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.)
The Process is The Thing!
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
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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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