Category: Art

Crankypantsing, Doodles, Music

The news of the day

Shelly

Staff Meeting Doodle
Staff Meeting Doodle

We had another meeting-slash-training-session today. This one was, thankfully, only an hour long, but that’s an hour of my life I’ll never get back. Damn! So, I did a little more doodling at the bottom of the previous doodle’s page, which explains the swirlies along the top border.

This may be as close to arting as I get today. I just don’t think I’m in the mood to mess with it. We found out this morning that one of our coworkers was in a coma, and was not going to come out of it. She died at 1:00 this afternoon. I didn’t know her well, but it’s still kind of weird and sobering to think that someone I saw on Friday is gone today. Poof! Just like that.

And that, such as it is, is the news of the day.

A man in my shoes runs a light and
All the papers lied tonight
But falling over you
Is the news of the day
Angels fall like rain
And love (love, love)
Is all of heaven away

(I always did love that Psychedelic Furs song, so it seems sort of fitting that it’s stuck in my head tonight.)

Art, Crankypantsing, Doodles

Staff Meeting Doodle

Shelly

Staff Meeting Doodle
Staff Meeting Doodle

We had an hour long presentation at work this week, and I spent my time, as usual, doodling. I’m glad I took a notebook, because even though I picked an out of the way seat in the back of the room, someone just had to sit right next to me. Why are some people unable to comprehend that someone who has gone out of their way to sit alone might want to be left alone? Grrr.

I’m used to taking crap from other people about being antisocial, but I’d occasionally like to see people who are overly social stop and think for a minute. You may think I’m abnormal, but I can assure you, you seem a little bizarre to me, too.

Art, Artist Books, Collage, Ladybusiness

It Was Always Adam’s Apple & Eve Reworked

Shelly

Hemp Bound Journal: Eve Was Born of a Peculiar Rib (reworked)
Eve Was Born of a Peculiar Rib (reworked)
collage (dress pattern, fragments from old books, T pins, oil pastel, gears, brass brads, sand paper, and poplar tree leaf)
8 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches

Hemp Bound Journal: It Was *Always* Adam's Apple
It Was Always Adam’s Apple
collage (book and magazine clippings)
8 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches

I felt like the poplar leaf in Eve was popping out too much, and that it either needed to be toned down or to be balanced in the opposite corner. So I played around with adding gesso, then oil pastel, which helped. Since this is a creation myth, I though some sand paper would be appropriate. And then I remembered the little gears I recently got from Ms. Lea, and applied them with some tarnished brass brads.

The lower image uses a graphic from a biology book, the back page from an Anthropologie catalog, and a magazine clipping. Like most of the glue book type collages I\’ve done, it was a stream of consciousness exercise. This one turned out pretty well, I think.