June 4, 2008
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Little Bits of Art Everywhere
Recently I've been trying to figure out how to integrate all the eclectic things i like to do and make. At the gallery last week someone noticed, i dunno, something artsy about me, it happens, and we struck up a conversation; it sort of boiled down to "Oh, you're an artist? What do you DO?"
Oh, hell. I feel like such a cheesewad saying I "Do Everything".
I've always been this way, and not for lack of attention span; it's just tough to pick one direction and not wonder what else i could do with it. The short list? I draw stuff with sharpie markers. I make jewelry out of kitschy vintage stuff, and i make jewelry out of gorgeous silver and stone stuff. I paint and I make beads, I do mosaics with bits of smashed up broken glass, and sometimes I'm a photographer, too. I guess I'm a crafty go-getter, and I'm even a little cocksure around the fact that if you give me enough time and a decent guidebook, i can turn my hand to just about anything. However, there are not enough hours in the goddamn day and it is frustrating.
Like, i could take my drawings, right? And make them really teeny and put them on my handpainted paper beads. And then string those together with all the other baubles I've got.
Or a mosaic! I saw this thing where you can take smashed & crackled clear glass and embed images under it, and i could stick my drawings under there and.... baubles, yeah.
Or, or, or..... I could stick my pictures on a canvas and draw crazy ladies wearing the jewelry I designed, and paint all around it. Not as baubly, but still.
And it goes around and around and around. Maybe someday i will have time to learn to make soap, and become a volcano scientist, learn to fix cars, and remember to make dinner on time. Until then, this is what i did today:
Hey, look. Some of my drawings on little pendants! I hand-drew each of these, wooo art.
Aaaand now i have to go stand around in the gallery (and not be in my studio making stuff, sigh) while I stare at the floor for a few hours. Buh.
Comments (11)
how do you make those??? ie what are those pendants made out of?
the owl is so neat.
@RizzlGrizzl - shhh, they're made out of Shrinkydink : )
I've never played with Shrinkydink. Seems like I've really missed something there. I love the pendants and I can totally sympathise with your situation. I couldn't even begin to list all the things I have done for fun and creative entertainment over the years. I just mention whatever's useful at the moment when I'm asked.
@moontree_studios -
that is so fuckign cool! i want to buy the owl one--put it up on your etsy site already!!
so you're talented at everything. sounds like a great 'problem' to have.
love, love, love the necklaces. i'm assuming they're on etsy cus i want one.
@RizzlGrizzl - no no no! I want the owl one!
or maybe the namaste one.
i love those. especially the princess-y one.
we did shrinky-dink gnome ornaments for my gnome tree one year. it was awesome. i think i had more fun than the kids. ok. i know i did.
@RizzlGrizzl - , @lilms_sassy - no fighting! heehee. i can make multiple owlsies (cos i want to keep one, too.)
But yeah, there will go in the Ol' Ets probably tomorrow (and reasonably priced to boot!), along with all those button rings i made a couple weeks ago.
those are preeetty, I love me some shrinky dinks
I want the owl and the namaste!