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Dream screen

Dreams, Humor, Memories, ,

Apparently, when I was just shy of five-years-old and we were moving from Mountain Street to Heine Avenue, I asked my mom if we could take my dream screen with us to the new house. It seems that I thought my nighttime dreams needed something that was external to me. This was an oft-told story in our house.

Mom must have been planning on making me a card or just documenting that memory in a drawing that she didn’t follow-up on. It’s also possible she was going to use it in her Famous Artists course.

Line drawing of a child asking an adult in a room full of packing boxes, "when we move will I take my dream screen with?"

Mom’s Artwork::Exhibit 11: Three color illustrations

People, Things, , , ,

I don’t remember this assignment from The Famous Artists School. I’m sure she used magazine advertisements as the models. She did that a lot.

This first one garnered many comments and suggestions:

Mom’s assignment
Evaluator’s suggestion
  • Experiment!
  • See how an imaginative sky color adds to the sunny effect? (arrow to sky)
  • Richer tan flesh colors
  • Blue and orange are complementary (contrasts) (arrow to shirt, outlined in orange)
  • Yellow is complemented by violet (arrow to ocean as contrasted to yellow sky)
  • Warm (arrow to green in pants)
  • Cool (arrow to sand?)
  • Warmest — most intense color in foreground

This one only had a couple of comments

Mom’s assignment
Evaluator’s suggestion
  • Deeper values — cooler bluer colors — think of moon as a cool light source (arrow to moon)
  • Keep shadows flat — little light is reflected at night

This last one was praised.

Mom’s assignment
Evaluator’s suggestion
  • Values quite good!
  • White stripes help to relieve intensity of background (pointing to stripes in background)