With the beautiful weather this weekend I went out wandering downtown Atlanta on Saturday. I started out by Georgia Tech (had no clue it was Game Day!) and a visit to Ultrecht's which is an art supply store. I saw online that they had a portfolio/backpack. I'm having the hardest time finding something comfortable to carry my drawing pads and supplies back and forth from car to class. I'm most comfortable with a backpack but I wasn't sure if this would be big enough for the drawing board and the pad so I wanted to see it in person before I shelled out $65.
There is another art supply store I wanted to check out, too, in Buckhead so I figured I would take a leisurely drive around...stop where I could and take pictures. If you've seen my photography before you know there are a few things I'm obsessed with in architecture -- doors and rooflines. With the sky being sooo blue and almost cloudless and the modern angles of many of our Atlanta skyline, I had a plethora of things to photograph. And boy did I snap a lot of pictures! oh and buy art supplies!
Sunday morning, I took the girls out to our backyard which is filled with many trees and plants and I took a boatload of pictures of them running and playing. We were outside a good 45 minutes and I was playing with my new telephoto lens (25mm-350mm). Because I wanted to capture the action of them running after the ball or wrestling, I was using the action mode on the camera which would take five pictures with less than a second between frames. I probably shot about 100 more frames before we quit and went into the house.
All this time, I never checked the pictures until I had a few minutes to myself. I turned the camera on and went into the photo view mode. To my surprise and disappointment, there were no pictures! I had neglected to put the memory card back in after I downloaded the last set of photos. BOOO!
Sometimes in you zest to do something, you forget the fundamentals. Always make sure you have a memory card in your camera!
Creativity can take many shapes and forms. In this blog, my challenge is to live a life filled with innovation, beauty and artistic interpretation
Monday, September 6, 2010
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Gifts Galore--Time is ticking
Sneak Peek at our October 2 Gifts Galore--
This is just a taste of the simply elegant projects you will create at this years, must attend event, Gifts Galore! All attendees will have access to an exclusive website with directions to re-create all these amazing gifts, after the event. Our goal is gift giving made easy and replicatable.
Look at what you get for the day!
5 Make N Takes
4 NEW product presentations!
My Digital Studio demo: Christmas Calendars made easy
Lunch from Sweet Tomatoes, YUM
Lots of displays - bring a camera
$200 in prizes given away
$150 raffle basket
Extra goodies included in your make n take bag
ONLY 8 days left to register!
http://l-inkedbygiftsgalore.blogspot.com/p/register.html
Choose me as your demonstrator! If you get a friend to sign up with you, you and your friend get a special prize from me (just email me and let me know who your friend is).
This is just a taste of the simply elegant projects you will create at this years, must attend event, Gifts Galore! All attendees will have access to an exclusive website with directions to re-create all these amazing gifts, after the event. Our goal is gift giving made easy and replicatable.
Look at what you get for the day!
5 Make N Takes
- memo board
- post it note/chalk board cube
- gift basket
- jewelry
- stationary set
4 NEW product presentations!
My Digital Studio demo: Christmas Calendars made easy
Lunch from Sweet Tomatoes, YUM
Lots of displays - bring a camera
$200 in prizes given away
$150 raffle basket
Extra goodies included in your make n take bag
ONLY 8 days left to register!
http://l-inkedbygiftsgalore.blogspot.com/p/register.html
Choose me as your demonstrator! If you get a friend to sign up with you, you and your friend get a special prize from me (just email me and let me know who your friend is).
The Alternative Path
So I really love my mixed media piece that I turned in for 2-D Design. It was a concept piece relating three sort of random things about you into one cohesive piece. So, here it is. Take it in. Let me know your first reaction to it -- good or bad.
The colors are more intense than the photo. My three things were rebel, the many paths life can take and dogs (of course). I had so many ideas going on in my head and for sure that comes out in the piece. One thing I really need to do is self-edit.
Let me point out a few things, in the left part of the piece is a very plain green grass hill and a very straight and narrow pathway with the typical milestones in a person's life -- birth, school, career, date, marriage, 2.5 kids, etc. The pathway is all monochromatic which means one color family (alternating path stones in grays) and uses more rectilinear lines to show its formality. Coming out of the school path stone is an alternative path. It is more organic (I used glue and sand to construct it) and uses curvilinear line which are more natural. Along the alternative pathway there are various crops of different places I've been. Last, but not least, there are various pictures of the girls however I have altered them into other things. Bailey is a spider, Phoebe is a honeybee, Sophie is a butterfly, Izzie is nesting in a giant flower and Viola is a gorilla looking at a bunch of bananas. The bright patches of color show my rebel nature as does the change in texture from one side to the other.
Not sure I would hang this in my living room -- maybe my studio!
Materials -- canvas (I think it is a 24X36 so fairly large). MODGE PODGE Lots and lots of Modge Podge! All the paint is actually Copic Markers that I airburshed onto the canvas. I don't recomend hand coloring canvas with Copics since it is so porous, it will soak all your ink in. The intensity of the colors is due to many layers of different markers.
Let me point out a few things, in the left part of the piece is a very plain green grass hill and a very straight and narrow pathway with the typical milestones in a person's life -- birth, school, career, date, marriage, 2.5 kids, etc. The pathway is all monochromatic which means one color family (alternating path stones in grays) and uses more rectilinear lines to show its formality. Coming out of the school path stone is an alternative path. It is more organic (I used glue and sand to construct it) and uses curvilinear line which are more natural. Along the alternative pathway there are various crops of different places I've been. Last, but not least, there are various pictures of the girls however I have altered them into other things. Bailey is a spider, Phoebe is a honeybee, Sophie is a butterfly, Izzie is nesting in a giant flower and Viola is a gorilla looking at a bunch of bananas. The bright patches of color show my rebel nature as does the change in texture from one side to the other.
Not sure I would hang this in my living room -- maybe my studio!
Materials -- canvas (I think it is a 24X36 so fairly large). MODGE PODGE Lots and lots of Modge Podge! All the paint is actually Copic Markers that I airburshed onto the canvas. I don't recomend hand coloring canvas with Copics since it is so porous, it will soak all your ink in. The intensity of the colors is due to many layers of different markers.
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