Red, white, and blues - bluebirds and strawberries, adult art class display, 6/25/18

Revelation – I know that as we get older time seems to speed up.

Can it be that it is the speeding up a time of time perception that also causes a greater sense of confusion about things, because so much is flying at you, especially in our increasingly technical and separated world, or should I say fragmented world?

I had to tell my new insight to the students in adults class today.

And then I asked them what they thought, since several of them are

seniors.

Here are their responses as I remember:

• Getting older, each year is a smaller percentage of the overall number of years
• Young people on TV and everywhere seem to talk so fast, it is almost impossible to follow or understand.
• A group conversation where people are talking at once is almost impossible to follow.
• I'm just grateful for each new day.
• I give up trying to follow all the new stuff and the fast talk of the young people.
• People now don't believe me that I am older.
• That's why we come to an art class so we can slow down and just pay attention to what we're doing.
• It took me a half an hour of talking on the phone with the representative, not being able to understand much of what she said, and finally she said she would have a technician come out to check out the machinery. It was a huge waste of time. It used to be that you could call up whatever it was and they would send somebody right over, or they would make arrangements right away, that someone would be over to check the machinery.

We did red white and blues to celebrate the upcoming Fourth of July holiday. Since the June topic is birds and berries, we worked from bluebird pictures. Strawberries we had to invent on our own for the most part.

Exercises: four windows or rectangles on the horizontal sheet. In each rectangle draw a continuous line drawing of the bluebird reference picture. Everyone had sheets of several different bluebird photos to work from. 

Final drawings make a red white and blue composition of bluebirds and strawberries of your own choosing.