Friday's Coffee Pot Family

Friday's drawing: "Coffee Pot Family". Happy Weekend! - Ang

"A New Friend"

Posting yesterday's "Drawing a Day" a bit late.

"A New Friend".

Have a great day - Ang

Love Backwards

Today's drawing of the day comes quite late, but I made my "deadline"!

Playing with the colored pencils, I realize that I probably never learned 'proper' technique for using them. Probably my high school art teachers tried. In college, some professor must have mentioned something. Maybe not.

Sometimes I wish I could go back and 'spy' on the 'me' that was then. Was I daydreaming, fixated on how some guy in the class styled his hair? Was it the colors themselves that completely absorbed my attention?

As long as I can remember I've been completely enraptured with color. My red wagon personified the wonderful qualities of red. Red to Angela age 3 said "I AM HERE". I was emphatic about red as my favorite during my earliest years. So bright, so rich - so absolutely vibrant, strong, solid, and secure. A world of positivity in which to get lost. Yum.

As I proceed through life, strange things are revealed about my relationship with color - such as sometimes I have a sense that I can taste them. For instance, the colors on top of today's drawing taste a little raspy and sawdusty in my mind's eye and near the tip of my tongue. The blue side of the hair feels slippery. I guess that's not a taste, but that's a bit about the cross - sensory baloney I deal with every day.

This set of colored pencils blends particularly well - it's easy to layer but also seems a bit easy to 'overwork' a bit. However, I've decided just to play and see what's up. Love Backwards.

Day 3 of Drawing Challenge: Ladies of the Hair

I always did like M.C. Escher . . . but his influence usually doesn't show up in my drawings. This drawing wasn't planned, but when the pattern started to emerge, I went with it. Certainly his style is more fresh on my mind as I sometimes show examples of his work to my students. This drawing was a lot of fun and quite relaxing. I'm really enjoying my colored pencils.

Day 2 of the Drawing a Day Challenge: Snurps

Snurps aren't sure how to raise their young. So they bundle 'em up real good and hope for the best. They spend the rest of their time dive bombing onto floppy mattress-like outcroppings on their world and attempting to dance without falling over. Thus the slight deformation of the head.

Today my left hand hurt, so I started this with my right (non-dominant) hand. The grown snurp is called 'Righty' for this reason.

Drawing a Day?

I may have started a drawing-a-day challenge for myself, but I am non-committal. Sure seems like a great way to jump start the art, which has fizzled to a mere drizzle of doodles since the move. We'll see.

This is Enorb. His strongest sense is smell, which he does through his many fuzzy hairs. He naturally grows hair in a comfy sweater pattern. He is safe from humans at this time, so he is smiling and relaxed. Humans must be kept from his kind because sooner or later someone might decide to skin them to make sweaters and other unnecessary clothing and goods. Please remember Enorb and others deserve their space, too.

Love
Ang

The Great Chicken Mountains, and Other Noteworthy Destinations

I recently started a playful collage project inspired by some altered post card art I'd seen.

I chose collage as the medium, food and kitchen gadgets as the theme, and Colorado as the setting.

I had spotted a bunch of vintage-looking Colorado postcards at a library book sale, and just had to take them home to play with.  I kept an eye on those grocery store circulars that come in newspapers, as the food pictured in them looks ridiculous at times, almost frightening at others. I like the odd colors that sometimes manifest when the photos are printed on the newsprint. Those colors sometimes make the food seem unappealing or almost alien, adding a pleasant touch of irony. Very handy for making art - just add glue.

When I started out, I was just doing this for fun, no political or social agenda. After laying out the pieces to glue, I did happen to start reading "Fast Food Nation", which starts out talking about the area around Colorado Springs in relation to the history of the beef industry. It was curious that so many of the images I had put together incorporated meat into the landscape. So I guess once I had laid them out and looked at them, I did end up thinking about how much meat really is a part of our landscape, whether we eat it or not.



Come to think of it, so is toast.

I happen to eat meat, but have been making increasingly healthier choices while attempting to educate myself about where it comes from, who it affects and how, and all those complicated, meaty things. Of course, with meat, you often find potatoes.

I hope you enjoy these - they are still just for fun. I haven't actually glued them yet - anticipating a move, they are one of the many studio projects waiting patiently in an envelope - thus the photos, so that I can assemble them the way I laid them out, later, when the time comes ;)


Actually, I may not glue them at all, glue comes from the same place as meat, after all. Maybe there is vegetable glue out there. I will have to look into it in my copious free time. More likely, these pieces may get lost in storage forever, wedged between a sketch and a paper doll... so I guess it's not that bad that I took time out from move related tasks to share them here.

I am a fan of breakfast. Even though I no longer eat wheat, I find this picture gives me very hearty feelings.

Please, if you have your own altered post card art to share, feel free to post a link here. 

A special nod to my family members and all the nice folks in the Denver, CO area.