Wednesday, May 15th, 2013. Grace and I took our journey to the Tacoma Art Museum where they’re showcasing  ”Beyond Books: The Independent Art of Eric Carle”. Eric Carle is known for writing children’s books such as “ Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?”, “Have You Seen My Cat?” and most famously “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, including those books he has written over 70 books.

First entering the museum it had a crisp, clean, cut feel to it, what really caught me and Grace’s attention at first was the huge display of giant colorful marbles in the center of the walk way as you advance to see other paintings and such. We first we were introduced to Eric Carle’s works which were books, giant paintings, even cut out characters from his books, all Eric’s paintings are extremely colorful and a little over whelming, having you think “I wonder how long it took to paint this thing?”. As we made our way up stairs we had the chance to see others artists works from paintings to sketches, etc. It’s very nice to see a variety of work from people all over the world, expressions, emotions, passion it seemed fill the place.

I had a fun time at the museum, I only wish that it had more to show as we made our way to the top it was just workshops, and stores. Either than that I enjoy my visit to the museum and recommend to my fellow classmates.

Wednesday, May 15th, 2013. Grace and I took our journey to the Tacoma Art Museum where they’re showcasing  ”Beyond Books: The Independent Art of Eric Carle”. Eric Carle is known for writing children’s books such as “ Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?”, “Have You Seen My Cat?” and most famously “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, including those books he has written over 70 books.

First entering the museum it had a crisp, clean, cut feel to it, what really caught me and Grace’s attention at first was the huge display of giant colorful marbles in the center of the walk way as you advance to see other paintings and such. We first we were introduced to Eric Carle’s works which were books, giant paintings, even cut out characters from his books, all Eric’s paintings are extremely colorful and a little over whelming, having you think “I wonder how long it took to paint this thing?”. As we made our way up stairs we had the chance to see others artists works from paintings to sketches, etc. It’s very nice to see a variety of work from people all over the world, expressions, emotions, passion it seemed fill the place.

I had a fun time at the museum, I only wish that it had more to show as we made our way to the top it was just workshops, and stores. Either than that I enjoy my visit to the museum and recommend to my fellow classmates.