Wow...

*Points flashlight into the dusty dim interior*

*After careful consideration pushes back the cobwebs and steps inside.*

I had no idea this was still here! *Goes over to a wall and flips up a large lever stubborn with rust and age. Light floods into the room illuminating lost works of art, and witticisms carefully packaged away against time and tide, and a rainbow of colors lost amongst a sea of words.*

*Puts her hands on her hips and nods*

It is good to be back!

Cool Website

I love everything colorful (as evidenced by a majority of my work) and now I have found a website that could either be reeeeally useful or a huge distraction to actually getting anything done!

www.colourlovers.com is just a fun way to play with how different colors work together. You can create a color, a whole palette, or a pattern very easily and in a variety of different ways. You can start from scratch or use photographs for inspiration.

Even if you aren't an artist I would suggest checking it out and playing around with it, you never know what you might come up with!

Oldies but Goodies!

This is an artist trading card that I did awhile ago, and it keeps getting lost and resurfacing. so I figured while I had it found I would scan it to share with everyone! I tend to do more little illustrations for ATC's rather than the usual collage--but then again who is to say what is usual!

This is an oooooold piece from highschool. My assignment was to paint a still life, which I did--I just thought it needed more color that's all...hehe!

Owl Table

New Bookmarks!

Just a new batch of bookmarks! Personally I like the hot pink one and the blue rosebud but that is really hard to say a I like all of my bookmarks in someway or another. These will get laminated and some will get tassels and if I get off my lazy butt and get my camera unloaded of pictures I will stage a little photoshoot! Woot!

I finally got the software for my scanner installed on Nymphadora so that I don't have to keep dragging out Mundungus all the time. It is much easier to be motivated to scan things when I can use my pretty shiny new computer!

Hope everyone had a great St.Patrick's Day! Spent mine reading some great bits of fiction!

Onwards and Upwards Once More...

Well, Charlotte's Web closed yesterday.

I am so proud of all the kids--they put soooo much hard work into this show. It is always bittersweet.

One of my favorite parts of the day was giving the three little girls who played the baby spiders their puppets to keep. I have one that I am going to photograph this week and get back to her so that I have something for my poor neglected portfolio. I really need to work on that thing--I have all the pictures just need to organize it.

Anyways! I am having a meeting today to work on some new projects one of which is a few new lines of bookmarks/journals/stationary. Until the meeting tonight I am not really at liberty to disclose much else, but I think it will be exciting

I am working on some pretty colorful spring bookmarks in an attempt to will warmer weather into being--it may be working, high today is 64!

I am also experimenting with color, and watercolor paper. Usually I detest watercolor paper in favor of ye olde Bristol, but I have a ton of it someone gave me so I think it is work seeing if I can do something with it.

Other than that check out STEAM Fest as it get's going there will be some interesting artwork and artisans there! And a costumed staged reading of my original steampunk work The True History of Henry Rayne and the Airship Pirates! Woot pirates and airships and goggles oh my!

Back to work!

New Projects!

This is a new project I am working on. I am getting the pocket size Moleskine notebooks with the cardboard covers, some watch gears, and some watercolor and colored pencil and voila! I really like the flowers and my robots are always my favorite so I can't really say too much. The notebooks are only 7.95 for three of them so I think more experimentation is in order!!!

I have always liked embellishing things, especially notebooks, and now that I have found jewelers glue there will be watch bits all over everything--muhahahahaaaaa!!! Ahem...

These are for sale by the way if anyone is interested!

[Sorry for the not so great photograph!]