Blueberry or Cherry?

Well, Easter dinner came together almost like I planned it...he he he! We had a nice afternoon with Brenda, Greg and Dan here, and I now have enough leftovers to feed us for the rest of the week. Whoo hoo! We'll all be heartily sick of ham by Wednesday, but them's the breaks. (evil laugh) So, what's with the blueberry or cherry thing? I made little individual parfait cheesecakes for dessert. Sorry, no leftovers...

I think I may have mentioned a while back that Josh was taking a Drawing II class and was working on some challenging projects. Well, lo and behold we've actually SEEN this marvel for ourselves! He had two projects back to back that I just had to shake my head at because at no time in my life was I ever capable of drawing like this. Steve and Bruce could probably do it and Tim has been known to create some extraordinarily cool stuff too, but I can't lay claim to being the cause of Josh's talent. Actually I think he gets a little from both sides, because Rich's mom paints some beautiful stuff too and I just try to be in line when she decides to part with it!
Anywhoo... below are a few shots of the latest art projects. Yes, I know I am boasting, but cut me some slack; I'm his mother.

This first one was a combination of three separate images that he pulled off the Internet. They're all from that Watchman movie that came out a while back. It's done in pastels and graphite. The photos I have here were taken just before he finished it so there are a few details- mostly on the girl's face and her hair that he hadn't quite finished yet- but you get the idea anyway.


The second one is also a combination piece but is done entirely in charcoal and chalks. His assignment was to combine an inanimate object, a musical instrument, a piece of fruit and a flower all in one drawing. He started with the saxophone, lily and dragon fruit (the pink and green spiky thing) and was also going to work in a rocky shoreline. I'm not sure what happenned to the latter, but partway into the assignment he mentioned to the teacher that he thougth the saxophone was going to be really hard and wanted to change his musical instrument to the guitar instead. His teacher responded with "I think you should leave the saxophone in but you can do the guitar too." Josh's response was something along the lines of "Oh, gee. Can I?". I think that's where the shoreline disappeared actually. Anyway, the perspectives on this one are kinda strange because it really doesn't seem like there's an "up" side, but the saxophones are on the bottom.

Now that I've finally left you with something interesting to look at, I'll close and head toward my laundry room.