MrMallory1's Comments (59)

I told students to try their best to remain abstract and draw just shapes and colors rather than identifiable object and I obviously didn't follow my own directions. Well, I would say this is more abstract than realistic- abstract IS based on something, it's "non-objective" that doesn't look like ANYTHING. The first piece by Wagner was peaceful and made me first think of flowers, morning mists, trees and mountains (maybe like the Alps). Aaron Copeland always made me think of Western scenes like bears and trout and lakes or streams. Gershwin is definitely city music, so I switched to the aluminum fishing boat with it's structures and rivets, but pretty soon I added the grass and sparkles on the water- I think his piece has a lot more percussion, whereas the other songs are more melodic.

I like the added color. And the colors that you chose. The lighter colors and the blue is nice.

T.I like the big circles holding everything together A.It looks like a cone,was that on purpose? G.I think if you took out the couple circles at the top and the one below the black circle would've been cool,it would've looked like it got darker the farther you went to the left.

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T.I like the light shapes A.Why triangles? G.Maybe put a couple more dark shapes

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What do you think of mine? I think I'm much more grumpy in real life. This makes me seem really sweet and friendly like Mr. Rogers. I wish I was as upbeat and outgoing as this painting makes me appear.

Great lo mein is at LoVan's in Denison, next to Nepper Law Office, across from the Methodist church.

How I spent my Summer vacation; digitizing Sac County's land records for my friend the Abstractor.

Amazing how a few photo edits can make even bird spat on a car door look like art!

Don't forget to order you 2017-18 'Archive' yearbook!

Yes it is, especially the last week before break.

Graphite & pencil on 18x24 newsprint, 2017

Students had 5 days to work on their final self portraits. Between helping them and getting piles of grading for other other classes done I had to force my self to spend a class and a half to work on one myself. I kinda like the funky angle. What did we do before cell phones? Maybe I need to back off of telling them they should use mirrors instead of phones.

The bunny didn't work out the way I'd hoped, in hindsight, I probably should've used a Bat-signal.

Teacher example/demonstration on the board from when I gave instructions.

Who does this most remind you of? Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, or Jean Jeaques Rousseau?

"Cujo" our mascot in acrylic on canvas became a house warming gift to our first mascot when he returned to Iowa and bought a house after he'd earned his Master's degree in London.

Pink and purple coffee, tempera on paper.

Coffee in red and blue watercolor.

Another colored pencil demo for eighth graders creating parodies of 'American Gothic.' This one of Willie Roberson and his Uncle Si from 'Duck Dynasty' ended up becoming a birthday present to a cheerleader.

"Kristen Head," another BV student and cheerleader is now a Kindergarten teacher. Watercolor portrait.

"Angie Kirk," 18x24 pencil & graphite on newsprint. Angie, a former BV student and cheerleader, went to Iowa State to become and Art teacher, but I think she has a much better paying job instead- but I appreciated when she modeled for her classmates and I.

Four non-objective designs; two in Google Drawings, one paper and one pencil and paint.

"Boyer Valley Gothic," a colored pencil example for eighth graders challenged to parody Grant Wood's iconic classic 'American Gothic.'

"Buffalo Bee" a Photoshop collage based on pictures I took of a HUGE bee in the State Fair flower gardens and one of my cousin's bison.

Digital collage (in Photoshop). Did I mention my admiration of buffalo?

This "painting" was created entirely in Photoshop in the early 2000's when I took a class in Photoshop at the Sioux City Arts Center.

Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater. I don't necessarily share his political views, but I do share his love for the Southwest.

Here's a surrealist drawing I did waaaaaay back when I was in college.

Sometimes black and white photography is the best photography. I like to take hikes around my in-laws' farm. Too bad these cows aren't buffalo though.

Did I mention that I love buffalo. I painted this as a gift for my cousins in Sioux Falls who own their own heard.

"Kansas Zephyr" acrylic on canvas.

"Malcom," watercolor.

Wild asparagus by Yellow Smoke lake in Denison.

Macro flower. I admit it, this was inspired by Georgia O'Keefe and Robert Maplethorpe.

Jazz legend Miles Davis in complimentary colors; Oil pastels on paper.

Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior, acrylic on paper.

Lincoln in red, white and blue watercolor.

A Photoshop "painting" developed from photos I took myself. This project was a way of working though grief when I lost my brother-in-law several years ago.

Yet another value-grid self portrait demo.

Self portrait in charcoal and pencil manipulated in Photoshop.

A friend of mine is a university professor of Psychology. He published an anthology of poetry about diversity and asked to use one of my watercolor paintings for the cover.

Maybe my all time favorite of my own paintings. Teddy Roosevelt in monochromatic gouache on cardboard. I usually keep it on my lectern in the Civics classroom, that way it's a "bully pulpit!" (get it?)

Graphite on 18x24 newsprint.

Here's big 18x24 oil pastel of my goddaughter, a painter herself in California, on newsprint.

American poet Walt Whitman in pointillism. I'm pretty proud of this one, although Barnes & Noble hasn't been knocking down my door.

This welded iron sculpture from my college days (c.1991) was meant to be a spiritual mash-up of the phoenix resurrection and the Holy Spirit as a dove.

This acrylic portrait of a student was meant to be in a neo-expressionist style of the 1980's. I gave it as a get-well gift to her when she was in the hospital.

One of many annual value-grip portraits done as example/demonstrations for 7th graders.

Here's one of my favorite Cheer tee-shirts that I've designed. This one uses the same bulldog decals that we use on our football helmets.

To create this tee-shirt design, I took a picture of a junior high cheerleader first, then turned it into a silhouette in Photoshop.

After completing a drawing of a bison on scratch-board, I scanned the picture and manipulated it some in Adobe Photoshop. I love buffalo. My Senior Show at Concordia University back in 1993 was titled "Where the Buffalo Roam."

Here's an oil-pastel portrait of a student in complementary colors (blue-green and red-orange).

One year, taking an HTML coding class at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs, I developed a Warhol- style selfie as a break from my homework.

When Boyer Valley had a change in administration, I revamped our Website and district newsletters. I designed this logo to suggest a check-mark- emblematic of teachers assessing student assignments.

An annual project for seventh graders is a value self-portrait based on a 16 square grid. After making several demos of myself, I finally decided to use one of the students for my example. This kid was a ham when I took his picture.

Several years ago I designed this logo in Adobe Illustrator for tee-shirts for the Cheer squad that I coach. It was pretty popular at the time, even some boys bought the shirts, not just cheerleaders and their parents.

I made this acrylic painting on board of MLK as a wedding gift for a former student living in Washington D.C. It includes quotes from the civil rights leader.

I created this surrealist logo for a series of brief YouTube videos discussing famous artworks; https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRr2DVaBMvPXvokUWWcAZZpBxW3Qwl0W0