KiDiMu Frog On the Rock – In Process
June 12, 2013 § 4 Comments
Here we go! As I promised in my last post, Frogs On the Rock,here are some photos of the KidiMu Frog receiving adornment and personality from five painters, ages 4, 5 and 6. I gave one very brief demo of using the paints (“mural paint” acrylics from Icon Poly Studio in Gibbon, Nebraska), and that was it. They knew just what to do. Meanwhile, my assistant and I kept busy circling the artists and the sink bringing fresh water for brushes – “need a rinse!” – and mixing special colors on request.
photo by stellar KiDiMu assistant, Krzysztofa McDonough
At the end of the hour one young painter said, “Oh! Isn’t it just the most beautiful frog?” Yes, it is! Definitely a girl, to be named at a later date…
The KiDiMu Frog is back at my place now, sitting up on the kitchen counter where I can more easily paint the KiDiMu & BIMA logos on its chest. I’m to add a few more bugs as well, for we all know a frog cannot live on beauty alone.
Stay tuned…. xo Pierr
Frogs on the Rock: A Community Art Project
June 7, 2013 § 6 Comments
End of May, 40 fiberglass frogs were delivered to the lawn outside Bainbridge Performing Arts, by Kyle Vohland and Son, of ICON Poly Studio in Nebraska.
FROSGS ON THE ROCK: a Community Art Project
There’s a sponsor for each frog and 35 artists assigned to paint and adorn them. I get to be one of the artists! Actually, I get to paint two frogs. Or I should say, one frog all by myself – for the Grow Community, one of five One-Planet Living® communities in the world.
The second frog I have helpers…five young artists ages 4, 5, and 6 – in the large Classroom of the brand new & beautiful, not-yet-officially-open BIMA – Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. We were scheduled to paint in the Art Room at KiDiMu, the Kids Discovery Museum next door, but it is a very popular site for birthday parties on a Saturday and the Art Room full up tomorrow, no room for us and a frog big enough to fill the back of Pauline!
Kyle Vohland and Son, of ICON Poly Studios from Gibbon, Nebraska
Once painted and prepped for living outside in the weather, all 40 frogs will ride a flatbed truck or two in our 4th of July parade. They’ll live on their respective sponsors’ properties till September 2014, at which time they’ll be auctioned off to benefit area community organizations.
I’ll keep you posted on our progress!
Me, Frog One, & Pauline (1989 Honda Civic @ 363,600 miles)
The Sun Rose
June 3, 2013 § 3 Comments
one of the many details of The Azure Gate that make it such a wonderful place to unwind
patio off my room, “The Saguaro”, looking to the front door courtyard and ceramic sun
nifty swivel board – ongoing game
More! More! I will be back…meanwhile, see for yourself: The Azure Gate.
Gone to Tucson…
May 28, 2013 § 4 Comments
Salmon Benedict
I’m away in the sun…and the HEAT!!! baking out the moss and the mildew of the Pacific NW…at this award-winning oasis of a B&B in Tucson, The Azure Gate. I mean, to have someone cook you breakfast every morning…
Chef, Dennis Widman, of The Azure Gate B&B in Tucson, AZ
…breakfasts like this? I may not come back…
Gila Woodpecker
Weekly Photo Challenge: In the Background
May 25, 2013 § 4 Comments
Inside Anish Kapoor’s “Cloud Gate” – The Bean – Chicago 2010
My dear friend Amy and I took the train into downtown Chicago for the day. It was cold. I’d never experienced Chicago Cold. Comes with wind and a chill factor. Here we are, frozen inside Anish Kapoor’s amazing sculpture, “Cloud Gate.” Nicknamed The Bean.
It seems to freeze everything in the background right up front. Even the earth as snow pattern on its surface, giving a visceral visual literal experience of how small the world really is. How minuscule a problem I’ve made too huge to grasp, or shrunken perspective I might harbor about something in my life, it takes all of that and stretches it out together, showing what’s really important.
What I mean to say is, even though Amy lives way over there in Chicago and I rarely see her – she’s someone in the background of my life – she is always right here before me in my world. One I can circle in under a minute.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Patterns
May 18, 2013 § 2 Comments
I’d like to thank the Bainbridge Island Water Polo team for making these patterns possible…and for making Pauline (1989 Honda Civic @ 363,500 miles) shine like new.
SunDaze
May 9, 2013 § 6 Comments
On the Columbia – Hood River, Oregon – April 24
We’ve been having some crazy warm weather here in the Northwest. Last month while traveling for the school visit in White Salmon, I stayed overnight at Hood River Inn. If you’ve got pets (which I don’t) this is a pretty nifty place to bring them on your trip. They get to bunk with you in your room just like kids. Dogs everywhere. Even on the water.
Sunday it hit 85 on Bainbridge Island. Deliriously balmy. Summer is here at last! Well…that’s what the weather viewer on my computer dashboard led me to believe, showing bright yellow sunballs every day this week with temps in the 70′s etc etc…but Monday morning woke gray and windy and cold as winter – until about 5pm, when the sun stepped out and braised the temp to its high. I always forget. Yes, it’s going to reach the predicted high, yes, there will be sunshine…along about sunset. I’m not complaining, just admitting that it only takes one blazin’ sun daze and I’m an addict.
Most of April was very conducive to writing, however. And in case you were wondering – I did earn my Camp NaNoWriMo badge. 50,150 words. Wheee! May your days be sun daze from here on out. – Pierr
