Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s hoping there is chocolate in my near future.
my little valentine
it’s a keeper
so my living room desk is now my favorite spot in the house, a definite keeper.
life is art
even the path your computer mouse takes…
track your own mouse path here (via door sixteen)
a fun sketch
Sometimes it’s fun to just have fun. I did this little sketch yesterday and thought it would make a fun print. It is called ‘mind your manners.’ (may or may not be related to a recurring theme around here lately) I have a few more sketches the could make a cute little series of three that will be making there way very soon to my etsy store.
making me laugh
the blog unhappy hipsters
‘Well aware of her ability to unnerve house guests, she’d become scarily self-possessed. ‘
walk in the woods
A little weekend walk in the woods…
what i do when i get bored with the view
I am an obsessive compulsive furniture rearranger. This old potting bench used to be down in my studio/office but wasn’t really being used…now,it’s my living room work station. I’d like to put this chair there, but right now I am using one of our dining chairs. It remains to be seen if this will stay or go back to where it came from in the basement…
please excuse me for a moment…
see, J is wavering on the painted floors. So excuse me for a moment while I stare dreamily at this photo….
to do’s
card catalog generator here found via hide & seek
progress
This weekend I was able to make a lot of progress on a series of paintings I’ve been working on and I’m very happy with them! Here are a few.
happy friday!
Are you sick of the horse pictures yet? Friday is officially horse day here. I drive down (it’s quite a ways from where we live) during the day and ride, come home for a bit, pick up the kids and drive back down for my daughters lesson. I hope I don’t sound like I am complaining because if you’d told me a few years ago I would be spending any amount of time around horses again, I would have been beyond thrilled.
testing 1, 2, 3
I have been letting myself play around, experiment and explore. Here are some outakes of my day. Maybe they will end up somewhere, maybe not….
update, a few hours later…
heart
My daughter’s best friend has been raising money for Haiti by making and selling these heart branches. So sweet don’t you think? They are fitting on many levels, not the least of which is how open kids hearts are to help others.
You know what they say…
The family that wears matching shoes together…
My Monday View
please vote!
Poppytalk is holding their first poppies awards, I guess sort of the peoples choice for the handmade world. Here’s the part where I ask, quite shamelessly, to pretty please with sprinkles and a cherry on top, to vote for me! I am nominated in the affordable art category, along with a long list of other talented folks. So even if you don’t vote for me, please stop by and vote for your favorite.
inside out
I picked up my monthly lot of the dying breed known as magazines today and oh my. I found my dream home in the latest issue of Inside Out. The house is the perfect mix of old and new, kind of a barn meets loft feel, in a gorgeous setting. Oh and they have horses. Apart from the fact that I am torn whether I could actually live in the country, I would move there in a second.
favorite project of 2009
As I jump into new paintings and projects for the new year, I wanted to share what was probably the one that was the most fun of 2009. I was contacted to see if I would lend some of my paintings to a movie that was being made here in Portland, and while that alone was exciting, it is a film being directed by Gus Van Sant. That’s all I needed to know. In addition to the paintings that were used as set dressing, I was asked to create the main characters sketch book. The currently untitled film stars Mia Wasikowska (aka Alice in the upcoming Alice in Wonderland) as a dying girl preoccupied with mortality. The images and quotes deal with death and are influenced by the fact that the characters father had been a naturalist. Some images were specifically mentioned in the script so that helped as a starting point. Here are a few pages. Now I’ll have to wait another year to see if any of it actually makes it into the film!
a sketch a day a color a month
So, I received a couple moleskine sketch books for Christmas (love), that I am hoping to fill with ideas, rough sketches etc. In addition, I gifted my self with a color a month planners. One page a day, one book for each month and they all come nicely boxed. I am not a diary keeper, but I think these will be a fun challenge for myself, to write/sketch/whatever every single day for a year. When the year is up, it will be a fun time capsule of sorts to look back on, don’t you think?
As we head into the weekend I thought I’d share some links!
There is no end to amazing blogs out there, here are a few of my new (to me) favorites:
where art thou inspiration
I’ve been trying to work on some paintings at least a bit each day, all in various states of completion. I am realizing I usually have been working a good hour or so before I become inspired and ‘ready’ to really go at it. I’ve never really done a warm up because I only have so many hours to work before the little ones come home, at which point I become very jealous of those who have an entire day to paint. This is the main reason I put start and keep sketch book on my resolution/goal list. Maybe if I put more effort into that part of thinking/trying/experimenting stage, I will be more ready when the paint comes out. Thoughts? Do you start your day of making with a warm up?
