Welcome to my art blog!! w00t,Huzzah and so forth
^_^If you are a friend of mine you know I am very artistic, and I like to make things. A day in which I DO NOT make anything is a day I feel I've,sadly, wasted, and that's just a silly thing to do.
( waste time that is) So here is where i am going to post the things that I'm creating. I will eventually ::cross fingers:: be using this as my business blog, but for now it is simply to show you all what's the happs with my art. So here are a few projects in motion.
The first is an extension of this nautical, underwater creature theme I've been playing with for a while. I have created my own creature that i call a squidipous
( squidipi for multipuls). It's a mix of an octopus and a squid of course, but this one is an octopus.He's not just any octopus though,In fact he is THE KING of the octopi.
Unfortunately I was playing with mediums on this one and he shattered while he dried :( I plan to rebuild him when i have found the right kind of clay. This was self drying earthen clay. which is great, IF your piece is all one thickness and drys at the same speed all the way through..wich mine, obvously, was not. Though he is dead now he's ADORABLE! and I shall make him again once I have the technology
^_^Now, the next one was again, a clay piece that I was playing with as a house warming gift for my friend Chris, I was also working on one of those, oh so popular, anamorphic themed pieces. Everywhere I look there's something morphing into something else, so I had to try my hand at it. This is a lady mophing into her hair. I was going to do a tree, but it wasn't working, so I let the clay tell me what it wanted to do
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I had planned to keep her on the canvis and paint around her,but she too,shattered into bits :( Thankfully, the body stayed in tackt so I kept is and painted it. I'll post that the next time I get the chance to get a picture of it, seeing as it is curently hanging Chris's wall
^_^I've also been painting!
yay painting!
This is an oil painting I started for a friend of mine. She is a writer and has a book that she's been working on for about 5 years now. She and I met in Italy when we did a study abroad there. I for art and she for history. She and I were roomates while we were there and she told me about her characters. So I scetched them out to her specs, on gessoed boards and now I'm painting them for her. Here is her character Sophie,
( hope i spelled that right) about half way through.
I have to work on the eyes because its seriously creepy right now, and it's actually proving to be a lot harder for me because I'm used to painting live models, I painted my friend who this painting is for actually, and it came out great, but it is a lot easier to have something to look at in real life.To see where the shadows fall ans such. I also have to decide if I'm going to leave it mono tone or if I'm going full color. I tend to get my under painting so well done that I don't want to cover it with color
>.< My next thing is this Jewelry box that was my grandmother's before she passed away when I was about 9 or 10. I've had it for 12 years now and it has made it through several moves. I never really used it but I wanted to keep it for some reason. It ended up as a bed side table, a place to put my cup of water while I was painting, a spice rack
^_^ but I was cleaning my room the other day and found it and thought " Awwww poor thing, you need some TLC." So I cleaned it up and saw that the inside velvet was mustard yellow ::cringe:: and some of the cardboard that was behind it had gotten wet or something because it was mildewing. So I decided to re-finish it. I didn't take before shots because I was so psyched to get started. It's more of a jewlery chest than a box. The top flips open for storage and has a mirror. I need to finish the inside on the drawers and doors, and then the outside on the sides and back.
Here is a wide shot
First I ripped out all that nasty velvet. I know it's traditionally
proper to have velvet in a jewelry
box, but I don't really have any jewelry that's ACTUAL silver or gold, and personally I HATE velvet so I covered the insides with some of the quilting quarters I bought on sale a while back.
( Which just goes to prove that just because you dont need something for a project right that instant, doesn't mean you shouldn't get it for the future) The doors are in this awesome tea stained pink with white polka dots fabric, the main cavity of the box, where the necklaces hang, is covered in black fabric that has white, what I call "spots", on it.
( polka dots are laid out in a pattern, spots are just randomly all over the place)The drawers are lined with the same black fabric, but I lined every other one with this neat white fabric that has thin black circles and lines on it.Reminds me of very strange heart monitor lines.
On the outside I wasn't sure what to paint at first. I wanted to stick with some of the original theme but that theme was this strange 70's gilded yellow daisy type floralie thing and the doors had a thin line of gold painted around the edge. so I sanded it down and Lo to my surprise, the wood was actually gorgeous! so I decided to leave it raw. I didn't strip the old varnish off at all so it also left some neat variations in the color. I decided to keep the metalic line around the edges, but I did it thicker and in silver this time
( because I really disslike gold) and I've been on a vine, curlyque,tenticle,living hair, kick these days so i just played with that,
I also wanted to keep the yellow in as a tribute to the velvet and the original painting scheme so I
painted the inside of the trees yellow. For some reason you can't tell on the big one, but it is yellow in the middle, and the buttons were my tribute to the way the original daisies were painted
( five circles squished together with a gold line around the edge, kind of thing) The buttons in the middle are actually a granny smith green color, I don't know why they came out yellow in the photos.So that is what I've been up to for te past few weeks, art wise. I have another jewlrey box type thing that I plan to start and when I finish my grandmothers box I'll post it. I don't know when to tell you to look for the next post, but like I said, i like to try and make something daily, so hopefully I'll have something to show you daily
^_^Untill then, I hope that you like what I've done and that it has inspired you to make something of your own.
Come back soon and see What's Inside a Robbins Nest,
Kayla
