Halloween

It's time to be creative, this halloween put your creativity to the test.   Come up with your best costume and share with us.  I am excited to dress up tonight and share pictures later. Have fun tonight and everyone be careful, NO DRINKING AND DRIVING!

AVARD FAIRBANKS:

Today’s featured artist Avard Fairbanks is a 20^th century American sculptor from Provo, Utah.  Fairbanks has several sculptors all over the country, Three of his sculptors can be see in the United States Capitol and the state capitol in Utah and Wyoming.  He is not just know for his Sculptors, in 1918 he and his brother worked on the Friezes (an architectural term, meaning decorated with reliefs) for the Laie Hawaii Temple, and on the Harold B. Lee Library on Brigham Young University.  

Possibly his most well know contribution; he designed the ram symbol for Dodge (the auto maker).

I became interested in this artist actually at my doctors office in Salt Lake City.  His office is like a tiny museum and it houses several of Fairbanks sculptors.  One of my favorites is, Chief Joseph the detail in his sculptor is amazing and the work that goes in to a sculptor is tremendous.

Check out some of his work I get to enjoy often.

art or not

we have talked about street art and I have gone out and shot a video and would like for you to take a look at it and tell me what you think.  All the images came from Salt Lake City, and there is a lot of art shared on the streets here, is this art and what is the difference in this and Graffiti.

 

The art with food

This week I have been talking about unusual mediums in art.  Food is another way to express your creative juices.  From cooking a rack of ribs, throwing together a pot of soups, or baking bread, just following the foundation of a recipe is just the beginning to create your very own masterpiece.  A good cook tries different ideas and may take several attempts before perfection is found. 

Pumpkin bread I made this week created the idea for this blog.  I had many different recipes to make pumpkin bread, some had nuts in it, one used real pumpkin, and another used pumpkin puree, and I had one that used apples and another that used raisins. So, I put together what I like to taste and come up with my own creation.  I was wonderful, but there are some modifications I will do next time, like add vanilla and leave out the golden raisins. 

HERE IS THE BASE FOR THE BREAD IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO TRY FOR YOURSELF

EXTRAS I ADDED: one large bag of chopped walnuts, ½ cup of golden raisins, and ½ cup of apple sauce (I use applesauce to help the moisture)

Ingredients

            1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree

            4 eggs

            1 cup vegetable oil

            2/3 cup water

            3 cups white sugar

            3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

            2 teaspoons baking soda

            1 1/2 teaspoons salt

            1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

            1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

            1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

            1/4 teaspoon ground ginger                 

 Directions

1.              Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour three 7x3 inch loaf pans.

2.              In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, water and sugar until well blended. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended. Pour into the prepared pans.

3.              Bake for about 50 minutes in the preheated oven. Loaves are done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Creative foods are fun to prepare too. Food for kids, there are many different ways to help you kids enjoy eating healthy foods. Kids like to spend time in the kitchen with their parents, and the kitchen is a fun place to learn life skills while spending time with family.  I hope we can all remember baking cookies and decorating them. Making a cake and required reading and measurements, while licking the bowl and adding letters to spell a message.  

Art of Hair

Different mediums of art thrive across our planet.  I like to bring different types of art to our attention.  Now, saying that I ask, have you ever thought of your hair as being art?  Also, do women use their heads more the men? 

I have found that each time I have been to my hair stylist he/she takes their job very serious. I look at cosmetologists more as scientist then artist till here recently, when asked to pick my favorite hair creation on a website called thehairartnetwork.com.  In the competition there were stylist as well as barbers.   The art of hair is way beyond color and style.  Stylist used different materials, extensions, clippers, and other techniques to create their masterpieces.  Check out some of these styles, what do you think about the art of hair?

Street Art

STREET ART

To be street art the art has to be created in a public space, usually in the streets.  Though this art is usually frowned upon like graffiti artwork, today it is becoming more popular and accepted.  When we think of street art today do not just consider graffiti, there are cities today that hire artist to decorate city streets and the side of buildings with historic or colorful paintings and murals.  Traditional graffiti artist primarily used spray paint and free hand to produce their works, but today there are many techniques such as posters, stencil art, murals, and wood blocking.  Practically all-large cities in the world host street art but some are responsible for the movement of accepting this type of work such as Berlin, Germany, London, England, Paris, France and Los Angeles, California.  Do you have street art in your town, I would love for you to share with us is so post a photo and share.