Day 7 - Kitchen table art

8pm, tired, and in a bit of a panic at having no art-a-day for the day. I always have rocks around, thank goodness -I had nearly resorted to posing my banana peel.
The gift in this was huge. A mini vacation, invigorating, silly. An inkling of life enlarged by creative living.

Day 7

Kitchen table art - live

Laura G (day5&6)

Titled "To Thine Own Self", this final piece of the black scratchbord series started with flat, twisted linguine noodles. I liked the ribbon-like shape and the haphazard directions they made. The idea was to create enough contrast between the background area and the foreground (the twisted ribbons). I did this by creating almost a cheesecloth appearance with the scratched lines. Lots of movement in this one. It's the last in the series until I place another order for more panels.

Laura G (day4)

Might as well post a few more while the night is still young. This one was a more real representation of ... (you guess it--my favorite image) a sunflower. It is titled "Stately" because the sunflower has such a confident stance. So I was experimenting with leaving the black of the panel to represent the shadows, and carving away light areas to denote the highlights. Almost a backwards way of drawing.  I love the movement.

Sail Boat

I am looking through old sketch books and such for interesting things. Scan, re-arange, add to a textured background and fiddle around with it a bit.

These sketchs where from some ideas I was working up for a Clover Island sculpture.

I am going to print it big. 24"X36".

day two I found an antique bottle that I thought would work rather sweetly as a vase.

related family

this is day one collage. I found some street cleaning bristles and have been plaiting them together and adding various found goodies. the are are relatively small, about 5x7- ish

Laura G (day3)

I played with a few more textures represented by patterns here. This one is titled Breaking Open. My heart was aching for my friend who recently lost her husband. So it is fitting, huh? I like to put eyes in my pieces ... for some unknown-to-me reason. Noodle on that and let me know what you might think.

Laura G (day2)

Ok here is my next installment. I'm on a roll here. These are small images - only 5x7 in size. They fit nicely in the hand so you can basically do it while watching tv if so inclined. I titled this one Pisces. It started out as a sort of yin/yang direction ... but then realized the fish were face to face so the Pisces titled seemed more fitting. I love to doodle with swirls and squiggles, so you can see I am having fun here. And the challenge is all about fun, right?

Laura G (day1)

I love this art form - black scratchbord. I buy it online...don't think it is available locally. It is hardbord (masonite) with a fired clay surface, and black india ink swept on top. I buy them premade and then just start doodling. This one was actually started in December, but finished on the first day of our challenge. I use sharp tools - like clay tools--to carve into the surface. Sometimes I paint the exposed white areas with thin washes of watercolor. Think I will leave this one as is. It reminds me of Russian artwork, or filigree (sp?). This one is called "Visionary"

Day 6

thumb piano? The one on top is the cuttings from the other. Couldn't capture their shadow on camera, supposed to look like a keyboard. Now think they should be black. Crap, I put a hard finish on them. I never put a hard finish on copper. Whew! Caught up on my blogger responsibilities.

Day 5

book pages

Day 3

more of same. book covers calling for something to be done with them.

Day 2

Beginings of "Noht Kabuki"

Commercial art of the day

Commercial art of the day. A client has a client who wants a peanut character. These are the initial concept drawings.

Day 1

old patina samplings, more to learn before finishing, tentatively titled Learning Curve.

the pull opens to reveal a picture of a bird from an antique book and the word "soar" written below it.

Trying something NEW

Just the beginning.  I have just started but hope to finish tomorrow. 

Minimalistic Snow Image

I changed some of my art at Allied Arts Gallery today, so I took the opportunity to take some snow shots at the"Fingernail" structure in Howard Amon Park.