Suburb of Heaven

The big collage piece I've been playing with recently. Don't know if it's done yet, but it's in the right ballpark, anyway.

The problem with having fun with collages is - what to do with them when you're done?

I've been invested in making collages, recently. Actually, that's not quite true - I've done it before, although with just a gluestick and a blank book, but now I'm doing new techniques I've never tried before. Most of the stuff involves transfer work, using contact paper and caulk and, as the delicious odor in my kitchen says, beeswax. I've had varying degrees of success with it. My work at the moment lacks, I think, any sort of real edge to make it more interesting than "pretty," and I may never get to that point. But I find it really satisfying to see what turns out, and I'm going to keep playing around with it and see what comes up.


Batgirl Says Get Out There

( Three more this way )

Gotta keep scrounging stuff to add three-dimensionality on these, but not go over the top to the "too busy for busy's sake" point. Difficult for me to do. Some of my earlier collages were really just one image on an otherwise blank sheet, because I was convinced I'd spoil the purity of it all somehow.

A few pendants for your perusal, with my apologies for the crappy scan. Pls to let me know if any of these will do or if you'd like me to scrap them:

( some skulls for Kateh )


( some viruses for Sometoast )

I can has Yuletide assignment! And I think I'll enjoy writing it, too! Woot woot.

Watch this space for some pendants later today - Kateh, I think I may have some things along the lines of what you were hoping for...

Downloading free brushes is dangerous, because I don't really know how to use them. These are two experiments (read: near-random pushing of buttons) I've been playing with.

The question then becomes: what the heck are they good for?

( The bases were my own photographs from Paris )

For the lovely ladies who have purchased pendants (and thus funded my next month of aikido!): I'm shipping them out today.

Thanks to all who purchased or looked at the photos, and I'll continue to put photos up of stuff for sale if it doesn't bug.

Smooches!

Have been helping a little bit with the install of our forthcoming ORLAN exhibition, "The Harlequin Coat." Part of this involves being hugged by mutant clothing on chairs.

Have spent the weekend making more of my pendants and magnets (more on that a little later), going to the gym, biking around, and, as is usual for me, worrying. Bemo's benefits have once again run out, and we have another two months before the big student loan payments to get his loans out of default are over with. After those two months are up, we'll still have to make payments (on his loans and mine) but they should be lower and, one hopes, within our ability to manage.

At least this time we have some savings, so we're not faced with, say, immediately selling the car, or something like that. I think we can manage, even if things are tight (no more trips to the coffee shop for an iced mocha and a cupcake. But I'm worried about not being able to pay for aikido, which is pretty important to me right now, so I'm going to be stocking my Etsy store and perhaps asking people to spread the word about it. There's no way I can stand out on my own in a sea of other stores selling similar pendants, but perhaps I can convince some of you that if you perhaps happen to need yourself a pretty little pendant, you might pick one of mine! I'll put something up here when I've put up photos of a few more things. Heck, I might even bypass Etsy and just put up pics here.

I'm also going to be looking around for a weekend job. The local organic co-op grocery needs a weekend cashier. I could deal with that.

I hate feeling like I'm constantly on the edge of developing a full-fledged anxiety disorder. And I wish Bemo could find work.

Didn't sleep much last night due to busy brain. Will be going to bed right after Mad Men, if I can hold on till then.

Watercolor from Perugia, Italy trip journal, 1998