Walls

 Syl and her bud Kaileigh got started last weekend on the walls in her new studio. It will take a while, but I am looking forward to seeing how it all turns out!

Shiny!!!

 Syl did a star turn this past weekend as Tomatoa the Crab in the Wayland Middle School production of Moana, Jr.

We hardly recognized her, all glammed up!  

She really owned the character, vamping around the stage like a true diva. 

One of the upsides of the "Jr" versions of Disney plays is their length: exactly one hour of frenetic pacing. Syl's big scene fell more or less in the middle.

We were super proud of our evil little crab. Here's her performance, more or less in its glorious entirety!

A whole lot more photos are in the April 2022 gallery.

March Art (heavily-influenced)

 Syl and I have been watching South Park (something of a compromise between the constant Japanese anime she wants to watch, and any number of things she wants to watch). She appreciates the humor, but also seems really taken with the characters. Her March art was heavily-influenced.

These first two are "bird girl," and have nothing to do with South Park.

These next two are digital imaginings of the South Park gang in a different animation style. 

Water colors...

Pen sketches.

The journey home

 Our flight home from CO was canceled due to an East Coast snow storm. Jetblue could not get us home until Monday morning, on a red eye Sunday night. Yuck. So after a lot of gymnastics, I got us on a red eye Saturday night into JFK in New York, Sunday morning, and we rented a car. Sounded good on paper. In reality, it was EXHAUSTING. 

But, upsides to everything. Syl and I had a blast meandering from Snowmass to Denver on Saturday morning. We basically jumped from random place to random place, Googling "things to do near me" at each stop, burning up the day before our late night flight.

We both enjoy finding a good out of the way diner. This one, "Dan's Carnation" in a little town between Snowmass and Denver, was a great find!

We then made our way to the "Casa Bonita Art Show" at this crazy little gallery in a tiny strip mall. Syl loved it.

Next was the Denver Botanical Garden. A beautiful place even in winter!

To think, if our flight had not been canceled, we'd never have discovered the Denver Selfie Museum! 

I may replace my professional headshot with this.

By the time we got to the airport and had dinner, it was way past our bedtimes.

We landed in NYC at 6am. The whole "Rent a car and Drive" plan was feeling ill-advised. But we pressed on.

This was about 45 minutes in to the 3.5 hour drive, roughly one minute after Syl assured me, "no, no Dad, I definitely want to stay awake and keep you company." 

Of course we made it home safe and sound. What a fantastic trip!