So I can no longer blame my mom for anything as she had left North Carolina...
I picked up the gel medium and played with it last night. Nice glossy surface and it's, as advertise, an excellent adhesive. (I was unsticking stuff as much as I was glossing stuff over.) We'll see.
Walk? has also reached its destination and I have yet to experience any ridicule from that corner. Apathy for the piece or apathy towards communication? I can't tell.
Lastly. (God I have nothing to say but it's kind of a duh to myself as I haven't worked on anything new in days. Although, I have a few ideas, one with ribbon, one with fabric pieces and one based on the remains found in a hole punch...I'm thinking confetti)
(Shoot I forgot how I was going to wrap this up. I got all caught up in my asides.....)
(Ha. I remember now.) I spoke with MMC, who was supposed to get the hideously compelling Sleepless Night, Bedroom Ceiling. (Skype is pretty amazing, I got to actually see my friend for the first time in almost ten years...and yes I am now concentrating on the decision to buy a new laptop so that I have a computer fast enough to talk as well as see on Skype.) The piece most likely ended up at their old apartment, and she said it would be a surprise for the bachelor in residence there now. I think I will have to make something new for her (my mom also kind of ordered me to and since I love my mom...).
So, I'm back at work...I know, you are so very lucky to be able to bask in my brilliance again. (The wonder of the internet, I can say that and not worry about keep a straight face.)
Showing posts with label night sky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label night sky. Show all posts
The Night Sky Incident
This is a case in which the receiver has no clue what's going on and since I've finally pronounced it finished then promptly mailed it off, my night sky piece is fit to be posted.
The first mention of this piece appeared in Snags and Cake, followed by another bit in Brain Drain (which you can go read or stay tuned because both pretty much dealt with the same problem -- I can be boringly fixated on subjects). The first time I stepped away from this creation, it was beyond obvious that it was boring as all hell. Thus generating two posts in which I chew to death my frustration over what to do to fix the complete snore fest that was my night sky piece (strangely enough night sky isn't the title but then again the person who receives this should get the point).
Anyways, in the end I added more "stars" and called it a day. I like it (not as much as googly eye Paranoia) but it has its place: a perfectly predictable melding of black, blue, red pastels with white pastel "stars" then glossied up with fixative (the glossy kind). Admittedly I may have over sprayed this piece with fixative but it ended up adding some character (and I survived the fumes!) so it's all good.
So this is Walk?.
It's simple and direct: one hopes the receiver of said piece doesn't completely trash it...and that they get it.
One of the best parts of living in the rural mountains of NC is the number of stars I can see on a clear night. Totally beats out Syracuse...so I win right?
The first mention of this piece appeared in Snags and Cake, followed by another bit in Brain Drain (which you can go read or stay tuned because both pretty much dealt with the same problem -- I can be boringly fixated on subjects). The first time I stepped away from this creation, it was beyond obvious that it was boring as all hell. Thus generating two posts in which I chew to death my frustration over what to do to fix the complete snore fest that was my night sky piece (strangely enough night sky isn't the title but then again the person who receives this should get the point).
Anyways, in the end I added more "stars" and called it a day. I like it (not as much as googly eye Paranoia) but it has its place: a perfectly predictable melding of black, blue, red pastels with white pastel "stars" then glossied up with fixative (the glossy kind). Admittedly I may have over sprayed this piece with fixative but it ended up adding some character (and I survived the fumes!) so it's all good.
So this is Walk?.
It's simple and direct: one hopes the receiver of said piece doesn't completely trash it...and that they get it.
One of the best parts of living in the rural mountains of NC is the number of stars I can see on a clear night. Totally beats out Syracuse...so I win right?
Brain Drain
My mind is tired.
At the library: its still tax season, I'm branching off into what we like to call collection development (or to everyone else buying books --- if it were only that simple I'd be a master of the universe) and we are about to start what is our busiest month yet: April. (Civil War exhibits, National Library Week, an e-book petting zoo (staff only, so I can help you get your e-book, theoretically) and I set myself up to teach no less than four computer classes...(and since I did it myself I really shouldn't be whining about it but am I really whining? questions for the ages)).
So anyways...
The point, my mind can't take any more or the gray mater will explode and I will be nothing more than zombie food. In order to avoid this fate I started my Sunday nice and slow by reading a mind-candy( IE, romance) paranormal trilogy Court of Angels by Stella Cameron:
It was okay and now my laundry is done...no progress on the mailart front though. Still wondering what I'm going to do about the night sky, created a collage piece centered around the color orange (of which I am not a fan....though the dislike has continued to keep me from committing a felony) and am considering buying shellac. Why I don't know, maybe to cover the collage piece so it has a smooth service...couldn't I use a varnish? Maybe just hairspray....
(Shoot there isn't a point...I lost it somewhere and you know what? I am not going to go and find it because I have other work to do!)
At the library: its still tax season, I'm branching off into what we like to call collection development (or to everyone else buying books --- if it were only that simple I'd be a master of the universe) and we are about to start what is our busiest month yet: April. (Civil War exhibits, National Library Week, an e-book petting zoo (staff only, so I can help you get your e-book, theoretically) and I set myself up to teach no less than four computer classes...(and since I did it myself I really shouldn't be whining about it but am I really whining? questions for the ages)).
So anyways...
The point, my mind can't take any more or the gray mater will explode and I will be nothing more than zombie food. In order to avoid this fate I started my Sunday nice and slow by reading a mind-candy( IE, romance) paranormal trilogy Court of Angels by Stella Cameron:
- Out of Body
- Out of Mind
- Out of Sight
It was okay and now my laundry is done...no progress on the mailart front though. Still wondering what I'm going to do about the night sky, created a collage piece centered around the color orange (of which I am not a fan....though the dislike has continued to keep me from committing a felony) and am considering buying shellac. Why I don't know, maybe to cover the collage piece so it has a smooth service...couldn't I use a varnish? Maybe just hairspray....
(Shoot there isn't a point...I lost it somewhere and you know what? I am not going to go and find it because I have other work to do!)
Snags and Cake
So,
I've hit a few snags. Things have gone wrong. Not hideously, dangerously or even illegallly wrong but as they say in Meet the Robinsons : I just don't know how well this plan was thought through...or something like that.
First, my attempt to create a night sky piece has produced a very boring postcard. A total snore. In addition the person to whom this card was going to has some background in graphics and it was doomed to ridicule either way. Ugly and unappealing are okay but boring is completely unacceptable.
Now I am focused on trying to fix it. Add more to the original piece? Try same ideal in different medium? I can't really decide...I think I keep looking at it from other people's perspectives.
I have a thing for the night sky, it's like the ocean (actually large bodies of water in general), I find it calming and soothing but so awesome (Lizzie, please note the appropriate use of the word awesome). Anyways.....
Lastly, naturally, Sleepless Night, Bedroom Ceiling has the wrong address on it. Let this be a lesson to all: update your address book regularly. On the other hand, I left a note via facebook for the receipent (MMC) which led to a briefish IM run in where I directed her to the blog and caught up on old times.
That conversation solidified something that has been rattling around in my head (enter tiny philosophical bit): Individuals create. Doesn't really matter what your primary interests are or what job you do, there is some little bit of your life in which you make something. Maybe others don't consider it intellectually challenging or interesting or artistic or original but there's a satisfaction to be found in the making of something physical that you share with others.
In my friend's case, sharing is the best part! It may be the only green food I would truly enjoy eating...
I like it! Mostly because I can't even get a nice swirly pattern when I frost a cake, let alone manage to frost a figure...
I've hit a few snags. Things have gone wrong. Not hideously, dangerously or even illegallly wrong but as they say in Meet the Robinsons : I just don't know how well this plan was thought through...or something like that.
First, my attempt to create a night sky piece has produced a very boring postcard. A total snore. In addition the person to whom this card was going to has some background in graphics and it was doomed to ridicule either way. Ugly and unappealing are okay but boring is completely unacceptable.
Now I am focused on trying to fix it. Add more to the original piece? Try same ideal in different medium? I can't really decide...I think I keep looking at it from other people's perspectives.
I have a thing for the night sky, it's like the ocean (actually large bodies of water in general), I find it calming and soothing but so awesome (Lizzie, please note the appropriate use of the word awesome). Anyways.....
Lastly, naturally, Sleepless Night, Bedroom Ceiling has the wrong address on it. Let this be a lesson to all: update your address book regularly. On the other hand, I left a note via facebook for the receipent (MMC) which led to a briefish IM run in where I directed her to the blog and caught up on old times.
That conversation solidified something that has been rattling around in my head (enter tiny philosophical bit): Individuals create. Doesn't really matter what your primary interests are or what job you do, there is some little bit of your life in which you make something. Maybe others don't consider it intellectually challenging or interesting or artistic or original but there's a satisfaction to be found in the making of something physical that you share with others.
In my friend's case, sharing is the best part! It may be the only green food I would truly enjoy eating...
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| MMC's Ben 10 cake for Alexander |
I like it! Mostly because I can't even get a nice swirly pattern when I frost a cake, let alone manage to frost a figure...
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