The Artwork of Stephanie Spangler

It's summertime again and that means Summer Reading is here! This year's theme is "A Universe of Stories" to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first landing of a man on the moon. Though the universe itself may be vast, what you can do with this theme is... well, not so vast. At least, I found it hard to come up with decorations for the library that were fresh and not overdone, especially since we already had a theme in the last few years that sort of included a space t

Finally summer has come and so has the Summer Reading Program at the Upper Merion Township Library! This year's theme was a music theme so I had fun incorporating that into the design for the bulletin boards and displays all over the library. For the front bulletin board I created a "rock band" made up of cavemen and for the back board I mimicked the silhouette commercials for iTunes, though this time it's 'iRead.' Over the computer area I figured you can't go wrong with th

Well... September is here, summer is officially almost gone and what a busy one it was this year! I missed posting in August because I had three commissions I've been working on, including this one. A friend from work asked me to do a portrait, not of a house this time, but of an evergreen tree. The tree was taken from her friend's backyard to be used as the Christmas tree for her town's square. She wanted to give the portrait to her friend as a new housewarming gift. Whi

Summer is here... well almost! Even though we have one more day before the official start to summer, the Summer Reading Program sponsored by the Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) is now in full swing. As always, I did the artwork for my local library to promote this year's theme: Build a Better World. Everything had to do with construction and building so I did a lot to incorporate every kid's favorite toy - LEGO's! I also tried to stretch it a bit by focusing o

So today's challenge is: Celebration. I could have photographed our Fourth of July decorations, since that is only a week away, but instead I chose to post a picture of the bulletin board I created for the library's summer reading program. This year's theme is sports and activities and seeing as the Summer Olympics are coming up in Rio de Janeiro in August, I decided to focus on that theme throughout all the displays I created. This bulletin board features the flags of Oly

Today's photo challenge is: Something Green. Thankfully, with this being summertime (well, almost) everything is green right now. But rather than just take a rather boring shot of the many green leaves around I decided to throw a little whimsy into the mix and pulled out my old Kermit the Frog and Phillie Phanatic figurines to feature in my photos. Here Kermit is happily sunbathing in a bed of lettuce, taking shade underneath the basil and enjoying the view from atop the r