Mostly Twisted - Art from found objects, and junk

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They Say, In May, the Paint Goes Thatta-Way

Created on: 4/18, 2009 at 01:12 pm

I actually took pictures of what I did last night. I bet there's a hockey game going on in hell right now.

I've got a lot of art-journaling assignments coming up in the next few months, so I decided to get proactive and make some backgrounds. These are all old-hand techniques, but I'm just getting used to them. Here's the old salt on water color trick.

This is wet-on-wet acrylic. I laid down a blue background first, and it kinda muted the reds. Ah, well. It will work for something.

This one is my favorite. Reminds me of a scattering of rose petals.

The Borg Queen's Skinny

Created on: 4/12, 2009 at 11:29 pm

I finished another Skinny. This is number 6 or 7- just shows how little photo-ing I've been doing.

This one is a gift for my mother-in-law, who is the artist behind kwbeads.com. She did this really great piece called The Borg Queen's Wedding Necklace in all these perfectly inky midnight colors. When I was searching for just the right mix to do her Skinny in, I found these and just about died with pleasure.

This is the smallest of the skinnies so far. It has a hammered copper bail instead of brass.

Happy Easter

Created on: 4/12, 2009 at 10:50 pm

Guess who made an appearance in my front yard this morning? About two years ago, someone released two pet bunnies into the wild, which I hear is a rotten thing to do to a rabbit. Wild rabbits are territorial or something like that. But these two guys found their place and, not surprisingly, found mates. The second year there were ginger bunnies galore, and wild-coated ones with ginger patches. The other pet bunny was black, but maybe the genes were more recessive. I haven't seen any 2nd generation black bunnies. On the other hand, perhaps it's true what they say about us red-heads.

This particular ginger bunny has a wild bunny best friend. They're never apart. It's very sweet!

Catching Up

Created on: 4/12, 2009 at 10:32 pm

Usually I've not posted because I'm way too busy. And yes, I've had a few crazy weeks. But lately, I'm not posting, not because I don't have time to work on art, but because I've been squeezing all of my free time into DOING art. Let's catch up, shall we?

I'll start with photos of Dave, the manly he-horse that should have been posted MONTHS ago. Think I'm kidding? I mailed him on my birthday back in January! Have mercy on me for these photos. This is the few weeks that I lost my camera and before my Beautiful, Wonderful, Fantastic, Saved-My-Ass Mother sent me her old one as a replacement. Thanks again, Mum.

Okay, here's Dave in all his testosterone-oozing glory. Dave is a weird doll in this particular round robin. He tends to get Stuff, but not added to so much. Kris did a fine job giving him a studly physique. It almost seems a shame to cover it up. He's mighty, mighty sexy. I conversed with Gail about that particular phenomenon. She lamented that he's so bare. I countered with "Well, he's not cottoning on to getting dressed." It's true. He probably COULD get dressed, but, truthfully... I couldn't bring myself to do it.

He reminded me of the Victoria Secret models... but as a dude. I remember when the ladies had this ad campaign where they put on wings andthen flounced down the runway in their drawers. (Not that there's anything wrong with that. If I were built like that, I'd put on wings and flounce down the aisle at the grocery store in my drawers. And at the post office, and at the library, and at the... you get the picture.) Anyways, I made Dave a set of copper wings with a warrior's chest plate on the front. Whooooo! Yeah! Take it off! (throws dollar bills at the stage)

Here you can see the effing brilliant dragon tattoo. Nicely done, Kris!

I've told you about Esther. She's a very cool old Jewish lady, 82 years old, and as bloody awesome as they come. She's not your regular granny. She's One Of Us, the women who say fuck. I like her very much. It was she who suggested "Why don't you make him a penis?" We both laughed like it was the best idea in the world and that's how Dave came to have a 'dingle-dangle' collection.

Here's the front page of my contribution to his journal.

The placard reads "Marry me, Dave"

Dave and I had a huge back-and-forth about what I was going to add to him. I'm serious. He sat on my desk for EVER! This is kind of how it went.

This last one is a lead-in to the next page...

which is a centerfold with breasts.

The tassels pull out and have many different slang words for breasts on them.

Here's an iconicized Dave and some silhouette women.

The last page is my farewell to Dave.

Women Who Say Fuck

Created on: 3/4, 2009 at 11:10 pm

Okay, so I've been reading other people's art blogs (go figure), and there is a woman, Ricë Freeman-Zachery, who I just really want to kiss smack on the mouth! In fact I just read one of her books, Living The Creative Life, but it wasn't until I was squirreling around on her blog links that I realized this phenomenally cool flame haired art maven was one and the same.

I read her entry "Women Who Say Fuck" and wanted to bring her home to meet my mother. Why? Because like Ricë, the two of us have had the experience of running into those uptight Stepford types and really, REALLY wanting them to chill the fuck out. See? It's almost as if the simple act of conjuring one of those thin-lipped, prissy women to my attention makes it impossible NOT to say fuck. As Ricë says, I would rather spend my time with someone who doesn't ruffle at the f-bomb because invariably those people tend to be cooler, artier, and just plain old more fun. Not that I think you must needs swear like a sailor to be fun, but for goodness sakes- there are some times when it is absolutely appropriate!

You can read the original post at http://voodoonotes.blogspot.com/

I've had the Purple Skinny done for, oh, what- a week and a half now? Maybe some pictures would be nice.