Going Places

In her heart

She knew

it was just

a matter of time

before she would be

Going Places.

Mixed Media Collage on 8 x 10 wrapped canvas

by Indy

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A Merry Menagerie

So my sister shows my nephew Evan the owl I made for him and he gives it the seal of approval :) He went up to my sisters laptop and kissed the picture of the owl, attempted to type on her keyboard...and started repeating Owl, Owl, Owl.  Awww!! Wouldn't that make your heart melt?

So of course I asked my sister, what other animals does he like so I can make him some more? Alligator, fish, elephant, tiger....and fish also meant (sea creature) - dolphin, turtle, starfish, octopus...hahaha! So now we have the Merry Menagerie which will reside in Evan's playroom.

Just finished two more today (click to enlarge):

Materials: Magazines, old dictionary pages, scraps, vellum, acrylic, watercolor, china ink, markers, pastels and lots and lots of love :)


More in the works....

My sister said she is going to hang them in Evan's play area right beside the big Lion growth chart she bought at Pottery Barn.

Credits: Cute Tapes and Stick-it Notes by Gunhild Storeide

Plus, plus...I'll be making prints of them and finally gather up the guts to sell :)

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Evan's Owl

Aside from the things I'm working on, I promise myself to TRY to create something by hand everyday - today I created a collage for my nephew Evan, he loves owls (who doesn't? they're so cute with their huge huge eyes!)

Evan's Owl, Collage on Paper
Materials used: Various Scraps of papers, acrylics, white and black china ink, cray-pas, highlighter, glitter gel pens and License Alpha Collage Sheet by SherrieJD for Evan's name, sample frame by me.

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Recycled Tags are Cool!

I've been in a fog today, been waking up tired with my back aching although I see no reason for it to ache since I'm supposed to be sleeping on some kind of orthopedic mattress (or so they claim!).  Maybe its the jogging, I've been jogging lately and for the last 2 weeks have been doing 3 kilometer runs.  Today was especially hard because I kept feeling like my eyes were about to fall, even after 3 cups of coffee. 

I've also been so, so behind on my journal entries even if I have been trying to create something each day.  Although today I really could not help it and would putter around to my big table and sit for 10 minutes or so to dab some paint here and there.  I finally succumbed after dinner and sat down at my work table, keeping my son Enzo company while he was doing a school project.  I finally finished this "tag" project I had been working on sporadically for about 3 or 4 days now.

This project was inspired by a tutorial by Alisa Burke my newest mentor, even if she doesn't know it :) She had this idea to re-use those clothes tags and paint over them and use as gift tags.  What a cool idea.  Great thing I have this penchant for keeping tags I like (always thinking I may have a use for them later) Ha! You see, I just knew I'd need them (LOL!)

Except I created little miniature canvases out of them.

This is  where I started:

I still don't have gesso or gel mediums so I just brushed it with white acrylic paint 

and did some stenciling.

Next I just added some patterned paper I cut up from here and there.

Drew my images

Added some more paint and waited 2 more days till I could figure out where

I was going with this (hahaha!)

Could not resist just working on it today and just added more details, paint, collage...still something missing...

More details...That's better.

Pasted some scrapbook paper I had lying around at the back of the tag.

 

And here they are up close:

 

 
Miniature art, ready to hang on my wall, or maybe on my Christmas tree, my door, as a bookmark...I think I'll scan it and print it out on nice thick paper so I can give it away as bookmarks. 

Fun project.  Definitely!

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Some Wedding Pages

It's been a really crazy week for me busy finishing all my projects... and still busy with a new project my good friend asked my help with for her husband's 50th birthday which has to be out for print on Saturday, (I only got the files today) eek! Sleepless nights here we go again.  To top things off, I have been plagued by really bad migraines and neck pain (which I believe has to do with my work chair not being the most ergonomic one).  Because of the migraine meds, my acid reflux is back full force (I was diagnosed with hiatal hernia way back) and I've been having really bad stomach spasms for four days now.  Arrgh! That means no coffee and spicy food for me for the meantime.  That is such a bummer.  No coffee? Whaaaat? How could I start my day without coffee?  But then I am in such pain now, so I have to be on my coffee diet.  Sigh.

I was up late the other day because I worked on my final touch for this wedding album I finished creating.   I have a love affair with birds right now ever since I saw Gennine's blog and have started to draw my own using pictures of birds found in the Philippines.

I was also so inspired by the  featured artist Cori Dantini, in the Art Journal Caravan that this wedding album has a different feel to it and involved a lot of birds and drawings of girls.  Here are some pages I'd like to share (just click on the pic to view it on a larger scale):

Credit: Green Leaf branches from Cinzia Loosemore's Retro Fall Elements.  The rest of the doodles were drawn by me.

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