This was the super duper awesome weekend where I got to experiment on someone's (aka my friend Sarah's) wall. You should all follow her on twitter, @anarchybrown. She is one of the smartest people I know and this is proved by the fact that she wanted a mural on her wall, even though she is renting the apartment lol
She was nice enough to let me become her "artist in residence" and fed and watered me for which I am extremely thankful. We ventured into this incredible arts/crafts store that had a million and one choices in the painting arena and
eventually we found what we needed and in the colors she wanted. It was a lot more paint than we needed but I guess it was a learning experience, all in all.
This is Sarah and Tom, both helping and working on the octopus and the speaker.
You can't really tell but I drew the octopus the night before and they are going over what I drawn. More photos are scattered. Silly me, I forgot my camera so all of these
pictures were taken by my camera phone, which is 2mp but it still did not capture it's awesomeness in a way that I would've liked.
Tom did a great job on the speaker and the records and
Sarah pretty much owned those suckers and a lot of the rest of it.
We started after 11am and by 2pm we had a lot of it completed. There was a lot of analyzing that went on as we decided what looked best and how to approach different things.
When we stopped for our ice cream break, we walked and went to the smallest park in the U.S. Acorn Park.
A reviewer on
Yelp.com said
"This just may be the smallest park in the U.S. at just 0.12 acres. You read that right! In 1840, Blair discovered a mica-speckled spring on his property, hence the name Silver Spring. In 1842 he built the acorn gazebo which has been restored over the sight of its discovery. "
That is a picture of the park and here is a picture of THE silver spring which is so famous now. Of course, I was more interested in the flowers than the actual spring. Or something.
We made it to
Moorenko's Ice Cream Cafe, which had homemade ice cream that tasted incredible. Sarah and Aaron, Sarah's friend, both got rice pudding ice cream and were impressed with it's authenticity. lol. I am not a rice pudding fan so I am happy they were happy. Before we ended, it looked like an octopus without any form. Tom had insisted that it would be really cool to just have your mind fill in the octopus-syness but I was skeptical. Before we left for the ice cream, we did everything but the outline of the octopus and the face so that we could show Tom how it would look without the outline.
Here you can see the workspace and the octopus with it's lines and face. The face took a lot of deciding on Sarah's part. At the end, it was just under 6ft by 8ft. You can't see the intense disco ball so well in this picture but let me tell you, it is intense. Intense like that first sour warhead that you eat when you haven't had one in a long time and it makes you turn into a puddle because it is just that intense.
The final product, with the couch in place:
I hope Sarah doesn't just paint over it while I'm not looking. AND DOESN'T THE DISCO BALL LOOK INTENSE?! lol
Some other random photos from the weekend.
There are a lot of tall people in Rockville. I noted that.
Jamie and Sarah
Speaks for itself
Who knew this would be inside the acorn?
I like Canada Dry so I guess this is just cool to me.
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