Vol. 3, No. 132, May 12, 2018

3132 - Bright Lights, Big City.

DAY 12 Create a city skyline.

My family is getting ready to put my grandparent’s home on the market. This means cleaning up the house and the yard. Today, we focused on the yard, trimming hedges and trees and raking leaves. With all of the brush available, we had to have a bonfire! Once the brush was mostly gone, we looked around for more wood we could burn and found some old pieces Papa had left behind in the garage. I borrowed a circular saw from my dad and used a piece of plywood to cut a skyline. The plywood I choose was one that already had a part of it that thanks to Papa already looked like a skyline, so I only had to cut the other half of the skyline. My dad was brave enough to be my “sawhorse” and held the board steady while I cut it. Fortunately nobody lost any fingers.

Vol. 3, No. 48, February 17, 2018

3048 - Sectional Sets.

Today was the first Set Work Saturday of the season. In the gym across the hall from the theater, the Section 6A Gymnastics Meet was taking place. While sitting in the theater pretending to help with sets, I grabbed a scrap of wood and a knife and carved a little momento for one of my favorite gymnasts. I enscripted the back with her name and events.

Vol. 2, No. 45, February 14, 2017

2045 - A view of your city. The Heart of MN.

Continuing to use twine as part of my #64millionartists challenge, I did a project that has been on my art bucket list for a while: MN String Art. I found a scrap of wood at the theater, got a friend to cut off the bad edge and sand it. Then I spray painted it gold. I found and printed a map of Minnesota, taped it to the prepared board and started pounding in nails around the boarder and in a heart around Darwin. Then, I gave the nails a quick coat of gold.

When it was dry, I started winding twine. I quickly discovered that the twine was too thick and would not work for this project, so I adapted. I used string for the woven base, and the added a twine boarder and a twine Celtic heart knot.

10.5" x 12"