Pavement Picasso

Julian Beever - Sidewalk Chalk Artist

Julian's Official Website

Independance Day by Julian Beever

Meeting Madame Butterfly

Anamorphosis

- Anamorphosis is a distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a specific vantage point to reconstitute the image. (wikipedia)





Time Lapse Video of Water Ride by Julian Beever

Artist Lee Jones has a history of street painting as well of samples of her sidewalk designs.


Chalk it Up has some great tips for creating your chalk masterpiece worthy of a street festival and Chris Dunmire offers 7 Sidewalk Chalk Art Tips for Creatively Inhibited Adults that is worth reading, and 10 Steps to JOYful Sidewalk Chalk Art.

Pollock Art Day

Jackson Pollock was known as Jack the Dripper and creating action paintings as a new art form in the abstract inpressionism art movement. You can find some examples of his artwork here.

We created our own action paintings, outside, under the trees, in swimsuits, on posterboard, and then on each other (at least the boys).







Try out this Jackson Pollock online art creator - click the mouse to change colors.

Copycat Mockingbird

Grandma showed us this video of the mocking bird, it's pretty cool.-Green Girl

Homeschool Showcase part 1

We had a end of the year homeschool showcase tonight that was a smashing success. We put together a program with the two other homeschooling families that we have been getting together with a lot this year. each of the kids got several chance to perform if they wished.


Here is a short video - Rebecca, Emily and Isaac have been practicing as a trio for over a year on this song, they like it so much since they each get to sing their favorite color, and it is also in age order, so they feel like the song was made just for them.

For those of you that were'nt invited, we managed to get most of it video taped, wish I could find the tripod, in the middle I handed the camera off to Ryan Henrie and asked him to video tape, he did a great job. I think next time I'd better not sit so close to the CD player, the music is a little loud. Even I get to learn something, that is part of the reason I love homeschooling so much, I get to learn right along with my kids. I'm looking forward to editing the entire video together, but I'm hoping to get Rebekah to come and perform me the camera so I can add her sections into the video even though she was home sick tonight.