Peter and the Wolf Shadow Puppets

For this Sunday I’m sharing the shadow puppets I made of Peter and the Wolf for Cyrus. We’ve been listening to a lot of Peter and the Wolf and I’ve been dreaming of making more shadow puppets, and we’re all cooped up and need things to do and so: this project.

It’s been gratifying to see how much Cyrus actually likes playing with them, simple as they are.

I made a rule when I was making these that I couldn’t draw them before cutting them out, and I couldn’t start over: just start cutting without planning and stick with the first draft. It helped me not to overthink it and gave them a nice liveliness that I would have ground out of it if allowed.

Convenience Store – The Highest Integration of Art and Life?

Are corner stores the highest integration of art and life? Maybe not, but they’re pretty close. To respond to this week’s theme, I drew a convenience store in a two story building. The apartment (life) is above and the convenience store (art) is below.

You might ask, “are convenience store art?” Well, I don’t know. But maybe the distinction between art and life could be that life is private aspect of existence and art is the public aspect of existence.

If that isn’t what art is, if art means basically painting, sculpture, etc. (which I am fine with), then convenience stores are not art. In that case, I drew a picture (art) of a convenience store (life). I think I’m covered either way here.

Three cheers for the revamped rhino!