Day 9: Treasure Chest

So I was in the Chicago area for 6 days, and that is why I am currently playing catch up with the blog posts.  I promise that I DID draw every day, but I just was not able to post.  This was done on Saturday, April 28, 2012.

I was staying with my sister, Kim, who is a PhD.  She asked me to come into her class at The Chicago School ( a Professional School of Psychology), and be a guest lecturer.  She was teaching a class on Conflict Resolution, and she wanted me to have her class learn/do some art interventions.  It was the last class of the semester, and I decided to have each of them share some treasure that they gained from the class and from each other.  It was a really nice way to create closure.

I am going to be coming on to The Chicago School as an adjunct professor in their "Blended Program".  That means that most of the classes are online, and we will only meet face to face twice.  I love teaching, and I am excited about a new endeavor in my life.  Plus, more trips to Chicago - not bad.

Day 4: A Bird in the Hand

Last spring  birds built nests and had babies in the eaves of out back yard patio, and some of the babies fell or where pushed out of the nests.  Shoveling up dead baby birds is not my favorite thing.  Those same birds (or the next generation) keep trying to build nests in the same place, and Michael keeps knocking the nests down. Those are some persistent birds.  


My cats, who sit at the back window, are thrilled to watch the entire scene.  Subconsciously, I must have been thinking about these goings on when I drew today's picture.

Day 2: The Brain

Today I was creating a new Webinar (Art Therapy and OCD) and I needed a picture of a brain showing the basal ganglia to describe the process of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder from a neurological point of view. Although it would be convenient to grab an image off Google, that would be unethical (wouldn't it?). So, I decided to draw the brain image myself.

 Killing two birds with one stone, I drew the brain on the iPad.

Pre Challenge - Calla Lilies

I drew these last week, so they do not really count as my "Challenge", but I wanted to share anyway.

The Calla Lily is my favorite flower! My wedding bouquet was made of Calla Lilies. They remind me of 18 years ago, when I lived in the Sunset District of San Francisco (Judah and 19th Ave). Every day I would go for a run through Golden Gate Park, and there are sections along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive where the Calla Lilies grow wild.

This is not a delicate flower - it is strong and hard core. Calla Lily is blatantly sexual in the way it combines male and female perfectly. Enough said.