Family in Frames

My Wall Art Gallery continues. This time, it's about family.

Before my brother, Dennis became a Photoshop master, he really was an accomplished artist. He won't draw a thing for me now. When we moved to Chicago from Hawaii in 1974 he mailed the drawings on the right for me so I wouldn't forget my roots. He started to draw Art's family restaurant and for some reason gave it up. We rescued it from his trash basket and framed it. Someday, Dennis will retire and I'm going to chain him to a desk and have him finish it.

I put our kids' clothes in a shadow box to keep a bit of their childhood for us to always hold dear. I've done the same for our grandkids.

We loved printers' boxes at one time and used it to display small treasures. The only downside was the dust it collected. When we moved to Hawaii, we designed a removable plexiglass cover for it. It's so much better!

Our granddaughter, KC drew this picture for us of the time she spent with us in Hawaii. They were at the beach a lot where there were rainbows, boogie boards, spam musubi and mom taking photos under the giant umbrella.

Here's the painting that Auntie Grace painted before she passed away. She is mom's much beloved younger sister.

Every time we look at it, we remember Auntie's zest for life and beauty.

When I retired from teaching in Illinois this was one of the gifts I received from the staff. I can see the windows of the 1st floor room where I taught for 19 years.

Our son and daughter-in-law gave this to Art for his 70th birthday. I wasn't sure what it was at first but Art knew right away. It's a diagram of the Chicago subway system. Art rode the train to work every day.

We bought this poster from the The Art Institute of Chicago when they held the Monet exhibit.

Chicago's art institute is one of the largest and oldest art museums in the U.S.

We often took our children there to develop their appreciation of the arts.

This was a photo our daughter, Tiffany took and developed when she was taking a high school photography class.

Here we copied Jackson Pollock and did this art project with the kids dripping paint on a very large canvas.

Unfortunately we couldn't find a wall big enough to hang the painting horizontally so we had to hang it sideways.

Someday, our son says we may have to cut the painting in two so he and his sister can each have a section.

Too funny!