Just went to Seattle yesterday. It is officially in my "top five favority cities" list. Of the many reasons it is: the Fluevog store. I have been covetting a pair of Fluevogs for nearly 2 years now. They are everything they are cracked up to be and more. I'm certifiably addicted.
I have missed my little blog a lot lately, but have been so busy moving. Yes, we are now in the great Pacific Northwest and loving it! I'm about to embark on a new adventure artistically as well, mainly pursuing my craft full-time. Our new place has a sweet little shed out back that will make the perfect hideaway studio . . . a real-life "House of Trouble" where Percy can clatter about and experiment without disrupting our tranquil house. I hope to be up and creating in a few weeks here.
I have grabbed some little snatches of time to sketch but nothing is coming to life as yet. So, until I start posting pics of my studio space and the artwork it coaxes out of Percy and I, here are a few little ACEOs I produced for my Etsy shop a month or so ago.
You Think I Won't . . .?
Oops!
The Taste
ACEO stands for "Art Cards, Editions and Originals." Tiny works of art 2.5" by 3.5" (6.35 cm x 8.89 cm) All three above are ink on acid free Bristol. Buy these and several others for the price and shipping listed OR convo me to trade for it with your own ACEOs or similar artwork.
My grandmother turned ninety back in April. She is about as quintessentially "grandma" as they come - she loves roses, birds, and the color pink. Hence the more-than-usual frilliness of the silhouette I created for her.
She is also an artist. An artist for over seventy years . . . and still painting.
I created the silhouette above in her honor, as she is a rather remarkable woman. Rather than try to distill all her "remarkableness" into a small blog post, I hope to take her auto-biography (currently being written) and her prodigious amount of artistic work and create a website dedicated to her.
Another little entry in my mini-sketchbook, started about the same time as "the Blessing", and finished just before it. Curious to know what you guys may think it means. I'm not sure myself.
And here is a little completed-in-two-minutes-collage-exercise, inspired by my current Mania of the Moment, Joseph Cornell. My husband and I collaboratively whipped it up from bits and bobs around our house. Every piece has a story - some are unknown - but they all add up to a small part of "us."
I have recently returned to my little Sketchbook project. I started this particular silhouette some months ago but didn't finish it until last weekend. A rather emotionally harrowing experience over the weekend made this piece suddenly come together, as if it were almost prophetic. Sometimes we must put down our weapons and walk into the lion's den. We know we will come out missing a limb, but the horror is still as potent when it actually happens. And then you realize it was for a reason . . . maybe one you'll never witness for yourself . . . but a reason none-the-less. And you are transformed into something you did not imagine was even possible.
Exaggerated as this may sound, it is true: I have, in my thirty-three years of life, actually experienced nearly everything I could have wished, and some things I did not wish, but cannot regret.
Everything except one: learning ballet. I never had ambitions to being a ballerina, I simply wanted to know how to be a ballerina - to be able to create moving, elegant, precise, and emotional forms with my own body as the medium.
I am well past the prime time (about 25 years ago would have been ideal) to have subjugated my joints to the ludicrous flexibility ballet demands. I have found some measured contentment in unearthing my buried talent in yoga. Forget the strength and health benefits! I strive for as much "grace and line" as my frozen joints will allow and my heart is placated for the time being.
Oh! the way this prima ballerina moves . . . ! She makes me weep with mingled delight and regret. Not only is she an otherworldly talent, she came back from a serious injury, a childbirth, and a two year furlough, to conquer her body and the stage again.
Hello, dear blogosphere friends. I have been away attending to some freelance work for the past couple of months. I don't have much to report on that, as it's still in the developmental phase, but things have calmed down on that front so I'm returning to my little blog for a bit.
I do have some independent new work to share. My latest embossing, "The Offering"
I'm still trying to pinpoint what causes some areas to stand out more than others despite using what feels like the same amount of pressure. For example, compare the torso to the horse body below: the horse's hooves popped out wonderfully. Though I love the detail and delicacy of the human torso, I would like him to be as prominent as the horse body.
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