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Arting for 365 Day 111: All Natural Approach

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Day 111 8/17/12): Holistic ApproachGoal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days

The tooth had been giving him fits for days now. He’d tried some herbal remedies and ointments but they just weren’t cutting it. After reading up on the issue in Everyday Health Questions Answered; A Guide to Holistic Healing, the progressive lion determined the tooth must go.

While he couldn’t say he was thrilled with the idea of removing his canine, he did feel oddly pleased with his recent choice to switch to a vegan diet – a justification of sorts. As his tooth was being pulled he reflected that, without a doubt, this all natural approach to life was really the best thing he could do for himself – the king of the jungle.
If you can’t live without this, you can buy the original or a print.

Arting for 365 Day 110: Bulb Abstraction

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Day 110 (8/16/12): Bulb Abstraction

4.75 x 4.75″ Ink on paper

As most of you know, I’ve got this little goal of creating a piece of art everyday for 365 consecutive days. A good chunk of my pieces are completed within a day, but some of my larger projects take a few days to complete. When that happens, I make sure I create a smaller piece along with working on the big guy, so as not to feel like I’m cheating.

Some of you may also be familiar with my stunning ability to underestimate how long something will take to complete. Yesterday, as I put up my drawing and got ready to call it a night, the boyfriend looked at what I had accomplished. He quickly asked me what I planned to create for day 110’s work. I assured him I’d be able to finish up the piece I had been working on in a few short hours the next morning. He gave me a look of disbelief. Actually, I like to think it was more of a “You are the most fabulous person in the world and I love you dearly, but don’t be ridiculous” kind of look. I glanced down at the barely inked up paper and reluctantly admitted he was right. -Not out loud of course. Out loud I told him I would create a second piece but that “I would not need to use it.”

I hate it when he’s right.

If you can’t live without this piece, you can buy a print or the original.

Arting for 365 Day 109: British Profanities: Like Cupcakes and Rainbows

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Day 109 (8/15/12): British ProfanitiesGoal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days

As I was biking home yesterday, I started thinking about profanities. -More specifically, British profanities. I don’t know what triggered this line of thought, but none-the-less, I was thinking about it.

Running through a short list of basic English cuss words, a smile came across my face. You see, when a person with a fabulous British accent spouts off anything, it sounds lovely to me. I’d go so far to say that they make profanities sound adorable.

A mad man could be screaming horrible things at me, but so long as he had a great English accent and used words like bollocks, I think I’d just grin and let him how fun he sounds.

 

If  you can’t live without this little design, you can buy it. Email me for prints.

Arting for 365 Day 107: Bad Ass

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Day 107 (8/13/12): Bad AssGoal: To create one work of art each day for 365 consecutive days

He felt good. He felt good because he knew he looked good. “Actually,” he thought to himself, “I look amazing.”

The look was edgy. New. It said “notice me,” while simultaneously commanding “think twice about messing with me.” He was certain his new style was soon to be all the rage.

If you love this piece, you can buy it here as a print, or contact me for the original.

Arting for 365 Day 106: Woven Lines

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Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days

I have never been good at estimating how long something is going to take me. If I tell you I should be able to accomplish a task in 20 minutes, you can basically guarantee I will be done with it in no less than one hour. Such has been the case with my arting over the last few days. Everything seemed to take much longer than anticipated. This is why I was pretty darned excited to sit down with pen and paper last night, with no concrete plan or timeline and just create.

The results are these three 4 x 6″ drawings. Starting with the blue piece, which is collaged insides of business envelopes, I created geometric shapes and then began filling the white space with repeated, thin lines. Liking the line thing so much, I moved on to the flowers, which are collaged wrapping paper. Lastly I moved onto drawing geometric shapes and filling the shapes with the woven lines. The line patterning seems to give the pieces depth and texture – something I find I really enjoy.  nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

As for how long these took me? I’d estimate about 20 minutes ;). nnn

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Arting for 365 Day 105: Targets

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Day 105 (8/12/12)

10 x 20″ Acrylic on canvas

Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days

She’d never been a particularly great shot. She blamed this partly on the fact that she never knew what she was aiming for.

This time, though, the girl had spotted her target in the distance and was ready to settle in and take aim – confident of nailing the bulls eye, dead on.

But as it came time to shoot, she found her confidence lagging. Her singular target now presented itself as many. And to top it off, the bulls eyes seemed to be moving. With a sigh and a shrug she considered the positive fact that at least with many moving targets there ought to be a chance of hitting something. nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnm

Love this piece? You can buy it here, if you’d like.

Arting for 365 Day 104: My Art/Craft Project Felt More like a Science Experiment Gone Awry

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Day 104: Art/ScienceGoal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days

Yesterday, after spending a big chunk of my day on a painting I’ve got in the works, I once again turned my attention to coasters. But this time, instead of painting them, I thought I would use my x-acto to cut out patterns and shapes which would then be used to make earrings. -A clever idea, I thought.

I cut out about eight different versions. The boyfriend asked how I planned to finish the cardboard earrings. I quickly and smartly informed him that I would be using a resin to keep them sturdy and protected. I just knew the resin would look super cool, it had to be pretty easy to use, and would be a great finishing touch to these lovely little accessories.

I went to Home Depot and picked up a jug of the stuff. As soon as I began mixing it, two things crossed my mind. 1. The resin was a bit brownish – not at all clear like the resin I’d seen other people use. 2. Holy crap its fumes were toxic smelling!

As I dipped the earrings in the mixed resin, I realized I had nowhere to hang them. I grabbed a cardboard box thinking I could hook the metal hooks from it. Wrong. The earring hooks were too flimsy to pierce through the cardboard. No problem, I thought, I’d just lay the pieces on the cardboard for now and pick them up to hang as soon as I was done dipping.

This is when I encountered my next problem. The resin, whose label told me it dried in 15 minutes, seemed to be drying much, much more quickly. I got through dipping most of the earrings, but forced a set into what had become a snot-like substance (see result below).

It suddenly dawned on me that if the resin was drying this quickly in the little container, the earrings had to be drying and sticking to the cardboard. Sure enough. My attempts to peel the little guys off were relatively fruitless. Many tore and as I worked to peel each off, I could not help but get my sticky, grubby fingers onto every metal hook thus making them not something you’d want to poke through your ear.

All was not lost though! While I don’t see myself wearing these particular earrings beyond the picture taken below -due to the horrible fumes, I do have plans to make more. Perhaps the second go round I will implement some sort of a game plan prior to jumping in. I’ll be sure to share the results.

Arting for 365 Day 103: A Complicated Language

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Day 103 (8/9/12): Her Imaginary Pig and Dog

4 x 5″ Ink on paper

She speaks a language all her own and doesn’t seem to mind that you aren’t smart enough to understand the depth of her conversations.

Through gestures you may pick up on the fact that she got new shoes or that she found a new species of bug on the porch. But because you lack the ability to understand her complicated language, you will never know of her pet dog which only comes out when adults are away. You will never hear about the pig balloon she invented – fat and funny as it was – that blew away on a windy day.

These stories will have to wait.

Arting for 365 Day 102: Go With the Flow

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Day 102 (8/8/12): Go With the FlowGoal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days

“Go with the flow,” they had said. So he hopped in his rowboat and waited for a tide. But ponds in the middle of a suburb offer little in the way of waves. He sat at the ready – alert to inspiration. Somehow, though, he couldn’t shake the sense that such a tactic may not garner the grandest results.

Original piece and print available for purchase

Day 102: Go With the Flow Rhino DetailOriginal piece and prints available for purchase

Arting for 365 Day 101: Fluorescent Cut Paper II

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Day 101 (8/7/12): Fluorescent Paper Cut 2Goal: To create one piece of art each day for 365 consecutive days

You know when you do something and do it again in hopes of figuring out just exactly what you’re trying to do? Well, that seems to be the case with these cut paper projects. What have I figured out? I don’t know exactly except that:

  1. I go through a lot of X-acto blades
  2. My pointer finger ends up a smidge sore
  3. My flip off (aka middle) finger is building up a great callus
  4. The designs, while intricate and lovely, aren’t pushing my brain enough
  5. I need to approach them differently
  6. I’m not exactly sure what “differently” looks like

To be continued…