still existing

i'm still here. school and death interrupt everything.

what's strange is when i graduated high school I'd experienced a grand total of 2 deaths; a grandfather, and my best friends father (which was terrible, he had als). Since high school, however, i've experienced a grand total of 7. 3 years and 5 deaths. When will it end? ... and not older people these last three years - well one of them, but the rest were people I grew up with. People my age. And the five I'm counting are only the ones I knew personally, and not all those on the peripheries of my life (which I don't even want to count all those..)

fuck

Lee
Julia

Major:
Bear Attacks
Minor:
Surviving the Apocalypse

Paper Cut Out ATCS

The tomatoes I made just for me, but the birds were inchies and then I thought to make them an ATC, and they will very very soon be mailed to my private atc swap partner, "cittylou"! Along with another ATC (or 2 ;)

I made both these from cutting shapes out of papers -- scrapbooking papers for the tomatoes and handmade papers, glued onto cardstock to back it. Then the birds are made from cardstocks and handmade papers for the birds and clouds. I used modge podge to glue everything down -- simply because it was easier. I'm not always a fan of it since it can leave brushstrokes and even the matt kind can be glossy. But it is so easy to use when collage-ing like this.

Caution....

After these zentangle images is an image of my OBSCENE ATC swap. so caution. it is "obscene" with a slight amount of cartoon-like nudity.

The rest of my zentangles, I mailed a while ago.



The group i mailed to partner #2. (image of partner #1's below is earlier entry.)



I also started a second series. These were just for fun with no partner in mind. If you'd be interested in swapping for them, leave a comment or message me at swapbot -- chimpieartist.



This image below is based on a 1964 black humor award winning series of illustrations, les belles manieres, by testu. i changed it a bit, added color, made it into my "obscene atc" which i'm mailing today. it's suppose to be funny. but it is also obscene, possibly lewd even... so caution.



This is the atc I am mailing to my partner, the 2nd one I am keeping in my own collection.


The next one is slightly more obscene.

artwork

thought I'd post some images of actual art pieces I've made (rather than swap, atcs etc) (not that atc's aren't art pieces, because they are but, well, you know what I mean).



This image i made when I was 18 for a client. Acrylic paint, 18x24"


The rest of the images are from a class I took at MICA freshman year (2 years ago)

Oil paints, 18x24"


Linoleum print, approx. 14"x8"


solar plate print, approx. 14"x8"

Zentangles

These are waiting for a partner.

"obscene" atc swap

The following image is for "obscene atc swap" It uses curse words and images that may not be appropriate or to your taste. Be warned.


This swap for "obscene" atc's is a challenge. Which is exactly why I signed up for it. I thought, how do i make an atc that is obscene, while still being a small piece of art and not be offensive or crude.... Well, I made my first one. I used Georgia O'Keefe as inspiration, drawing a flower that looks very yonic and coloring it very pink and red, and then just to go the extra obscene mile, I wrote small curse words in the background. I actually couldn't think of very many different ones. I think there's about 4, maybe 5, and they're all short words.





I drew with India ink pens, and then colored using Neocolor watersoluble wax pastels (or crayons). I did use water to blend them, but went over them again to make them darker. I scanned the images using my printer, so they look a little different. Scanners catch all the details the eye normally doesn't see.

I'm not sure I'll post the image of the 2nd atc I made. For it I'm using 1960's dark humor erotic illustrations for inspiration, by Tetsu. I found them in Taschen's Erotica book series.