Paper Doll Study - Susie, Sharon, Sally and Sonia

I Want to Work More With Paper Dolls and Playgrounds

Here's a (photoshop) start:

Susie and Bear

Bad Art Night - February 25 2011

I just love Bad Art Night - it is so relaxing. Here's what I created last night.

Look Who Showed Up to Bad Art Night

Kristen, where changes have been made

The couple - he is just so blah, blah, blah

and

Rachael, the Hassidic Jew's daughter

More Funny People

I'm going to be posting my doodles of faces here. I'm working up to being committed to making some "portrait" type art using this method I saw somewhere on-line for drawing better faces.

I doodle the outlines in meetings, then color them with either watercolor or in photoshop.

Here are the first two: the Socialite and The Gym Teacher.

Being Out in the Studio Is Almost As Good As Making Art

This weekend was time for a long-overdue cleaning of the studio. Things have been piling up around my ears since October, when I returned from the Anna Corba workshop and got into that bender of creating things for the December craft faire.

I was in Bellingham and picked up a bunch more exquisite ephemera while there, then we have been doing Bad Art Night and that meant I could justify leaving art materials out because it was just going to be pulled out again in a few days.

Saturday, I just committed to putting a few things away. That quickly turned into everything getting re-stowed, sweeping the floor and tackling a large bag of yarn that my cat-like dogs had tangled together. I was kidding myself to think I was going to rewind these balls. It was difficult to sacrifice yarn to the garbage, but I just couldn't bear to deal with it. The only consolation was that I got a really good deal on the yarn to begin with.

I was rewarded with a spectacular sunset through the top of the garage door windows. Saturday during the day, I used the IKEA tool to design a new studio for the new house. I probably won't paint the walls pink, but it was fun to play with the wall tool.