Rock-n-Roll Animals

Hoagie is a Nashville Cat

Dachi Rocks

I should be working on my "regular" art but when I came across the source image for these I could not help but play with them.  I had been wanting to do a  rock-roll cat for awhile.  The Dachi head was easy to find in my photos so I tryed the image with him first.  Not bad but I really had invisioned a Nashville cat when I thought of this

Recycled Art For April

Object de Refuse

Plastic shopping bags, and dryer lint are just two of the materials I have used in creating my art for this month. In honor of Earth Day I have used recycled, repurposed and found objects in my pieces. 

I have four brand new pieces for the April exhibit at Fresh

Iberian Stars

Occidental Rust

Compass

Making Faces

I was able to finish making my faces for March. I ended up with 4 new pieces to put into the gallery. That's not really too bad. Here are photos of the finished pieces.

Tangleing at Fresh

I did some informal demonstrating on zentangles this weekend at Fresh Gallery. The photos are of two of the people who came by to play. The tangles are ones that they created while at the gallery.

Johns First tangle Dans Tangle

Johns unfinished tangle

Dan and John and their Tangles Dan and John Tangleing at Fresh

This piece started out as a piece of collage paper.

Pieces of paper that were put together with glue to make one big piece of paper. Next I embroidered the face image.I put the paper onto a piece of felt and stitched onto it. It still needed something so I put a shear synthetic fabric over the image, did some free motion machine stitching over it and then shot it with a heat gun to melt and distress the synthetic fabric.

The close up is of the face after it had been stitched around and distressed.

I haven't finished with her yet. I am going to fuse tissue paper to some more felt to make a background fabric. I think that I will put some washes of paint on the background fabric then attache this first piece onto it.

I'll upload more images as this project progresses.

Fabric Faces for March

Another month and another rush to create some "Fresh" art for Fresh Gallery.

Here are some of the pieces I am going to try and complete to exhibit in March. I thought I would try to post some of my in progress photos of what I am working on.

I will be posting more images as I work on them.

The Mind is Moving

a zentangle on colored scratchboard