Eggshell Painting Test - July 09

Crush eggshells, use brush and fingers to apply to canvas paper - with acrylic paint and matte medium. This is a test. It would have looked better if the paint color wasn't such a dark teal. Being able to see the eggshell white and beige bits through the paint is more interesting than dark blobs. Also, this mix dulls down a bit after it dries, so lighter paint colors (less dark pigment) would improve this situation as well.

Beet Juice Brush Paintings - July 25-26, 2009

Watercolor paints seem too expensive or intimidating? Try dipping a brush in some beet juice. I'm wondering how light-fast or fade-proof these will be. We'll see.

Torn Paper Landscape Collage #1

I saved up pieces of paper, reports, magazine pictures, and anything else that looked interesting. And this collage is the result of assembling these pieces together.
Enjoy
Corinne

Nine Lives Cat Story In Progress

Another idea in progress...I've been working on one cat drawing, or painting, for each "live" used up. This cat is not dead yet. :-)

Fingerprint art

And why not use your very own fingerprints as a means of expression?

Inspired by Klutz Press, a publisher that sells thumbprint art materials, I made this sheet of characters, and then five more sheets, with people, groundhogs (for mom's birthday which is on Groundhog Day), hedgehogs, Easter Island faces, squirrels, birds, a french girl, a fox with a genie, and many other strange little creatures that were conjured out of inkblots.

All that is required for this art form are some ink pads, relatively heavy paper, fingers, and a fine tipped black felt pen. Enjoy.

Dover coloring books are fun

This is a hand-colored copy of a black & white design taken from a Dover "Decorative Tile Designs" Coloring Book (by Marty Noble). I've felt inspired by Dover book illustrations and design books over the years. I hope they company will continue to be around for many more years.

I was going for a secondary color triad (green, orange, and purple), but it's hard to see the details of the colors, flowers and leaves with this scan (right). Ah well, as mentioned above, this was quite fun.

Still Life w/ Fruit and a Foot - Take 1, Dec. 08

These little labels we find stuck on our apples, bananas, oranges, and other produce items help tell a story - where our fruit comes from. They also create interesting images shown collectively - on their own.