Monday, February 20, 2006
Daily Zen
Daily Zen is one of my favorite sites, every two weeks, or so, they post a historic text to contemplate and commentary to guide your enjoyment and journey. They are usually very timely and always insightful. Acompanied by lucious artwork, the whole site is an oasis in the crazy modern world. 
Friday, February 17, 2006
EDM # 51 - Our TV
Our TV with The Incredibles playing. Everyone in our family likes this movie, the kids have seen it about a hundred times and Ron & I have seen it almost that much. We finally bought the DVD for Christmas. There is a second DVD with special stuff on it including "Jack-Jack Attack," the short that features the baby's special powers. The kids and I have seen it MANY times and we all three still squeal when he does his "thing!!" There is also a short that features the talents of Bud Lucky, a veteran animator from the Disney studio (now at Pixar). If you're into animation, this film is a grand show! I made this with Pigma micron pens, Pigma brush pen, and PITT pens. I got the colors to blend in the reflection on the screen in a cool way but I goofed up the yellow color in the "i." In my hedgie on watercolor paper.
Monday, January 30, 2006
EDM #17 - Musical Instrument
My new Toca doumbec (also called a darbouka)! I did it in watercolors and in with some prismacolor pencil over it. I wasn't crazy about the intensity of the colors. In my hedgehog. It's a middle eastern drum used for the main rhythms and embelishments in Middle Eastern music. There's a photo of it in my flickr Bellydance set also. I found it at Explorers Percussion on Wornall Friday and they had aluminum ones from Egypt also to save for. It's got a light-weight synthetic body covered with a Balinese batik print fabric and sealed finish and a goat-skin glued head. I figure it'll be good for me to practice rhythms on and for toting to the Renaissance Festival, parades, etc.
Friday, January 27, 2006
Treffpunkt
An Austrian Magazine is using a photo of Rianna for their website! I'm glad to see her razzing face everywhere!
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Self Portrait Tuesday - History #3
Here's the moment! My first camera! A Kodak Tele-Ektra 1 outfit. I must have been about 8, it was before the accident. I still have it!
It took 110 film and had a telephoto lens you could switch into place. That stuck after about a year and didn't work any more. I remember taking it to the St Louis Zoo where it was camera day and shooting lots of animals. I don't know where any of the photos are, probably at Mom's in one of the thousands of boxes of photos there. I also bought myself a brownie and could get film for it and shot that for a while. My dad had tons of Popular Photography magazines around and I used to dream about being able to take breathtaking landscape shots, spectacular colored-filter shots and model shots for fashion magazines. I didn't know it until much later, but I had an uncle here in town who was a photographer. I do remember seeing his large slr rig with an off-camera flash bracket and a big camera bag. My dad had a Ricoh twin-lens camera he got while he was serving in Korea in the 60's.
It took 110 film and had a telephoto lens you could switch into place. That stuck after about a year and didn't work any more. I remember taking it to the St Louis Zoo where it was camera day and shooting lots of animals. I don't know where any of the photos are, probably at Mom's in one of the thousands of boxes of photos there. I also bought myself a brownie and could get film for it and shot that for a while. My dad had tons of Popular Photography magazines around and I used to dream about being able to take breathtaking landscape shots, spectacular colored-filter shots and model shots for fashion magazines. I didn't know it until much later, but I had an uncle here in town who was a photographer. I do remember seeing his large slr rig with an off-camera flash bracket and a big camera bag. My dad had a Ricoh twin-lens camera he got while he was serving in Korea in the 60's.
Saturday, January 14, 2006
Blind Contour Friday
My drink cup at McDonald's. It has Olympic Bobsledder & Mom Vonetta Flowers on it. I can't wait for Torino!!! I love the Olympics!!!
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Stuff in my Kitchen
The cinnamon sugar shaker on top of the Jelly Bellies tin on top of my microwave. Pigma micron ink in my Hedgie.
I've been pretty good and sketching something every day this week. More than one thing on most days. My poor old computer isn't handling all the work of scanning very well though. Oh, well, adapt and overcome... I'll scan some more later.
I've been pretty good and sketching something every day this week. More than one thing on most days. My poor old computer isn't handling all the work of scanning very well though. Oh, well, adapt and overcome... I'll scan some more later.
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Self Portrait Tuesday - History
Photos are a way to capture what someone looked like at a particular time. They are also a way to record an event. In my Family, gatherings are always a special event. This one was Christmas of 1971. My Grandma & Grandpa Welte had three of their children visiting with their families. Here are my Uncle Curtis, his wife Marilyn, their new son Cyrus, Aunt Corliss, her husband Paul, their children Cherie and Jon, my sister and myself.
We were very lucky to have our grandparents in Missouri with us for so long. They had 11 children and I have hundreds of cousins scattered all over the country. Having my grandparents here meant that we had their primary attention and got to take trips together. One of our favorite places to go and a family tradition we have continued with my children, is the visit to Silver Dollar City (near Branson, MO) in the Fall. This water clock is still there, but not functioning any more. We took the kids for their first trip this November.
We were very lucky to have our grandparents in Missouri with us for so long. They had 11 children and I have hundreds of cousins scattered all over the country. Having my grandparents here meant that we had their primary attention and got to take trips together. One of our favorite places to go and a family tradition we have continued with my children, is the visit to Silver Dollar City (near Branson, MO) in the Fall. This water clock is still there, but not functioning any more. We took the kids for their first trip this November.
Material Girl
I took this in response to Felicity Grace's Material Girl challenge. These are the art materials I use the most right now plus some new markers we got at Wal-Mart yesterday. The kids had a ball with the markers last night! This photo has a bunch of notes on it in flickr, click and mouse over the photo to see them!
Friday, January 06, 2006
Blind Contour Friday - Bigfoot
For Blind Contour Friday I did my bear cub's Bigfoot Zip-zap monster truck. When we went to St Louis on vacation, we stayed at a hotel near where the real Bigfoot "lives."
This is probably the worst BC I've done yet! Ha!
This is probably the worst BC I've done yet! Ha!
Thursday, January 05, 2006
New Year's Resolutions -- With Self Portraits!
On or about New Years we're encouraged to set new goals for the year. I posted some art goals to the Everyday Matters list:
Draw something every day, even if it's just a doodle in my hedgie.
Complete one EDM challenge per week, more if I'm inspired.
Complete one Photo Friday photo per week.
Study color, maybe I'll do what Laura did and explore a color at a time. I'm open to suggestions...
Integrate dance into more of my life, study arabic/north african/middle & near eastern art and music.
Make my habit more self-supporting, sell hedghogs/journals.
I also have some goals regarding dancing: I'll practice every day, even if it's just the 15 minute workout from Rachel Brice's Tribal Fusion Belly Dance Yoga Drills & Isolations video.
And go as far as I can with my classes. I found some teachers I really like and are very encouraging!
Draw something every day, even if it's just a doodle in my hedgie.
Complete one EDM challenge per week, more if I'm inspired.
Complete one Photo Friday photo per week.
Study color, maybe I'll do what Laura did and explore a color at a time. I'm open to suggestions...
Integrate dance into more of my life, study arabic/north african/middle & near eastern art and music.
Make my habit more self-supporting, sell hedghogs/journals.
I also have some goals regarding dancing: I'll practice every day, even if it's just the 15 minute workout from Rachel Brice's Tribal Fusion Belly Dance Yoga Drills & Isolations video.
And go as far as I can with my classes. I found some teachers I really like and are very encouraging!
Mmm, Fish! - SPT
Me at Marineland of the Pacific in October of '71. Mom's trying to keep me from swimming with them!
I don't really remember all that much about the whole trip to CA except for the "It's a Small World" ride and the Haunted Mansion being really scary. We stayed with my Dad's sister Charlotte and her family, lots of cousins. I think we saw Coleman's bunch while we were there in San Diego, too.
I don't really remember all that much about the whole trip to CA except for the "It's a Small World" ride and the Haunted Mansion being really scary. We stayed with my Dad's sister Charlotte and her family, lots of cousins. I think we saw Coleman's bunch while we were there in San Diego, too.
Donald & Us - SPT
The kid just came up to us because Donald was there just as Dad snapped the photo. My sister was very upset!
Disneyland for SPT
Here's us in front of Sleeping Beauty's Castle in October of '71. If you click on the photo, you'll go to it in flickr where there are notes on it showing where we are in it.
Self Portrait Tuesday - History
Here's some photos from the old family album for Self Portrait Tuesday. This is me at 5 riding my mom's horse Suntan. Isn't he handsome all stretched out for his photo? She was a member of the Heart of America Riding Club and we went on breakfast trailrides at Benjamin Stables one Sunday a month. It was a ladies' club and the men (the "Auxiliary") would stay at the picnic ground and cook our scrambled eggs and bacon over the campfire. I thought I was all grown up because she let me ride with the club (I must have been all of 8 or 9 when I started). Suntan had a silver-decked parade saddle we would use sometimes. Very handsome!
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Happy New Year! & EDM #44 Draw an Animal
I have most of my art friends Bloglined so I can see when you've updated your blogs at a glance! Very cool! I discovered that as a result of surfing for podcasts to listen to on my mp3 player and wanted a way to have the rss feeds fed to me. Ain't technology great?
Art goals for 2006...I've been chewing on this for a few days and have to put this out into the universe:
Draw something every day, even if it's just a doodle in my hedgie.
Complete one EDM challenge per week, more if I'm inspired.
Complete one Photo Friday photo per week.
Study color, maybe I'll do what Laura did and explore a color at a time. I'm open to suggestions...
Integrate dance into more of my life, study arabic/north african/middle & near eastern art and music.
Make my habit more self-supporting, sell hedghogs/journals.
Here's my first painting of the year, my daughter's little stuffed kitten, Little Gray. She got her at McDonald's in a Happy Meal and she's her favorite toy. We were playing together yesterday and I asked if she wanted me to draw one of her toys we were playing with and that's what she wanted me to draw. She's watercolors and ink in my hedgehog journal. I was trying to get the bumpy texture of the fur right with the stippled color, what do you think?
1-13-06 I didn't even pick up that this was a challenge subject! So here's #44 - Draw an animal, a pet, a zoo animal, a stuffed one...
Monday, December 26, 2005
Happy Holidays
I made a little doodle in my journal as the header for the day's entry. Sometimes I get quite elaborate, sometimes it's just a line to separate entries. Anyway, I hope all of you are safe, happy, healthy and have what you need in this holiday season!
Thursday, December 22, 2005
What Superhero Are You?
Your results:
You are Superman
Click here to take the "Which Superhero are you?" quiz...
You are Superman
| You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others.  |
Sunday, December 18, 2005
BCF
I took a bunch of my daughter's little plastic sea critters with me to McDonald's while the kids were playing to draw for Blind Contour Friday. Sutter and Niff both did sea creatures so I did, too. I did the manta first to warm up
Then I did the swordfish
and the octopus and the sunfish was last. I didn't have a pigma micron with me so they are all G2 ink with PITT pen in my hedgehog.
Then I did the swordfish
and the octopus and the sunfish was last. I didn't have a pigma micron with me so they are all G2 ink with PITT pen in my hedgehog.
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