A little "treasure" I had forgotten about...

While unpacking, sorting, and organizing I came across this old book that I made for a class at MCAD back in 2002. The class was Anthropology; I don't quite remember what the assignment was. I had totally forgotten about it but was very amused to see it again. So, I thought I'd share.

A story of creation...

I make costumes like I make art...

... lots of cutting and lots of gluing.

I didn't die. I just moved into a house!

For those of you waiting to see what my latest art project is I have to apologize as I have not been working on anything new for about a month now! I've been neck deep in moving, organizing, painting, and dreaming about shopping at Home Depot (and actually shopping at Home Depot)! I just moved into my first house!!!! It's an adorable little rambler style place that was built in 1958. It is finally starting to come together now. My folks came up from Oklahoma and brought a trailer full of stuff, some stuff that I'd hoped I'd never see again, but of course I don't want to just get rid of it! Things like my baby blanket, in the event that I ever do date again that will look real sexy hanging in the bedroom! I guess I will just have to find a good storage place for it :-) Luckily my stuffed toys wouldn't fit in the load they brought up! Nothing more mature than a 30 yr old with a closet full of stuffed toys! Here a few photos of the place. I will have a studio space too, which is obviously going to be fantastic, but it's not quite fixed up yet. Still lots of things to be done.

p.s. A big thank you to my folks for helping and doing so very much and to my Mom for doing lots of cleaning and helping me get things together too.

The living room, which I had to paint a beautiful aqua color! Subdued is so overdone!

The pink tile bathroom. The tub and toilet are pink too!

The main bedroom, still needs some art on the walls!

 

"Surprises"

Never before captured in paper.... wouldn't it be great if we all just got along and ate cake?!!? Here we seen a scene with a number of surprises and we're not really sure if they are all good.

This is perhaps one of my stranger scenes.. maybe :-)

This little box measures in at 5.25" wide, 3.25" tall, and almost 2" deep.

Tiny yummies

Small pieces to two other slightly larger works.

The Polite Hound

Printing is hard work!! I was at this tonight for 4 hours and only got 3 decent prints. I'm excited to work on printing a few more and getting one framed up for myself. It's gonna look great in my new living room surrounded by some other greyhound art! This is a large print 21" x 30"

Ta- Da (relief printing in action!)

For those of you who are unfamiliar with relief printing... here it is (at least the poor (wo)man's version of it)! I bought to pieces of unmounted linoleum then mounted them to a wood board. The wood has registration lines on it so I know just where I want to put the paper when I'm ready for it. I've been working on carving the image out over the last week and a half or so. The process of printing the print you see in the video took just over 10 minutes. This was the very first print made from this block so it's a "proof". I went back in and fixed a few areas that didn't show up very well. As you can see I'm not using a machine or press to print this but am doing it by hand so each print varies more than if press printed. And, if you were wondering, the floor is not an ideal place to print especially when you live with a dog that sheds like a fiend year round, BUT it was the only area I had big enough to accommodate this.

This will be on sale soon in my Esty shop :-)