Image journal - bowl with wooden handle

Final drawing for my image journal.  It's been fun.  Maybe I should take a drawing class someday.

Project 53/50

Image Journal - Bull Terrier

This is the 9th installment in my image journal.  One more to go.  I really enjoy being made to draw. I'm not sure why I don't do it on my own.

Project 52/50

Image journal - Ewer

Project 43/50

Image Journal - Wind filled

Project 39/50

Throwback Thursday - Cat ATC's

All these ATC's were made for swaps.

Black cat with fresh kill. Ink on book page.

Cheshire smile.  Paper piecing. 

Siamese. Watercolor on paper.

Grumpy Blue Cat. Felt and embroidery.

Snowy owl tile

Its been a while since I shared an artist I wrote about in my image journal.  First is a picture of the original ceramic piece with my write up, and the second picture is my rendering of it.

Project 28/50

Ceramic disc sculpture

This is the fifth entry in my image journal .

 Project 13/50

Ceramic Leaf

This image journal is based on a project I found on Craftster.org.  Check out Cari's other great leaf pieces here.

Project 9/50

Pod vases

It's too bad the scans of my drawings are always lighter than in real life.  This is the second entry in my image journal.

Project 5/50

Drunk as a Skunk

In my ceramics class I have to make an image journal featuring 10 different ceramic pieces.  Each entry has to consist of a picture of the piece, my rendering of it and a short write up on the piece and the artist.  Here is the first entry in my image journal.

Original jug was made by Josh Stover

Project 2/50 2013

Throwback Thursday! ATC's

Here are some ATC's I've made and traded.  For those of you who don't know, ATC's (artist trading cards) are miniature pieces of art that are traded but never sold.  The only rule is that it has to be 2.5inches by 3.5 inches.  They can be drawings, paintings, stitched, paper, tin foil, wood; anything goes.

The person I made this paper collage for requested a personal haiku.  This is the short story I based it on:

     A five year old giggles while waving a jar in the evening air.  Her bare, little feet, dance on the dew laden grass.  Grandma’s house has fireflies that come out at night to fly to the moon.  The little girl swoops to scoop a firefly into the jar and covers the opening with her hand.  She proudly carries her mystical lamplight to Grandma, who puts a lid on.  The girl asks to keep it forever.  Grandma said that if it stays in the jar it will be sad and won’t glow.  The little girl took the jar and unscrewed the top, watching the firefly flicker up, up towards the starry sky.  That little girl was me but memory is hazy now like a scene from a fairy tale.  

 

 This is buttons and colored pencil on paper for a "tree" theme.

 This stitched felt card was to help the recipient to spell out "kitchen"

 This is Warhol's Marilyn done in accrylics on canvas board for the recipient's "mini works of art" theme.

This little guy in his cute hat was embroidered on cotton for the recipient's "owl" theme.

Thanks for looking!  Let me know if you'd like to swap.  I'd love to have an ATC made by you! :)

Blank sketchbook anxiety

I've kept sketchbooks and journals blank for years because I didn't want to ruin the perfect pages.  I have a lot of anxiety about not being able to undo what I put on the paper.  I saw someone's "Wreck This Journal" and just looking at theirs was very liberating.  I don't plan on dragging my sketchbook by a string, but I am now comfortable with making mistakes, because its okay to make mistakes.  So here is one of the first drawings in my sketchbook; a red fox done in colored pencil

 

And on the adjacent page is a Born Ruffians lyric

"And I know foxes mate for life because they are in love"