Artistic Musings

Hello All,
Its a gloriously sunny today in Detroit. Everything is still icy so the branches and roofs are glistening to an almost blinding effect-wonderful! I need to take a walk today and try to take it all in. The kitties are enjoying it too. There are 4 out of the 5 of them sitting in the shafts of light in front of my window right now. Licking themselves and wrestling.

Yesterday I went over to my dad's house for a visit and haulled a significant amount of the art I have done in the past year for him to photograph and archive for me (he is a professional photographer). This posting will be devoted to the things he photographed yesterday. As always, I ask that if any viewers want to use any of these images, please leave me a comment or send me an e-mail asking for permission first.

This is the cover to a big wooden book my dad helped me make. The book houses a manuscript I had to make for an Imaginative Writing course I took last winter. It contains short stories, poetry, and short dramas and was alot of work but also alot of fun to make. I tried uploading some pictures of the inside of the book, but the images inexplicably rotated themselves? Still getting the hang of this blog thing...

wood/ metal/ dried leaves/ india ink/ acryllic paint/ gold ink/paper/string

I did this sketch a couple of weeks ago. Inspired by photograph of ancient Egyptian scarab amulet.

pencil

I don't really remember exactly when I did this one, but I used to have a fascination with drawing pregnant women. Fertility is an ongoing theme in alot of my work.

India ink/ acrylic paint/ wood/ dried foliage/ mirror pieces.

Kitsch art! YES! I enjoy breaking mirrors.

For my brother for Christmas this year. He is fascinated/terrified of aliens. Note alien penis.

Acrylic paint/ Vintage star confetti/ wood/ cutout from old children's book (cow. moo)/ mirror pieces/ vintage sparkles/ gold ink

This is my most recent piece...I just finished it a couple of nights ago.

wood/acrylic/pismacolor watercolor pencils/ prismacolor markers/ vinatge glitter/ pencil/ india ink/ magazine cutout/ gold calligraphy ink

Did this in an angsty teenage stage. wood/acrylic/glass beads/ prismacolor markers

My final project for Drawing I last winter semester. Inspired by old nautical art/ tatoos/ those mermaid chicks on the front of old boats.

Acrylic paint/ wood/ gold calligraphy ink/ prismacolor markers/ india ink

This is a shrine for my late Grandma. Wish I knew the year this photograph was taken... The wood panel used to be part of a big doll house which I took apart. Cutting out the intricate tree was extremly meditative.

Acryllic paint/ paper/ wood/ plastic dollar store bugs/ tin bumblebee pin (can't really see it that well here)/ photgraph/ prismacolor markers.

madeleine