Happy Easter!

The Mad Scientist Bunny is for D... when he wakes up. ;)

Week Thirteen.

I completed all the pencil work for Gateways... or I had until I decided a few more images couldn't do any harm... so D and I will be getting a few more frames... I can always not use the images, but so far I've been exceeding pleased with everything I've come up with. There are a lot of monsters... and books and more flowy things than ever before (which is saying something)... I have magic hats and dream herders and stars and grass and, well, all the things I normally have, but(!) they all fit into the 'idea' of the show.... Gateways: change: transformation...

Next week/this weekend I'll be coloring... and then on to dolls! Wheeeee

sketchbook pages

I always thought seeing an artist's sketchbook was interesting... I never had one small enough to fit in the scanner... so here's a glimpse of thumbnails for this next show... most are just doodles as my pencil wonders.. there are a few ideas in there worth finishing, I think.

Week Twelve.

So here I am, a little less than a month from this last show and I'm having yet another re-think of the 'idea' of the show. I really love the concept of the Storyteller and the illustrations to her story and the story within the story, or what-have-you.... but I think I won't be as pleased with the end product in the space as I might be in a smaller area... The Creative Oasis is a rather large space... and I fear that this idea will show a single idea, which is good in some places, but I don't think the most useful (or fun) for me to show what I can do. It would be subtle and thoughtful (at least I thought so)... but I like many ideas and colors...

So... I'm going back to the idea I had before this last one... at least for this show... Gateways

Bold colors... individual pieces, as I usually do... though I may try to tie them all together with words still... I'll see what happens.

I think that will work better in the space... and allow me much more freedom of both pallet and subject... I don't want this to become too much of a habit for me... but I think this is the 'better' idea for this venue.

So.. back to work I get!

Week Eleven.

Two days lost, but to friends and planning... so I'll probably be able to come to terms with it... I'll work all the hours I can this weekend to make up for the missed time.

I did finish one doll.. my second tiny doll: Weir

I think my thought process was: I'll work small to big... but after working on three of these little guys and all three ended up having extreamly different looks... I think I'll start with the big Storyteller first and then work down from there... I don't want it to look like I just grabbed whatever dolls I had sitting around.. I want these to look like they go together... in some way... I thought the same color scheme... but that will be tough for me to do...

I think this way of taking on the task will be the 'best' or at least work the best for me at this time. So... that's kinda a week lost... but I hope to finish the more-finished second little doll... and toss them up on Etsy.

I love and HATE working this small.. I end up spending hours on their little faces... I'm sure it'll take me little more time to make the large Storyteller than it took to make Weir... So, unless it's a size that people seem like like... well, I'd better stick to 12+ inches for awhile... at least for my sanity!

I'm just crossing my fingers that stories manage to dig themselves out of my head while I'm working on these characters... I feel like my brain is full of jelly when it comes to that...

We'll see...

Eureka!

I have it... the perfect mix of all the things I want in this coming show in April...

One large doll... reading a little book to a collection of strange and varied characters... and the book itself will be illustrated by the 13 framed images that surround them (as well as the larger illustrative cut outs) and then, as the hand out/booklet... I'll have the 13 images and the story.

Dolls. Illustrations. Story.

And... the titles will just write themselves! Ha ha!

I've sketched this idea enough... now I can make it.. and bring people into one of my sketches... and then into that sketch with sketches... and then they'll have a piece of the picture in their hands.

I'd best get to work... I have so much to dooooooo!

(oh... and my first Etsy sale this morning. Whoooo ha!)

Buttons!

Inspired by buttons could be the title of this post. It's sad for me to think that this is meant to be the height of my mental prowess (if that would could -ever- be used with me as as the subject!)... I honestly fear for myself.

Ah, well.

So! After excitedly receiving not one but two buttons from Etsy sellers I thought to myself... heeeeeeeey (e's elongated to show the slowness of my thoughts) I could have buttons too!

So, buttons I shall have. And the Busy Beaver Button Company shall be making them. They don't know this yet... but soon... soon.

Here are some ideas I whipped up without doing a whole heck of a lot... ie, anything new:

thoughts? votes? etc etc and so forth?