Tuesday, October 23, 2007

real bee, fake bee


I was going to entitle this "Drawing from Death" because the topic is a dead bee I found a while ago and had been saving (for this?).  But that seemed a little too morbid.  However, I have realized in the past that drawing from "life" is usually the only way I can buckle down and try to do something realistically.  Otherwise things turn out all made up, goofy looking or accidentally cutesy.  I need to spend more time drawing from life and/or death.  I'm usually too impatient.

Back to dead bee: it's so incredibly lightweight, and so delicate.  I'm surprised it doesn't float.  The intricacies are almost shocking: unfortunately the photo doesn't do this bee justice. 

And I'm embarrassed to admit that I've dropped this bee quite a few times.  There even had to be some glue-based surgery.



So, I drew the dead bee and ended up using gouache, mica, etc. on top of the drawing. It has some texture because I tend towards chunky application of materials.  I'm going to incorporate this bee into a slightly bigger project I'm working on... to be cont.

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

to market, to market...



If you didn't know already, this Saturday, Oct 13th from 12-4 it's Bizarre Market at Chop Suey Books.  Benefiting Art 180.

Visit chopsueybooks for more info/address.

If all goes as planned, I will be there with Halloween-themed items and the usual assortment.  Check out my
etsy shop for a preview of some of my goods, including the Halloweeny pouches as shown above.


... Gotta go... more later...

Saturday, October 6, 2007

the shared culture of work place drudgery

This is a sample etsy treasury layout I made for a themed challenge.   This one is themed for co-worker empathy and the culture of shared work-place drudgery.  It wasn't chosen, but I found some cool stuff while digging around.
Links to items:

www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6199123
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6150432
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5924754
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6588966
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6622849
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=7309828
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6829857
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6963374
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6757208
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=7277056
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6760322
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6305436
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6903819
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6411524
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5976225
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=194954


Alternates:
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5950734
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5850147
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6986975
www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6324709

I've been really really busy being inexplicably busy and also just making some stuff.  Stay tuned this week for Halloweenish items and etceteras.

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