Choi to the World

Image transfer research

So I am working on a fairly large commision for a painting with a recipe on it. I am really excited about this project, it is something different and it is for the best new person I met in 2010. She has made an incredible impact on me.

Back in college I learned how to do an image transfer using xerox copies paint and solvent. I don't remember the exact technique and it has been dogging me. I have searched and searched to no avail. I have come across Citrasolv and I am intrigued. It looks as though this will be what I'll use but it still not exactly what I had in mind. You have to watch this video is this stuff great or what? And it is safe, safe, safe!

a spyglass towards the future

Summer is burning up faster than I can accomplish my to-do list. I've not been better about posting to my blog which is still an intention. I will be starting a project that I will be doing with my husband that I hope will help me get into the habit, more on that very soon. Deadlines work well for me.

A very special day for our family. I created this paper cut for a day planner project and was thrilled to get this date. This little adventurer bunny was the inspiration for a project that came right on the back of his fuzzy little hocks. I'll have photos soon. I guess I'd better get my website designed since it is published on the page.

paper cut magic

The amazing work of Peter Callesen. Be sure to scroll through this absolutely inspirational portfolio.

PERSEPOLIS animated

I have been wanting to see this movie for some time. I am home with the flu so today was the day. I love when movies pay attention to the credits. The opening credit were beautiful. I can picture but maybe not name the movies with clever/beautiful/enchanting opening credits. I think I may blog them from now on, sometimes the opening credits make the movie for me. For Persepolis the opening credits were gorgeously illustrated and animated. I loved the animation for the movie, it was a refreshing break from the near-realism that most animated mainstream films are embodying currently. An autobiographical film, it presents an historical view the Iranian conflict through the lens of a graphic novel.

6x6 @t RoCo

***UPDATE, all four have sold!! WOOT! Check them out. Uno, Dos, Tres, Quatro. More will be in my shop soon.***

My contributions.

Pictures don't do these little piggies justice. They have subtleties. The words are letterpress. Two are debossed. The piggies cut paper.

(Trying so hard to get back in the saddle. I opened my shop to get motivated. Well it worked well because in a couple hours I had a sale. Yikes! I sure didn't expect that. Forget the saddle I need my studio.)

It is a fundraiser at Rochester Contemporary. Each piece is only $20. There are over 3,000 works to choose from. There is still time, you can buy/support online.

The opening was crowded, stiflingly hot and fun. I didn't even take any pictures. Steven carried the baby in the sling and he attracted more attention than the art work. Men and women equally swarmed to admire his cuteness. At one point Steven was literally surrounded by women. He loves to quip that the ladies were using the baby as their excuse to get close to him. I know how they feel, I don't need an excuse. Men, ha!

a happy day in studio A

After having a couple of particularly productive days. I am happy and want more days like these. But other things beckon ...

Here are some sketches and a few things I have been working on. Some are in my shop now, some are on their way.

These sketches of Astrantias .

Became a overflowing bed of block print flower cards in a lovely shade of red. I love red! I have gorgeous red envelopes to go with them. I love how the red seems to be a different color on each color card. I am going to put them in sets of sunrise, high noon, sunset, twilight. The way the ink changes color on the various colored backgrounds reminds me of how different light throughout the day changes the colors of the garden. I also have various neutral shades that are just so rich with the red blossoms on them. I'll offer them as separate sets.

 

These little cut paper empty nest cards have recently flitted into in my shop. See more details there.

Another card that has landed in my shop? This cute little birdie has a song for whomever receives it.

These colorful petal folders are great for special flat little prizes like $$$, gift cards, sweet little notes or the gift of a special poem and they are all wrapped up with a bow. Cute, huh?

Here is a cute little sketch that will make it into my wacky americana project. Not sure how she made it into my sketchbook. It is as if my future daughter's spirit manifested in the tips of my pencil, the recesses my creative mind. Read more about my adoption here.

I am excited about my progress but I am impatient for more!

wacky americana

Ah, the painting is going well. It is interesting to be doing more illustrative work. In college my adviser always led me towards visual social commentary. I did my honors thesis on the subject of blood diamonds and the genocide of Sierra Leone. I am very proud of the body of work I was able to put together for a solo show. I loved doing the work and I was passionate about the subject. I still am. But is is not the only thing I am interested in and it is not something you would want on your dining room wall.

It feels good to be putting the brush towards other things I find of interest the whimsy of humanity and nature which is the direction I am going in now. I am starting off with material that my husband uses for a lesson in his freshman English classes. I'll let the title of my post be the clue. I will reveal more later.

I also have to suppress some other ideas i have which will involve a cross over between my cut paper work and my illustrative work. I wish could work faster....... and I wish I had a maid.