DIVERSIONS AND ODDITIES
Patience is also a form of action. -Auguste Rodin, sculptor (1840-1917)
A gift of old wallpaper samples spawned a brief escapade into the making of arty chapbooks! This one has "signatures" bound to fit inside a cover with a spine of corrugated paper. The leaves and lining are high grade watercolor paper, "deckled" with special scissors.
I will use this book for a guest book for shows until it is full. Then I will take out the pages, and put in new ones.
Closeups of this textural subject yielded nice digital paintings. (Scroll below to Playtime and Diversions.)
Irridescent Topaz acrylic paint made pale freehand lines for the address book function. Facing pages can be used for comments. Stiff watercolor pages are vertically scored near the binding so they open out flat. The raffia can be taken out, and reinserted in a new set of pages.
a digital spinoff of the pages at right...now available as a note card.
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Very often I will photograph works in progress purposely to play with them at the digital level. Very often I will take a digital spinoff and create a painting of it. It's all "in house"...no problem getting permission from the photog...it's all my own playground!
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The Process is The Thing!
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The bowl had a hole in it -- that was "the flaw". Odd shaped hole, so I planned to "peg" it, and today (June 19 2013) I worked on the peg. Odd place to place a peg, on the concave plane of a curved dish bowl. The band sander has done most of the shaping. The rest will be finicky handwork (I'll enjoy that), and then to "copper" it up with the same paint technique used on the dish. It will not look like a mushroom for long. Stay tuned.
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Shawn's Face, Close Up. This is a detail from a larger pastel on toned paper. Shawn was a favorite model. Her coloring and body language was just beautiful. The painting shows her head and upperbody as she sits in a chair nude, so naturally so that you notice only the person, not that she is unclad. A favorite of mine, and it deserves to be hung and enjoyed in public somewhere. $875 unframed.
play time diversions:
variations on a theme
A favorite image (honor copyright, please) derived from the deckle paged book I made yesterday. I would not mind having this hanging in my house, matted and behind glass! Hope it sells on Spinoffery.com
This and images below were diversions of a rainy Thursday in June; off shotts from working on a footer image using a painting of my own to tinker with. I love the calligraphic quality of this. It's simpy the text below the footer, but played with in the Paint.NET program.
All of these are variations on a theme derived from the final footer below, which in turn was derived from my original watercolor painting made with three primary colors.
INSPIRATION
Farmer's Market in Bellevue WA
Today, June 8 2013, a quick look-around at the Grand Opening of the Bellevue (WA) Farmer's Market. What a good little group of offerings here! Beautiful food and flowers. Also some nice reference shots for future paintings? Likely so!
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This is a SPINOFFERY digital image derived from my photo of onions at the Bellevue Farmer's Market. For more of this "genre", see www.spinoffery.wordpress.com
Yarnall Abbott study of paris bookstalls, egg tempera on black paper. (behind glass..snapshot)
Web info about Yarnall Abbott
Elenore Abbott plein air painting egg tempera on black paper, Mexico
Very poor snapshot of Elenore Abbott Mexico study under glass.
This is egg tempera on black paper.
http://www.fairies-fantasy-art.com/elenore-abbot-american-illustrator.html
This is egg tempera on black paper.
http://www.fairies-fantasy-art.com/elenore-abbot-american-illustrator.html