Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween 2008! It is almost time to end daylight savings, vote for a new president and permission to eat a little bit of candy. My faves that we found in small size this year are 100 Grand and the old standby, Reese's P-buttercups. Yum!

We carved punkins on Sunday and then Weds night. They held up pretty well. The mooshy-ness added to the ouerve of the ones that started to go soft.

In order, from upper left to lower right, they are:

1. Laura's improvised negative space - no pattern used. Note the gaged ears!
2. Picasso inspired.
3. Claire's scary clown - I think this is the winner!
4. My friend LB's mad little punkin. This represents how I have felt all week.

Photoshop of Bottle Condensation

Condensation in a Glass Bottle

Pretty in Pink Eiffel Tower

Results of playing around with Photoshop. I did take the base photo while in Paris earlier this month.

Creepy Pumpkin Corn Dog Stand

Look Not at a Woman Lustfully - Cork Graffiti

Photo of the Day from Cork, Ireland

I think they like beer in Ireland.

Another Fave Photo from London

London - Building Embellishments

Vicious Guard Dog in Saffron Walden, Near Cambridge

Enroute to Cambridge UK - Photo of the Day

Daily Photo - From Madrid

Photo of the Day from Paris

Iced Tea in Musee d'Orsay Cafe

Art in Paris

I'm in Paris on a business trip. I brought enough art supplies (small notebook, pencils, pens, camera) to get a little bit of art done every day. Today I will go see some art at Musee d'Orsay too.

Sad Flowers on Tuesday

Bad Mr. Bill

My hero.

Two New Mined Art Prompts

These are two more mined art prompts that I used to create small doodle drawings in my moleskine journal. The small 3x5 paper was put on the paper and then I interpreted shapes and colors around the "prompt."


For this one below, I saw the nostrils and skin colors on the paper, and that made me feel that a portrait was called for.

Mining for Art

Here's a fun little art thing I do - kind of like writing prompts. I go to the art store and "mine" the little pieces of paper people use to try out various pens and pencils. Just collecting these is a lot of fun. I know they are just thrown away by the art store as they accumulate, but I still feel like somehow it is stealing to take them. The best ones are on a glassine type paper, but I haven't found any of those in a long time.

I take them and collage them into art, or like this piece, I put it right in the center of the page and worked a piece of art around it. I call this one "Collision."

Today's Art

Today, I managed to get a few photos taken at the 2nd Play With Your Food event. It was well attended by about 40 people. I didn't make anything, instead focusing on taking photos. I was still limping around a bit, and just in a lazy mood. At one point in the festivities, I zonked out for a short nap.

This is a close up of a purple dahlia, in black and white.