Thursday, July 28, 2005

A Card...

Made this card last night....



The card base itself is handmade paper that is purple with silver specks in it. I love these cards and should have picked up more when I had the chance as I am not even sure I know who makes them now as it was several years ago when I bought them. I need to start looking for a source for plain cards like this one.

Thursday, July 21, 2005

Alone

Alone


The image under the mesh is really hard to see in this photo but her face is visible in person. And the rest of the photo is very dark. But what I really like in is the plastic mesh. One thing I have found some companies that sell things like tape, tubing, paper, plastics and such will give free samples and the plastic mesh is from a free sample. Also at times I have contacted companies as those to see if they sell or give away their scraps.

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Playing Around

tell me a story


Aspects I like of this card are the rubber stamped flower. It only shows a little bit of the flower. And then the tag. It was just the start of using tags.

play


I had a piece of cardboard from a box that some free samples came in. I really liked how the acrylic paint went on to the cardboard so I used it for several pieces including a few atc's. I had some little pieces left over and glued them together to get one more base for an atc.

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Art & Me

My artistic passion started out when I was a little girl. I remember taking a lined piece of loose-leaf paper and a stubby pencil (or whatever I could get my hands on) and just started to express myself with lines and other scribbles. It was not just a way to pass the time, I enjoyed it. And that passion never changed. If anything, it has only deepened over the years.

Art emerges from the moment. Sometimes it has a conscious symbolic meaning, other times it's an unconscious expression; by just letting my brush, my pencil become an extension of emotion onto a piece of canvas or piece of paper. Sometimes it becomes a beautiful surprise or an unexpected discovery. My work becomes a physical manifestation of what is happening in my life at the precise moment of time. It becomes the emotion, the conscious and unconscious collaboration of dreams, visions and the spirituality of where I am in my life at that moment. Art is my voice and expression of what I am thinking or feeling.

I relish in creating my works from mixed media because it reflects how diverse I lead my life. From paintings using acrylics, to altering seemingly benign everyday objects, to creating collages that encompass several elements of different origins, different meanings, and different compositions. When I create, and when it all clicks into place, it feels like the rest of the world dissolves away leaving the only thing in front of me: the artwork that I'm communicating through. Art is a life-long process, evolving alongside everyday life. Art is my definition of where I am and what I'm feeling. Art is color, texture, and movement. It's about creation, an absorption of time, passion and life...Art.

Tuesday, July 05, 2005

subtleties


beauty in subtleties


I sometimes have cardstock, watercolor paper or bristol board layered on my work table. So when I paint something, I paint right on top of it. Sometimes the paint overlaps to those under layers. After a few project they turn out to be very interseting - the colors and textures. Both the pieces in this ATC were cut from those papers.
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