I've been adding color to my dull little world
Since Christmas I have turned out 5 art purses, they have been packed up for their new homes, but I do have pics on my camera and as soon as I figure out how to get them off there I will post them.
I
am also painting a small cigar box style purse my daughter bought for
me to paint along with a bunch of other stuff, she seems to feel I need
to keep busy. Not sure if I am going to line the inside with fabric or
just paint it, but the purse in general is coming along nicely. It will
be going up for sale on my website as one of the first listings
featured when the site goes back up on the new host in a week or so.
Also going up it the memo board shown next to it below, an exact
duplicate of the one I made for my own kitchen that everyone tries to
talk me out of. The site is going to be a mix of things both painted
and textile, plus some of the wearable art clothes I design and make.
Neither of these cell phone pics is great, but they give you the
general idea.
The memo board is done, the sunface purse is in progress, still lots of detail work and outlining to do yet on it.
In
other news, I stumbled upon www.stumbleupon.com and I love this web
search/ bookmarking site. It's free and I have found a ton of stuff I
might have missed otherwise, the web is getting too big to search it
well all by yourself anymore. Some of my best recent finds are these:
A pictorial blog of links to recipes that made me gain 50 pounds just looking at itA great "How to draw" site with tons of tutorials, lots of illustrations & it's free.
Susan Lomuto's blog Polymer Clay Notes... which happens to be about a whole lot more than Polymer clay.... in fact it is one of the best art blogs I have found in quite awhile.
Canadian Textile sculpture artist Miles Lowry who casts the human form in cotton and paints it.... his work is absolutely amazing!
Seattle bleach artist Deborah Gwinn
Paper Mosaic Fusion artist S.A. Schimmel
The absolutely amazing art of Tina Blondell
That's it for now, back to painting the purse for me....
