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new grass painting

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on May 18, 2010
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I finished that painting from the sneak peak the other day. I really love how it came out. This is painting 3 in the series so far. While I was working on the background I wasn’t sure if it would be as I imagined it, but I set it down for a little bit, walked away, and when I came back and saw it with fresh eyes I was in love.

This canvas painting series is kind of based on this old series of silk screen pieces of mine that never went anywhere. As in, I loved them, but no one else apparently did. Wah, wah, wah, I know tiniest violin. Anyway, I had the idea of the watercolored background on this silk screened print in mind when doing the top painting. It really didn’t end up looking anything like that, BUT I realized it looked a lot like the “pattern” I made recently.

It’s now available in my Etsy shop, and I’m on to a new canvas and a new painting in this series. I’m still having so much fun with the series and wish I could be cranking ‘em out quicker, but the rest of my life calls.

I didn’t do a Found Art Tuesday piece today. Tuesday snuck up on me too quickly, but perhaps I will do one later this week.

Progress shot

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on May 14, 2010
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I’ve been working on this painting for quite a while and now I’m at this point where I’m afraid to move forward. The blades of grass are supposed to be painted green, like the previous pieces, but I look at the canvas like this and think it’s beautiful the way it is. I’m afraid if I do anything else to it, it will just go down hill. I guess I could always paint white back over it again if I’m not happy. And, it’s always an option to keep in mind for another painting in this series down the road.

I’ve been having fun making more buttons like my Found Art Tuesday pieces from earlier this week. I have a bunch finished, and have listed a couple sets in my Etsy shop so far. I’m going to list 3 or 4 more sets from the ones above this weekend.

Looks like we are going to have a nice weekend here. It’s been raining cats and dogs here, so much so there was a flood warning, and my bike ride today got cut short because the path was all under water. But finally it has let up and the sun is out and I hope to get out and enjoy it. Have a great weekend!

Found Art Tuesday

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on May 4, 2010
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I’m very excited to announce that the project, “Found Art Tuesday” is now on Facebook. Don’t forget Rosa’s font of Found Art Tuesday information, as well as the flickr group, but please, please, please join and support us in Found Art Tuesday on Facebook. You aren’t required to participate, but really, who doesn’t “like” finding free art? Give it a thumbs up, will ya?

It’s been a long time since I participated in Found Art Tuesday, but here I am with Blades of Grass No. 1. It’s a 6×6 inch acrylic on canvas piece. This is the first piece in the series. See this earlier post for the second piece. This series is still so new and very much close to my heart, perhaps that will explain my anxieties below.

I wanted to leave it at the lagoon in town and I asked Matt to join me in this covert operation. Once we got there and saw all the families with little kids throwing bread for the ducks I immediately had hesitations. This was my same fear when I left the painting at the riverwalk in Naperville. Sadly, I never found what came of that piece. I’m afraid that a child will see it first and the parent will see the bright colors and think it’s geared toward children, and let them keep it as a “toy”, and while most of my art is suitable for children, they are not toys. I guess I ask myself, “can a child really respect and appreciate a piece of artwork as I think it deserves to be treated?” I had this vision enter my head where a kid finds it and thinks it would be hilarious to just toss into the water. We continued to walk until I remembered a geocache at the kissing bench. The kissing bench is a perfect location, a little bit hidden, yet still pretty central to campus.

I left it protected in plastic, visible and hopefully secure, but still I worried about its outcome. Would it get blown down into the branches? Would it be rained on overnight? I don’t know why I get so worried and protective. It’s similar to my mail art pieces. I send a little piece of myself out into the world, hoping-hoping-hoping that it brings a little bit of happiness to someone out there and when it never gets registered I worry that it got lost, stolen or destroyed in the post. Should I mourn for a piece that never fulfilled its only purpose?

For this piece I wouldn’t need to wonder long. I just visited the Found Art Tuesday Facebook page to get the links and I’m ECSTATIC! The recipient already posted on the Found Art Tuesday page stating the title and saying “it’s lovely”. Thank you, Addison, for stopping by facebook! I’m so glad you liked the piece :D

Now, I implore you all, spread the love and beauty. Make something and leave it out to brighten someone else’s day. Join the facebook group in support of the project. It’s a beautiful world.

ahem, facebook, cough. My work here is done!

New Series - Blades of Grass

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on May 3, 2010
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I think I mentioned last week how I’ve been working on a new series of paintings. As usual, I continue with my love for the grass image. I have two complete and I’m pretty excited about the whole series. It’s all I can think of, and when I’m not painting I’m scribbling down notes and sketches for more pieces. I can’t create as fast as the inspiration comes, and that’s a good thing. Today I listed the one above in my Etsy shop.

Here is a progress picture from last week. My drawing table was a complete mess. I like how, even though it is entirely painting, it almost looks like collage or mixed media because of all the lines and details.

This particular piece is 12 inches square, so a pretty decent size to hang on a wall. Lately I’ve been wanting to go bigger and I think it stems from my desire to hang larger pieces on my own walls. In this series I plan on creating pieces of all different sizes, from small canvases (like my artomat pieces) to BIG BIG BIG. We will see how that goes :)

Blocks

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on April 25, 2010
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drawing table, originally uploaded by robayre.

For over a week I’ve had this idea for a new series of paintings. I’ve been so excited and inspired. I’ve filled pages in my journal with sketches, details and ideas… BUT as soon as I get home from work I can not get myself to work on it. All day I daydream of when I’ll be home and have the time to create but when the time comes it feels like torture and I can’t make myself begin. I’ll sit at my drawing table until I give up.

I think I’m afraid that it is not going to come out as I envision. And with the way I work, when something doesn’t come out as I see it in my head I’ll completely abandon it, rather than rework it. This is in complete contrast to what I know I should do, according to my art bible, Art & Fear.

Today I FINALLY went into my studio and started working. It started out great. I took this picture above on my camera phone, and although it’s not great quality, I really loved how it looked at this stage. I continued on and everything seemed to be fine. I was using acrylic paints and all sorts of different techniques to get textures for a background. Everything was going perfectly until I reached a stage which, according to this book, I needed to run the canvas under warm water with some soap ANNNNNNND I rubbed a little too hard and my painting started peeling off. Next thing I knew, I just said screw it and continued to blast it with hot water and peeled off the entire painting till I was back to a white canvas.

Gah! Back to square one. I hope I can go back at it and restart fresh and finally have something to share here soon. Keeping my fingers crossed.

day 4 - Tree Stump

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on August 6, 2009
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I present to you Day 4 of my month long challenge, Tree Stump! It’s in my shop and ready for the taking. You can’t go wrong as long as there is a tree stump involved.

Today I received word that I have another taker on my month long challenge. My Everyday Create comrade, Bri, will be posting daily on the group blog. She also has an AMAZING blog over here. Loads of daily inspiration, please check it out.

Big sigh! Today is my pseudo Friday, meaning I don’t have to go to work tomorrow. I’m looking forward to a relaxed weekend. Matt has been helping me redesign my website (No. 31 on my 2009 list) so I look forward to working on that this weekend. Also, if you haven’t heard, the chicagoland area will officially be in mourning. Today director John Hughes passed away. I believe I will be watching lots of Uncle Buck, Ferris Bueller and Sixteen Candles this weekend.

Lastly, real quick, I was so excited today to discover that I had sold my ONE HUNDREDTH piece in my etsy shop. I think I deserve a badge, a trophy and a bugle, ya know, to toot my own horn.

Found Art Tuesday

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on May 27, 2009
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Doh, I thought I was going to actually post a Found Art Tuesday piece on Tuesday. The holiday on Monday threw me off, so here it is on Wednesday :) It’s been ages since I’ve participated in Found Art Tuesday.

I made another miniature painting, based on a collage, on a handbuilt canvas. I made this piece specifically to use in participating in Found Art Tuesday. This weekend my sister, Matt and I went geocaching, 7 in one day. It was all great until there was a tick found on one of the microcahes :( For those who don’t know, I am absolutely terrified of ticks (I have an irrational fear of getting lymes disease), so it kind of killed a bit of the joy. I had this painting I wanted to leave behind for someone, but just about every cache was a microcache (meaning, a film roll can, a magnetic key box, or pill box).


Since we were in the Aurora area, out by my sister, we got the idea of going to the Naperville Riverwalk. It was hard to be stealthy because the place was packed. The walk next to the river, as well as the regular paths were a steady stream of families, couples and friends all out enjoying the lovely weather on the holiday weekend. Finally I found a group of trees that was situated between the two paths, waited for a gap of people and ran up to place it facing oncoming traffic.

I realized that this is actually my fourth mini painting that I’ve left for Found Art and right now I’m batting 1 for 4. The first painting was my very first Found Art piece which I let go of on a group of balloons, never heard back, the second was in a lockbox geocache on campus, no one mentioned taking the painting from the cache log online, and then a month later the river flooded and the box disappeared :( Then the third was last year, when I left a painting on a geographical marker in Door County. I received the nicest email ever, from the man who found that painting. I couldn’t have hoped for a better person, he was an artist as well, and said that it gave him more hope for people, to find my piece. Now I’ve left this piece, in a high traffic location, so fingers crossed that it made it’s way to just the right person who needs it :)

Please check out my flickr set of all the other Found Art Tuesday pieces I’ve done, and here is the flickr group pool for other people’s Found Art as well :)

One last thing, I’m participating in the May Giveaway Day, where I am giving away not one, but TWO of my Recycled Envelope and Stationery Sets. Leave a comment on this post from yesterday and be entered to win, and then please feel free to browse around the rest of my blog, I like to meet new people :)

added to the shop

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on April 22, 2009
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Remember these pendants I painted from my collages?

Here is what the collage looked like collages

And this is what it looked like before I decided to coat it with resin. before the resin coat

After I coated the front I decided that the back needed a bit of protection as well, after I signed each piece.

O have listed this one in particular to my etsy shop. The other two will follow shortly.

It’s a new day

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on May 12, 2008
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It’s a new day, originally uploaded by robayre.

I finished this painting tonight. It’s a 6″x6″ acrylic on canvas piece done in the same style as the “Be kind” piece done for Found Art Tuesday a couple weeks ago. I really love this style and feel like I could do a bunch of these with different inspiring uplifting saying. It’s in the shop right now.

Ever have Thai Iced Tea? That stuff is like crack, or how I imagine crack to be addicting. This weekend we picked up some Thai and got tea to go. It has made me search for recipes to make my own. Feed the addiction, yes, sweet, swirling condensed milk in my tea, addiction.  So I found this site that seems to be pretty good at instructions on how to make my own Thai Iced tea in many different ways. They even have a page that links you to where buy thai tea in bags or powder form.

And lastly, I am so excited about this final link. Can I just say how excited I was to see the post on today’s Design Sponge  guest blog. I’ve always wanted to learn how to make patterns for fabric and papers and these instructions will make this so much easier. It’s so simple and I am so surprised that I didn’t think of this or hadn’t been taught this much earlier. You might even remember this tree pattern that I made earlier this year for fabric. (Note to self, I still need to execute that project, but now I can make even better patterns. yay!

 

Found Art Tuesday

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on April 22, 2008
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Okay, so I’ve created the above piece for Found Art Tuesday today, but I haven’t had time to leave it behind and be found. I’ll do that tomorrow. The theme was Kindness. Check back tomorrow to see where I leave it. I’d also like to mention that Found Art Tuesday now has a flickr group. Everyone is welcome to join and have fun leaving artwork behind. The more the merrier, I’d be so happy to see what artwork you might leave behind for others.

And here is today’s Polaroid Week picture. Matt enjoying a slurpee.

 

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