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The skull and crossbones glow in the dark. Why the hell wouldn’t anybody NOT want it? :-p Its piretical goodness! Its pretty! Its punky! I’m a starving artist!
Check it out on my etsy store here, and see my other goodies!
Hi all! I have all sorts of stuff to blog about, but I’m having a hard time figuring out how to do that :-p I don’t want one monstrous post but I don’t know if I want to do multiple in one day. *shrug*
So here’s a painting I started today. I don’t know what I’m going to do with it. I just had an overwhelming urge to slap something around. So far, acrylic (real gold, cheap stuffs), water colors (yellow, cheapo) and gel medium used. Yes, I have other paintings in this stage, but, you know:
AND, I’ve finally jumped on the Snuggles bandwagon. Cheap Red Heart, Red Heart Baby Soft and Softee Chunky used:
And last, and most painfully not least - My PoA movie color Ravenclaw HP scarf started at LAST! I decided to go ahead and cast on today. I bought the yarn the other day. Caron Simply soft in Heather Gray and Dark Country Blue on size 6 circs. SIZE 6! *screams* I need to go get 2 more things of the blue. It can wait though since they have no dye lot (my ass…):
Annd… I’ve really backed away from all my Y! artsy e-groups and I backed out of all those nifty challenges ages ago, though I’ll keep Art Buzz on my list because I like her challenges. Just because… I don’t know. I’m on no-mail on the one group I really like and can’t think of, because I just wasn’t reading the e-mails anymore :-/
Aaaand, I think I’ll take a break from knitting all those damn dishcloths :-p If I can just finish my damn techno ripple shawl, then I’ll have a 6 to do dishcloths with. So let that be a motivation to myself to finish the techno shawl, even though I’m not sure how big it’ll get on the 32″ I have… bah.
As I mentioned in my earlier post, a friend I’ve known foreverandever wanted to buy one of my paintings. He likes some of my existing stuff, but I figured I could make him something custom, special. SO that’s what this is all about.
And since I can’t seem to get my desk cleaned up enough, I did it outside!
Ah, I so love working on multiple canvasas at once. I only have one empty one left now, though :-/
If he doesn’t want this one, it’ll go up for sale, either here or eBay. So here’s the Hand of God SO FAR:
And here’s another one! KAWAAAIII! It’ll be for sale when I think its done enough. Unless you want it now? I had to paint over a previous painting:
And then I did this one…. so much potentibility:
Aaaand… I worked on my 27 book some. Its coming along… slowly. But I’m not worried ^-^ I’m REALLY tired from sitting in the waaarmhot all day, but hopefully I’ll get some energy back. Then I’ll work on it some more tonight. Indoors >.>
First off, I started this blanket in December and just last night finished it. It was a quick project, but I had to take knitting breaks and you know, other stuff like Life gets in the way. Its going to be for sale, yay!
Annnd, I started work in my 27th birthday book the other day. It seems that its turning into a quotes book, which is perfect because I LOVE quotes and there are many I really really like.
Spread 1:
I’m not happy with the left side. The dancing lady isn’t doing it for me and my Sharpie died whilst I was writing the quote. But hey, that’s okay. Can anybody tell me what kind of marker will write on ANYTHING?? I used a White Out pen on the other side.
Spread 2:
Still needs work, of course. But I like it so far :) I need a quote for this page still.
Spread 6: for quotes and stripes challenge.
Simplistic? Yes. Will I add to it? I’m sure I will. Am I worried about it? Nope. This is spread 6. This doesn’t mean that I’ve done six… I just skipped ahead in the book. BECAUSE I CAN! BWA HA HAAA!
And, here’s my Woe 8×10 canvas I started awhile ago:
Woe is a little girl I came up with AGES AGO whilst practicing with my Wacom. Then after awhile I thought it would be really cool to do a series social commentary comic using her, but I haven’t done that due to just shooting myself down too much about it. So right now she’s a paper doll sort of thing and she’s just laying there in pieces and the letters need painting and affixing, but I’m not sure what else to do with it.
Last night I got biiiz-ay!
I mentioned in a previous post how I was just going to screw labels and definitions and do what I want with my gluebook. I had decided to give up my big blank Proart sketchbook that was reserved for a different project and just use it to go wild in. I was thinking it would be like an art journal, but I have no desire to actually “journal” in it. Paste down/write random words as part of the art, sure…. but no journaling.
SO I finally did that last night!
Seduce the Skin
What I did: I promise you it doesn’t look -that- drab. It is just a tiny bit, but it does look pretty nice. Anyway… ages ago I glued down the face on the loft and the rest just kinda sat there until last night. I whipped down a layer of Gesso and then broke out my acrylics and ended up mixing up a flesh tone. I’ve never made such a lovely flesh tone before :-p And I usually don’t premix. But I always go by the seat of my pants, so there ya go. I spread the fleshtone paint all over and ended up putting down browns and smooshed that around a bit. Then some pink and… I don’t know. Just went at it. THEN I decided to play with my punchinilla someone kindly sent me from an Y! group I’m in. I just used black metallic paint on that left side, flipped it over to where the wet side is down and pressed it down on the right side, then bottom and top. So I’m in love with that stuff. Then while waiting for it to dry, I read somewhere online about doing image transfers with Modge Podge. I got all giddy over this (being broke and not being able to obtain proper transfer materials), I tried it. I grabbed a random image I had printed up and kept for drawing reference (on the right) and tried it out. It worked, which surprised me. It left a lot of paper residue behind… I kinda rubbed it off. That worked okayish. THEN I tried a sheet of music paper that came from a book and that left even more paper residue but it did transfer. Yay! I’m so proud of my first glueart book spread!
Then, because I didn’t want to waste my leftover tan colors and pinks…
Canvas WIP
I just started spreading it out on this little canvas and ended up going nuts (you know what I mean, once you start the momentum…) and spooged on more brown, pink, got my fingers in on the action and this is where I stopped. I was thinking about putting a tree on it, but I think I found something else to do. Now, if only I can find my damn carbon paper that disappeared when I needed it most…. >.<
I didn’t stop there, though.
Red Cutie
What I Did: I’m a sucker for red heads ;-) This is a spread I did where I painted first, then added the image. I Gesso’d then just spooged out some blue and red paint and started spreading with a brush. I tried the image transfer with Modge Podge again but I think the paint was too dark for it to show up well and too much paper stuck. When I tried removing the paper, a lot of the image kept coming up. So I broke out my metallic silver paint and painted over the remains of the image, and added a bit to the other side. I ended up adding the lady over the failed transfer part. She fits perfectly there. don’t know where else to go with this at the moment.
Textured Gesso Bond
What I did: I really liked the newest Bond movie, so I squee’d when I saw this guy’s pic in a magazine. I actually had thus guy originally on a black metallic-type tissue paper background before I transfered him to this book. The tissue paper didn’t want to participate, so I said screw it. I Gesso’d and decided to try the “textured Gesso” technique and ran the point of my brush through the left side and a bit on the right. Last time I tried that it was on canvas and it didn’t work. But I think because I used it on paper it made a difference somehow *shrug* I don’t know anything, I just DO it and cover my mistake up as I go lol So I waited for that to dry and took a ColorBox Fluid Chalk Inkpad (yellow citrus) and rubbed it all over the gesso. I purposely went lighter and heavier here and there and left some areas white. Then I stole roommie’s VersaCraft (poppy red) inkpad and did the same as the yellow but got all the white space. Oh wait… I think I did red first… bah! Same thing :-p I really like how the halo around Bond looks. And the texture’d gesso shows up nicely. So that’s another new technique for me.
AND…. my new toy: Portfolio Series Water Soluble Oil Pastels!
I made a bit of money fixing an awesome lady’s necklace and I decided, hey… this is the exact amount I need to get those oil pastels I’ve been drooling over. I haven’t got anything for myself in ages (months?) so screw it, I’m getting them. As soon as I get home I tried them out on a naked, unprepped page. Ewww when it got wet! Duh, I proly need to gesso first, because of the paper type. But I like how smooth it feels when they go on and from what I can tell, they’re be a constant in my stash :)
Soo… yay for me. I’m pretty psyched about how everything has came out so far. To all the people who are too scared to try, just DO it! Trust me, I have no talent. All you have to have is the ability to decide if something looks good or not. Just get a book, gesso, paint and just have at it. You’ll see what I mean!
Now, off to gesso a page for those oil pastels…
