Kaleid Gallery (San Jose, Ca) invited me to participate in their “Exquisite Corpse” exhibit opening July 14th. I was assigned to do a torso. We were also given specific parameters for the type of paper and dimensions. Since I do not have the proper brushes to do a water color in my typical low brow style I decided to do a mixed media somewhat abstract. 😀 I started out doing a drawing with prismacolor pencils, one of my favorite tools but given the size of the paper and time constraints I ditched my first efforts, I did cut it up into bits and pieces for some future endeavor 😀
In other news I finally saw our neighbor the peacock! Stunning! I could not get a good close up of the plumage but you can still see enough…
Also, we made a visit to the Santa Barbara Botanical gardens and I couldn’t resist photographing one of my fav flowers, gigantic white poppies, I will be planting some!
There has been so little time for art the past few weeks as my husband and I transition from one house to another and supplies are packed and displaced. We are down sizing quite a bit and that has confused things as well, because I could probably fill a whole garage with my art and materials, oh yeah I did :b I’ve been trying to be rid of stuff and pack other stuff up for my parents to sell in a garage sale. I do have a truck load for them. Lesson be learned, don’t be a pack rat (sounds better than hoarder!)
Did manage to do a little drawing and collaging, not all that thrilled with my collage, I see it is a form of expression one needs to work at or take lessons from Karenann Young!
This is prismacolor pencils on Bristol vellum. I had to stop as I wore out my sharpener. For real. “Hatched”
“Where there is smoke…”
I’m listening to Kat Edmonson and loving her voice and music. I Have home made beef jerky cooking in the oven, while we try to eat beef only once every other week I do love to snack on jerky but it is way to costly in the grocery store.
I don’t think I have ever been more happy about a power outage. But, when the power returned, my broken printer miraculously repaired itself. It isn’t as if I had not tried to reboot a dozen times over, just glad I procrastinated about getting a repair person out because I am certain that would be costly, the size of my printer makes it nearly impossible to transport, (it arrived on palates and I had to retrieve it from a ware house in my truck). Anyway, its something to be happy about.
Several projects in the works but its slooooow going.
I am enjoying the fall weather, immensely. Praising every falling leaf and happy to be sweeping and raking up the messes. Yay for cool, fresh, fall days. and a warm cozy home with fragrant candles burning. I love being at home.
An attempt at drawing one of my all time favorite characters played by the wonderful quirky Helena Bonaham Carter. I didn’t quite succeed but I will try again, just for the fun and the challenge of it.
Its a melding of an implosion of ideas all at once, she basically had a life of her own once pencil hit paper, and I was just the manifestation instrument. Basically, she is a bloomer wearing, pink puddle hopping, octo hair blooming dancer.
My mom finally allowed me to wear makeup when I was in highschool and I wore a lot. Sometimes, I had so much lip gloss on that later in the day were I to catch a glimpse of myself in something reflective I would see it had dripped to my chin. haha, silly vain teenage years
I so adore this poppy!
