Lights, Camera, Action!

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 wants to be a rock-star). 

I offered to paint the sets and had a  GREAT time doing it! Here's Snow White's cottage and Sleeping Beauty's Castle. Kelly Ann helped with the stones on the side of the castle, she's a natural.

I'm hoping to teach a set design class at HBP next year to build the sets for Kim's Drama classes next performance. 

       

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Erica finished my web-site.....It is sooooo awesome!!!!! 

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Not so Coy

                                                       

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 something fishy about it???!!!

shusi (shoe-sea)

        

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, I don't quite know how I got the idea to use ingredients used to make sushi for my shoe, but it was all right there....I found dried kelp, seaweed (used to make sushi rolls), toasted sesame seeds and of course rice. 

I used a high-heel shoe for the template, the kelp was a bit stiff, so I experimented with ways to make it pliable without converting it back into good old floppy seaweed. After a bit of trial and error I figured it out. Forming the soul of the shoe was much easier than the heel. 

The entire shoe is made of 'sushi' parts, I was concerned about the smell, and had to keep it in a sealed container when I wasn't working on it, the cat's were a bit interested in it!! I did end up sealing it with a spray sealer. 

The piece I enjoy the most is the part of the shoe that has the painting of the fish on it. I was stoked to find there was this piece of the kelp that was shaped like the toe of a sandal. It was the hardest piece to make pliable and form. As you can see it worked!

So this is my Shusi....wish me luck on the jurying. I'll let you know!

Thanks ALOT Kelly Ann!!!

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

Excuses Suck

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 stuff to storage, threw lots of stuff away. I can barely find my way from the front to the back of my garage now, it's full of stuff that needs to go to storage.

I started an art blog to motivate me to produce some stuff and get it out there...or at least post it on my blog. I haven't produced a piece worth posting since ???

I picked out a great color to paint my bedroom. The paint can (plastic w/handle) sat in my closet so long that something heavy fell on it and broke the lid. Its now in the kitchen covered with foil. I don't want to put it out in the garage (see above), my bedroom is still unpainted.

Everyday I discover something I should/could do and add it to my list......

Here's my excuse:

My stupid right hand is in a cast!!!

My solution:

I get it off Thursday!!!!!

Then...no more excuses ! -)

Visit to Gramma's house

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 few photos (see Blog slideshow) with ya..first, since this is an "Art" blog...here's a piece of artwork Soren produced while he was here:





He enjoyed the painting for about 30 seconds...then it was truck time!!!