365 Day 202

eh...that head was too big

I kept messing with the new guy last night and then his head just go too big.

(I swear it looks like that cat-guy in the background is turning to watch the new guy's progress.)











Another view.

(see what I mean about that cat-guy? The wolf-guy doesn't care.)




I gave up at around 3 a.m. and went to bed.





So today I started cutting into the masking tape and aluminum foil to peel off layers. Eventually I was able to start folding foil back and it sort of made a new face and ears. Sort of.

I needed to see where the base horse's head was because I knew I was waaaaaay off on the positioning of the new head.













Can you see the base horse inside of what looked like the new open mouth of the larger outer beast?
















That is one not-too-happy-looking horse!
















LOL. Now the base horse is looking like some kind of wacky version of a chia pet.


I will work on him later tonight after my guests leave. It took a LONG time to cut all of that stuff away from the base horse's head!

365 Day 42

LOTS of progress today!














The day started off with picking up 55 magazines from my wonderful dentist's office -- wow! Denise was glad to weed out their magazines and I was thrilled to bring them home. I promise to recycle whatever I don't use.














When Juana and I were at Green's Art Supplies yesterday, we looked at a lot of their art paper. They had some of the same papers I have at home including two of my favorites.

Today I decided to use the paper I have instead of just looking at it.












I had another canvas that was set aside "for later". This one was once a sort of birthday card I received a long time ago and it had lots of beads and glitter and puff paints on a black background. It was an appreciated and thoughtful gift at the time, but it had outlived the greeting many times over so I decided to repurpose it.













I also got out one of the jars of matte medium that I have never used before. Ever. Had it forever, never tried it. I originally bought it for use in collage because I read you can use it in place of glue.













I think it is turning out pretty cool already. The canvas is textured with the paper itself and the remaining beads and puff paint under the paper. The orange stripes are not as visible anymore because of the black paint underneath, but it looks pretty darn cool. I have no idea where I am going to go with this yet, I am just happy to have finally tried the matte medium. I think I will let the paper tell me what to do.

The other paper -- my absolute favorite -- the green with black rectangles pattern -- is now a part of the ghost on the right. And it is also part of the mouth of the ghost on the left, the ghost who is made up of a bit of everything on the canvas.














I really enjoyed tearing the paper. I would normally have cut it with scissors in the shape of the ghost, but I am fighting my comfort zone(s) with this canvas.


















I really love all the layers of color that are developing.














I love how the paper is almost like a mask around his eyes.














And here is the mouth of the ghost on the left.



















AND -- I am very excited about this...my friend and I were able to coordinate some time for him to come by this evening and look at my plans for my submissions for the Come Play With Me show. He thinks that it will be a quick thing for him to put the wood parts together for me. He took some of the parts home and will get started on them and I will go and get some of the other parts tomorrow morning and we will meet up again tomorrow and get rolling! Now I have to get to work on the toy parts!!!

Let the Collage-ing Begin!

The initial prep work is done -- cutting out bodies, cutting out heads, matching heads to bodies. It's time to start on the individual collages!

These will be the latest batch of 50 "Animal People" for Art-o-mat® .

"Animal People" are hand cut paper collages made with images from magazines that are on the way to the recycle bin.

This time any phrases that end up in the collages will be from song lyrics.