perspective? Or simply from knowing that we chose?
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Poem:
One day when lake and sky
flung themselves together at the shore,
midst splash and spray, upon a rock,
a gull stood, thin and pale
against the racing gray.
Bemused, he seemed, and clumsy,
peering down a crooked beak
on tumult at his silly feet-
a clown, a hook-billed shmoo,
a nose thumbed at Creation.
He needed symmetry;
needed grace.
Lord, he needed arms!
Then with a cry into the gale,
he unfurled pure white sails
and Sky called him back home:
he floated lightly on the tempest,
smiling as it howled,
looked casually down on me,
then nodded to the wind.
It whisked him up the shoreline
with the suddenness of magic;
easy as a shadow on a wall
around the bend and gone.
- Randy Minnich, Clumsiness
More about Mr. Minnich here - squirrelhillpoets.org/minnich/
Sometimes all you need is a change in perspective to view the beauty of something.
-- Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA
© Mervyn Chua, 2011. All Rights Reserved.
Another of "those" evenings at Wilstone Reservoir, when the light just keeps getting better and the sunset keeps getting nicer. This place is magical to me, it always seems to deliver a nice photo and always cheers me up. Suffice to say I ended up walking the two miles home in near darkness. Thank luck for head torches.
my entry for Illustration Friday's theme of Perspective. Also my entry for 52 Designs.
Now available as a limited edition print in my shop. See my profile for details.