tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74912689689841082012024-03-19T14:57:29.387-05:00big blue umbrellaA collaborative art experiment at White Rock Lake and beyond: I set up a giant canvas and a sign reading "Please Help Create This Painting - Everyone is Welcome". Then I start painting, wait for people to join in... and they do.Lisa Huffakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12807579867826806196noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7491268968984108201.post-51241375594188119502016-08-04T22:23:00.000-05:002016-08-04T22:57:10.289-05:00Mindburst Installation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last fall at Yavneh Academy, I worked with students and fellow arts teachers to create "Mindburst," a week-long interactive multi-media art installation. It featured artwork by the students, videos from the film class and music ensemble, and creative writing by my class. I visited hardware stores all over Dallas to collect hundreds of paint sample cards, which we stapled to strings to create cascades of color. We decorated the atrium with bright explosions of tissue paper and strands of ribbon, and strung colored yarn to the hammers of a disembodied piano mechanism. The exhibit invited students to respond to what they saw. Pens were available for people to respond to colors by writing directly on the cards, and two vintage typewriters sat before large portraits, where students could contribute to ongoing stories. Students wrote and posted descriptions of what they saw in a kaleidoscope, created magnetic poems along the steel beams, and added to large Keith Haring inspired chalk drawings.</div>
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<br />Lisa Huffakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12807579867826806196noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7491268968984108201.post-46069409069553070262015-05-25T12:29:00.002-05:002016-01-20T16:18:27.249-06:00Creativity Camp at Yavneh AcademyLast June at Yavneh Academy, I worked with my friend Kim Corbet to present an arts camp. We and our students explored creative writing, music, visual art, and performance. This is a mixed-media piece we created together, on wood panel, four feet by eight feet. <br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->We spent a lot of time standing back to consider
how to unify the painting as a whole.</div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->We took turns playing “dictator.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The person wearing the dictatorial fez
decided what the painting needed, and assigned tasks to everyone else. </div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Every person brought an object that he or she
was sad to part with, and donated it to the work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The personal meaning of each object was also
donated to the work.</div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->We ended our week-long camp with a performance
in which we played music, shared creative writing, and unveiled this
painting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The finale of the performance
was a percussion improvisation in which we interpreted the painting as a
musical score.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Participants (and even
audience members) took turns wearing the dictator’s fez and pointing to various
regions of the painting to be played. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Lisa Huffakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12807579867826806196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7491268968984108201.post-40659746624874492872015-05-14T22:02:00.001-05:002015-05-14T22:02:37.929-05:00Weaving in the MountainsOk, this isn't a canvas, but I loved what happened last summer when I was with my family, camping in Idaho. We had the notion to create a collaborative weaving with whatever we could find. First I strung a warp in a tree, using some orange twine my dad had on hand. Then my nieces and I collected grasses, flowers, moss, sticks, etc. for the weft. We left the finished weaving as a surprise for the next campers.<br />
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Lisa Huffakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12807579867826806196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7491268968984108201.post-15213963685701063202014-09-03T21:38:00.001-05:002014-09-04T07:04:05.378-05:00Color Music<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last spring at the Carpe Diem picnic, I made this painting with about 40 children between the ages of 2 and 10. First I painted a background in dark blues. Then I chose special music to reflect the qualities of four different colors, and covered the record jackets in colored paper. The children took turns choosing a color, playing the record, and painting with that color in response to the music.</div>
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RED: Dixieland jazz by a band called The Firehouse Five (fast, hot sounds)</div>
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ORANGE: Sitar music by Ravi Shankar (strong, warm sounds)</div>
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YELLOW: a Vivaldi violin concerto (bright, shining sounds)</div>
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PINK: "Je veux vivre" sung by Joan Sutherland (sweet, joyful sounds)</div>
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<br />Lisa Huffakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12807579867826806196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7491268968984108201.post-26154830154982127572014-02-22T23:02:00.001-06:002014-02-22T23:11:24.073-06:00Dallas Day and Night<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last summer at Carpe Diem, I worked with a group of about thirty summer camp kids between the ages of 6 and 12 to create these paintings. Here's how we imagined our city.</div>
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The paintings now live behind the front desk in the Carpe Diem lobby. Their job is to greet the people who walk in our door: "Welcome, everyone!"<br />
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<br />Lisa Huffakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12807579867826806196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7491268968984108201.post-5792642188708978912014-02-22T22:53:00.003-06:002014-02-22T23:10:42.070-06:00Painting at the Reading Room<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In December I painted with a group of children and their families at the Christian Science Reading Room in Richardson, TX. Here's what we made!<br />
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Last spring I worked with a group of about thirty children between the ages of 5 and 12 to create this picture at Carpe Diem. We hung it in the Lyn Voegeli Memorial Library. Lyn was the director of Carpe Diem for many years, and filled it with wonderful books that continue to inspire the children and adults who read together at our school. Lyn was a dear friend and mentor to me, and I will always be grateful I had the chance to witness the many ways she showed her deep interest in the humanity of all people, and especially children. Thank you always, Lyn.</div>
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Last week I helped start an after school poetry club at Lang Middle School. Each week, the poetry we work on will also be documented on this canvas. Our first project was to write color poems. As the students read their poems, they also added their colors to the painting. Over the next several weeks, we will add many more layers to the picture.<br />
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Here are some lines from the students' poems, combined to make one poem:<br />
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<em>Green tastes like cucumber. </em><br />
<em>Green sounds like the wind blowing on the grass.</em><br />
<em>Green lives in the leaves.</em><br />
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<em>Blue sounds like thunder.</em><br />
<em>Blue smells like seawater.</em><br />
<em>It feels like a soft pillow. It thinks beautiful, peaceful thoughts.</em><br />
<em>Blue lives in Italy. Blue can live in the sky. </em><br />
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<em>Red tastes like cherry. It sounds like blood.</em><br />
<em>It smells like strawberries. If Red was a person it would be fun.</em><br />
<em>Red feels like cherries all around.</em><br />
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<em>Black is charcoal. Taste of burned food.</em><br />
<em>If it were a person, what would it do? Pass by you, fast.</em><br />
<em>What does it feel like? Black metal.</em><br />
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(thank you to Big Thought for sending me to do this project!)<br />
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<br />Lisa Huffakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12807579867826806196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7491268968984108201.post-2923222820762600792012-10-29T15:09:00.000-05:002014-02-22T23:14:06.114-06:00Painting the Music II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This painting was created by 65 preschoolers between ages 2 and 5, while we listened to Bach. I turned the canvas one way as we listened to the pipe organ and painted in somber blues and greens with fat brushes. Then I flipped it over and switched to bright reds and yellows, as we listened to the harpsichord and painted with small brushes.<br />
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Here are several title ideas, suggested by the children:<br />
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"A Fire Mountain"<br />
"Ocean Rainbow"<br />
"A Flower Vase"<br />
"A Fishing Bob"<br />
"The Hot Air Balloon"<br />
"A Sea Serpent and Seaweed"<br />
"The Sun is Going Down"<br />
"Rainbow Color" <br />
"Melting Crayons"<br />
"Dynamite Exploding in the Water"<br />
"An Elf Came in the Middle of the Night and Painted the Walls of a Store"<br />
"Sunset in Alaska"<br />
"A Scary Rainbow"<br />
"American Cave"<br />
"A Magical Butterfly in a Tree"<br />
"The Volcano Explodes, and Fire Comes Out with Balls of Color"<br />
"A Fish Swimming Away"<br />
"I Think I See a Cello In There"<br />
"A Tunnel"<br />
<br />Lisa Huffakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12807579867826806196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7491268968984108201.post-66199409400512853942012-03-10T09:28:00.001-06:002012-03-10T09:29:34.175-06:00Sold!I'm thrilled to report that "Butterfly Garden" sold for $500 dollars at the benefit auction for Good Shepherd Episcopal School, and that the painting has found a permanent home with the family of the little girl who painted the blue-green smiling butterflies floating mid-left in the canvas.Lisa Huffakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12807579867826806196noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7491268968984108201.post-84378132444549663302012-02-09T21:58:00.000-06:002012-02-09T21:58:24.065-06:00Butterfly Garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWWcOMUZiiQuAW38zNd1uov0iQakYgn-VesTkMrAkF9dmI0hntTbZIpGXLThA1cabHju3bgket-81uigcu4lkidIZ743lJBjJXe18lHXxNN_eKvqdYy7O4q3rpPvQ64WybQ4vrNtsrrxc/s1600/butterflies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="307" sda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWWcOMUZiiQuAW38zNd1uov0iQakYgn-VesTkMrAkF9dmI0hntTbZIpGXLThA1cabHju3bgket-81uigcu4lkidIZ743lJBjJXe18lHXxNN_eKvqdYy7O4q3rpPvQ64WybQ4vrNtsrrxc/s320/butterflies.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>This painting was created by me and Mrs. Shinnick's kindergarten class at Good Shepherd Episcopal School. Thank you to Kathleen Duggan O'Brien, who invited me to do this project after we met at the Plano International Festival. Fifteen very enthusiastic children helped me paint this cheerful canvas; our finished work will be auctioned to benefit the school on February 25th!<br />
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This week at Carpe Diem, my young students and I created this painting as we listened to the music of J.S. Bach. On the first day, we listened to the pipe organ and painted with strong, dark blues and greens, using large brushes and bold strokes. On the next day, we listened to the harpsichord and painted with sparkling whites, yellows and greens, making short, bright strokes with small brushes. On the third day, we looked at our finished work and spent time talking about what we saw. Here are some of the marvelous things my students saw in their painting:<br />
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<li>"Strong Thunder"</li>
<li>"Like a Festival"</li>
<li>"Wish of a Dinosaur"</li>
<li>"Going on the Ferris Wheel"</li>
<li>"I'm Imagining I was On the Stairs"</li>
<li>"Nighttime on a Special Friday"</li>
<li>"It Snowed"</li>
<li>"Night Near the City"</li>
<li>"I See the Sun Coming Up"</li>
<li>"It's Rotating"</li>
<li>"Bananas and Hot Dogs"</li>
<li>"I See a Flower Down in the Deep Cold Water"</li>
<li>"Mezzazoo"</li>
<li>"Raindrops on the Stairs"</li>
<li>"A Bonker Party"</li>
<li>"A Tiger is Hiding in the Circle"</li>
<li>"Different Moons"</li>
<li>"Everybody Throwing Candy in the Air"</li>
<li>"A Pinata Falling Down"</li>
<li>"Flowery Night"</li>
<li>"Broken Necklace"</li>
<li>"Lights on a Tree"</li>
<li>"A Canoe Going for a Ride in the Water"</li>
<li>"I See a Shark Down There"</li>
<li>"Rain Beads"</li>
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These students range in age between 2 and 5. About sixty-five of them worked on the painting, in class groups of 8 to 14 students.Lisa Huffakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12807579867826806196noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7491268968984108201.post-34559389867627701692011-10-02T14:14:00.000-05:002014-02-23T07:51:01.571-06:00Plano International Festival<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had a wonderful Saturday at the Plano International Festival! Too many kids to count painted on my canvas, while friends from the Writer's Garret helped them write poems and stories inspired by the process. I kept hearing things like "this is my favorite day," "this is fun," and "I want to do this every day!" One nine-year-old boy stayed for about three hours, painting, dictating stories and poems, and telling me all kinds of things. My favorite: Mona Lisa's eyes follow you wherever you go. NOTE: the painting now lives in the conference room at the Writer's Garret, brightening poetry workshops and other creative gatherings.<br />
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Here's how White Rock Lake felt to all 52 of us who painted together last Saturday: a joyful urban oasis. Thank you to everyone-- and especially to the bright boy who had the brilliant idea to paint a glowing sun in the middle of the branches!</div>
Lisa Huffakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12807579867826806196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7491268968984108201.post-11368686355001009672011-09-25T19:41:00.000-05:002012-10-30T21:25:56.398-05:00Upcoming Event!Great news! I'll be collaborating with friends at the Writer's Garret next Saturday at the Plano International Festival. I'll be facilitating a painting, and others will be facilitating an exciting creative writing adventure inspired by the experience. Come celebrate our shared creativity in color, shape, and language! Art, story, and poetry are for everyone, because every human life contains beauty, power, and untold depth. Come share a little of yours! For more information, visit <a href="http://www.planointernationalfestival.org/">http://www.planointernationalfestival.org/</a>Lisa Huffakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12807579867826806196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7491268968984108201.post-17440521606161743342011-09-25T19:04:00.000-05:002011-09-25T19:30:24.288-05:00CommuniTREE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjvRvztuUnZNLgMbgMrodT0csnQFgUwToTIfACH1SHNab_-1po9ASEReD7HJ58E3cx2Dfu62ztzFhu6ExaHpcVyROsrlQmDD1XjU_wmbEuo6dqWPO1tM3rvcrH29o6uX4r_Y9IzqdbqhM/s1600/IMAG0994.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hca="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjvRvztuUnZNLgMbgMrodT0csnQFgUwToTIfACH1SHNab_-1po9ASEReD7HJ58E3cx2Dfu62ztzFhu6ExaHpcVyROsrlQmDD1XjU_wmbEuo6dqWPO1tM3rvcrH29o6uX4r_Y9IzqdbqhM/s320/IMAG0994.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3KIXQZXpynBB2oy5-Zf0tKgujY9mPz3PTgYW6TxtxAIA-SbaK8bS_PaCbyZ8Yo2SIS0ekh-4X5mkDT5BnGlKrjuEy2dyPTp9VbIYGxmx38ivyfjUXlEvxyjceVGhPK7VP07Y8dLcXl08/s1600/100_1928_00.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hca="true" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3KIXQZXpynBB2oy5-Zf0tKgujY9mPz3PTgYW6TxtxAIA-SbaK8bS_PaCbyZ8Yo2SIS0ekh-4X5mkDT5BnGlKrjuEy2dyPTp9VbIYGxmx38ivyfjUXlEvxyjceVGhPK7VP07Y8dLcXl08/s320/100_1928_00.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>So much for the big blue umbrella. Sunday evening, it filled with towering storm clouds. The only creatures interested in my painting were a couple chiggers crawling around on the canvas, between blue lines. Their cousins were busy sucking my blood. Suddenly the heavy heat broke, and I scrambled to pack up. The canvas bucked so hard in the wind, I could hardly wrestle it to the car. I hoped my easel wouldn't act as a lightning rod. Big fat drops pelted the windshield on the way home. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXnjIP43Rp380UKNifmonbnPRt0ipTJ-xBc_xjLNVlxaJV5wwYKfYCNB6fLUTc2u8n5YZGIVsfzJ6yMPKkfkQnjlVf2WQj9l-9Zm6b0G49rxKnbF-AccQsem9P5LKcaR7zhiwLosXgwL0/s1600/100_1105.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXnjIP43Rp380UKNifmonbnPRt0ipTJ-xBc_xjLNVlxaJV5wwYKfYCNB6fLUTc2u8n5YZGIVsfzJ6yMPKkfkQnjlVf2WQj9l-9Zm6b0G49rxKnbF-AccQsem9P5LKcaR7zhiwLosXgwL0/s320/100_1105.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div>Lisa Huffakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12807579867826806196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7491268968984108201.post-11130637561702241442011-06-06T20:53:00.000-05:002011-06-06T21:15:18.967-05:00Painting at Jess Harben Elementary<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>After she saw this blog, my friend Sheridan Braggs invited me to visit her first grade class. They created this colorful canvas, which is nearly finished. The children dove in with great enthusiasm. Check out the periwinkle blues! Sheridan says everyone who's seen the picture has been thrilled about it. In fact, rumor has it that a giant collaborative canvas will be part of the next teacher inservice meeting at Jess Harben Elementary. Go, Sheridan! Let's spread the notion that we're all part of something big, beautiful, and singular!<br />
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And now we need a title! E-mail me at <a href="mailto:lisahuffaker@yahoo.com">lisahuffaker@yahoo.com</a> with suggestions.<br />
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By the way, I've already bought a second canvas, and can't wait to begin!Lisa Huffakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12807579867826806196noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7491268968984108201.post-45624051690429578502011-05-21T22:15:00.000-05:002011-05-29T17:27:56.870-05:00Painting #1 Nearly Done<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">By now the canvas was so full it reminded me of Newspaper Rock, the famous petroglyph panel near Canyonlands National Park. Now <em>there's</em> an incredible piece of collaborative art -- created over the past 1,500 to 2,000 years!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqLRaTRRyZZpj91sMr1YplB_5Uc-5Nyua3PZqhdhGzHANrp1MT-dxl9kdQSOrIt38BRO2AFR2OosZpwz7VV-2HgPTGLrygL7I-9Faf1XkZG8qWYfPMoRVYRk68kC4p1eq1wCx-f8CbHcI/s1600/100_0019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqLRaTRRyZZpj91sMr1YplB_5Uc-5Nyua3PZqhdhGzHANrp1MT-dxl9kdQSOrIt38BRO2AFR2OosZpwz7VV-2HgPTGLrygL7I-9Faf1XkZG8qWYfPMoRVYRk68kC4p1eq1wCx-f8CbHcI/s320/100_0019.jpg" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I worked to intensify some of the fainter figures, and to surround the images with color, in order to bring all this diversity into a context. Forty people between the ages of 2 and 55 had contributed to the painting during six visits to the lake, and it was nearly done!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Pu_hZT_vSJ0OBWjaOLQ-WfYAgiafYQx8V4DiGyj0Jlb_XUCGRNSM9DJ8WmR3kAYlrWvpZ3X_yuO9Q2uPwcBZ72qewTQnfDxGCL_hO5sVOmRfldFuSN7Sec2SXbNwRtmx-KERkAmW-co/s1600/100_1086.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Pu_hZT_vSJ0OBWjaOLQ-WfYAgiafYQx8V4DiGyj0Jlb_XUCGRNSM9DJ8WmR3kAYlrWvpZ3X_yuO9Q2uPwcBZ72qewTQnfDxGCL_hO5sVOmRfldFuSN7Sec2SXbNwRtmx-KERkAmW-co/s320/100_1086.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Lisa Huffakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12807579867826806196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7491268968984108201.post-79664706646144436102011-05-21T21:56:00.001-05:002012-02-25T12:40:25.523-06:00Some interesting things that happened<ul><li>A graceful young Chinese woman added the Chinese characters for "spring", "summer", "autumn", and "winter", placing them carefully in just the right sections of the picture. </li>
<li>Three little boys in matching orange soccer uniforms tried to copy her beautiful calligraphy, and she declared their efforts a success.</li>
<li>A runner training for his first marathon stopped just long enough to add a blue Nike "swoosh".</li>
<li>An eighteen-year-old girl insisted her entire family pull over and get out of the car. Swirling spirals, a flaming tulip, and a blue chessboard appeared on the canvas, thanks to them.</li>
<li>A mysterious stranger contemplated the painting for a long time, but opted not to paint because, as he enigmatically put it, he chose to "save all his creative energy for music."</li>
<li>A two-year-old girl painted with great enthusiasm while simultaneously eating pizza.</li>
<li>A charming runner painted a pterodactyl and a tyrranosaurus rex.</li>
<li>A little boy painted a blob in front of the t-rex, excitedly narrating a story about how the giant rock was rolling down the hill, but the dinosaur would jump over it just in time.</li>
<li>The ice cream truck drove by, and a little girl stopped painting and shouted, "Listen! It's the Song Truck!" Strangers shared stories about childhood.</li>
<li>A ten-year-old boy painted a group of concentric circles with dots that reminded me of flowers by Gustav Klimt.</li>
</ul>Lisa Huffakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12807579867826806196noreply@blogger.com0