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One of my good friends has a daughter who is now into "mushing" - I think that is the term she used. Dana, the daughter, is training the families 2 huskies and another dog. They have acquired a dry land sled (with wheels) and traditional sled and all the other incidental gear.
Since I used the white color on the background, when it is loaded into MarsEdit it looks like the snow just keeps on going. Usually there is a border. I also cut down on the picture dimensions.
A little exaggeration, but the way I view my one day trip to California. I left Sunday night (Easter Sunday) at 5PM and was home Monday night just before midnight. That's almost 5000 miles in a little more than 24 hours. Reminds me of this GollyGee Blocks® scene.
Continuing on the perspective theme, I've put together an isometric view of stacked cubes and ask the question what does it look like rotated 180 degrees in a top view.
Here's the isometric view:
Using GollyGee Blocks®, I have now rotated the scene 180 degrees, slightly skewed it to the left and enabled the top view:
SOL Tests frequently have several questions which involve how a geometric shape looks when viewed from certain given perspectives. I have seen some which use pipes and the question asked is which objects are parallel. Their are many variations to this type of question. GollyGee Blocks is a great teaching tool for this type of question since the program allows the user to rotate the building plane in the horizontal and vertical. Wire frame mode also helps in "seeing" the object as the observer would.
In this simple example I have a girl looking at a pyramid stacked on a cube. The girl is at a corner of the stacked object. What would her view look like?
If I rotate the plane so that I am behind the girl, this is what she would see.
Try this exercise by building an isometric of stacked cubes. Take a look from all angles. Have fun.
I picked up an interesting bargain book at Barnes & Noble about a year ago whose purpose is to help kids draw dinosaurs. The book was $6.98, Title is How to Draw Dinosaurs, and it is illustrated by Georgene Griffin. The Publisher is kids books, inc., Chicago. A quick Google search will turn up lots of hits on this book title.
I tried my hand at doing a Oviraptor in 3D using GollyGee Blocks®. Do you suppose the Oviraptor would have done well with egg beaters? OK - Bad joke!
The basic drawing philosophy the illustrator suggests is using ovals. The only ones I couldn't do were the free-form ovals. GollyGee Blocks® lets you stretch in two directions, scale and do move manipulations. The only part I had a real problem with was the long tail. I just couldn't make it look continuous...but then again, I didn't spend much time on this rendition either.
How about a project book of 3D dinosaurs with associated researched material for a science class? Maybe I'll try some others now and then.
Yesterday one of my grandsons was running around our family room gnawing on a whole carrot (it has to have the green stem attached). This is an interesting and rather amusing sight! Reminded me of a scene I did at an educational show some time ago in which I was discussing drawing food groups in 3D. This is a scene I made after talking with the person who posed the question. Try out drawing some using basic geometric forms. Happy drawing/Happy eating!
Here's a quick way to help students learn multiplication concepts. This scene concentrates on introducing arrays. I just learned the multiplication tables by rote when I was a kid, but that's ancient history. It really didn't hurt me though and I sort of see the math happening in my head in pictures.
My two grandsons came over this morning with their mom for a visit. That just made my Friday!
This mornings' Washington Post had a front page article by reporter Katherine Shaver that drew attention to our national problem of our inattention to Art's Education in our schools. Her article is self-explanatory. And, congratulations to the school and supporters for their initiative! This is a subject very near and dear to our hearts at GollyGee Software. We have been trying to push this article's message for a number of years. We did have our product GollyGee Blocks® on sale at the National Building Museum at one time several years ago.
Since the article mentioned drawing castles, here's one that is easily done. More complex renditions can be done as well. You can add features as well as look at the rendering from all angles. I just wanted to get something into this post.
I'm hungry for a good Five Guys burger right now! If you haven't had this experience, you might want to try it. Not for the faint hearted (those with high cholesterol) - no bad pun intended.
This scene was developed to show use in a Language Arts curriculum that focuses on word usage (e.g. "hot dog"). There are many ways to use a word including common slang or expressions with multiple meanings.
The buns are domes (bottom one turned upside down with tilt tool). Hot dog is a cylinder with dome endings.
Try the Five Guys! And, try GollyGee Blocks®.