Audrey5189's Comments (23)

Wow, thanks to you, Miss Audrey, and your art teacher, and Artsonia of course, for teaching me somethg, too ! I had never before known of your latest inspiring artist, Sonia Delaunay. What fun to follow her connections online. Did you get to see the baby quilt she had made for her son's crib ? It reminds me of one of two kinds that my Grandmother stitched for my sister's and my dolls. Did you happen to find out that there is a Sonia Delaunay Pop-Up book ? Your exercise in Orphism, I think, kinda reminds me of drawing and color enhancing what one might find in a drawer -- wherher odds & ends, or art supplies or sewing notions or hardware. Thank you very much for the fun of exploring this talented lady because of your recent artwork skills. ? from Gram R.

Hello, Miss Audrey ! Ah, Monet ! It was recognizable right away ! Does it bring memories of a certain Tea Garden in Batavia IL at Fabyan PKY ? A tour guide there had pointed out the pleasing,optical illusion of viewing a whole circle, when the curved footbridge is reflected in the pond below. I'm pretty sure that Grandpa E snap-captured a photo of it, some years ago. He helped me ask whether you have seen the new "knotical" fencing around the Tea Garden ? Thanks for your fresh interpretation !
-- Gram Linda

Audrey, I love your bespectacled bunny! I have always enjoyed wearing eyeglasses; I believe that they represent stylish accessories, "jewelry for your face." You brought a smile to my face today with your patterned rabbit art work.
-- Auntie Paula

Thank you, Audrey M., for sharing your artistic rendering of an optical illusion. I wonder if everyone in your class was instructed to use the same colors, the same basic shape. Or what. These styles of art works really fascinate me ! It seems like an imaginative view of our home planet, or like a whole recreation or redistribution and reshaping of our continents and seas . How much more orderly appearing it seems ! Or, it might be a toy ball positioned upon some color coordinated wrapping paper. I also had loved your sister's illusion of the optical art exercise, w/ another shape and other colors. And I just enjoy staring at them ! I can only imagine or wish that I might watch either of you deliberately designing your cubical work. Did you use a ruler ? Could it be folded into somethg origami ? Thanks again, for re-piquing my curiousity. : )
-- Linda

I like the 3D effect. Well sone Audrey,
-- Mima

Well Done!
-- Mima

Alright, Audrey, your shapely funky skull has my attention......what can I say ? It certainly features a dental record of somethg to aspire to, and I'm so jealous ! My DDS would be proud if s/he had been his patient, I would think. He has reported to me that he has had one patient who never had a cavity! Wow! Maybe she has unique genes OR she is very much less a fan of seasonal sugar skulls and candy corn, etc. I'm thinking more seriously of having my body donated, if I should die before Jesus returns, to geriatric science, if there is such a thg.
-- Linda

Beautiful Audrey! This is just how I picture you with a rainbow background. :)
-- Pete

Audrey, I love how vibrant your colors are they match your personality well. You have got your bubble lettering down! I love your dangly ponytail and bluest eye. Your wispy hair gives this movement. I like your lip color. Overall beautiful self portrait! Love Mommy ?
-- Jennifer

Hello, Miss Audrey ! Thanks for passing along the cheer of your inspiration ! Have you ever thought of inspiring yourself, to try to re-express (copy) the same floral scene that you have painted here in another way, such as shopping for fabric flowers that resemble your own artwork ? How do you think you could duplicate the vase ? I wouldn't mind seeing them poking out of a flat page, or canvas frame. I am still enjoying your Mother's Day painting - I turn it different ways to try to imagine different things. Upside down, it reminds me of a trio of colorful ceiling suspended lamps that your Grandpa made out of large juice cans wrapped in rug yarn. Surely one was orange. Thanks, dear Granddottie, for the 1970s memories that you unknowingly invoked ! And may God 'bless on' the best memory of Mr. Vincent Van Gogh, a hundred years forward, and more !
-- Gramma Linda

Audrey I Love this picture 2 of my favorites the sun and the moon! Well Done
-- Mima

Oh Audrey. I do love this art piece such beautiful contrast between the warm and cool colors.
-- Pete

Audrey, hi ! Thanks for having your rendition of Castle Landscapes ! It brought back to mind the huge puzzle of Schwans-somethg....that your parents once gave me, which I had to leave behind in our old, sold house b/c it was my only place w/ a large dining room table. Your artwork also reminds me of an elder girlhood friend who later enjoyed traveling around Europe w/ her husband just to visit castles ! Does your draw-bridge castle have a name ? Is it imaginary or real ? Will I ever find out ? Do you get to read your fan mailings ? Do you ever answer any choice ones ? How am I doing ? Am i making a royal nuisance of myself ? Can you forgive me if I am ? Thank you for the jolly memories your drawing revived, Audrey !
-- Gramma Linda

Hi, Audrey ! Thanks for your rendering of a red bird, in a branchy bush, or tree, one of those places presumably! Every time I see a bright lone cardinal, in artwork, I wonder if he is wondering where his less fancy, female helpmate is, sigh.....I also wonder exactly what your art class assignment was.....maybe to produce a winter example of our year round, Illinois' State Bird ? Do you know which other USA States also claim the cardinal ? Shall I guess the media you used -- how about crayon, or somethg called Cray-Pas, oil colors in stick form, SAKURA brand from Japan ? Grandpa has an old boxful of 12, here at our house, priced at 49 cents. The bird design printed on it reminds me of another assignment piece of artwork, I think described as Pattern(ed) Pumpkins ? Maybe you can try that technique, in some spare time, on some spare paper w/ another drawing of a bird....Patterned Parrots, or somethg......hmm. Do you like to relax by drawing while music is playing ? What else might you draw to the tune, "Lucy & Linus" ? Can you play any of that perky piece on your keyboard? Well, the spare area for Artsonia comment, is now more than half used up. You may call or write us anytime, dear Granddottie, w/ any answers to my pertetual queries.......? Granny Lindie ??
-- Linda

Wow, Audrey ! What a new way to see the pleasing pumpkin ! It makes me wonder if you actually tried to carve and decorate a real one w/ patterns like this. Can you imagine all the different foods that might taste great if combined w/ that favorite of Illinois fruits aka vegetables ? How do you like to have your pumpkin and eat it, too ? English muffins and pancakes are a couple ways - I can visualize those food shapes right on your pumpkin drawing ! Applesauce w/ pumpkin sauce is delicious, also - there seems to be several apple types of shapes in your design, from Granny Smith to Golden Delicious to maybe Fuji, and Pink Lady ! Thanks for the fun of your picture ! Happy new school year !
-- Linda

I love it!!
-- Karen

Hey Audrey! What a great piece of artwork! Love all the colors land and water showing WITH fish! Good job
-- Mima

Dear Audrey, your painting of primary colors (I forget the artistic term -- it begins w/ the letter 'M') reminds Grandpa and me of a stain glass window. And we like it! I wonder what other people see. MAYBE I could also imagine a rosey sunrise or sunset happening beyond a fence! I hope a horse will come galloping over, or grazing, any minute! Or maybe a flock of goat kids, or sheep lamkins skipping! Thanks for the relaxation of reviewing your handiworks!
-- Linda

Hi, Audrey! GUESS WHAT! Your pretty fantasticly feathered owl made a fancy way to write a thanks to my Sister as well as a college friend for packages they had sent! I happened to be sitting by my favorite living room window while viewing last month's "Supermoon," all while listening, again, for the small call of a neighborhood owl! THANKS for helping me out -- to catch up w/ my correspondences in a fun way!
-- Linda

Wow, Miss Audrey, trees are one of my favorite things, and yours is certainly a unique way of displaying your identity, your school, and our local team spirits.....had the Cubs won the World Series before or after you drew this, I wonder. This amazing maze of branches kind of reminds me of the lifelike tree that your Dad painted on our foyer/stairs wall. Did you ever notice the sort of hidden carved heart, w/ Grandpa & my initials in it? I wonder what you might put on another personal tree, next year. I hope my enjoyment of your artwork made some sense....the artwork description or teacher background is not included on this page or site or whatever this is.....I'll try looking for it after......I am trying to watch & listen & calm to St. OLAF's choir sing on TV and get a cuppa Lady Grey Tea and relax after a dizzy day of horrific world news interrupting my earlier happy emailing to my sister, thanking her for the Christmas card she ordered from Artsonia! It features YOUR sister's three, colorful winter trees, and her glad identification is printed right behind Auntie Paula's own signature. Your parents may feel free to condense this extensive missive however they like. My Grand task here is done!
-- Linda

GOOD monday morning, Audrey! Wow, your mixed up monster animal right away reminded Grandpa & me of the little critter that i watched saturday afternoon, riding the wind waves on our flying Illinois flag! Is your artwork intended to be a magnified drawing idea? We have more to our local ladybug/lady beetle story......which may have been the very same insect that somehow dropped into my graham cracker's plastic box when i wasn't looking, and looked dead on its back, of "hard, armorlike fore wings." (Audubon Society Field Guide) Assuming so, i simply dropped it in our kitchen compost collection bag.....but, it must have been only playing dead (or got knocked unconscious from dropping from the ceiling -- who knows). The next morning, Grandpa found 'her' perched on the edge of the kitchen scraps container! Sooo, Grandpa carried the wee thing outside to survive awhile longer. Curiously, i wonder whether that Delaware State Insect, which looks like part of your "animal monster," could even be the very same winged thing that somehow got itself tangled in my upswept hair while i was tapping on my Tablet, an evening b4. Carefully, i had set that Samsung down on the bed, walked to another room for a hairbrush, and quickly headed for the front door, wearing my moving miniature monster like a jiggling bobbypin attachment. Then, at last, i heard a tiny click on the outside cement top step, as i took the first comb-through stroke. She's free, i figured! And, so, who knows, maybe she just wanted to demonstrate her recovery w/ what else she still had interest or strength or "scope of imagination" (isn't that an Anne of Green Gables phrase) to do -- like flag surf, when she noticed i was watching, from my "sunny spot for thinking" (isn't that a Winnie the Pooh phrase). I wonder what your mix-mash imaginary monster might like to do. Thanx for the true nonsense. Someone ought to use it and write a more orderly story.
-- Linda

Hi, Audrey! Your cheerful imaginative and detailed drawings give my eyes and brain great exercise! Thanks for sharing your expressions on Artsonia for others to ponder and sheerly enjoy! I know that I must get around to ordering postcards of your winter bird houses! What are you doing now? I am glancing at a live camera on an eagle family in their cottonwood tree nest in Decorah, Iowa, and thinking of you, too.
-- Linda

Hello, Miss Audrey! Thank you for submitting your interpretation of Miss O'Keefe ' s rendition of a butterfly on a flower! Anyway I twist my tablet, it looks lovely! Have you seen your 1st butterfly on a flower yet this year? I saw mine yesterday, on the 30th of march, a small white something on a purple front yard blossom. Happy springtime!
-- Linda