tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155226732011-11-28T00:59:15.294-05:00- the life of my artwork -outlier1975http://www.blogger.com/profile/10238796432475015437noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15522673.post-1168396929030680712007-01-09T21:32:00.000-05:002007-01-09T21:45:49.426-05:00

I have not updated this blog in ages. I have gotten pulled into the wonderful world of www.etsy.com. I am addicted! If you are not familiar, it is an ingenious website that serves as both a marketplace and a meeting place for artists and craftspeople. (I did a great deal of holiday shopping on the site!) I have been posting and selling little drawings like these:

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At the advice of my boyfriend (see www.ishitmypants.blogspot.com and www.lovebunnipress.com -- charming, isn't he?), I did some more work on "Marked." I took out the thread and used something more substantial. I won't bother with photographs of the whole thing but here's an idea of the changes. Also, "Clock," the shadowbox piece discussed below, joined another piece of mine, "Blue Lotus," in a

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I'm sorry to say that the last two unfinished works will remain that way. I worked with them some more but the images went stale. I considered taking the pictures off of the page ... but I've decided to keep them up and write about why the pieces didn't work. In both cases, I had planned on or had already used images of the bug. They were different images than the blurry version that was used

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Still having not gone back to "Visitor No. 2" ... I started working on another one. I am trying document more of the development along the way. Here, the focal point (the visitor) hasn't even been added yet. What the pictures in this post will show is only the unrefined beginning. It is a little anxiety producing to let unfinished pieces go out into the world in this way. They seem

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Well, I had to put "Visitor No. 2" aside for a time. I haven't had much time to paint lately as I've started a new job (and was sick for awhile). When I did have time to work on artwork, I had another project that needed my attention. My good friend, Marianne, is throwing an art show/Halloween party in her sister's photography gallery in Cleveland's Little Italy. Marianne is a wonderful

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I started working with "Visitor No. 2" this morning. I have gotten in the habit of "watering" down my paint with a clear varnish so that I can layer paint and achieve a semi-transparent effect. In this case, as sometimes happens, the color gets a little uneven in coverage. I try not to fight against that. I think that is one of my big artistic lessons -- to let the materials have a little of

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I haven't had much time this week to work on the second piece in the Visitor series (the bugs with drawn on heads that ended the last post). In the meantime, I decided to put up some pics of a piece more typical of my style. I finished this recently as well ... just about the time the idea for series hit me. Pieces like this one require a shadowbox frame because I build out -- sometimes with

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Ok ... So here it goes ... My first posting. Here are some pictures of my most recently finished project. Below, I'll explain how it came to be. It is called "Visitor No.1"As you can see there is an image of a bug in this piece. It was some sort of moth, I think. This little guy (already dead) blew into my house one evening this summer. I was struck by how beautiful it was -- this little

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