This week’s Saturday Night Art Walk was a collaboration between me and my nephew Ben. It didn’t start out as such, but rather the realization of an opportunity.
I was sitting by the fire with Ben, a restless pre-teen boy, who wouldn’t stop poking a stick into the fire and swinging the end of it next to my face to show me it was on fire. After several attempts to get him to stop doing that, I had an idea. I ran into the house and grabbed my camera. Upon returning to our firepit I announced that we would be doing an artistic light show, in the dark!
“Cool!” he said.
So I told him to get the end of his stick nice and hot and run out in the field where I opened up the aperture on my camera and captured his movement.
So here’s our first ever art collaboration! I’m starting with one of my favs titled “Bow and Arrow”
The next one is aptly named “Grasshopper”
Image above is titled “I’m Watching You” and photo below is titled “Lounge Chair”
The next one is “Mickey Mouse”
Image above is titled “Small Ideas turn into Big Ideas” (Correction: I’ve just been informed by Ben that the above image is titled “Cowboy Hat”. ) The one below is titled “Tortillias”
The final image is titled “A Pause in Infinity”
I hope you enjoyed tonight’s Art Walk and realize that EVERYONE is creative! Simply keep an eye out for unique opportunities that can strike anywhere at any moment. And simply grasp it in any way you can whether it’s with pencil, dictation, a camera, a phone memo…. anything! Just capture it before it goes away. And yes, these images were of Ben waving and moving a stick that was lit on the end, in darkness, with my camera on a tripod and the aperture wide open. Very easy.
Really cool! By the time I would have thought of this, Ben would have been in High school!! LOL!
You are too funny!
Are they expensive? I’d like to purchase one.
How large you want? Can have a professional giclee print at any size.
we gotta talk about this! why don’t you live next door?
Lol!!! There’s ten acres for sale right next door to us. Come on down!