Day Four

And speaking of prototypes...

Kettle and I are teaming up for an Art-o-mat® series. We will be using the name KT Goodlove. Maybe I will explain the name later on down the road, maybe not.

We are doing a set of 50. Kettle will paint his delightful characters (and 1/2 of the background) on the bottom half of the blocks and then send them on to me for me to add Animal People heads and other collagey bits on the top half. Then I will pack them up and send them to AIC.

The piece on the left is the prototype for the series. It feels really cool to touch it...I like how the orange paper blends into the paint. The paper is so smooth and matte and the magazine bits are slick and glossy...and the paint is well, painty.

I think this is going to be a LOT of fun!

Kettle and I are doing other collaborations, too.

A while back we started exchanging items. I sent him some cigar boxes and pieces of sanded wood that I started with Animal People, leaving room for him to paint. He sent me a boxful of different things that he had started painting, leaving me room to work.

The artist trading card (seen on the right) is one of the items that was in his shipment to me. I wish I'd scanned it before I did anything to it. But it arrived with the background, the girl and the blue outlined star. It was really cool when I remembered I already had a paper punch of a star in the same style. (LOL, it was even cooler that I was able to find it.)

I like the way it turned out.

I still haven't gotten around to reading up on how to NOT get those dots in some of the magazine pictures in my scans. They really aren't there. Honest.

commenting back on All Ears

I think something is permanently "broken" with my ability to comment on my own blog, as well as leave comments at other blogs. So I will do it this way on mine.

Thanks for the responses!

Yeah, I am crazy for puppets, too. I like doing voices for them. I don't care for marionettes, though. They are a little creepy to me.

I use the thumbs as hands/arms/hats/socks...depends on if it is an All Ears guy or a Junior.

I was going to do more Juniors (or variations on them and/or the stuffies I made for our stuffies project) but I was having just a bit more trouble getting them to fold nicely for the Art-o-mat® boxes. And I realized if the body/head wasn't stuffed it fit very well.

But I didn't even think of finger puppets (ha) until I tried to just stuff the body of a Junior with the excess foldovery part of the glove and it kind of turned itself into a finger puppet.

If you will recall, I am not a very skilled sewing person...LOL

Day Three

When you want to make art for Art-o-mat®, you have to make a prototype (following the Artists in Cellophane guidelines) and submit it for approval.

Well, I did that for my 2 new series, and I got the "okay" last night...yay!



One of my new series will be called "All Ears".

They are finger puppets and each will have slightly stuffed ears, but each will be embellished with its own personality.

Some will look like rabbits, but not all of them. Some will be solid colors, some will be stripey.

It's a good thing this Art*o*mat-piece-a-day blog project lasts for an entire year.

Another Arty 365-Day Blogger

My friend Liisa Mannery has started a 365-Day Blog! Yaaaaaaay, Liisa!

Liisa is making a book every day in 2009.

Her blog is called More Art, Please.

Now you know about it...go take a look!

Day Two

Another one for Animal People. I like this guy. I like how focused he is. I like his collar, too.















I am still not able to make comments on blogs (mine or anyone else's...dunno why).

issues

Note: I am having issues with being able to comment back on my own blog...and my comments on other blogs are not going through, either...don't know what's up...THANK YOU for leaving comments, sorry it seems like I'm not responding!

And I still have until midnight to post my entry for today -- THIS isn't it...LOL

Day One

It's a day of beginnings...

Things like just diving into this 365 Project, making titles for my arto-art, getting over my dread of writing, making a note to myself to read more about my scanner so that it doesn't make those teensy dots that aren't really there (in the girls' clothes, for example).

So here is "One". This is for my Animal People series. I make the picture, the viewer makes up the story.

As you will find, I am not very computer-y...so all of my collages are made from hand cut pictures from magazines that are on their way to my recycle bin. I really LOVE cutting the pictures, sorting them into their trays and matching up the heads to bodies. I am actually pretty obsessed with it.

I know I will get the hang of this blogging thing, it is just still very new to me. I'm still finding my way around and learning what all the buttons do.