Another Monday...

I seem to get the urge to update these on Mondays - well this and the last post, at least! So let's make that a thing, shall we? I'll regale you with the previous weeks works and perhaps muse on the potential creations of the week ahead - I think that sounds plannish.

I may have to break my promise you to last week for images of 'new' stuff... as, though my scanner is unpacked, I have no image processing software on this computer. *cringe* So, how about an image from the Alice show that you wouldn't have seen, unless you happened by some of the more awesome corners of State College, PA ;)

I'll get you at least three new Eden images next week... or mid-week, if I can manage to find anyone software to help with this tragic issue.

I have to say I am really pleased with how my work is progressing. Sometimes breaks are good for me... that or I'd forgotten I could sketch, so its like rediscovering that you can still ride a bicycle

I have a half finished monster waiting for the rest of himself.. his hooves are drying (spray paint.. can't beat it... but it does mean you have to wait... ug. waiting). The plan, as it stands, is to make a small army of monsters, a books worth of illustrations (random Eden stuff) and buttons and magnets and get them up the Etsy post-haste. Then, as the weather gets better, I shall drag my pale self out into the light of day and find out what town I've moved into - with a portfolio of new works and, I hope, find people and places as lovely as the ones I left in the last town.

*crosses fingers*

I must say... after all this time, I'm happy to find that I can still sketch... somehow I thought all these weeks of not working would have softened me a bit... but no. Still the same pointy eared, stripped socked creatures showing up on the paper... (The picture in the post is old... but the next post will have an all new one. Truly.)

This week will find me working on another commission and starting back up on my story(ies) as well as my poor neglected Etsy account. I have so much I want to do - I don't know where to start.

See you soon!

...back to work! -really!

Phew. Moving is really not great for my creative output... obviously.

And though most of my art supplies are still in another state, I've managed to scrap enough together to start a commission piece and my christmas cards.

...give me a week and I'll be back with many more new things. I am -so- ready to work.

I can smell the paint already!

Hunger Monster

I love hot glue. LOVE it. They had us use it at the -Muppet Making Workshop- at Faerie Con last year, but I think I was distracted by the Barge glue (can't readily get that here... I wonder how they came by some...). So a week of stitching on fur and minutes of glueing in eyes and on feather eyebrows and I am done with the Hunger Monster! Wheeee! He's modeled off the Weight Watchers 'Hunger' Monster... (I think I said all this in my last post, eh?)

I could not be more pleased. He stands so well (weighted feet) and oh! the hands. I had such fun 'sculpting' them out of the fur... and how happy am I to use ping pong balls for eyeballs?! ^_____^ I am just so slow on the uptake... my dream was to work for the Jim Henson company... but I never thought to use ping pong balls for eyes!? *shakes head*

But.. now with the power of hot glue (and a few spare white orbs) I am soooo ready! Aaaaafter I make my Autumn themed doll set.. and some holiday ornaments... and the last commission I have to do. :D

This big fuzz ball will be winging his way across the country soon, so if you want a hug (he is extremely huggable) send me word! I make no promises about the doughnut cravings that may follow ;)

in the deep dark...

...basement, is where I am. Away from the sun and heat and my art supplies... which is making it hard to create.

I have my personal computer set up, but not hooked up to za nets, so I haven't been able to bring you the photos I promised. Sorry 'bout that.

I am though, despite the above, working on a project or three... and shall get you images post-haste. I am currently working on the Hunger Monster from the Weight Watchers commercials. I found the fabric on Fabric.com... though they messed up part of my order, I can't complain about the quality of the orange fur I went to them for. It's nice stuff! And- Oh! What a mess I'm making! Orange fur all over the house... I have the vacuum ready at all times.

He'll be done by the end of the day... if I can get my hands on some ping pong orbs.... well, just one really.

Hope all is well on your side of the screen!

Drat! Missed the weekend...

Okay... so I know I promised pictures... but at the moment I'm sitting in the middle of bits of my computer on a laptop that does not have the means (as far as I know) of resizing the photos I have to share... this limits me greatly.

That said... I've a new set of dolls I shall be beginning work on within the day... inspired by a walk along the Helderberg escarpment with friends and family this last weekend. Moss and lichen and rocks, oh my! So... rather earthy.

I also plan on starting a series of 'monster buttons' (I'd make more necklaces, but my source for the wood ovals seems to have drifted away! Darn internet businesses'!) that will be, as one might suspect... little monsters you can pin on jackets and such. Wearable art and what.

Life continues in my new space rather well... if a little timeless... I haven't seen a calendar in weeks! At least... I think its been weeks...

...back to work!

Okay... so most of my art supplies are still in small boxes in larger boxes miles and miles away from here... but I shall not allow that to stop me from working on new stuff! Oh no! I've set up a little makeshift art corner (here in the basement where I currently reside) and with a lamp and working light bulb I shall begin - once more - to create stuff!!!!

I shall return with images and other visuals... no more of just this text stuff! Oh no!