Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Friday, August 24, 2012
Book of Days: 12-3-27 Split Pea Soup
Sometimes random thoughts are amusing enough that they just have to be immortalized in art.
Book of Days: 12-3-26 Marching Orders
These are my marching orders for this year. They came to me screaming loud during a meditation.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Life Book: Opposites
For this assignment, we explored opposing qualities within ourselves. Officially, we were to draw two goddesses, each representing a quality or set of qualities, for example a sun goddess and a moon goddess. However, I've never been into the goddess thing, and I didn't like any of the poses I came up with for a pair of figures. After much back-burner bubbling, I came up with the idea of splitting a single figure down the middle with half representing logic and the other half art. Very me.
The art part of the assignment was to work with hatching and cross hatching on the figures and to do a frame with a shaving-cream marbling technique. I mostly struggled with the hatching, since I've never been very good at pen and ink. It was fun to pull out the shaving cream and stamp-pad reinkers for the marbling. I haven't done that technique in over 10 years. Oddly, I still have the same can of shaving cream in my supply drawer.
I resisted the urge to add color to the figure. Figured I should do at least Some of what I was told. LOL!
Friday, January 20, 2012
Life Book: Goddess Qualities Spread - Part 2
When we last saw our heroine, she had just added an arm to her creation...
My first thought upon seeing her when I walked into the studio the next morning was, "Oops! I gave her my arm, not a scrawny model arm." I stared at it a long time and finally decided that replacing her arm was more work than I wanted to do.
I also didn't want to add a background. It just felt complete as it was. I felt like anything I added was more likely to ruin the spread than add to it. Similarly, I was struggling with how to add the list of qualities on the flap without throwing the whole out of balance. I settled on staying very simple and wrote them by hand in a hand-drawn frame over the arm. As a bonus, it also makes the fat arm a bit less noticeable. :)
All finished!
My first thought upon seeing her when I walked into the studio the next morning was, "Oops! I gave her my arm, not a scrawny model arm." I stared at it a long time and finally decided that replacing her arm was more work than I wanted to do.
I also didn't want to add a background. It just felt complete as it was. I felt like anything I added was more likely to ruin the spread than add to it. Similarly, I was struggling with how to add the list of qualities on the flap without throwing the whole out of balance. I settled on staying very simple and wrote them by hand in a hand-drawn frame over the arm. As a bonus, it also makes the fat arm a bit less noticeable. :)
All finished!
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