meandering

in between cutting grass and the day job i've been working at getting back to art.. mind you, with all the rain we've had lately, keeping the grass cut/weeds down has become a major pre-occupation! in order to avoid heat stroke, and lightning, there are maybe 45 available minutes left on a good day lately! the day job is a little more predictable!

have started thinking about, and sketching some new pieces.. mostly 3-d vessels in various forms and media.. ready to take them to the construction level... can't wait to get started.

in the meantime i've been doing a little exploring... which seems to lead back to the same place in spite of myself...

finding fun in the weirdest places

went on a *field trip* at work yesterday. the mission was to go check out a couple of warehouses that someone has in a little town near here. the deal is we clean them out, sell the stuff, and keep the profits... and i have to admit, it was just the tiniest smidge hard to stay focused on the actual task at hand when confronted with all of the fun stuff in there. yes, there was rusty stuff everywhere. =) i got sidetracked left and right when coming upon nice little piles of things that just screamed ART MATERIALS!!! hell... we could certainly make some $ from selling this stuff... unfortunately, i think much of it could well come from me!!

as we all know, just about anything in multiples = art supplies....

well i came across a box of these....

if i am remembering right, these are some sort of brick ties... (ok so i'm a little vague on that....) i grabbed a handful and brought them home.. and have been generating all kinds of ideas of what to do with them... in the meantime, i thought i'd play with the image a bit in photoshop and print out the results to make a screen with... so here is the image after fiddling with it..

at the same time, i had rusted a blank silk tie that i had come across before leaving for cleveland. loved the way it came out. but ms can't leave well enough alone just had to tweak it a little bit.... and a little bit more... so i printed over it...

and ick... i think i ruined it...

well....maybe it's not as awful as i

thought it was. since it's too late to turn back now, i figure i just as soon keep going with it and layer a little more printing over it. no, i haven't done it yet.. but i'm thinking what better thing to print on a tie than a tie???

stay tuned...

no telling what it will look like tomorrow.. if nothing else i will have another good example of what NOT to do!

those birds!

have made such a hit! who'd have thought??

and i wanted to pass along this image that kathie briggs sent of her journal page that was devoted to them! several people asked me about the berries.. and i have to say i'm not sure what the trees are...

i think it might be a bay tree?? they have been here longer than i have.

meanwhile i played around a little bit with some of the photos...