here is something i am working on. pitt pens and prismacolors. only problem is that the super smooth paper i use for pen and ink is not the best for colored pencil, but i will see what i can do. also the woman does not look very happy but i was not really in the best mood i guess when i started drawing her. still, if you can't be honest in your art, where CAN you be honest?
this is a pen and ink drawing I did for my friend Kathy. I am not really sure if it has a title. Maybe Kathy knows? Anyway, I was very happy with how it turned out! I have been working on it off and on over the last couple weeks.
we went out last night to the Capital Club, which is a restaurant / bar with Moroccan decor. So that was fun. And there was belly dancing, Troupe Hipnotica. We were a little dissapointed by the short sets but all in all it was a good time! I'd like to go back sometime.
here are some more colors playing together. this time my most beloved autumn colors. the beaded house features some special beads: tigers eye, lapis, and jasper. the yarn is from handmaiden, red fox is the name of the colorway, and that suits it perfectly. the painting is one i did a few years ago, one of the early paintings in the strata series, of Diatomaceous earth. Even those these art works were created over a number of years, you can see the same color scheme has been motivating me for quite some time! and i am sure i will create some beauties this autumn as well.
still playing with letting my art mingle. and with green and purple in this case. these 2 pieces were created about 12 months apart - but you wouldn't think so! i may actually use this button as a closure on this piece.
this is a project i am working on. it's not working quite like i had in mind, which just means i have to do some more tinkering. but i do love these colors together. the olive green yarn is string theory and the magenta yarn is malabrigo. the silk flowers are from joggles.
i just wanted to show this to you as some more examples of how one can use contrasting colors together without them looking cartoonish!
here is some more of my art, playing together.
the knitting is a freeform project, the basic pattern called the Medici Vest by Jane Thornley. The drawing is one of my pen and ink drawings, using Pitt artists pens. The beadwork is a little beaded button I made, from a class I occasionally teach. Robin Atkins showed me how to do bead embroidery around a button form.
i can feel summer winding down, and autumn just showing a flick of her skirt now and then. the sun is just starting to get low on the horizon now and the air smells faintly of the sea and like bonfires out at Golden Gardens park, but that makes me think of autumn. And I do love autumn colors.
i sometimes like to play with mixing my art together. i somehow see how it is all connected, though i am not sure how it shows up to other people. this is a shawl called frond that i knit this summer, a beaded house i did 2 or 3 years ago, and a watercolor / pen and ink drawing i finished recently. my beloved fuji with the awesome macro lens is just plain wearing out - it must be close to 8 years old? so this i photo is from a canon powershot, but it's just not the same. we'll see when a new camera is in the budget. in the meantime i'll just do my best to capture the world around me!
