PART 2 of the ArtFest

I thought this would wait till after my nap but apparently not. I haven't actually taken stock of all the art made this weekend. There's a boatload of it!!!!!! I worked in my altered book on Sunday afternoon as well. Added some elements to it. Very few people have actually seen the beginnings of the altered book so don't feel left out that there is not a single picture on this blog of my altered book. And until it is done, there probably won't be!

But we do have lots of other things to look at!

Enjoy!

Choice

Postcard

24 June 2010

Magazine images on a recycled greeting card base. 6x4 inches.

Polymer Clay Beads

These were tinted with acrylic paint before being formed and baked.

Yellow and Purple

Chunky Page

24 June 2010

This was another of my Oops! Projects. I had made the front side of this chunky page ages ago. It sat in the basket on the shelf and lingered there. I'd pick it up occasionally and wonder the hell to put on as danglies and just what the devil was I going to do to the back of it? The colors are what threw me. Yellow and purple things are hardest things to come by! I have others to thank for the finishing touches to this chunky.

The base is a recycled food box, two layers glued together. Gesso, irredescent glitter, purple netting, yellow glass paint, gold jump rings held onto the base with purple and blue glass paint. I wanted the glass paint to fill the jump rings so they looked kinda like bubbles. That didn't happen. But the effect is still pretty cool. There are also twine strings and purple eyelash yarn on the background. The fish is recycled food box painted with gesso and dusted with irredescent glitter and googly eye slapped on his head. One of my art buddies sent me the purple novelty yarn, the yellow crochet cotton came from my sister, Kathy and the purple quartz bead came from my sister Jeanny. I had a lot of comments on my fishy page but it's not going anywhere yet.

Must be Karma.

Postcard

24 June 2010

There's those monkeys from the recycling magazine again. The woven text behind them came from an old novel. It is quite brittle and OLD. I wove it together. The blue is from that Smithsonian reply card and the text came from a magazine but I can't tell you which one. Maxim, I think.

We've got you covered

Postcard

24 June 2010

The base of this one is a cereal box. Frosted Shredded Wheat Bites I think. Part of the base shows above the man's head. All the images are from these magazines: Packaging Today, Antiques, and Recycling Today

I Ain't Seen Your Damn Fish, Man!

Postcard

24 June 2010

I'm not sure who this fella is. He's a famous football player but I can't think of his name. He was holding that fish a little differently when I found him in the Maxim magazine, the little black and white text at the right hand edge says "What? I ain't seen your damn fish, man!" I thought it was hilarious! The pictures behind man and fish come from an Interview magazine and Recycling Today. Those are crushed cars to his right and the blue BE SMOOTH background is from a Kool Cigarette ad. I thought they made the tobacco companies stop advertising in magazines but the Interview magazine this ad came from is only a couple years old. This is one of my favorite postcards!

Here's What You Get

Postcard

Base is recycled food box. Most of these images came from a 1979 Good Housekeeping magazine. The text is from various sources.

Cat-Turtle and Friend

ATC

Markers on recycled cardstock. For the Scavenger Hunt...illustrate a creature that is a combination of two creatures. I added the mouse cause a cat that is half turtle needs a friend and mice are brave little critters!

Tree House

ATC

Markers on recycled cardstock. Another point for the Scavenger Hunt.

Door Mouse and Nuts

ATC

Markers on recycled cardstock.

Underwater with The Trout

Etching on Glass

27 June 2010

It had been awhile since I did any etching on glass. I forgot how soothing the sound of the electric engraving tool can be! I scanned it upside, sorry. The burgandy color you see is a piece of cardstock behind the glass so you can see the etching better. The glass is clear. I'm going to, somehow, attach this to the wooden fence by the goldfish pond out front. It's done on a quarter inch sheet of plate glass and is about 6 x 9 inches or so. I need to put another etching on my van. There's an elephant on one of the back side windows on the passenger's side right now. Now that I have warmed up the engraving tool, I must get outside and get busy on that!

Kitten in a Teacup

ATC

27 June 2010

Markers on recycled cardstock.

Beaded Wire Spider

I think I showed you guys this one in the last post. Glass seed and bugle beads, a wooden bead and copper wire.

Ninja Butler

Art Doll

Cardstock colored black with sharpie, a man's head out of the Recycling Today magazine colored over with sharpie, copper colored brads and three silver sequins for his throwing stars! He's about 8 inches tall.

Cherry Cupcake

Postcard

Base is recycled cardstock. Same stuff I use for ATCs all the time. The blue is the backside of the cardstock, green paper came from that robbed book, the cupcake is red glittered velvet christmas ribbon, frosting is a red paper napkin, the cherry is from a tag from a new shirt. That woven stuff is natural material and gold threads...my sister Kathy gave me a boatload of it. Not sure what it's intented to be used for but I've used it a few times in making art. The cherry string is piece of twine with a knot tied in the end of it and colored along the top edge with a red sharpie.

Tree of Life Pendant

27 June 2010

Gold colored wire and guitar string make up this one. It's about 2 1/2 inches across.

Pink Elephant Dream

ATC

27 June 2010

The item on the scavenger hunt list that inspired this one was to illustrate a dream. I used to take drugs for a neurological problem and those pills gave me vivid and wild dreams all the time! The pink elephant made an appearance in my dreams at that time frequently. I haven't seen him in my dreams since I stopped taking those pills. He's headed to Singapore along with 13 other ATCs. I made a 14/14 ATC trade on Sunday!

Self Portrait

ATC

27 June 2010

Markers on recycled cardstock. I sure hope I look better than this in person!

Origami

Box

27 June 2010

recycled greeting card folded from instructions found on youtube. The polymer clay beads in the picture above are sitting in the lid of this box. the box measures about 2 inches square and 3/4 of an inch tall.

The Sleeping Chair

ATC

27 June 2010

Markers on recycled cardstock.

Stamped Butterflies

ATC

Base is recycled cardstock, then a layer of yellow tissue paper, fabric leaves, another layer of yellow tissue paper, leaves stamped with acrylic paint, butterflies stamped on yellow tissue paper, colored with markers and adhered with pvc glue.

The Backyard Swing

ATC

Markers on recycled cardstock.

Magic Light

ATC

24 June 2010

Collage- Base is recycled cardstock. The text came from a 1968 Gardening magazine along with the round picture in the back. The man and his yellow pole came out of a catalog selling industrial absorbants. That yellow pole reminded me of a lamp I'd seen once. I really don't know where the words for found poetry works come from.... I sift through a pile of random words I've saved in my forays into distruction of reading materials and then when I find something that says, "keep me" I go look through my piles of images for something to go with the words. Sometimes they don't make any more sense to me than they do to you! It's all in the eye of the beholder!

Andy Warhol says not to worry about if what you're making is great art. Let other people decide that and while they're busy arguing about it, make more art! So that's what I do!

ArtFest has now ended. Time for me to get some sleep. Nighty night....and it's 7:30 in the morning.....

Get some hugs. Give some hugs.

Peace

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Art and the Fence Will Get Fixed

Yes, that mess of a fence, which looks even worse today than it does in the pictures in the last post, will be fixed! The insurance adjuster agreed with me. That fence is a goner!

Whoo Hoo! I am a happy camper!

It looks worse now cause we had another big wind come through since the fence went down to begin with!

I have a boatload of art to show you all this morning! I've been an arting fool since Thursday! There is an ATART going on over at AFA this weekend and I have made a good selection of art for said athon!

Enjoy!

It is in no particular order!

4 Loteria ATCs

Rose

Spider

Skull

Singer

Collage on corregated cardboard from a toy truck package, red napkin, red satin ribbon, red wrapping paper with a plaid design, capgun ammo spent, white paint pen and a loteria stamp.

There is a Scavenger Hunt going on in conjunction with the ATART and one of the items on the list is a monochromatic theme on a project. The skull is my monochromatic for the scavenger hunt.

Elephant with Black Balloon

Postcard

26 June 2010

Collage on recycled cardstock with magazine pictures, paper towel with dried glue and black sharpie, the balloon is some kind of felt like stuff with clear glitter and a string hanging from the balloon. The elephant is freehand cut from a magazine page. I made this elephant months and months ago intending to put it in my altered book but that never happened so here it is today, used! Finally!

This one is for the Black and White item on the scavenger hunt. 

Payoff 4 x 4

26 June 2010

Collage on a base of two shirt box pcs glued back to back. Magazine images and designs, black netting. Text was typed in Word and printed out. I wrote the haiku about four years ago. I might make more of these hiaku 4 x 4s, I have hundreds of haikus to my name! This 4 x 4 will become a book cover if no one claims it in the ATART. I'll add some danglies to it if someone does claim it. This one is another item to cross off the scavenger hunt list.

Spider

Wire and Bead Critter

26 June 2010

Copperwire, red glass seed beads, gold glass bugle beads, wooden bead. Another to cross off the scavenger hunt. Make three projects using the same iten in each. Copperwire is my item. The spider is about two inches wide.

Gold Wire Tree

Tree of Life Pendant

25 June 2010

The pendant is about two inches diameter.

Sophia (back)

Peanut Person

Sophia is a towering 2 inches tall with a purple hat and dress made of yellow tissue paper and glue. Her arms and legs are silver florist wire, her hair is eyelash yarn, purple embroidery thread serves for the ribbon on her hat with the fabric rose and copperwire framework.

Sophia (front)

Peanut Person

Sophia's neck was nonexistant so she hasn't a face at all really. Either that or her hat is way too big! Anyway... she's all decked out to watch the big basketball game later tonight! Her pearls are plastic and her purse is metal screen from a broken television screen with gold microbeads attached with E6000.

Steve Salty, Center for the Salty City Salt Miners Basketball League

Peanut Person

26 June 2010

Steve started life as a shelled peanut with three nuts. That makes Steve nuttier than most! His uniform is yellow tissue paper adhered to his peanut shell with glue and painted with acrylics. His legs and arms are silver florist wire. I injured him gravely when I tried to do his hair the first time. Major surgery was required on his head before hair could be thought about. He has a layer of yellow tissue paper over his cracked head, painted his color. His blue mohawk (which refuses to stand up straight!) is blue crewel embroidery thread held together with a line of E6000 and glued to his head with the same. His facial features are acrylic paint and his ball is a wooden bead painted with slick fabric paint. And yes, he is #1! Just ask Sophia and Salty Sally! (You'll meet her later.)

The Peanut Persons ticked off another item on the scavenger hunt list: whimsical person any medium.

Here I am in my crown/paper hat/tiara/headgear/whatever you want to call that thing on my head! I'm calling it my crown to go with my new title: Queen of the Layers! Makes me sound like a chicken! LOL No, no! There is no fowl involved! None at all. The head gear is another thing ticked off the Scavenger Hunt! I got ten points for making this silly hat AND posting a picture of myself wearing it! I couldn't get the damn thing to sit straight on my head without taking my bun down and I didn't want to take my bun down so it's a jaunty silly hat! Oh I got my new title of Queen of the Layers cause for Thursday's challenge my layered piece had the most layers. I get a prize pack of some sort to go with that title too.

I have to go to bed. I will finish the commentary on the rest of the pictures when I get up and moving again after some sleep. Nighty night!

Get your hugs!

Peace

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It's a whole new day!

There is more art to add but it hasn't been added to this post. That will happen in the next post which will probably go up sometime this evening. I whiled the day away in the deskroom, the day and the night. I got up around 4pm or so yesterday. Tis now almost 6am today.

The commentary for yesterday's art:

Beaded Bookmark

26 June 2010

Glass beads and copper wire. My sister Jeanny gave me these beads. They're very nice beads! Lovely to work with! This bookmark overall is around 9 inches. That's a guess, I didn't actually measure them.

As promised:

Salty Sally

Peanut Person

25 June 2010

Sally is with the basketball team's cheering squad. I'm not sure what her and Sophia have in those handbags, nor why they're dressed to the nines for a basketball tournament either. Sally has the heart of a peanut (her whole body actually). I brought a peanut with a blue face and orange hair home with me from next door. My sister's boyfriend had put them there with sharpies. I decided that peanut head needed a body and some clothes and then it just snowballed from there with the peanut persons. Steve was so much fun to make! Sally's hat (which I'm sure everyone thinks is her hair) is a piece of pipe cleaner coiled up and stuck on with E6000. Her dress is a string of sequin trim that has been hanging from a hook above my painting table for at least three years! It worked perfectly! I knew there was a reason to hang on to it. Her arms and legs are silver florist wire. She has gold and copper jump rings for bracelets and tiny fake pearl beads for earrings. Her purse is made from a Coke can and a bit of copper wire. She stands about 3 inches tall.

Sophia and Steve are both sealed quite well with tissue paper, glue and acrylic paint covering the whole of thier peanut bodies. Sally has no protective covering to speak of. She won't last near as long as the other two will. My sister hung Sally from a copperwire hook on the back of Sally's head on the chain above her table where she has lots of other hangy things of the nature that is Salty Sally.

Beaded Bookmark

26 June 2010

glass beads and silver florist wire with a thick silver wire stem.

Tree of Life Pendant

26 June 2010

Two different guages of copperwire, both salvaged from a dead appliance, purple glass beads and three plastic silver beads. This tree is about 2 1/2 inches across.

Tree of Life Pendant

25 June 2010

Milliflorie beads and two different guages of copperwire salvaged from a dead appliance. This one is about 2 1/2 inches wide and 1 3/4 tall. I like this one the least of all them and when I was making it I enjoyed the process because of the colorful beads.

Tree of Life

25 June 2010

Two different guages of copperwire salvaged from a dead appliance and pearl seed beads. This one is about 2 inches across. I can't call this one a pendant cause it doesn't have a bail. It will end up on the cover of a handmade book.

Tree of Life Pendant

25 June 2010

Two different guages of copperwire. This one is about 2 1/2 inches across.

Tree of Life Pendant

25 June 2010

Two guages of copperwire and two different sizes of fake pearls. This one is about 2 inches across. This one is going to be a surprise belated birthday present! Courtney isn't thinking I jipped her on her pressie for her bday, she hasn't given it a second thought that I didn't give her anything nor did I show up at her birthday party on Sunday afternoon right next door. So it will indeed be a SURPRISE when she finds it in the mailbox in the next few days!

Follow Your Dreams

Postcard

The base for postcards is usually recycled greeting cards, I think that's what this one is. The papers that are sewn together were sewn together not last christmas, but the christmas before. I hadn't a clue what the heck to do with them till I seen the Scanvenger Hunt list. Take an Oops! project and make it good. Well, I don't know about having made it good, but it isn't an oops anymore! I dusted the base with irredescent glitter, sealer, then the sewn together papers and a heart I cut from paper that came from the end pages of a book that has been robbed.

Winter Tree

ATC

25 June 2010

Markers on recycled cardstock.

Stuffie

26 June 2010

I never gave this guy a name. He's made from cashmere sweater material, white cotton string for his legs and arms, pink crochet cotton to hold his halves together, two green glass donut beads for his feet, two different colored buttons for his eyes and halloween spider webbing for his innards. He's about a foot tall if you count his legs, but only about 5 inches if you leave his legs out of it.

Tree Lover

ATC

24 June 2010

Collage- The blue things on the corners are from one of my greatest pet peeves: those little cards that fall out of every stinking magazine on the planet! the Smithsonian sent me this one. The rest of the images and the text are from these magazines: a 1968 Gardening magazine, Recycling Today, eWeek and a magazine from my neurologist's office. The monkey is from an ad for a machine that processes scrap iron. I love the Recycling Today magazine! It's a good read and excellent collage fodder within.

Nelson's Poppies

ATC

Not sure when this one was done....23 June?

Markers on recycled cardstock.

Blue Eyed Devil

ATC

23 June 2010

Blind drawing in markers on recycled cardstock.

Executive Chicken

ATC

23 June 2010

And that concludes PART 1 of the ATART ArtFest. Tune in tomorrow for PART 2.

Get your hugs people! Everybody needs hugs!

Give them away!

Peace Good People

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This Is Not Art---At Least Not To Me

I have only a purple giraffe to offer as art and it is debateable as to whether this is art or not. You decide.

Annie's Purple Giraffe

ATC

16 June 2010

Markers on recycled cardstock.

This is Annie's Giraffe cause Annie seen a purple giraffe and I drew this one from that inspiration. Annie's giraffe is still on the scanner bed...I scanned him days ago! There is no other art to show.

I have started another canvas but haven't taken pictures of the progress. Still haven't decided just what this canvas is all about! It's tones of browns right now....I'm thinking trout, rainbow trout to give it some color but that isn't written in stone anywhere. You all will see this newest canvas when I decide just what the hell I'm doing with it!

I've made three postcards but they are not scanned as of yet.

The last post was titled Rain, Rain Go Away, Come Again Another Day.

Well obviously mother nature cares not of my requests cause she dumped on us big time on Sunday evening.

Another trip next door to get away from the weather. They didn't blow the sirens on Sunday evening but it did blow, hail, rain and thunder. Let's not forget that wicked lightning either.

The pictures of my fence attest to two days running of high wind. I think the fence is a goner. We'll see what the insurance adjuster has to say when he shows up tomorrow to take a look at her.

I'm afraid my pictures aren't the greatest. The light wasn't all that good, it was still sprinkling pretty heavy when I took these pictures on Sunday evening. This is looking at the fence from the highway side. That is my weed bed growing beside the fence. Wildflowers, tumbleweeds, sunflowers, sandburrs, ect, ect. My weed bed! Well it's squished now cause that damned fence fell over on it! This is the middle of the fence. There's a redbud tree on the highway side of the fence and an elm tree on the patio side of the fence. You can see both trees in this picture. They are the ONLY reason this fence isn't scattered in the field across the highway!

This is looking at the fence from the patio side. There are the elm tree and the redbud in front of the pickup bed. That pickup bed wasn't sitting where it is in this picture before the storms came along. It was sitting on the trailer frame a few feet from where it's sitting now. You can see the trailer hitch at the very edge of the right hand side of this picture.

The fence runs from the edge of the white building at the top of this picture about 110 feet east...the length of the patio. Not much of the fence is still standing. There's another picture farther down of the fence.

My brother started putting the fence back together this afternoon. He'd gotten a couple of panels put back up when I told him to stop cause the insurance adjuster would be here tomorrow to take a look at it. If Sammy put it all back together today, the insurance adjuster would say, "That fence looks perfectly fine." My brother is a good carpenter! And he would have had it all put back together again this afternoon as well.

The two metal chairs on the front porch ended up tangled together after the strong winds last night.

This is the east end of my property. It comes to a point at this end and that is what I call this spot. The Point. That tree is dead as a door knob and Sammy and I had discussed cutting it down. Now that the largest branch it had is now laying on the ground we've decided to leave that tree be. The part that fell will be cut up for firewood and used in the garage this winter. So it wasn't all bad that this storm did.

This picture and the next are of plum trees. The one above is half dead now. The wind pushed it over and broke it right at ground level. The leaves are all wilted on the part that is leaning. I don't think we will be getting any plums from this one this year!

This plum tree is north of the other plum tree shown. That's a basketball laying by it...gives you a bit of sense on its size. It's not much taller than I am....less than six feet. Why the wind didn't know this one over I don't know. The wind had to go through this one to get to the other one which did get knocked over.

Only one branch in the yard was down. A terrible picture of it but you get the idea. The branch didn't come out of the tree completely but it is broken and will have to be removed.

Another picture of the fence. This is the end that my brother fixed this afternoon. That panel isn't laying on the ground anymore.

Shingles from the roof of the burnt house. Insurance won't cover the damage to the burnt house I don't believe. I'll ask the adjuster tomorrow but I'm pretty sure he's gonna say no to that one.

Skirting torn off by the wind. Insurance might cover this....

More damage to the skirting on my house.

And even more....

The pear trees fared quite well in the storm. They have the house to protect them though.

And here's Miss Lola, who was outside the whole of last night's storm. She's walking from the pear trees up to the front porch in this picture. She was quite happy to see me when I came home from next door when the storm ended.

As you can tell from the pictures of the skirting, I live in a mobile home and mobile homes are a terrible place to stay in a wind storm! So I don't stay! I go next door to my sister's house where there's a basement!

Thankfully we didn't go to the basement on Sunday night. Weather spotters reported rotation in the clouds but the sirens were never blown in town.  That is our indicator to get to the basement....Storms most always come from the west and if they've blown the siren in town, it's headed for us next.

But we all survived the ordeal once again!

I do love me a good old fashioned thunderstorm but I prefer them in small doses. Three MAJOR storms in two days time are spreading it a little thick!

No storms today though, not even a chance!

Go get your hugs!

I need to do some art!

Peace

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