These next seven posts are of my daughter's senior art project. She just graduated from Southern Virginia Univ. She wrote and illustrated an original child's book and displayed it as if it were formatted to be a book. They are in watercolor and ink. Each set is to have the perspective as an adult would see things juxtaposed with the vision a child might have of the same scene. Two different realities. I wish you could also see the text of the book.

I am very proud of Sandy for pushing herself outside her comfort zone in this project. Hope you all enjoy seeing some of her work.

This second painting is one of my favorites. The mother sees only an ocean; the child sees mermaids waving good-bye to her.

This third image in Sandy's senior show is how the mother sees only a desert, but the child sees cowboys and Indians.

Sorry about the glare on these pictures.

Here Sandy shows how the mother sees mountains, but the child sees a dragon flying over them.

This is the second to last image in Sandy's story. The child sees unicorns in the distance, but the mother sees only a golden plain.

Here is the last image in Sandy's book. It's about how they finally arrive at their destination, a small run down shack, but the mother and the daughter have the same vision of it--a castle of their own. She chose to make it after an oriental pagoda instead of the traditional "castle."