happy bowls

here i am in my NEW pottery studio .... throwing my first pot .... it's a bowl actually ... those empty shelves are striking to me ... what am i going to put on them? i shouldn't have worn my favorite orange shoes ... they got clay all over them .... 

 and here is the first bowl on my new to me wheel in my brand new pottery studio.... i actually made four happy bowls ... a little bit like bob ross, the painter, and his happy trees ... i've started a happy bowl series. ta da!

blue

 i'm not sure i've even announced to the world of blog that my hair is blue. it is. blue highlights. because i can. when i had to get new glasses, i got them to match my hair. that's what you're supposed to do, right?

altered book

at my current long term sub job, i am SO SO SO SO SO lucky that i get to do art with high school kids .... they work on an altered book in their free time ... so i do too.

i heart andy warhol

 i went to the andy warhol museum in pittsburgh .... that's where he was born ... the museum was excellent ... a good smattering of history ...lots about him .... and the evolution of his art ...

 these giant bold flowers have always been favorites of mine .... though i also love the typical pop art pieces of commercial art ... like the soup cans and brillo and such ....

 there were impressive amounts of portraits .... there were about a dozen life sized portraits of elvis ... he took up a whole wall of a gallery ....

 the silver cloud room was my favorite ... cause sophie and i played with the clouds .... i always love the idea of the viewer interacting/becoming the art .... the joy of people bouncing silver pillows of air off the ceiling was  just what andy warhol wanted, i think ....

 above, sophie has captured a silver cloud ...

and here's another i appreciate ... venus ... taken from art history and made into andy warhol's .... i didn't copy a.w. on purpose, but this is how i feel about mona lisa ... that i take her and make her mine sometimes ... 

and last .... but out of order, because it was the first pic i took in the museum ... he started his art career in advertising .... and drew ordinary things in gorgeous ways .... like bathtubs. ... 

college visit

 i took little.e.beck.artist (who is no longer little.at.all. buy why change blog continuity now?) to pennsylvania .... in this pic, specifically to carnegie mellon university .... as we start to help her sort out what college she might go to. this art alone made me think it was the right school for ME:

walking to the sky by jonathon borofsky ... at carnegie mellon university .... on a beautiful day just an hour or so before it started snowing on us!