Imagination - And My Goofy Artist Friends

Here's something for you to imagine.
 It's the panel on the north side of the "box" butting up to the building:

The state flower is in the left end of this panel.
I'm working on this one. Ann N's pottery pieces are being used for the evergreens.
Turns out they have brush stroke painting on them and it gives direction to the branches.
Love those happy coincidences.

Then the baby egrets are next as they run across the panel toward their mama.

Betsy is working on this one - adding her wonderful and playful touch.

I hadn't drawn the little top feathers on the birds when designing this panel 

but Betsy put them on anyway.

A lot of personality shows up with just a few top head feathers - Yes?!!!

 

Then comes Charlotte Elizabeth beckoning her babies to come to her.

Last is the sunset panel to the right of the egret.

We were able to lay the last two together to get an idea of how they will connect up.  

 

Ann N has designed a wonderful panel that includes mallard ducks.

We split the work up into three panels.

Ann is working on the first panel with a magnificent mallard rising up out of the water.

Ann auditioned all kinds of green use for the head and came up with

this combination that shows the sheen of the feathers as if it were real.

 

There's a middle section that hasn't been started yet.

On the third section of this panel, Helen is managing to make this mallard
amazingly close to the natural colors of the real mallard.
The wing looks like it could "puff up" any time.
Watch for it next week. She may have some reflections showing up in the water.



 

  

We have some more pieces that have been finished.
Here is Helen's lovely garden bouquet.
She said there's a little butterfly in this one. Can you see it?






 Give up?
Here's a closer look:

Ann finished her goldfinch panel.

 I love it.

 

Cori has been working diligently on our Community of Fish panel.

She mosaicked the boat and is adding her own renditions of fish to help fill the spaces.

Here are her most recent three:

Others have made fish and they have turned out so colorful and wonderful.

 We will need some "filler fish" in a smaller size
so Sarah made up two bunches of various fish:

 (Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain -
I mean, pay no attention to the old patterns under these fish.
These little guys are free hand fish)

One of the WILDKATS! came in today too!

(I sing in a comedy trio called the WILDKATS!) 

Beth made the fish below. It's pretty darn cute.

She even used some of the Beautiful Bruised and Burnt Beads

from the fire on Mount Lemmon in Arizona:

 This is what happens to song writers that are St. Olaf grads. I hang out with nut cases.

 Yeah. And then there's Betsy who rode her bike today.
She came in with helmet hair. It actually looks sort of cute on her..........

 Now you see some of the artists in the studio.

Do not be afraid to show up and try your hand at

making a fish for the Community of Fish.

 

It was a good day in the Mosaic Studio today.