At the Shedd Aquarium we saw the 4D version of “Planet Earth – Shallow Seas”. I am not a big fan of 4D. I must have been sprayed 8 times during the 15 minute film and I jumped out of my skin when a poke in the back coincided with the sea snake scene.
Monti wanted to go to the Art Institute specifically for the miniature
rooms. The rooms are scaled one inch to one foot and show European and
American rooms from the late 13th century to 1930’s.
Monti learns how to duplicate artwork by using a grid system. She spent about 20 minutes working on her picture.
The girls worked on illustrations for their own story book. The picture behind them is a replication of “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte”done by Japanese high school students using punched out paper dots.
In Grant Park the City of Chicago was holding an event called Snow
Days. There were about 20 snow artists working on a variety of
intricate sculptures. Unfortunately Chicago had some unseasonably warm
temperatures earlier in the week. All the artists were extremely
behind on their work which needed to be done by noon the following
day. The artists told us they would have to work through the night and
that they hoped for colder temperatures so they could achieve the
amount of detail in their sculpture they needed to win the contest.