November 20 -- oh shoot, I missed my midnight deadline by 9 minutes...

I worked on a lot of the collages today and I have finally got all 11 remaining collages started and in several stages of done-ness.  Three of the collages were started by using the overhead projector to transfer images onto the canvases.  Here is one of them...it is a picture of me as a monster/guy.

Today I also picked up Forest Horses from the framer.  I know I said no sneak peeks, but I am really happy with the way this turned out...even the (faux) floating frame looks good to me.  This is the collage from a few days ago that I felt guided to do...the "very wet" one using the marbled paper in a collage for the first time.  Honestly, this is so unlike me and not something I would be able to sit down and draw...but I love it a lot...the colors in person are very intense.  It is called Forest Horses because the green marbled paper's color is Forest and so is one of the shades of green Unryu paper.

And -- ta daaaa -- we got my very bare bones website up and running today!  Here is a link for it!  And this is all I can do for tonight.

November 3 -- more multi-tasking

Today I have been going through sketchbooks and notes, etc. to look at creatures I've been jotting down.  I am trying to come up with compositions for the blank canvases.  I will use the overhead projector to help me size and transfer the images to the canvases.  Peggy came by this afternoon to bring the projector down from the loft in Studio B and I tried it out just to make sure it was still in working condition and to make sure that write-on film wasn't a waste of money...it wasn't...yay.  The image is sort of hard to see because the room was so bright, but it is the robot on the wall between the windows.  I won't be using that for a collage -- it was just easy to trace yesterday.

I papered the top half of the long horns guy all the way around -- hard to believe two hours flew past and that was only as far as I got...it is all the curves and non-flat surfaces I guess.  I intend to go back and finish him tonight.  I hope to get one or two of the smaller new guys papered tonight, too.

It is a bit daunting when I think of all I still have to do by the deadline...I can do this...I will do this... I want to do this.

365/2013 - Day 291

getting reacquainted

Tonight I am getting reacquainted with my old overhead projector.  I have been going through every single paper and page and envelope and folder in my desk drawers trying to find my old acetate sheets of images but I could only find the one that was packed up with the projector...so I had to experiment with that one old, old sheet.

Honestly, I don't remember what kind of printer I had back then and I didn't know if the ink from my present printer would dry on the acetate...there is no setting for it in the drop down menu (my ancient printer had it listed).

So I gave it a go...I tried printing a small Micron pen drawing for an ATC I did a long, long time ago.  I covered up the other image on the used sheet of acetate and I printed out little images of the "Cat Looks Up" guy hoping that one of them would hit an empty spot on the acetate sheet.

3 images printed on the acetate -- the others on the regular paper that was covering up the old cat image.

The ink dried after a while and this is what I got.

So I am guessing this computer will print onto fresh acetate sheets just fine.  

I projected this image on the bathroom door after I re-remembered how to set up the projector and turn it on...and then how to focus the image.  It worked pretty well, but man -- I forgot how hot that thing runs!  It has a fan but it still gets pretty hot pretty quickly.

I think I will invest in some new acetate sheets (or whatever they are calling them now) and see what I can do.  I am hoping I can draw something I like and then project it onto that large canvas/collage that I painted over.