November 2 -- lots of small things

Today I picked up Wolfy from the theater.  He will be back on display in December.

The plaster cloth drips on the cat girl's skirt were thin enough to wipe off (mostly) with a damp paper towel.  It needs to dry overnight and then I will need to vacuum the paper towel crumbs off.  I think that will be good enough to cover with one of the exterior paint testers I got when I was choosing the green for my house...I have several of them.  I will be painting and/or papering over it anyway.  The plaster cloth on the upper part of the cat girl was a lot heavier -- that is why I had to put tissue paper over that part.

Good thing I have high ceilings in the dining room!

These plaster cloth drips are wiping off pretty well without soaking the surface.

I think the exterior paint will cover this just fine as a base coat.

I also stopped by Northville Lumber to see if they could cut some wood and dowels for me.  I think that using the dowels with the wood bases will stabilize Baby Beast and He Dreams He is a Tree for display at the show.  He Dreams is NFS but Baby Beast will be.  I will screw the dowels to the boards with long skinny screws that I got today (I might end up needing help with this part in order to drill straight pilot holes so that the dowels don't crack or split), but first I will paper the bases (or paint them) to finish them off.

I also final coated 5 collages in my spray booth (really, the studio bathroom...the only room with a really good exhaust fan) and they are drying in Studio B.  I have the ready made frames for them and the hanging hardware is ready to go...I want them to dry for a couple of days first.

And then there was this collage that I need to paint thin lines on.  Tonight I tried putting on a third coat of orange paint but it is just beyond me...the lines are getting sloppier and wider but not more orange.  I tried cutting decorative paper into very thin strips and put them on with matte medium but it is just not working...the paper is dissolving before I can pick it up and lay it on the canvas...I tried to patch it but it just isn't working.  I am disappointed but not defeated.  I will figure this out.

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THIRD coat of orange paint!

Super thin strips of paper...

...just not working.

I also got some "write-on" transparency film (while I wait for the ink jet film I ordered to arrive) and some special pens for writing on the film.  I traced an old sketch just to see how it would look.  But, of course, when I went to get the overhead projector I found that it was back up in the loft in Studio B.  Peggy is coming by tomorrow to bring it down for me. 

I will have to wait until late tomorrow afternoon to see how it worked.

  OH -- and I hired someone to help me with my website -- YAY!

Okay -- that's enough for tonight...I'm kinda beat.

2015 | Day 156

Day One Hundred Fifty-Six

Well, I suppose I might as well get used to the (apparent) fact that I am no longer doing a daily blog -- this year anyway.  I miss the discipline of the daily posts but things are different this year and that is just how it is.

This morning I am beginning to rework the cat girl.  I want to try to get her to look more "finished" than she used to.  I also want her to be a stand-alone character rather than be connected to Chime Cat.  Originally I tried to make her look like a resident of Cloud City (the place Chime Cat was visiting).  Her skirt and tail were meant to look like clouds and a sky.  For this incarnation she will have her own story.  She also gets glass taxidermy eyes this time around.

Today I am working on "aiming" the glass eyes.  I will need to do more plaster cloth reconstruction on her face but this is my first stopping/drying point.  She won't be even close to perfect but I am enjoying the learning progress/process that goes along with working with what I've got.

Here is her "before" look from late January, 2012.

365 Day 125

3 of 3

This is the third of the three "back up" collages I put together when I was choosing my submissions for "West of Center". This morning I glued the elements to the background. Again, I am not sure if it is done or not OR what I am going to do with it.

Notification is supposed to be on Saturday...excited to find out.

365 Day 124

not sure if this is done

This is another of the "back up" collages I made when I made a set of three collages to submit to an upcoming juried show.

I just glued it all down tonight...not sure if I will add more to it or not.

365 Day 122

cutting flowers

I have been playing around with this tonight.

I already had the cat girl assembled. I had a few of the flowers cut out, but I had to cut out a whole bunch more -- there were pink ones, magenta, orange, all much smaller.

I don't think I am done with this and I am not sure where I will go with it, but this is what I have been doing tonight...
gluing down flowers that I cut out.

KT Goodlove 199 and 200

We are more than what we seem.

KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. Kettle paints on the block and then I add my paper bits. These are the last two blocks in this set -- #199 and #200.

On some of the blocks I make a reverse mask of Kettle's image and add in things to the backgrounds. For this collage I used a piece of butcher/deli paper that I colored with alcohol inks and watercolors.

And look what it is, it's two more of those worms/snakes coming up out of those holes again. These two blocks actually fit together with block #196 and seemed to make a triptych but I couldn't get the combined collage to work over three blocks, plus I think that #196 works well as a stand alone. Another reason for making two blocks and then a separate one is that cutting a reverse mask that would fit over three blocks would have been pretty tricky. It was challenging enough with two.

Anyway...in person this collage looks kind of space-y. (To me) It looks like they are sitting on a planet surface and that cat girl better be careful not to lean back too far or she will fall off and go floating in Space forever.

And these blocks complete this set of KT Goodlove for Art-o-mat. Tomorrow I will ship them off to Artists in Cellophane for distribution to Art-o-mat machines across the country! I wonder where they will end up?

KT Goodlove 194

No? Well, you're clearly the expert on these things.

I was going to put in something for the cat girl to be pointing at or waving her baton at, directing...but I decided it looked better without something else there. Also, it allows the viewer to fill in the story.

I'm also crazy about how well the head matches what the body is doing.

This is another one of those characters that is painted in that fantastic beyond-Barbie semi-metallic intensely pink paint. Maybe I will go back and take a detail shot at another time if I can get the color right with the camera. My scanner -- and camera -- just refuse to "see" this incredible shad of pink like it really is.

UPDATE: I just added two detail shots -- the color is almost right.

KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. Kettle paints on the block and then I add my paper bits. This is #194.

KT Goodlove 193

He's comin' right at us!

I couldn't resist coloring in the star. I know it doesn't match the cat girl's eyes, but it is close (in person). I like the colors in this collage. I also like the intense look on her face.


KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. Kettle paints on the block and then I add my paper bits. This is #193.

KT Goodlove 191

wait -- what???

I like how in this collage the rabbit is brown with a black outline and the cat girl's dress is black with a sort of brown trim. I also like the way the curves of the two characters follow each other and I think their ears are similar, too.


KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. Kettle paints on the block and then I add my paper bits. This is #191.

KT Goodlove 190

I know...isn't this wicked?

This collage has all the things going on that I love the most with the KT Goodlove series. The animal person's eye color matches the background color of the block and you can't really tell who is talking -- the cat girl or the rabbit -- maybe both.



KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. Kettle paints on the block and then I add my paper bits. This is #190.

KT Goodlove 189

come with us now on a journey through time & space



KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. Kettle paints on the block and then I add my paper bits. This is #189.

This is a block where Kettle left the background unfinished, so I used a piece of butcher/deli paper that I colored with alcohol inks and watercolors. I made a reverse mask of the cloud and fit my altered paper onto the block.

This is also one of those collages where my scanner does not pick up the true beyond-Barbie pink of the cloud. The paint also has a metallic element to it (not glitter). The actual intense pink is closer to the color of the cat girl's top than what shows up in the scan...it is really a great color.

The text comes from the opening of the British television show The Mighty Boosh.

KT Goodlove 188

Your clock is six minutes fast.



KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. Kettle paints on the block and then I add my paper bits. This is #188.

On some of the blocks I make a reverse mask of Kettle's image and add in things to the backgrounds. For this collage I used a piece of butcher/deli paper that I colored with alcohol inks and watercolors because I needed to change the color of the plain painted background in order to get more to look at without additional cut paper elements to overcrowd the piece.

KT Goodlove 187

I'm burning with indifference.


KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. Kettle paints on the block and then I add my paper bits. This is #187.

KT Goodlove 186

I barely made it here.

KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. Kettle paints on the block and then I add my paper bits. This is #186.

On some of the blocks I make a reverse mask of Kettle's image and add in things to the backgrounds. For this collage I used a piece of butcher/deli paper that I colored with alcohol inks and watercolors because I needed to change the color of the plain painted background in order to make the cat girl's eyes blend in with the background color(s).

365 Day 35 -- KT Goodlove 184

The tulips were placed in this collage to cover a portion of the cat girl that had copy from the magazine in a circle over her body. You can still sort of see the very edge of blue to the right of that one tulip and underneath the right bottom edge of the flower.

I chose not to put any text on this collage because there was already a lot going on...both story-wise and visually.

KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. Kettle paints on the block and then I add my paper bits. This is #184.

KT Goodlove 182

"Yep", I lied.


KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. Kettle paints on the block and then I add my paper bits. This is #182.

365 Day 34 -- KT Goodlove 180

We are not a little lost -- we're really lost!








KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. Kettle paints on the block and then I add my paper bits. This is #180.

KT Goodlove 179

She called it a room so it must be a room.

Again (like with #177) my scanner does not pick up the extreme beyond-Barbie pinkness or its metallic effect in this collage. The paint nearly matches the darker flowers of the cat girl's dress.

This is also another block that Kettle added a piece of a children's book illustration to instead of a painted character. I like how the bird and the cat girl seem to be looking at the same thing.

KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. Kettle paints on the block and then I add my paper bits. This is #179.