The healing journey of a widowed, unschooling badass in Delaware.
My girlfriend and I can be kind of gross, in a sweet, synchronous way. She is also participating in Delaware Fun-A-Day and we were independently inspired to create toadstool homes.
She drew while I built and we kept our creations secret until they were almost finished.
I was struggling with whether to have a resident or not when I got to see her drawing.
Her spider visitor gave me the idea to add some creatures.
Frog is very shy, can you find him?
A homeschool mom joined the kids in having fun and built a costume party with an unlucky baby as the featured guest.
Steampunk is a favorite theme that is hard to explore without the right palette.
Classic ship elements like the sextant, spyglass, and pirate wheel (although used in an unusual way here with the single rotor), complement the brown shades of this amateur aviator’s craft.
My older son assisted our resident mythmaster in creating Medusa’s cave and an unfortunate adventurer.
I particularly appreciate the stone figures with various missing limbs and the detail of her latest victim starting to turn to stone.
My younger son partnered with a friend to build after I proposed an adaptation of Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
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They researched how to make waves out of Lego and learned a new technique to create the curved shape of a wave.
Once the centerpiece was complete, they added a beach with animals, texture, and a sand castle.
I love fun. Spinning tops are simple toys and not the kind of thing one would expect at an art show.
After two weeks without soccer or jiu-jitsu, it was hard to return to the mat. I had tough training partners and didn’t last as long as I would have liked.
That said, I’m glad I did it and can’t wait for more training.
Wrestling With Robots could be the title a chapter of my autobiography.
When I set out to build a small scale chessboard, I knew one of my armies would be the greater challenge. Plants and robots seemed like natural adversaries, but I have a lot more experience with robots and the wealth of Lego references for automatons is immense. There lies my difficulty, I want to create something new and different.
I deconstructed an existing chess board to fit Delaware Fun A Day (DEFAD) specifications.
Castles and knights presented a speed bump for my plant army, but I was pleased with the simple results.
The robot army demanded more attention.
There are many more mechanical elements than botanic ones. Once I settled on purple as a theme, it narrowed what I could with.
Keeping the robots small was harder than fitting all the plants, but I learned through a lot of experimentation.
The board is playable and the pieces move fairly well. I hope to see art show attendees engaged in a game.
Our mythology enthusiast struck again with a sassy Apollo leading the sun across the sky.
An impromptu fire provided the perfect backdrop.
It was an exciting day of building. Four different creators worked independently and together on amazing projects.
One young lady was inspired by Greek mythology to recreate Pandora’s Box.
I helped with a couple engineering problems, but she brought all the creativity and focus.
