Lucille (running away to join the circus part 3)

ta da

Okay, so. A while ago I co-wrote a book called the Art Quilt Workbook with Jane Dávila. You might remember it from me blogging about it. Or not. Anyway, we went and wrote us another book. Art Quilts at Play will be released in January 2009, and is described thusly - 22 exciting new ways to play with surface design techniques and materials, plus ideas for collaborating with other artists. Bonus: Challenges, Trades & Collaborations.

If you are so inclined, you can pre-order a copy (with our autographs and everything!) from me (click me).

We had a bunch of student artists and collaborating artists who contributed their work, and we are ever so grateful to them.

our collaborating artists:
Natalya Aikens
Woodie Anderson
Liz Berg
Gail Ellspermann
Janet Ghio
Rayna Gillman
Terry Grant
Kathryn Hunter
Andrea Jenkins
Jane LaFazio
Mati McDonough
Tricia McKellar
Kim Rae Nugent
Karen Stiehl Osborn
Virginia Spiegel
Beryl Taylor


a little somthin' somthin' to whet your appetites:
[the cover of a Chinese Zodiac themed fabric journal]



peace out my homies.

these clowns (running away to join the circus part 2)

This was going to be an angry clown, but he sort of turned out happy. :)

running away to join the circus

One more elephant. Did I mention that I like elephants?

Ganesh

...or alternatively, Ganesha. Just continuing with the whole elephant thing.

elephant v 2.0

A few weeks ago I got a request for another elephant. I'm on record as liking elephants, I mention it often. So, yeah, a girl can never have too many elephants.

golly G

And G completes my alphabet.





Now I can write whatever I want. Like this...

aye

sahasrara

Okay, so yeah, this one has a thousand petals. I can't carve a thousand petals on a block that's only an inch and a half big. Use your imagination.

ajna

click me

vishuddha

anahata

These are getting reeeeaaaaalllly hard! click me

manipura

click me

swadhisthana

click me

muladhara

This week I'll be doing Chakras, starting with Muladhara. Thanks Jennifer for the suggestion.

T

my shoe is your shoe

...with apologies to Andy Warhol.

sk8

two tone

flip

flop

marabou mule

whiskey and women and women and whiskey

the angels wanna wear my red shoes

pea

no reason, just catching up on my alphabet

Saarinen

sink down in the blue chair

director's chair

chaise

rococo

Kaustby

I'm in trouble already with the chairs. Straight lines and symmetry - what was I thinking? I drew a bunch of chairs today and this one was the least bad, so he won. But the print is worse than the drawing, so I'm posting the drawing too. Yesterday's chair is an Ikea chair that's in my studio. This one is from the Ikea catalog (hence the Swedish name).

he feels lucky to have you here

Following a suggestion from Karoda, I'm going to carve some chair blocks. Thanks Karoda!

ex

learning to fly

One more Art*o*mat birdie. I remembered after I carved him that I meant to reverse him so he wouldn't look quite so much like a previously carved art*o bird. Too late. I'm still contemplating what to do next (plus I'm scrambling to hit a couple deadlines this week).
peace out my homies

it takes

Because I'm 2 sick 2 be creative. Also, I have 2 big deadlines this week.

just say

Not being negative, I've just done yes and maybe, so it was time for no.

maybe

Maybe. Because I'm contemplating the suggestions that people left for me on yesterday's post. And because it's a good word. Maybe. It's kind of full of potential - of what might be.

too legit to quit

Okay. This is weird, but it was something I needed to make. I was at work (Katonah Art Center), and for reasons I don't need to bore you with, it came up that we needed a "sold out" stamp. I volunteered to carve one, noting that I've been carving a block a day for 10+ months and I can't think of anything else to carve. My dear friend and co-worker Alek said, "so you're sold out of ideas!" So yeah, I'm sold out of ideas, but I have a couple months to go so pleeeeeease leave me suggestions. :)

singing in the dead of night

I know, I know. I've made a million black bird stamps. I do have a legitimate reason for making more. I'm (finally) working on a new art*o*mat series - see below for some from the first batch.

hope

I've had an Obama sticker on my bumper for 4 years. That's right, 4 years. Immediately after hearing Obama's keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention (click here and here), I went onto cafepress.com and bought a bunch of Obama bumper stickers and buttons. This was of course when he was running for the Illinois Senate. I live in New York - very few people around here knew who he was so I got some interesting comments about it. One dude even asked me why I had an Osama sticker on my car - to which I replied "OBama, not OSama, you idiot." So I explained for a couple years that some day he would run for president and I was showing my support. Eventually, once he announced his candidacy, people caught up with me. Then I started to get respectful comments from people - "how did you know?" kind of comments. When he won Iowa, people started calling me - to congratulate me (including one relative stranger, who called me to say "your man is gonna do it"). Whatever happens in today's vote, I'm proud to be a Barack Obama supporter. I'm proud of what he represents and hopeful that he can bring our country back from the last miserable 8 years.

peace

cranium + mandible

whew. Here's the original drawing and all the parts put together. The print skelly looks like he might need a chiropractor. He doesn't have a spine though. Hmmmmm.

what the left hand is doing

the right hand doesn't know