Design for Good

My latest art project is a graphic design project, a logo and t-shirt design project, to be exact. The logo is soft-spoken but the t-shirt is not. Get the full story from this post on my other blog.

Fantasy Quilt

As some of you may recall, I've gone in and out of obsessive pattern-making. At one point, I took a bunch of patterns I'd generated and constructed this fantasy-quilt - digitally speaking.

It belongs in my fantasy zen-bedroom of ultimate restfulness.

I wish you ultimate restfulness and expansive dreams.

Beading

During recent inclement health conditions, I've laid on the couch with my bead collection and a movie on the laptop, and very simply strung myself along. So nice to actively take pleasure in color, texture, and pattern, while remaining relatively passive. I am reminded of an earlier beading spree, which I wrote about in Art as Play.

This one's just an appetizer. I will post again soon with more of the necklaces I've been making, and a Paypal link, in case anyone feels the need for a little beaded bling.

Gratitude

If you're looking for a good, no-pressure warm-up exercise for getting the creative juices flowing, and also for giving yourself a gentle attitude adjustment, get a stack of 5x7" paper and if you're lucky, a roll of "thank you" stickers from some long ago grocery store, plus a bunch of other scraps and pens and crayons maybe, a pair of scissors and a glue stick, and make some one-off thank you cards. Here's a few from my latest batch. Click on the horizontal ones to see them full-size..

One more here...

Art Art Art

A few more collages that didn't make it into the daily collage series (because I made them a little later on in a fit of creativity and then lost them at the bottom of a pile).

The images look terrible here. Click on them to see the right resolution.

Hope you enjoy...

Uplift

(Click on images to see them with clearer, crisper, and probably bigger)

Life has been crazy busy and intense lately. I was diagnosed with breast cancer just over a month ago and have been quite busy to say the least. I've got a little breather right now as I recover from surgery and prepare for chemotherapy. Last night I managed to pull out some materials to put together a collage.

Needless to say, my life, not to mention my body, is permanently altered. (More on this on my other blog.) I wondered if this might show up in my art.

Upside-down, this collage is Chicken Little's biggest fear: the sky is most definitely falling. But that's not the way I intended this piece. I've tried it at every angle but came back to the original. And now it has a title. Uplift.

9" x 12"  mixed media collage

Gorge

My latest: gouache and ink, 18" x 24".