11.08.08
Posted in Art Journal, Main at 2:14 am by carrie
Yeah, so… it was supposed to be days in a row of art journaling, but that didn’t happen. With helpful nudges from Sandy, I was able to push some paint around on paper yesterday…
It’s sort of a dark Laura Ashley wallpaper thing. Why not take all Laura Ashley products, circa 1987, since the 80’s are coming into fashion again… and… make the designs darker, more macabre or goth-it-up a bit. Because nothing says chintz poofy curtains like
Bauhaus or
The Sisters of Mercy. Bela Lugosi may be dead, but I’m sure he needs a posh tea room where the drapes match the walls match the pillows match the tea cozy match the carpet. And heck, these bands were quite popular at the height of the Laura Ashely fad… makes sense to throw them together. (BTW, go over to the LA
website these days and everything is quite lovely! Esp. the wallpaper!)
Thank you for indulging in my ramblings. Sandy. Contrails.
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09.26.08
Posted in Art Journal, Main at 11:04 pm by carrie
This is actress Lalla Stanhope. The only information I can find is in a book from the Harvard Library dated 1911 stating she was a stage actress around 1908.
I think she is embracing the time she had on stage :)
(45 layers!)
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09.24.08
Posted in Art Journal, Main at 11:54 pm by carrie
I took a few days off from the physical art journal… but tonight felt inspired to try something different…
I purchased a bunch of trading cards on ebay years ago and they just turned up while digging for something completely unrelated. The cards are pictures of turn-of-the-century British actors and actresses… This piece is inspired by a picture I have of “Miss Dorothy Dix”. I couldn’t find anything about her online… but it’s possible she was married to a British Actor named Jameson Thomas. Jameson was fed up with British Film Industry and moved to Hollywood. He lived in Sierra Madre… which is just minutes from Pasadena. Small world :)
This piece has over 30 photoshop layers. I had to make myself stop :) I would love to print it and add more dimension with glitter and other fun sparkly things… I’m thinking a set of greeting cards… hmmmm? :)
It’s 67 degrees and windy here tonight… we have the windows open to enjoy the clean, cool breeze. I love this kind of weather! Halloween is just around the corner!
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09.19.08
Posted in Art Journal, Main at 10:59 pm by carrie
Using only black and white…
And nutmeg… being sweet.
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09.18.08
Posted in Art Journal, Main at 11:12 pm by carrie
Once upon a time I drew nothing but cupcakes. The almighty cupcake was in everything I did. Some even said that everything I drew looked like a cupcake, even if it wasn’t supposed to
be a cupcake. It was sort of… embarrassing. I refrained from drawing the little fairy cakes to avoid being mocked… I sort of got a complex… or cupcake-phobia.
Bow to the very large cupcake topper… one single hydrangea bloom… (are they edible? I can’t remember)
And the little people desperately trying to climb mount cupcake, an afterthought… I think they should be animated. The obsessive little cupcake people.
I relate to you little obsessive cupcake people. And I’m here to tell you… it’s okay, obsess.
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09.17.08
Posted in Art Journal, Main at 3:33 pm by carrie
There were intentions… full intentions… to add more to this page… but… I couldn’t think of anything :)
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09.15.08
Posted in Art Journal, Main at 2:46 pm by carrie
I think I’m the most proud of this one so far… it took over 5 hours to do :) I got to utilize all of my rendering class skills… how to draw glass, wood and organic materials.
Stan Kong would be pleased ;) (A few of you remember him from PCC &/or Art Center)
I first did a few studies of the flowers in pencil from looking directly at the arrangement. Then I took a picture (below) and worked off the picture. It wasn’t that it was terribly hard, it was just time consuming. It was nice to have a challenge.
My new rule here is if a “hurricane” is coming, I’m going to get a bouquet of flowers, and possibly draw them :) 1 down… hopefully no more to go ;)
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Posted in Art Journal, Main at 11:45 am by carrie
This is one that started out good… then faded. Bah. Another attempt at paint by number…
The other thing I was trying to do was pick only 3 colors to work with and mix them to make other colors. It sort of worked… but it takes some planning.
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