Friday, March 13, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Driving around, looking for a neti pot...
I've spent the day buying humidifiers, homeopathic zinc sprays, saline solutions to pour in my nose holes, and a tissue that would treat my face like a table in need of sanding.
I'm currently holding the world record for consecutive sneezes. The dog is noticeably alarmed.
Don't mind me.
I'm just going to coat my nostrils and upper lip in vaseline and hope I can create a barrier.
I actually stayed awake all night last night (yes, we are now on 30 hours of no sleep) to avoid "post nasal drip". I'm not sure it wasn't worth it.
Seasonal allergies my butt.
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Saturday, March 7, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
top secret art dolls: part 5
thinking i need to come up with a name for these... i'm open to suggestions.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
what i'm working on...
my illustrations DO tend to take a while to complete... it's a delicate balance of layers; first the watercolor, then the colored pencil, then water color, then... well, you get the picture. But this one is taking extra long since I am working on approximately 52 other projects at the same time, including obsessing over putting together a presentation for the lecture i'm giving thursday at MICA.
so, this is slow going, but here's the progress report, as promised.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Snow Day!
last night, i had a really awful dream... my character development class was a attacked by aliens, everything exploded and we had to duck for cover. I woke up thinking two things: a.) wow, that was nuts... i hope THAT's not the reason class is cancelled today, and b.) illustrating that dream would make a fabulous assignment! (because, i can't turn it off, ever, ever, always thinking).
luckily, when i got out of bed and checked the school website i found that class would indeed be cancelled, and there was no mention of aliens (saved again!). my husband came in to find me on the computer, still in pjs and said "i should've made you promise me last night that if school was closed YOU wouldn't work!"... so i sent an email to the class and closed the computer for good. he was right. snow days were for fun. (my trouble is, my work IS my fun, so the line is dangerously thin). we made hot tea and watched Memento (mason picked it out. really). Then, on a return trip to the kitchen for more Sweet Lily White (my current tea obsession), i noticed how beautiful and tall and untouched the snow was on the back deck... Shiloh always loved pouncing in it... would Mason? He's not typically a fan of the snow (which doesn't bode well for any impending trips to New England), but i thought maybe if i threw his beloved "snow crab" out there, he might find his badger-hunting-roots beckoning him to burrow and tunnel and catch.
Within moments he was flopping about, scratching and pawing and sniffing. His face was covered in little white flakes. He shivered and we called him back in. But, then we discovered another game innate to Dachshunds. It's called "Sit Stubbornly and Stare at the thing you can't have, refusing to move or be swayed by food or whistling, until the door is opened for you again and you get what you want".
he won. 
would you believe that dog sat, unwavering, for over an hour, staring at the snow falling and (no doubt) obsessing over the notion that another dog might swoop down and enjoy his snow in his stead.
all told, he enjoyed 5 trips out to the deck.
and we enjoyed 5 opportunities to sop up melting snow from the back studio carpet. 
hope you all had as much fun!
Friday, February 27, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
procrastination 101: monopoly
if you set up a card table in the living room, you're essentially committing to a game of monopoly that might break out at any time and might just last for days.
also, the dog might challenge you to a match every now and again.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
on my desk: tuesday
well folks, as i mentioned last week, i have been excitedly painting & drawing and working on some new two-dimensional pieces for the first time in a long time... well, not counting walls...
the smallness of the act is reminding me of the importance of precision, patience and time; layering is my friend.
i got an email last week asking me about my technique; seems many believe my work to be digital, and this particular emailer was wondering what was up with the watercolor cakes so near to the illustration. I can assure you, dear readers, the only thing i use my computer for is resizing images for my store & websites, typing up lesson plans, storing 85 billion photos of mason, and googling... occasionally YouTube-ing... speaking of which, can we discuss this (and how i'll love love love him for ever).
anyway, yes, my illustrations are done manually. all the collage is real paper and glue; the bulk of the image is watercolor and layers of colored pencil.
speaking of layers... here's where i'm at so far.
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