January 2010
3 posts
Most of my “preliminary sketches” turn out to be the first stage of the real thing, and then I have any preliminary work to show.
*don’t have any…
CURLIES EXPLOSION. The moment I pick up a dip pen, curlies come pouring out.
December 2009
14 posts
Laying ink down on a couple old watercolors that never went anywhere. Suddenly they have potential again.
Today: Dip Pen Experiments.
Uploading my photos sometimes seems to take all day long. It is moving stuff around between hard drives that really kills all the time.
I’ve been having fun with acrylics, but watercolor, ink, and graphite are my true loves.
I see that my drawings from yesterday, placed in order of creation, are also in order of most realistic (earlier) to most cartoony (later).
Today I made four pieces of art and made progress on the website redesign. Yay! I feel productive.
Painting threads of a cord. Wishing I had a finer brush.
Fun with glue. I’m going to try to make a little glue tower.
I keep thinking I don’t have that much art, but I imagine that if I put it all in one place I would surprise myself.
mentoleum: Fun with glue. I’m going to try to make a little glue tower.
mentoleum: Weblog: Today: Snow Photo and my Kitchen/Office/Studio/Livingroom. http://bit.ly/6QOO7x
mentoleum: Weblog: Fruit of the Wee Hours: Recent Fruits:
An Experiment From a dream: http://bit.ly/80p2q0
mentoleum: HappyFuns with scanner! I like to scan stuff and put it by to use later.
November 2009
6 posts
mentoleum: Weblog: More Broken-Camera Fun: My little point-and-shoot went all wonky but I decided to have some fun .. http://bit.ly/2YSX89
mentoleum: Filling up canvas as fast as I make sandwiches. Which is to say, faster than I do with oil paints, but still not very fast.
mentoleum: Reminding myself, this IS real life. Only the trappings would change… Like daily activities… and whether I can afford to b..
mentoleum: Scraping razoring and recarving my paper stumps to blend and lift graphite from the page.
mentoleum: Designing a new profile icon using both my bottle and my face.
mentoleum: Chilly-fingered drawing night.
October 2009
11 posts
mentoleum: Going to finish that painting I started on Friday. People say watercolors are hard, but I’ve always loved using them in my own..
mentoleum: Taking falltime color inspiration while I still can.
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mentoleum: Referring to creativecommons photos of skulls and jawbones to get a feel for their looks for my next few drawings/paintings.
mentoleum: Making plans for big 3d paper/clay landscapes. I think it will be FUN.
mentoleum: I’m so excited about finally having hard copy of my semidigital artwork! It is exciting to see it looking all real and glossy ..
mentoleum: Drawing on my roller skates.
mentoleum: Jerry Lee Lewis Video (love that crazy energy and crazier hair!): http://bit.ly/Y8jiU
mentoleum: Drawing on my roller skates.
mentoleum: Making plans for big 3d paper/clay landscapes. I think it will be FUN.
mentoleum: I’m so excited about finally having hard copy of my semidigital artwork! It is exciting to see it looking all real and glossy..
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September 2009
8 posts
mentoleum: Rinsing brushes and heading for dreamyland, yay.
mentoleum: Also for the sun.
mentoleum: Watercolors for water scenes!
mentoleum: Five markers out of ink. aiiii.
mentoleum: Marker Escapism: http://bit.ly/UhOHp
mentoleum: Composing a Composition.
mentoleum: I am in love with my new camera.
mentoleum: We are living through the last really cool date until 01.01.2101. Woohoo!
August 2009
10 posts
mentoleum: Preferring watercolor to acrylic. Because I’m better at watercolors? or because acrylics are all plastic-y looking? or both.
mentoleum: @darntoothysam Thanks for the Info. Much appreciated!
mentoleum: @darntoothysam Canon PowerShot S200. I think it might just be time for a new camera anyway… something with more than 2.0 Meg..
mentoleum: I guess this will be a wandering-with-sketch-book day in stead of a hiking-with-camera day.
mentoleum: I like rubber stamps, especially for flat paper surfaces. BAM! and the image is transferred.
mentoleum: Already started looking forward to thanksgiving today. It’s going to be a long semester.
mentoleum: Erasing the negative space from a scanned image so I can fill it up with another scanned image. This is my idea of fun.
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