2012/365 - Day 224

painting Penciled In edges and sewing Tookies faces

It has been an Art-o-mat production kind of day...plus a personal giant bonus.

Back to work in the basement with the painting of the edges of the MDF blocks.

This time it was Halo Pink Gold.  It is another one of those changing-colors-as-you-move-it colors.

You can see the pink in it, but it mostly looks gold.

I did a few extra ones (instead of the usual ten at a time).  This is 34 down, however many more to go (I found there are a few more than 50...but I didn't count them.)

This was my giant personal bonus for today.

Twink and Tull are sleeping in the little kitty bed in the front window together -- AND -- Twink didn't jump out when he saw me coming with the camera!   Awww...I've been waiting for this moment.

Okay -- back to work!

I switched to  Halo Purple Gold.  This has a different color of gold and a lighter purple than I used on the earlier blocks.

See -- here is the purple...

...and here is the gold.

I think this color really works for the blocks I was having trouble choosing a color for.  

And there they all are -- 52 or 53 -- one of them is the prototype -- and the others over 50 will go into the second batch of 50 that William is working on and will (hopefully) bring with him when he makes his way back to Minnesota in December -- he will be stopping by Northville to participate in an Arto-Session I want to put together.

And I have the first 25 (of 100) Tookies pulled out and I am working on putting faces on them.

I did these this afternoon.  I am going to keep working on them as I watch tv tonight.

I will be stopping at a total of 25 tonight (that includes the 7 from yesterday) and I have been taking breaks in between sewing them -- but then again, this isn't really the part that gets to my hands -- still, I am stopping at 25.

2012/365 - Day 223

a little more shadowing and a little more painting edges

Today Carla had me come back in to the Northville Art House so I could get more familiar with the day-to-day tasks that she does.  I am also writing out a step-by-step quick reference for myself for each job.  It was a little easier today and I actually retained some of the details that I learned yesterday.  Yay.

Tonight I have been back at painting "Penciled In" block edges.  These are the ones that I am collaborating on with William Hessian for Art-o-mat.

IF there is a single paint that I come close to actually liking (or at least not hating as much as other paint) it is absolutely Lumiere light body metallic paints by Jacquard.  I am especially fond of one of the colors I used tonight -- Halo Blue Gold...I also love Metallic Olive Green.  These two in particular look so different in the little jar before, during, and after painting.  The paint does all of the work -- and it changes slightly as you move past the surface or as you hold the little portrait and turn it in your hand.  Yes, I am very easily entertained/impressed/AND amused...these colors do it all.

It is just amazing to me how different the paint looks from edge to edge, block to block.  

Some are edges are more gold, some more green, some have blue in the colors...I think it works well on each block.

From these photos you can sort of get an idea of how there are separate colors in the same jar.

This is the inside top of the jar lid...so preeeetty.

The paint inside the jar kinda looked like this before I stirred it and while I was using it.

By the time I was done poking the paintbrush into the jar, it looked like this inside...you can see more of the gold  here.

It is really difficult to photograph the colors...and the lighting in my basement doesn't help much.

These were the first four I painted tonight.  You can see that the two in the background look lighter and have more gold on the edges and the closer two seem to have more blue on the edges...but when you turn them to look at them it is like a blue/green/gold rainbow.

Twenty down -- thirty to go!