2012/365 Day 118

Art-o-mat road trip

Michigan is getting its fourth Art-o-mat machine!  (I am so excited I barely slept last night!)

Ruth and I are making a road trip to South Haven, MI to go to the opening reception at the South Haven Center for the Arts.  Arto-Founder and Bureau Chief Clark Whittington will also be on hand to give a presentation about the Art-o-mat project.

On the return trip we will swing by Kalamazoo and visit Michigan's third machine at Bonnie Pfingst's Tiny Studio.

I will have plenty of photos to blog tomorrow -- but in the meantime, have a look at the links below (if you haven't already).  

Art-o-mat

South Haven Center for the Arts

Tiny Studio

See you back here tomorrow!

365 Day 91

an art-filled road trip to Kalamazoo!



Juana and I are off on a road trip to Kalamazoo for the April Art Hop. We will be going to Bonnie Pfingst's Tiny Studio for her 1st-ever Tiny Market. Click on the poster to go to Bonnie's Tiny Studio blog!

Bonnie is also an Art-o-mat host and I will be taking a wide selection of art from my inventory of onesy/twosy artpacks from columns that didn't sell out all the way. This will give Bonnie an opportunity to see some Arto-artists she may not be familiar with yet and also share more Arto-art with her Kalamazoo area Arto-fans.




Juana and I will be sharing a table at Tiny Market. I'm packing up the Arto-artpacks, Tookies finger puppets that I made just for Tiny Market and a couple of my Animal People collages.





















yikes -- I can't forget to take my Art-o-mat hoodie!











And of course...there is no way that Juana and I are taking a road trip and staying over at a hotel without bringing Magic: the Gathering!




travel essentials














here come the minotaurs...minotaurs are my favorite magic character(s).

365 Day 75

Tookies for other venues




I was SO excited to get a shipment of 30 skeins of "Tookie hair" -- a discontinued yarn called Moda Dea Ticker Tape. My friend Franciney is really knowledgeable about yarns and she figured out what it was I was trying to locate. Yay!





I am working on 30 Tookies that are not for Art-o-mat. 4 are secret for now, 26 are for the first-ever Tiny Market at Bonnie Pfingst's Tiny Studio during the April Art Hop in Kalamazoo.













I really like the new camouflage-type pattern on this guy. I wasn't so sure about it when my sister and I first found it, but I really really like it now. And I was able to find a few more pairs of the gloves that were on sale but I think most of the stores in my immediate area are pretty wiped out right now...end of season. I am very glad to have the ones I found.

















I got the buttons put on these guys late last night and I did the mouths and eyelashes tonight. They are coming along nicely.

365 Day 71

and so it begins...again









I know it probably doesn't sound like much to do, but this is a very time consuming part of making the Tookies finger puppets...selecting the fingers and pre-matching them up with the buttons that will be their eyes. As I have said on many occasions, I have trouble choosing colors (mostly because I like too many combinations) and it just takes me a long time.

I pulled out 50 combos of glove fingers and button eyes. 30 will be for taking to Tiny Studio in Kalamazoo for Bonnie Pfingst's first ever Tiny Market during the city's April Art Hop. 4 are for another very special reason and the rest are for my Etsy store.













I will begin cutting off the finger parts and sewing on the eyes and mouths tonight. I may only get the first 4 done, but it will be a start. Because of the way I was working today, my right upper arm hurts like I got a tetanus shot (poor Took).




I think this one is my favorite right now.

365 Day 70

moving right along...

Having completed the 100 Tookies finger puppets for Art-o-mat what should I do next...make MORE Tookies, of course!

I am starting a new batch of Tookies that I will sell outside of the Art-o-mat format...meaning no box (and probably other changes per puppet). So today has been spent reassessing, sorting, cleaning/clearing my Tookies supplies stash.

Making the Tookies in assembly line fashion seemed to work pretty well with that batch of 100 so I will start this batch out the same way.

I will put some of the new Tookies for sale in my Etsy store and will have some available for sale at the first ever Tiny Market at Bonnie Pfingst's Tiny Studio in Kalamazoo, MI during the city's April Art Hop. Juana and I will share a table there -- very exciting!

Bonnie is also the host of an Art-o-mat machine at her studio. Click on the poster to go to Bonnie's Tiny Studio blog.

New Art-o-mat® machine in Kalamazoo

A new Art-o-mat® machine is now in place at Bonnie Pfingst's Tiny Studio in Kalamazoo, MI.

I was so excited that most of the photos I took didn't come out...sheesh.

That's Bonnie Pfingst and Clark Whittington in the photo on the right. And of course, that's "Tiny" in the photo on the left.



You really MUST visit Tiny Studio and meet Bonnie and her machine "Tiny".

Location:
Park Trades Center #219
326 W. Kalamazoo Ave.
Kalamazoo, MI 49007-3361








Oh -- I also wanted to show you some of Bonnie's wonderful artwork that is now in MY collection!

Big Day Tomorrow: Art-o-mat® + Detroit Derby Girls

Tomorrow (Saturday, Aug. 1) Opening Night festivities for the NEWEST Art-o-mat® machine in Michigan! It will be located at Tiny Studio in Kalamazoo. Read the article here. Arto-Founder and Bureau Chief Clark Whittington will be on hand, too! I am SO excited!

AND it is the 2nd Women's Tug O' War at the St. Andrew's Highland Games in Livonia, Mi. A re-match between last years winners -- our very own Detroit Derby Girls -- and women's football team The Detroit Demolition. Make sure to arrive early for this...Tug O' War begins at 1p.m. but allow at least a half-hour for parking/shuttle and making your way in to the games area. Tickets info here. This is a pic of the two teams from last year...DDG is in the red shirts.


And ... tomorrow morning (before I leave to go get Juana for our trip to Kalamazoo) I will post finger puppet #50 in my Arto-series "All Ears". (You can see #49 in the post below this one.)

Early next week I will be packaging them up and sending the series in to Artists in Cellophane for distribution to machines across the country!

Whew!