It's been a while...

Spent all day working on Sarah's site. Learning a lot about web design today. It's nothing fancy, but it gets the job done. Can't wait to show you once it is up and running. And another thing I can cross off my list soon!

Wheeee!

Catching up on my scanning...

So I have a lot of projects I have been working on. I am loving being in the studio and have felt so driven lately -- mostly by the recognition that this work is me and even if I don't create something wonderful or poignant all the time, it is the fact that I am making and loving the process that is so key.

At left are some postcards I am going to sell on etsy, once I print the postcard part on the back...I LOVE printing on chip board. I also love the new inexpensive font Nina I just bought from the Font Garden...I am loving Font Garden. I just bought my own handwriting as a font too...I can't wait for it to come in! She must be busy with it, as I haven't heard a peep since I sent it last Tuesday.

I have also been interested in the brain a lot lately, the way it functions, mainly in light of a tragedy that hit someone very close to me last week.

So I have been working on that chair more. I decided that YES, I would add the texture at the bottom. Below is the original, the best, and the step I took too far and I think it is too muddy (but I only made muddy a couple of the prints before I realized that this was a bad idea. I have also included a variation have done by printing it on some old psychology pages. (Sorry for the color issue with the original chair. I scanned this a while back, adjusted the color and then adjusted my calibration on my monitor today using Spyder -- so awesome! Turns out it was my monitor that was off, not the scan!)

Finally, there is this print I am working on, but I am not sure whether I want to work into it more...Below on left it is as is, and on right is one of the things I COULD do to it. One of the things I am loving so much lately is the activity of working into things with my hands, or altering things on the fly. I am loving the accidents that happen, like the uneven ink, or the printing information I forgot to tape off, or the showing through of an old print. I think it keeps it exciting and allows for the spontaneity I love so much in art.

Print of a Chair, reworked

I started to think about the chair, and I think it is too flat. I am not in love with it, sitting there all alone. I decided to add some texture. I really like it. Kevin doesn't. Opinions? (It's removable, right now it's only in Illustrator). Unfortunately, the scan isn't great and there is also some texture in the top right (not removable) which isn't showing up.

Page A Day, March 24 - April 14, 2008

Not much to say here...some more pages...I accidentally drew April 14 on April 15th's page, so instead on April 14, I drew April 15th's drawing. You'll see April 14th on the next set of scans. Man, is that confusing or what?!