09.19.08
Art Journal… Day 18
Using only black and white…
And nutmeg… being sweet.
09.18.08
Art Journal… Day 17
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.
09.17.08
Art Journal… Day 16
There were intentions… full intentions… to add more to this page… but… I couldn’t think of anything :)
09.15.08
Art Journal… Day 15
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 ;)
Art Journal… Day 14
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.
09.13.08
Art Journal… Day 13
Okay, so far… this is my favorite :) I really like paint by number and would love to get my hands on a “real” one, but… for now, I can try to create one on my own :)
I may just hang this in my kitchen :)
As I do more art journaling, I have been spending more time on each page… I feel that doing a page a day has loosened up my wrist and the anxiety of creating. It’s like starting an exercise regiment, actually… the first 2 weeks are hard then it starts getting a bit easier :) oooh, I hope this becomes a habit :)
Afternoon fun at the Scrap Exchange…
Today, I visited with some of the girls from the Carolina Mixed Media Art Guild. They have a monthly meet up and a quarterly art outing… this quarter, it was at the Scrap Exchange in Durham, which was totally cool and like nothing I have ever been to before! (To Alicia’s credit… she’s been dying to take me there and we never made it… of course I get over there when she’s in L.A!!!)
They had bins and bins of just odds and ends. Little tiny bottles, plastic flowers, test tubes, fabric bits, bolts of fabric, stickers, wallpaper, wallpaper sample books… with every turn there were strange new treasures! Oh, and each item was totally cheap…
Random old mailboxes, rolls of sticky plastic contact paper, butcher paper… mirror, glass and wood scraps… old 16mm films for like, 75 cents. All in neat little buckets and on shelves all in a row.
The guild rented a crafting room for the day. Some people browsed the Scrap Exchange, others visited and many others made Artist Trading Cards. And did you know that Strathmore now makes Artist Trading Card Blanks (Hey, Babs, these would be AWESOME traveling mini-canvases!)?!? Canvas, bristol, illustration board, watercolor paper, all in trading card/baseball card size… wow. I got 2 free packs courtesy of Jerry’s Artarama in Raleigh, which I must totally check out immediately. From what I understand, you can make ATC’s, submit them via the Carolina MM Art Guild and your card(s) could possibly be chosen to participate in a gallery show. The pressure :) hehe. I know that Sue T. has had her ATC’s travel the country… and it’s oh so very exciting!
Speaking of Sue T., she’s been sending me some carefully picked antique jewelry care packages which are chock-full o’ inspiration. I hope to breathe some new life into those clustered clip-on earrings and other shiny goodies everyone’s grandma had piled in a box and forgotten somewhere. It’s a touch of creativity and engineering because you need to find out how these puppies will attach to each other securely, yet beautifully. Because, you know, I would like to say…”nice to meet you, I’m a jewelry structural engineer”.
I met so many nice and creative people today… as I get acquainted with the guild (just joined over a week ago), I’ll post blogs and info… yay!
Otherwise, just doing art, loving that the weather is cooling down and I cleaned all evening. Holly understands the pain of cleaning ;) (Check out her blog because… it’s quite nifty).
Oh, and I want to do what Sandy just did. Wow!
Okay so now my “to do” list is just really shorter than it was:
1. Buy house
2. Open cute little store (again), only a few miles from said house
3. Plant random wings (see Sandy’s blog) every 3 miles… or put them in every Starbucks, (same thing).
hehe :)
09.12.08
Art Journal… Day 12
Deer!
I started painting a zillion green roses then figured I should put something on top… then didn’t want to finish the bottom… and voila… deer.