out of the mouth of babes …
In the time since I last posted, a 7 year old student of mine said to me in the tone of one addressing a silly misguided upstart, “Mr. Linsenbardt, when you grow up, you should be an artist. I mean, when you really grow up, because you don’t want to be a tutor.”
Yeah, I like to draw chickens and try to draw baby ducks. This was also the theme of a children's book I read with an ESL student earlier in the day.
This is a gussied up version of a picture drawn by a student of mine. I lef the original at work, but hope to post it soon along with the story we wrote.
March
Here are a few new things from March by Mr. Linsenbardt:
And from Mrs. Linsenbardt, the following are icons to be used in the outdoor education curriculum workbook for her job, so if you want to use them you must ask permission, but do please enjoy looking at them:
ACTIVITY!
DID YOU KNOW???
CONNECT!
CONCLUSIONS!
EXPERIENCE!
THE LAYERS OF THE FOREST
And this one is a commissioned painting by Mrs. Linsenbardt, in acrylics:
Hourly Comic Day 2010
Hourly Comic Day is a website where on February 1st everyone draws a comic for each hour of their day and posts them. Here are ours.
Mr. Linsenbardt’s Hourly Comic
Mrs. Linsenbardt’s Hourly Comic
Enjoy!
First, I thought I would introduce you to some bits of the process, so here are some of Mrs. Linsenbardt’s prepared canvases:
And then a couple of little guys part way along:
And then a finished one with some detail thereafter:
And then a few unsatisfactory bits from my sketchbook, as usual in what would pass as an early stage of development if I was faithful enough to my artistic aspirations to ever get beyond idle sketchery. These were slapped together during work as a substitute 5th grade teacher (incorporating input from my students) and an algebra tutor, respectively:
Mine are bigger because they are less impressive at smaller sizes, so I try to cheat. Also I reduced their resolution before uploading them because they didn’t need much detail. You will all notice my slavish adherence to the three or so novel ideas I have come up with in my lifetime. Hooray!
Once again it is Mr. Linsenbardt, sharing first some old scribble nonsense with you all:
This is a dancing bear
Possibly too erotic?
And name that Biblical character
That is my absurdity. Now, to prove to all that I am not the formally trained artist of the pair:
Under the signature on this one is written “not from reference photo”
And some more of her educational pictures:
We live in the redwood forest. She works for the redwood forest. It is pretty cool.
A Coup
I had planned to surreptitiously take brief control of this blog from my wife and post some things. It turns out I didn’t know the password, though, so couldn’t be very surreptitious about it. Oh well. First, some of her wonderful and exhaustively reseached creations for a work project:
I hope that worked.
Now for some less researched fun for the whole family from me:
These are just slices from old scans of sketches that I found on a computer I was re-making. To close, a fitting quote:
“A former self is a fool, an insufferable ass, but he’s still human, you’d no more turn him out than you’d turn out any other kind of cripple, would you?”
- Oberst Enzian from Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow
We are LinsenArt
Welcome to LinsenArt, a blog created by myself (Mrs. Linsenbardt) and my husband (Mr. Linsenbardt). The idea to start this blog came about when Mr. Linsenbardt came home one day and showed me a picture of a chicken with a gun he had drawn for his tutoring student.
Apparently he had drawn just the chicken while the kid the was working and asked, “Hey, how do you like my chicken?” to which the kid said, “Well, actually I only like violence.” So Mr. Linsenbardt added a gun, then gave the kid a firm talking-to about his life choices.
When I saw this picture I thought: I should post this on my blog! But Mr. Linsenbardt always draws pictures, so my blog could easily turn into just pictures of his drawings and of our cat Gus in various sprawled sleeping positions. Therefore I said we should create a blog just for pictures we draw and post on it every day.
We will probably not post pictures every day. And they will probably be more pictures of Daniel’s than of mine, because he sketched on his notes every day:
And I paint a canvas only every so-often:
So there you go. I apologize for all the words. In the future we will post just pictures of pictures. We hope you enjoy them!
