tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10211111070759029352011-12-05T07:19:59.819-08:00Make-Believe: The Process of Creating ArtClaudia Goldenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15976432886338932746noreply@blogger.comBlogger461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021111107075902935.post-29678934599688287992010-06-06T09:36:00.000-07:002010-06-06T09:38:34.629-07:00

KellyAnn says I'm addicted to drawing...is there a Support Group for that? 12 Steps? I have to agree with her...if I had posted all the art I have done since my last post...I would...I would be happy, cuz my blog would look like an actual Art blog, instead of a neglected yard.... I've been accepted into the ATC Illustrated group, a juried site of artists who make small art. My 1st trade is Pen

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Incredible!

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So Kelly Ann turned me onto DA (Deviant Art) http://claudiamm37.deviantart.com and I have been spending tooo much time on it! The minute I uploaded an ATC (artist trading card) I got a bazillion messages! people were faving my cards left and right! I hit the ATC motherload! I have traded cards with artists from South Africa to Germany to Canada and the good ol' US of A! So farewell Twitter! I

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Sushi!!!

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Ducks....There are ducks in our pool. I don't know who was more excited, KellyAnn or the dogs...That's it. Coming Soon: June Illustration

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KellyAnn's latest cake: A skate board cake for twin boys who recently turned 10. One of the boys wanted chocolate cake and the other wanted vanilla. So one side of the cake is chocolate, and of course the other, vanilla. The boys liked their cake!

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Momma Pigeons Love Their Babies!Mamma Pigeons Love Their Babies.

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Spring Chicken's

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KellyAnn got an order for a Black Forest cake.The cake was for a birthday, there was a semi-theme, which was 'Bavarian', and the client was interested in incorporating the bavarian flag, if possible. I have to say, the Black Forest cake is a DELICIOUS cake, Kirsch (cherry liqueur) is use in the cherry filling and the whipped cream, instead of using shaved chocolate, we made a white chocolate

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Cheri's Butterfly CakeI bought a book:"Beautiful Cakes - Irresistible Cakes and Cookies" by Peggy Porschen. On page 78 she has this GORGEOUS chocolate fondant covered cake w/butterflies.I had Cheri go through the book, and pick out a cake she would like for her 50th BDay party. That's the one she chose.So here is my first attempt at a three layered cake, covered with chocolate fondant, with

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This is a copy of KellyAnn's flyer...so far she has gotten 2 cake orders since posting it!

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Cheese Cake!!!We found a great book on cakes: Debbie Brown's "Enchanted Cakes for Children" It's full of the cutest cakes, colorful, whimsical, and the instructions are so thorough that even we can do it! Her work inspired this cake.Kelly Ann spent the morning making 3 Rum Cakes (she's not allowed to handle the rum...) 1-lemon, 1-chocolate & 1-vanilla.So I made this one....4 mice in a Cheese

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Homeschool Project: Cakes to Ireland.KellyAnn's 1st cake order!This Chocolate Rum Cake, was made for an 80th Birthday. The 'Birthday Girl' loves irises so KellyAnn hand-painted cut-out iris on fondant.I was very impressed by KellyAnn's confidence with this cake. She chose the color combo, she made all the right decisions throughout the process.Fast forward 10 years: "How long have you been

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April Fools Playing Possum

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The Gir Cake "Doom Doom Doom"For a homeschool project, KellyAnn wants to make cakes to sell, to raise money for a trip to Waterford Ireland, to (hopefully) meet a homeschool family from Ireland (we found a connection, just have to email them). We will be Twittering the process and updates while we're in Ireland. We haven't set a date, this is the first phase of her project: Research. Plan.

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Ok, so this isn't the Ace of Cakes. It's not even close...BUT it is the 1st cake Kelly Ann and I've ever done like this. Our St. Patrick's Day cake!It was fun to make, but such a different learning curve. Being as visual as I am, I look at it and it looks easy...but the minute I lift the fondant I am lost. The tinting, the consistency, smoothing it...I plan on teaching myself to be comfortable

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AnathemaIf anathema had four legs,and crept up from the hideous dregs,I wouldn't help it, yet I couldn't ignore,because its very presence I abhor.thanks to @rikmeistr (do you Twiiter?)

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Let them Eat Cake!

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The kids at Cesar Chavez Charter School, had fun painting panels that I drew for them. Each child chose an animal for me to draw, and after I finished the drawing phase they went to work making art!!! There's nothing like seeing kids with a brush loaded with paint!!!

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A new year and a resolution....Illustration. This year you'll see alot more illustrations.Enjoy!

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This is how the fire looked from our back porch. I wrote this and sent it to The Independent:BurntI can't read music. But someone out there, someone who may have spent their days and nights, playing and composing it, must be mourning a loss.Early friday morning, I walked outside my home on the Westside of Santa Barbara and looked up toward the Riviera at the smoke, as it billowed and spread it's

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Obama. People actually understand what Hope means. We understand what Change means, and people don't care about color any more....thank God.

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The day before my hand surgery I finished this mural. It's not my most involved...but it was fun to do! I sure do LOVE painting murals! S here's my hand post-surgery. I get a cast tomorrow, recovery is gonna be a bit longer than the 4 - 6 weeks w/cast...but I'm tired of talking about it...and its not very interesting anyway.(that sounded bitter, huh?)Next post, Halloween Party Plans

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I recently returned from a trip to Kirsten and Chris's house...Kirsten had a bit of premature labor...and needed bed rest. They flew me out to help with Soren and whatever they needed me for. I'm happy to say all is well with the Anderson family, and 'Duece" is still cooking (??)I love New England this this time of year! The first Monday I was there, Soren and I walked to the Farmer's Market and

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As you can see I changed the look of my blog. Something to do...I have been writing and illustrating a book of poems named, "My Name is Katrina Too."The idea was inspired by the anniversary of Katrina, and the threat of 'Gustav'.  The poems were inspired by stories and news articles I read about children and families that were, and continue to be affected by Katrina's devastation. I want to

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While Kelly Ann and I were away in July, the Art From Scrap show was going on. I had this piece in the show: "Cycle"The reception for the show was July 19th, while I was at Kirsten's. I had an arrangement with my neighbor, Mary Price, to pic it up when the show was over....I've been back since July 22nd..I still haven't gone over to Mary's to pick up my piece, or to even see if she brought it

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                                                                   It's always nice to have pictures that will inevitably embarrass the subject. Saved for those special events in their life which warrant their release...here's one of those pictures....Gramma Loves You Soren!

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As some of you know, Soren is a Trucker (he likes trucks)...so Gramma (that's me) bought him some white sneakers and drew the faces of two of his favorite "baby trucks" on them , turning the 'body' of the shoes into cars....(He's into the Car movie, so I put the lighting on one..."Lightening Mc Queen"...here's the result:

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Hi Y'all!Kelly Ann and I just ending a relaxing week in West Bath, Maine....We stayed in a boathouse at Foster's Point, hosted by Katy and her daughter Molly...we fell in love with both of them, meaning the ladies AND the Boathouse. Richard could not join us which made for a lonesome week, we missed (still do, as we're now at Kirsten's house in RI) him terribly! I could go on and on about how

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Welcome Summer!!!! or not.Today 100's of 1,000's of people descended on Santa Barbara to partake in one of SB's annual events, known as the Solstice Parade. Those of you who know me know it has been a tradition to stake claim to a curb well in advance...OK the evening before, as soon as we're allowed to put down chairs. Years ago there were a few of us who would creep out to State St at 5am to

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I wanted to introduce you to my new little friend.I've been asked to develop a character for a children's book. She was the winner! When I get the "OK" I'll let you know more about her. But for now I thought I'd give you a sneak peek!

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The end of the school year is here! (cue the children's applause!) Kelly Ann's school, HBP (Home Based Partnership), put on a play written and directed by Kim Tennberg called "The Disney Princesses Revealed". It was a cute play exposing the truth about such princesses as Sleeping Beauty ( who actually drinks coffee and stays up all night playing video games!) and Snow White (who's into Goth and

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Erica finished my web-site.....It is sooooo awesome!!!!! Check it out:  Claudia Golden

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                                                       I had started to make this shoe (fish), for the Reynolds Gallery show before I started the Shusi one (see previous post). For some reason I don't really like this one, but my neighbor Mary and Kelly Ann convinced me to enter it as well. They seemed to think it was "very cute" when I dropped it off for the jurying, but I still there's

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        I made this shoe for an Art Show at Westmont's Reynolds Gallery (the jurying is the 10th of May). Of course the theme of the show is "Shoes"....so I wanted to make something different. I'm a painter, 3-D art has never been very easy for me, so I needed to be inspired....One of my favorite painting subjects are fish...I was walking thru a local Japanese market and I saw some lovely koi art

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Kelly Ann sent me this link to add to my Blog...the Big Red Dot....you HAVE to try it...hope you've got a minute....Thanks ALOT Kelly Ann!!!But I do LOVE you!Momma

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I have little patience for excuses..we do things or we don't for a reason...sometimes we don't know what that reason is, sometimes we do, yet we feel the need to make excuses.First, Here's my do/don't do list:I finally got back into the habit of going to the gym 5 - 6 times a week. I have gone twice since Feb 14.I finally cleaned out my garage so I could have a place to do my art, took lots of

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It's been almost 2 weeks since Soren left (and Kirsten) and I keep running into reminders of their visit (Kirsten I found a sock of ur's). For the first couple of days I just left all the trucks where he left them outside...He got to play outside alot...But now the toys are put away., haven't quite gotten them to storage yet...it seems strange to take them to storage?!?So I thought I'd share a

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Like my cast?I tho't I'd dress it up a bit....Much has happened since my last post...aside from the cast, Kirsten and my grandson Soren came for a visit. Kirsten left 1/2 way thru' to meet Chris in Hawaii and I got to have Soren stay for 5 days!!!! What a great visit! check out the photosI haven't done ANY art since the cast...OK I did decoupage the cast...I'll have to post some Soren/Art soon as

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This whole ATC (artist trading cards) thing has given my creativity a boost! I love the format, 9-10 small spaces to work in...prompting a theme, which becomes addictive (for me anyway!)This is my "Thumbprint" series...Kelly Ann has a small 'Klutz' book with thumbprint art to copy and learn from...the bunnies and pigs are pretty much straight out of the book, the rest are just cute little

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As some of you know, I recently fell and hurt my right hand. For those of you who didn't know, I recently fell and hurt my right hand.The day before my aforementioned fall, I attended my first ATC gathering (Artists Trading Cards), where I met many wonderful artists and...well...traded cards with them....It works like this: 20 or so artists meet the 2nd wed. of each month at Mesa Coffee (on the

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I get so frustrated trying to put things together, such as web sites and blogs that I nearly give up...ok well I did give up on designing my web site, so Erica, http://www.ericaruch.com my lovely and talented daughter (ok they're ALL lovely and talented) designed one for me for a Christmas present http://www.claudia-golden.com ...now all I have to do is get the images to her! Well I at least got

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