As a late Christmas pressie, Moe gave Ugmoe a rainbow-colored pop-up tent. It makes a nice hideout for him in our new studio space, so today while he was skulking around I snapped a quick picture.
Contrary to his expression (get that camera outta my face!), he seems to be enjoying his new rabbit-fort.
Look out, she’s making more stuff.
It’s going to be a large mirror, similar to the ocean themed mosaic I started last week, but this time in orange and fuschia and purple. Tonight is the second to last night of our nifty art class, and next week we’re supposed to finish our projects, so i’m getting a head start. That means time to make more stuff!
Spring hath sprung…. more to come!
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I’ve been attempting to compile images of every piece of artwork i have into my Flickr, and get it all organized. For the first time ever, I have some semblance of a complete online portfolio, and this also means I have loads and loads of creative interestingness for show-and-tell. Here are just a few of my recent faves.
This thing is so cool. It’s actually a gravestone rubbing, and I drew over it with india ink. I want to make more of these.
Neptune’s Daughter has been inhabiting my kitchen window for some time. She’s a sharpie marker drawing done on plexi. Also something I would like to do more of!
A couple of landscape paintings from my “Ghost Trees” series. The first one is pretty big and hangs over the mantle in my studio. I’m pretty hard on myself about my own art, but I love this painting.
I have this large plastic Buddha statue I bought at the Christmas Tree Shoppe. While i was waiting at the bus station I snapped this photo with my camera phone. I think mister Buddha and i have to do another photoshoot when the weather gets nicer.
I bought this huge roll of kraft paper, and once in a while I take out my painterly wrath on a big sheet of it. Some of this ends up in the beads I make, and some I’ve cut up in smaller pieces to eventually put in collages or sell in scrap packs.
Oh, and not just art, there’s new jewelry too. Here’s some bracelets I made just in time for spring. These are going up on the ol’ Etsy sometime soon….
A nifty hat; it’s not quite spring yet, but this ought to keep one’s ears warm while the seasons are in transition.
I made a bunch of things for my Nine Divas series; after gluing the images to some scrap board and then dipping it in resin, the text and colors from the board seeped through the image. I thought it was kind of cool looking, so i made pendants.
Oh, and owls are just awesome.
I better get busy.
We’re down to the last few sessions in our art class, and last time we started a mosaic project which is supposed to take a few workshops to complete. It’s not often that I run into a new medium which shakes my artistic confidence (drat you, film photography!), but I have to say I was a little shaky when it came to planning out my design. I’m also not all that patient; I like to sit down and begin a project, I rarely take a break, and just generally stick it out till I git ‘er done. So I came to class last time with a bag of doodads and buttons and with a general idea in mind, and the teacher supplied the rest of the tiles and the frame itself. When i finally sat down with my hoard of stuff and a blank surface to work on, I found myself feeling stumped. Trying to be deliberate about the arrangement was no good at all. The best bet, i found, was to stick stuff on willy-nilly and see what evolves.
Here it is so far:
And some closeups:
Freshwater pearls and an octopus…..
A pendant I made from my Nine Divas series….
A funny bottlecap, vintage plastic flowers, and a czech glass button…
I glued a photo underneath the iridescent glass drop. At certain angles she vanishes under the reflection, and then reappears like a nymph in a pool of water.
On tuesday, we’re going to grout our creations. Here’s hoping it comes out well!
…and they’re freakin’ orange! I decided it was a courageous color to wear- and how appropriate- since orange and I have always had a tenuous long-standing love-hate relationship. I admire it for it’s citrus sassiness, but it never looks quite right with my complexion. Yesterday I was having a very Holly Golightly kinda day, so I decided to take the plunge and embrace my inner orangeness, in the form of some cute new shoes.
And yes, darling, they look rawther fabulous with blue socks. i simply don’t care.
So this was, what, yesterday? Good things have been happening left and right. I started the day by snapping that new profile picture up there, in front of a work-in-progress, and I have to say I look quite like myself. For the first time in a long time, too. This is very satisfying.
Then i hopped on the train and poked around downtown, in order to seek out this one particularly renowned camera shop, and obtain the film i needed for my new Diana F+. Turns out they were completely out of the medium format rolls I needed, save a couple loose packages of black and white. So the guy just gave them to me! No wonder their reputation is so stellar; I’ll be sure to go back there for all my photo supplies. In the meantime, I’m going to go shoot some photos of the cemetery in the snow, so wish me luck. I’ll post the results when they come back from the lab.
After that i decided some tea and literature were in order, so I wandered over to the bookshop and purchased a copy of Breakfast At Tiffany’s. Like I said, it was a Golightly kind of day, and Capote has recently piqued my curiosity. I’ve always adored the film version, and not just because i love Ms. Hepburn – it’s always been clear to me that there was some kind of genius behind the creation of some of my favorite quotes, so I’ve been dying to get to the source. A girl can’t just go to Sing-Sing with a green face, darling. So I soon settled down by the window with a cuppa and dived right in. I never claimed to be super well-read, but I do know my way around a little bit of literature. So far, it’s one of my favorite books, ever. Ever ever. ever. Positively exquisite.
And onwards! I did a wee bit of impulse shopping, and got a hold of yonder orange shoes, as well as some new rocketdogs which were ridonkulously ON SALE and totally rockstar yet super comfy, as well as a ruffled jacket which i think is tres chic. Behold:
I like this photo of me, too. I recently acquired some (as my best gal pal puts it) badonkadonk- twenty pounds of it to be precise- and while this means I have outgrown each and every pair of scrawny size 2 jeans I’ve been rockin’ my whole life (good riddance!), I’m thinking I look pretty slammin’ in my curvaceous 5/6′s. Rawr!
So, all in all, life is pretty sweet right now. New shoes, new books, new butt, no more evil ex-bf, and even the rabbit has been unusually nice to me. i have a feeling i can keep this up for a long time ; )
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