makin purses!

I know I haven't posted in a while - been very busy. So I guess I'll start from the beginning. I've been making lots of purses and more stuffed animals among other things in preparation for a craft fair I will be a part of on June 27 at UW-Parkside in Kenosha, WI. So if anyone's gonna be out and about that Saturday you should swing by! These are just two of my favorite purses I've made so far. I'll post more as take pics of them all. If anyone wants one made just drop me a line! :)

collage time!

A friend and I took a mixed media collage class at Kenosha's Lemon Street Gallery. It was really fun and it was a great opportunity for me to start working with traditional media again - woohoo!! So we had to do these two exercises and then a third bigger collage of basically whatever we wanted, but I didn't have enough time to get much done so it will be posted when it's finished. And yeah, they're pretty random. I really want to start doing more work with traditional media as opposed to everything being digital.

old stuff i found while cleaning!!

I told myself this blog was only for posting NEW stuff but I found these and had to share. Wowzers this stuff seems so old! In reality it's only been 3 - 4 years but I haven't seem them in so long I forgot I had them! It's also interesting to see them now because I can definitely see all the problems with them (color, anatomy, media application....). I still really like the hands though even if I can see the proportion issues :) I'm gonna keep cleaning and see if I can find more!

francis the taxidermied t-rex

I made this poor guy as if he had been hunted and then mounted on someone's wall... Made out of sculpey then hardened in the oven, added pebbley skin texture, painted and mounted. The nameplate is etched copper. I love him - he's so cute! My favorite part is his short little arms :) I have some more to post - a pirate platypus named Raul, a shiny glittery unicorn named Charlie, and a rather normal looking kudu, don't remember his name....

straightened hair!!

That's me - doin the happy straight hair dance!! Got my hair cut the other day - and then she straightened it!! First time I've ever had my hair straightened (it's naturally curly and I've never had the patience to straighten it myself). Holy crap it's amazing - I keep running my hands through it - and my fingers don't get all tangled up in curls and knots.... I wish I had the patience to straighten it myself but I don't so this will probably be the last time any of my friends and family see me with straight hair!!

flight of the conchords poster #2

While I was reading last night I had this great idea for another FotC poster! I really like how this one turned out - and aesthetically it's geared more towards the artwork that they are already working with. I didn't really want to use the images that they provide for you (you don't have to use them) - but they seem to work well enough with the illustration, sooo...... yeah. And somehow that kitty slipped in....

le poissons morning

So yeah. Weird. How that song came to be in my head when I woke up is beyond me! I haven't even watched The Little Mermaid in, like, 2 years. It was bizarre... So I had to do a quick comic about it - and took a cue from my friend Mie's dedication to the daily comic. I should really try and do more..

flight of the conchords poster

Flight of the Conchords poster for HBO's poster contest... Totally not something HBO would really pick but at least I can be proud of it and the fact that it's not totally lame... I like it - it's not exactly finished yet I don't think, but very close.

flawed

Totally random... Was doin some sketches for the fairy tale project and somehow this cute lil guy snuck in there... For IF's prompt of "flawed."

ring of blue

Hooray for personal illustrations!! This is the tight sketch/color study for an illustration I am starting based off of this poem:

I sing to you, I bring to you, a ring of blue, my love.
Through swollen sky no bird could fly, but I alone would come.
This gale may claim my feathered frame, though my heart belongs to you.
For it cannot be, my love, you see - no bird may love a man.

I'm thinking mixed media - mostly acrylic and digital, but I may print it out on a nice high quality textured paper and embellish it with embroidery.... Or I was thinking I might just go ahead and embroider the whole bird (as in my North American Review illustration) and do the hand and background acrylic and then put it all together digitally... We'll see.