Student Structures

Students on our campus usually play an active role in shaping the physical landscape of campus.  These first two pictures are houses build by students.  They reside out in the canyon and have not been lived in in quite some time but with a little work could be brought up to date and made live-able.

The final picture is a horse statue that is now it the library.  It is called the living library mustang.  I'm not sure how living it is.  It seems to only have a couple of plants stuck on it after the fact, but..... oh well.  The students build the entire statue from recycled materials.

Library Flowers

Thanks to my friend Jessie, the library on campus was hosting a stress break/painting break for faculty, staff and students today.  He organized a get together in the center of the library atrium and provided live plants, reference books, watercolors, paper and brushes for anyone who wanted to take a break from their normal day.

I used my own materials,  and had a great time forgetting for an hour that I was supposed to be at work.  What I give you is a small representation of the flowers that were in front of me.  I've no idea what kind of flowers they are.

I didn't draw the flowers or the vase before I jumped in and started painting.  With simple things like this, where I don't have to be exact to paint a flower, I like to do it all freehand.  I't not like painting a building or a boat or something where if I get an edge crooked, the whole painting looks off.  I guess I cold have screwed up the vase, but seem to have done ok with that.    Looking at it now, I wish i had given a little more time to defining the leaves, especially where they all come together, but all in all, not too bad.

Jessie is hosting another get together next Wednesday, so, barring any tragic events, I'm gonna be back there next week.  In fact with spring and summer just around the corner, I'm gonna be able to get out and paint more and more.  Hopefully, I'll keep with it and have plenty of paintings to post.  Thanks for the views.  Hope you enjoyed it.

Around Campus

This first picture is of my building, but not an entrance for my department.  The wheel on the bicycle rack has been there for about a year and a half.  I don't know if its ever gonna be removed at this point.

This picture is of the very top of our library.  OK, its not the most exciting in the world, but it looks a lot better than the unfinished concrete box that it is.  The greenery in the bottom of the picture is from the tops of trees in front of the library.






This picture is the back side of the taco stand that I described wanting to paint in a previous post.  I still wanna do one from the front of the stand, but this one is nice too.