May Day ~ 2012

I finally found some time to put up some more pictures of the things me and my family have been up to.
First off, my art....
This is a charcoal rendition of an image our teacher gave us of a table with a very big spread of foods. I chose to focus on the fruit basket in the image. We had to cover our paper with charcoal until it was black, then take it home and erase in the image. This is what I got....

The next big project he gave us was a graphite photorealism drawing. We had to bring in several pictures to choose from, I brought in a few of my own images. I decided I liked the image from one of our maple syruping outings we do every year, because I wanted something I could frame later, and also it is relevant to our family. This is kind of the finished project. In the picture I cropped out the 2 inches of white border I have around the image. Also this photograph of it is darker than the original...

We also dug up a very large area of sod to make a garden. Unfortunatly the job ended up being a lot harder than we expected, so although we cut sod 2x bigger than we removed, it is still a rather large area we have made for planting.  The kids have been a huge help, especially this little country girl! She's not afraid to get in there with us and work hard!

And this guy was laying in any cool spot he cound find, including our freshly plowed rows. Can you see that he's earned two stars from Joy, on his rabies tag? One gold, one silver. Good Duke.





This is two images put together to show you the part we did get cleared off for planing. Behind Joel is another spot not quite as big that we haven't gotten all up. Might have to wait until next year to get the rest. I'm pooped with moving sod! I think if you click on this it will get bigger.



Here's Joel working hard on his mower pulling his plow. He's so cute!

We got a lot of the garden seeds planted last weekend, and have some plants started indoors that I will wait a bit on before I put them out. But a big chunk of hard work is out of the way, yay!