This week of few of my coworkers and I went down to Grand Rapids for Art Prize- an open art competition! It was so fun to see all the talented and creative artist from around the country & world that came to compete! You can check out for information and vote @
artprize.org
The sculpture above look SO life like it was crazy!
So did this painting, called Maren's cocaine! It looked like a photograph!
This artist sketched an entire comic book on big glass pages!
It was fun to visit when we did because they were down to the top 10 pieces of art! This is one above (in no particular order): 1. President Ford Visits Grand Rapids....a replica of President Ford looking at his bust!
2. Visualize- a huge mural out of tile, cement and glass by students and artists from a community school in GR
3. Fetch- a dog made entirely out of car and motorcycle parts
4. Grizzlies- wood carved bears placed in the Ford
Museum waiting pool :)
This was not a top 10 but I thought it was cool- a self portrait made out of
legos.
5. Men at Work- a statue guy and also a real guy pretending to be a statue!
6. Rain- a very pretty gold leaf sculpture!
This was also not a top ten- but I thought it was
so cool! A take on the barrel of monkeys! Steal ones hanging from a bridge in GR.
Another one that didn't make the top ten...encyclopedia pages! I wondered what happened to all those old encyclopedias!
Little painted circles- then you look through lens to view...cool!
A huge mural painted to commemorate women fighting cancer, beautiful!
We ended up making it to all top 10 but I didn't get a picture of them all!
Great fun to get my creative juices going!
The mommies, little red riding hood and snow white!
The Washington St. girls- Little Red Riding Hood, the Owl and Snow White
The ladies!
Isabelle & her hippy parents!
Our little red riding hood!
Macare & me with our girls!
Halloween family!
Our fun night at the Halloween party- turned into a surprise wedding for our friends!!
Happy Halloween!
Dean and Brian!
Ellina, Aunt Nancy, Isabelle and Me
Spartan Family!
The McClatchey Family!
Michigan vs. MSU tailgate 2011!
The girls!
Isabelle & Daddy!
The cave woman, Buzz and alien all ready for Halloween @ Great Wolf Lodge!
Our little pumpkin!
Isabelle loved having her feet & hands in the sand!
Isabelle Wynn
The Polasek family...
Our little family...
Nolan in front of the Sleeping Bear Dunes...
The best part~running down!
Macy's headstand on the dunes!
The whole gang!
This past weekend Christy, Jason and the kiddos headed up north to visit us!
We had SO much fun! It was a GORGEOUS FALL weekend!!
We visited the Sleeping Bear Dunes! Macy climbed the dunes THREE times!
We went to Pierce Stocking Drives Lake Michigan overlook...
Then we went to Lake Michigan to dip our toes in the COLD water, look for Petoskey stones and play in the sand...
Aunt Christy & Isabelle playing in the sand...
Glen Haven beach...
the old Glen Haven Cannery...
The game- who could stay in the cold water the longest before crying "uncle" :)
Christy, Brian and Isabelle
Beautiful grass!
Silly, lovable, beautiful little girls!
Sisters :)
Dune grass- looked like strands of gold!
This week of few of my coworkers and I went down to Grand Rapids for Art Prize- an open art competition! It was so fun to see all the talented and creative artist from around the country & world that came to compete! You can check out for information and vote @ artprize.org
So did this painting, called Maren's cocaine! It looked like a photograph!
This artist sketched an entire comic book on big glass pages!
It was fun to visit when we did because they were down to the top 10 pieces of art! This is one above (in no particular order): 1. President Ford Visits Grand Rapids....a replica of President Ford looking at his bust!
2. Visualize- a huge mural out of tile, cement and glass by students and artists from a community school in GR
3. Fetch- a dog made entirely out of car and motorcycle parts
This was not a top 10 but I thought it was cool- a self portrait made out of legos.
5. Men at Work- a statue guy and also a real guy pretending to be a statue!
6. Rain- a very pretty gold leaf sculpture!
This was also not a top ten- but I thought it was so cool! A take on the barrel of monkeys! Steal ones hanging from a bridge in GR.
Another one that didn't make the top ten...encyclopedia pages! I wondered what happened to all those old encyclopedias!
Little painted circles- then you look through lens to view...cool!
A huge mural painted to commemorate women fighting cancer, beautiful!
