Wait! Before you start smirking, we’ve already established in a previous post that I am behind schedule with my “Happy New Year” cards and I have decided to view the entire year as my deadline. Mainly because this is a yearly project I enjoy and I want to do it AND do it right, while having fun. But, also because I am kinda stubborn and I don’t want to quit once I get started.
It’s amazing how many ideas can be pulled from your recycling bin. My mind is abuzz.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
Winter sunlight streaming through the windows and some bright yellow flowers to catch its beams. It was a nice Monday, in spite of the hectic and the profane.
Stealing some time to work on my Year of the Dragon card design, today. Sharing a few shots of sketching, in progress. If you’d like, you can see even more in the flickr set here. I’ll post more on this project as it moves along. Thinking of doing a companion tea towel, I think this dragon would look cool romping in the kitchen.
January has been uncharacteristically busy. I’m working on my New Years card (Now pretty late, I know- but hey! I have a whole year to celebrate, so it’s ok. It’s ok. … It’s ok.) and some design work that I’ll post about later, among other things like taxes (Ick) and an installation piece for the Piedmont Opera’s production of The Crucible that’s gonna be pretty cool, if we can pull it off. For now, check out these skulls! Part of an in-progress collaborative project with Patrick Harris and the glitter diva Millcent Greason-Spivak that’s a spin off of these cool guys for the Art-O-Mat (Working title: Artichoke Hearts and Black Roses). Stay tuned for more.
A few things making me happy (as part of my life list ongoing gratitude journal):
A traffic jam softened with a sunset
the giddy freedom of scribbling, using all the colors in the box
Join the largest online protest in history: tell Congress to stop this bill now!
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The three most definitive articles on SOPA and PIPA: Free Speech, Problems, Security
A few more images from my sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project, in progress, including some notes I wrote to myself as I went along. A few of these ideas will make it into larger scale prints, I am sure. Meanwhile, I am enjoying the zen of slowly filling the blank pages and watching the layers build.
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