5o paintings done!

My second edition of artomat art is finished! I finished the last paintings today. So hopefully I can mail them sometime this week before we go to VA for the holidays!

Here are the pictures!

I am including the group picture and my two favorites. I would like to live in a room with kiwi wallpaper!
And I like crazy daybeds!

New Artwork!

10 new little paintings are on their way to Louisville (Lou-ISS-ville or Lou-OIL-ville?) this week! They will be sold at an artsy/funky gourmet deli/grocery store.

I have also finished about 10 more artomat paintings, exciting. And, I have starting volunteering at an Arts Center downtown. Saturday I was an art machine and made a bunch of Christmas ornaments to give away for Christmas. Very exciting.

Blogger isn't letting me upload pictures right now. So, images to follow...

Even more artomat

I have finished more of my little paintings!




Mike took some artsy pictures of them after I stacked them on the table.




I only have 25 done, yikes! I have 25 more to do!
In other art news, I started working on another set of food-related interior paintings. So far I painted a kitchen with watermelon wallpaper and a living room with kiwi wallpaper.I have 10 of those paintings to do- I am painting them for a grocery/deli place. More pictures and info later!

New artomat pieces!

Hello hello.
I am starting my second set of artomat pieces- although I am off to a slow start! I am continuing with my peanut theme although I am making some of them a little more minimal. Here are my first few that are finished...

New peanut shirt!

I made a new peanut shirt! I decided to keep the orange one. I bought this gray shirt at Goodwill and I bought a size large so I wouldn't be tempted to keep it. After I take some more pictures of it, I will put this shirt up for sale at my etsy site. I am excited!

Black hair..

Though not for long! Hopefully. I talked with my beauty specialist friend, Ginny, about what to do about this mess and she said I should wait a week and then redye my hair since my hair is in a delicate state right now. Bummer. So, I guess I will live with this for a week.

Sunday

This has been a very lazy weekend. Mike and I bought season 3 of The Office, so we have pretty much been watching tv all weekend. Although yesterday we also looked around downtown at some vintage/antique stores and I dyed my hair. The dyed hair may have been a mistake. I wanted darker hair, but black is toooooo dark. Anyway, here I am working on another baby hat/bowl..


Last weekend I was getting into embroidery, I made this tampon holder...


I think that it is very funny. Mike was confused, he asked why would anyone want to have a picture of a tampon on something that holds tampons, but I think that is humor! I am weird.
In other news.. I finally got an unbroken Swedish Horse lamp from Urban Outfitters! After receiving 3 broken lamps in the mail, I finally got a good one! I went to return it at the store downtown and they had one at the store! So I bought it but it was certainly an experience and I will NEVER order anything from Urban Outfitters again, they do not refund shipping! What a rip. Anyway, I love the lamp. Here it is..

Happy Labor Day

Today is labor day- so no work! I starting experimenting with my new gocco today. First, I drew a picture using my RISO carbon based pen...


I decided I would continue on with my peanut theme for my first printing attempts. Here are some of the finished prints...





I think the pink is my favorite. I liked the chine colle technique although it would have worked a lot better if I had measured and been more careful. Oh well- next time! I tried cleaning off the master screen with the special RISO cleaner and simple green, so hopefully I will be able to use this screen again. After I have enough stuff, I am going to open an Etsy shop. I have also been working on some knit headbands, ooh la la.

Painting project...

First I make a collage...


Then I do a drawing...


Then I start the underpainting with acrylics...
Then when I stop being lazy I will start oil glazes.

Newest craft acquisitions...

Knitting bee!! So cute! I had a boring red knitting tube thing, I don't know what they are called, but it broke. So, when my mom came to visit we went to Hobby Lobby and she bought me the bee and a sparkly pink knitting tube thing!





And for my most exciting purchase....


SUUUUPER GOCCO!!

This just in..

My artomat pieces are out and about! Here is where you can find them...

SW Art Center: San Antonio, TX
Urban Artware: WS, NC
Contemporary Museum Shop: Honolulu, HI
Shop at Cultural Center: Chicago, IL
Clients & Profits, Bonsall, CA

Peanut shirt/Guestbook

Since moving to Indiana, I have settled in and started some new art/craft projects! I have never really embroidered before, so this was a fun adventure. There is nothing on the front so I think I might add a little peanut on the front. Here are some other projects I have been working on...

I made this guestbook for my sister-in-law who is getting married next month! She is decorating with red hearts. I went to a bookbinding workshop in college, so I had made a few books before but I had never done the coptic stitch before. I made a little practice book first.

In other exciting craft news.. I bought a gocco! It came yesterday along with a instructional DVD. I worked on some sketches today and I think I will start printing next weekend!

Almost done!

update...

I took pictures of my sketchbook/journal pages and added them to my flickr account. I am still working on my peanut interiors- but slowly.

Rainbow peanut chair series

Peanut Baby room

Peanut Chandelier

Peanut lamp

Welcome peanut

Peanut blog info

I am working on 50 peanut inspired pieces for the Artomat
I will be posting them as I finish them. Each piece is 2 1/8 by 3 1/4 inch.


New artwork coming soon...