Learning to See

One of the things that I often find the most frustrating about my work is trying to explain to people what I’ve got “in progress”, what stage it’s in and where it’s headed next. I’ve tried for years to elaborate on my plans for pieces, insofar as even I know them, as sometimes they have…

Perspective

I was bumping around from page to page and from blog to blog, obsessively checking my email for no good reason the other day when I happened upon an interesting entry by Dups (Duleepa VerylongSriLankanNameThatICan’tRememberandRarelyCouldButAlwaysThoughtSoundedCool)  about his photography and perspective. Defintely worth a read and think-through. It got me thinking (hold the snarky comments, please)…

Rummaging through the chaos: found some Art Trading Cards

About a year or so ago, Art Trading Cards (2″x3.5″ pieces of artwork mounted on cardstock or stiffened in some way) were all the rage. I had half a thought to partipate in some of the swaps, but (like many things in my life) I never got around to it. I found these in one…

On the design wall…

I finished (or almost finished) a couple of pieces last night.  This first one uses that tissue paper/cheesecloth/glue/dye mess that I wrote about some time ago. I’ve been playing around with embellishing it and how it handles and I have to say, I’m impressed. This is titled “Stream of Consciousness” and, once again, is a…

On the design wall…

I finished (or almost finished) a couple of pieces last night.  This first one uses that tissue paper/cheesecloth/glue/dye mess that I wrote about some time ago. I’ve been playing around with embellishing it and how it handles and I have to say, I’m impressed. This is titled “Stream of Consciousness” and, once again, is a…