Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts

Saturday, August 14, 2010

DRAWING.

I am fascinated by lines. I like to watch them dance and twist, both fat and thin rough and smooth smudged and hard. Spilling out free flowing, all knowing their predestined placement on the pearly
blank
page
they decorate.

Sometimes I stumble upon something that seems important to investigate further. So I did.
Circles
They are whole holy
and secure.
peaceful and unbroken
I felt
upon completion
a creation
both square and round.

Organic filaments flowing outward searching for something
anything
beyond self.
Because sometimes it is not enough
isolated our own bubbles of selfhood
Alien contact must be made.
-Both of these works acrylic paint and conté.-

One night
overwhelmed by flitting pieces ungathered I needed decompression.
yellow light glazed rays of a lamp overhead
the only witness
brain's contents cascaded
I abandoned them there frozen on paper
I moved on.

-These works pen & ink, sharpie-

SKETCHBOOKING:

What are clouds made of?
Clouds are people's dreams that got lost
And now live in the sky.
The dreams that got away.
-Acrylic paint, colored pencil, pen & ink-

A face. Whose? A reflection. Whose?
It's like a carnival mirror.
-Acrylic paint applied with Q-tip, pen & ink-

Pods and cocoons.
-Pencil-

A long day at the strawberry stand.
SNARFBARGLE and hatching wood grain.
-Faber Castle india ink pens-

"Come, seeling night,/Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day..."
"Good things of day begin to droop and drowse..."
-Shakespeare's Macbeth (I was reading it at the time)
-Faber Castle india ink pens-

Inspired by knots in wood. Enrapturing little universes, they are.
Where no man has gone before
They must be explored.
-Faber Castle india ink pens, Crayola markers, Sharpies-

Cloud Pipes.
-Faber Castle india ink pens-

PAINTING:

An experiment in texture, using the palate knife.
-Acrylic paint and various mediums-

Texture pictures. Because compelling surfaces mesmerize me.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Sketches @ the Strawberry Stand & More!

This is my lame excuse for not having posted for awhile: I have not wanted to waste the little me time I've had by talking about and posting pictures of my doings. That would have been just plain old silly, because all of my precious time would be being consumed by blogger and not by the creative workings of my brain. Thus, I would have had nothing to talk about or post pictures of. I've been really busy-trying to fit in weight lifting workouts around work is just crazy; by the time I get home, all I want to do is shove food down my esophagus, watch Captain Kirk do those fabulous rolls of his, and sleep. I've been so exhausted I've been going to bed around 8:00 at the earliest, 9:30 at the latest. It's felt difficult to have any kind of energy to put toward being creative.

I did manage to finish my dress on time for the wedding, and locally I found some mega-amazing shoes to wear with it (there were a few minor disasters that came about trying to order a pair, but I won't go into that.) I am so happy with it, especially considering that it was my first time working from a pattern. What excites me the most about getting into sewing garments is the sheer enormity of what you could create. What you make is completely customizable and unique to YOU, from the sizing to the fabric to all the fun frills. ^___^

Since I'd like to show y'all what it looks like (and just FYI- I'm not southern, I just have a tendency to talk in weird voices...I guess it carries over into typing, haha) but don't have any GREAT pictures (yet) I'm falling back on a silly snapshot of moi dans la cuisine, taken hurriedly minutes before we dashed out of the door so as not to be late for the wedding. You get the idea :)

My geekish self hamming it up for my sister's camera.

The only other time that I've really had to do any drawing is when I sell strawberries at the stand. Sometimes things get a little slow, and when they do I'M READY! I bought a new sketchbook that's nice and small and easily portable, and I bring it with me. I've come up with some great ideas and characters to pursue further when I have more time. Here are some pictures of my favorite pages/sections of pages:


Joseph, the amazing 8 legged rabbit.


Yorik, who loves everything cute and fuzzy but is a notorious egg robber (his favorite are bluebird's eggs, fried sunny side up)

And some other guys...

A few days ago we had a rain day (yeah!!! You can't pick berries in the rain!!!) and I decided to drag out my paints once again. Here's Yorik in acrylic paint form:


Monday, June 14, 2010

Productivity is a Good Thing.

Yesterday morning = the perfect way to spend the first few hours of a Sunday. Ahhh, Sundays. Not a strawberry in sight...plenty of coffee drinking in flannel pajamas...hardy, home- cooked breakfasts...and drawing to my heart's content! What love. :) I drew allllll morning, and did not feel even an ounce of guilt. I felt very productive. For weeks I've been dying to do some drawings based on some of Kayleigh Morin's 365 project (Delusions of Grandeur.) The concepts for her photos are inspired; when I see her images, I'm filled with the need to create. This particular shoot was centered around the color red, and what emotions it reflects to the artist (you can read more about it in her blog.) I asked her if she would mind if I did some drawing versions, and she said she didn't mind at all! I'm so lucky to have artist friends. They help keep road blocks at bay by continually stimulating fresh thoughts. ^__^

Sketches

Inked

RED PORTRAIT I finished:
India ink, permanent marker, Crayola markers, Faber Castle brush pens.

RED PORTRAIT II finished:
India ink, permanent marker, Crayola markers, Faber Castle brush pens.

RED PORTRAIT III finished:
India ink, permanent marker, Crayola markers, Faber Castle brush pens.

These were the best photos I could get, since I still don't have the use of a scanner :/ I managed to get the inked versions to look decent, because they were in black and white with very sharp lines. I shall try to get my hands on a pretty little scanner as soon as I can, because I really miss having one.

DRESS STATUS: Last night I cut out all the pieces and bought my notions. And I found some AMAZING pairs of shoes that would be fab fab fab to wear with my dress. Not sure which pair yet. And if I do get them, I shall have to train myself to walk in heels. As of now, I stumble even in my mom's clogs. I am far to used to converse and running sneakers >.<

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Your sister loves you.

A "your sister loves you" present I made for (guess who?) my sister :D I think it's fun to make random presents for people ^__^



Crayola markers, permanent marker, Prisma Color pencils
(Roughly) based off of a picture of her when she was in 8th grade.
Just for fun :)