Norah Art - Backlog

Norah has been true to a couple of themes for all her artwork up to this point with some themes certainly more pronounced than others. Rainbows, flowers and princesses are perhaps her favorite subjects. She has also done quite a few different animal pieces but these are in the minority. Her color palette is broad, especially compared to her purple-focused sister, because of her love of the rainbow and Lisa Frank (which is really pretty much the love of gaudy colors, rainbows and unicorns). Here are a few representative pieces of Norah’s typical subjects.

This unique panoramic piece combines nearly all of Norah’s signature thematic elements: rainbows, flowers and princesses. As well as a few embellishments like a castle and a Texas, American and German? Flag.

And again…the same 3 elements

Of course, art from 2014 would certainly not be complete without a nod to Disney's Frozen

Alice’s Art Backlog

Alice’s art has been very focused on the color purple. It is her favorite color and it is an identifying feature of nearly all her work from this period. Occasionally the artist will show emphasis by adding another color but this is rare and these works are among the most precious. She has also had a flower theme. I believe her inspiration has been the trees in the Lorax which was a favorite around the beginning of this period. I plan to do a dedicated post to Alice’s exploration of the Lorax Trees soon to fully explore this.

My interpretation: boat and tree

Alice’s edificios from escuela

Alice is just learning to write her name and doing a great job

In very atypical style there was actually something drawn on both sides of this paper

These flowers have been a common theme of Alice’s work for a couple of months now. I plan to post some more representative pieces later

More work from escuela, note Alice’s name as written by the artist. Unfortunately the scanner can’t do a full 9x12 piece but you get the idea

La ciudad by Alice represents a heavily fortressed ciudad in the jungle. Its simplicity is the most striking feature.

Hicks Family Art Revival – Bryan Early Work

We’re having a bit of an art revival at the Hicks’ home. My New Year’s resolution this year was to do an art project every week. This inspired to dig out my old sketch book from when Lindsey and I first got married. Every spring I would have what we came to refer to as my “Existential Crisis.” I would decide for some reason that nothing I was learning in school was really fulfilling and I was just going through the motions. I would attempt several antidotes like trying to learn a new language (Russian was a popular one), computer programming, rock climbing and back in 2007 it was art. I guess I’m on a 7 year cycle. This year I wanted to get my art and the girls’ art up on the blog so that we would remember when they did things (and to give myself some accountability). I was pretty happy with these pastel pieces I did back in college and so I wanted to add them to the collection too. Spring comes early here in Texas as my allergies can attest to so here’s the start of Existential Crisis 2015.