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Friday Favorites – Inspirational link round-up

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on August 31, 2012

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haha, Friday Favorites re-run (from just last week) because somehow this post got deleted.

I purchased this painting by Emily Rickard and it arrived this week. I’m in love, it just makes me so happy to look at.

Check out this public art installation where little sculptural bronze hands were posted all over central Wellington, offering little gifts to whomever sees them. I really wish the makers of this would start selling those little hands. I’d buy a bunch and put them up all over DeKalb. Check out the link for more pictures and a video.

I made this little gnome from a free paper gnome template, designed by 3EyedBear, via howaboutorange

Homemade Wendy’s Frosty, this needs to be made soon.

I have a few books on color (including the Color Index) but sometimes when I’m working on a project and need some color inspiration I turn to my flickr favorites. This poster by andrea_daquino was the color inspiration for my beaded necklaces.

How great are these architural stamps by The Steam Whistle Press? via design sponge

Yesterday we drove out to Kishwaukee Community College to buy some artwork! Yes, I purchased 3 original pieces from the artomat machine, outside of the library and it was a stacked pack with work from (L-R) John Gall, Circe Dunnell, and Pascale Hulin. If you haven’t visited the machine, it is treasure for this area, and I’d encourage you to check it out.

I love this picture from Chau’s Houston hand drawn windows. My nephew has some crayons or markers that are meant for coloring on windows and I thought it would be fun to get some. But after seeing this white only picture, I HAVE to find some window markers, STAT!

New Circle Series Pieces

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on August 7, 2012

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I’m still chipping away at all the items that I have that need to be listed. I’ve just added 3 new Circle Series pieces to my Etsy shop.

This piece was fun. The flowers are all pictures that I collected under public domain as part of larger floral pieces, printed out and handcut individually. I had this idea for a long time. I was wanting to create a circle of layers from flower images like a bouquet or flower garden.

The colorful ring in this piece above was inspired by my watercolor test sheets and palettes. I also really liked the pencil layer. I recommend visiting the listing and looking at the rest of the pictures, especially the thumbnail.

This piece was inspired by vintage maps and includes actual vintage map pieces. The creme color is like the antique paper that used to be white.

Inspiration: Poured Paint and Marbling

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on July 5, 2012

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In February of this year I bookmarked a post on Poppytalk about New York artist Holton Rower, who makes big art installations made from poured paint. Last week Booooooom posted about him as well and reminded me of his work.

Work by Holton Rower

Both links feature a really cool video of his work being produced.

Then, last week I came upon this post at Anthology Magazine about artist Pernille Snedker Hansen of Snedker°Studio who creates these beautiful marbled wood floors. What caught my eye though, were the preliminary “sketches” she creates to work up to the wood floor panels, seen below.

The wood panels and sketches are done in a combination of suminagashi as well as western marbling techniques, where pigments are floated on the surface of water. There is another great video here of her working as well.

work by Pernille Snedker Hansen

I did some paper marbling for a book arts class I took in college, but after seeing these images I REALLY want to do it again.

At any rate, I was really inspired by the super thin lines of concentric circles as well as the color combinations of both Rower and Hansen’s works. I’m finally, finally, finally at a place this year where I am not overwhelmed with other work and can create some artwork that I want to do, just for fun. Right now that means getting back to my third Artomat series I started earlier this year. I just finished creating three pieces that were inspired by these artists to add to my series. Since my paintings are just that, I wanted to add that they are painted in the style of poured paint and marbling, and not actually poured paint or marbling. I don’t think I will be creating any more in this style, but it was fun to get out that inspiration.

and just a reminder, these are actual miniature canvases that I built that will be sold in Artomat machines. You can click on any of the pictures in this post to take you to the original sources.

inspiration cycle

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on March 28, 2011

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I was tickled to see this postcard by Julie of O-kami (below) pop up in my flickr contacts the other day.

She said she was inspired by me, and I can only imagine she meant specifically this postcard below

which I created after being inspired by the piece below by Irana Douer

cool, huh?

Getting the ball rolling

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on January 30, 2011

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Going into the studio Friday to make those little book pages got the ball rolling. Friday night and Saturday morning I started and then finished this little beauty.

As you can see in the top picture there was a lot of tiny paper cutting. When I started out I fully intended it to be aqua and rust. The piece decided that it wanted to stay mainly green blue, although there are tiny subtle touches of warm coloring here and there. It is now affordably available in the shop.

Then yesterday after reading about my sloppy studio woes, my sister came and took over in the Studio Re-Organization Mission of 2011. It probably goes hand in hand with her chosen profession in mathematics, but boy, can that girl organize and systematize. My studio is straight, and I’m more ready for Thing-A-Day than ever before. My rolls of fancy papers no longer need to stand in rolls, but can be put away flat on my big paper shelves, my resin materials have their own place, my zines have their own shelf, and the snozberries taste like real snozberries!

I think I’m back to creating, folks

Bad News and Good News

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on October 6, 2010

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Bad news: the big possible project I mentioned in the last post is most likely 100% off!

Good news: I’m so relieved that it is. Believe me when I say – this project falling through turns out to be a good-good thing. I thank the heavens above that we can emerge unscathed. Hopefully I will be able to share more later.

Other good things:

This awesome shirt from Jessalinb on Etsy, via modishblog. Although, I’d want it in a men’s style shirt. I hate how women’s Ts always mean the sleeves have to be so short.

These adorable hand drawn hearts on knees tights, via craft. It’s actually a tutorial. Once again, if they were mine, I’d probably make the hearts red.

And last, but far from least, you can never lose with artwork from Amanda Kavanagh. Her landscapes always take my breath away. Mark my words: One day I will own an original of hers.

shop update

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on January 12, 2009

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I have just listed another new painting to the shop. practice random acts of kindness.

I like the idea of RAOK. I also like to the idea of tying it in to my artwork and think of every piece of mailart and found art as a RAOK. It’s that “random” or spontaneous part of doing something good or having something good done for you that makes the whole thing so special.

I have this idea that if I were to ever win the lotto (I don’t really ever play, so that will be tough) I would fill envelopes with $100 bills and put them in random places, like my favorite books at the library, and hope that fate brings the right person to that book and the money would end up going to a person who really needs it. But, I’m not rich, so in the meantime, I will try and leave my random acts of kindness through my art.

Do you practice random acts of kindness and what are they?

Shop Update

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on July 10, 2008

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7.9 circle 12 angle, originally uploaded by robayre.

I’ve added two new original pieces to the shop. I love the one above, it really embodies the qualities I have in mind for this series.

This piece is a bit different and has a sea theme. It might be cute for a child’s room or a person who has a passion for the nautical. Speaking of ships and the sea, yesterday I found out an interesting derivation of the word Posh. It comes from the location of luxurious cabins on ships back to Britain, Portside Out, Starboard Home (P.O.S.H.).

This last weekend my friend Al had a booth at the local Art Show on the lawn of the Ellwood House. While I walked around I met a few wonderful artists. Clark Bending was selling his paintings and I was just in awe of his use of colors. His booth really stood out as a breath of fresh air, amongst the other “realistic landscape” painting booths. I spoke to him for a while, bought a print and discovered he will be giving a lecture for the local Art league in the fall. Another artist I met was Bob Politsch, who doesn’t have a website. He carved wooden sculptures from the dead bark fallen off of trees. The sculptures were very imaginative, with detailed execution, little dwellings, like castles, homes, churches, etc. They contained elaborate, doors, windows, balconies, down to bricks and mortar and wood panels with nails. I could just imagine how much fun it would be to create each one.

The cancer that grows and grows, originally uploaded by Chrissie White.

Earlier today I was searching around Flickr, as I often do and found this talented photographer and designer. Her work was very inspiring, so I went to her profile to add her to my contacts when I see that….wait for it….it’s coming…yeah…SHE’S ONLY 14 YEARS OLD! Check out her photographs, wow! I was just amazed, here I am 30 and I don’t even know how she did some of the techniques she pulled.
One last thing I wanted to mention was that Bishop and Theo are doing really well and getting adjusted to each other swiftly. Theo has turned around her attitude more beautifully than I could have ever hoped. Now, she does not get angry at the kitten and in fact she braves him wonderfully, when he tries to “play” pounce on her, she does not act like the prey instinct in her should, instead she stands her ground, but in absolutely nonthreatening manner. In fact, I think she might be enjoying the kitten because she comes out of her cage more often and explores more than ever before now. If she was feeling threatened, she would run and hide in the back of her cage, but instead she and the kitten are chasing each other around. So cute. Matt and I just waiting till the day we walk in and they are next to each other grooming one another, that would be the ultimate.

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