Update on my drawing skills

Still Life drawn in class

Still Life drawn on deck with Sammy & Sadie sitting in my lap

Copying a photo

Copying a poster

Koi Pond

My favorite, using a Picaso - drawn upside down to learn to focus on the lines

11/16 - Week 1, Drawing Class

I decided I needed to learn to draw...so I signed up for a class at the Dunedin Fine Art Center.  They suggest we track our progress....here goes!

Rascal the JRT

Self-P

My Hand

Learning to Use Expression Design

The Garden

Rosco, My Crazy Rabbit

I've Got Bugs!

Altered Tin - Halloween Theme

This altered tin has been traded.  Enjoy:

Two little kids that are scared of a large pumkin that has teeth and eats other pumkins!

That is blood you see and a foot sticking out of the tin, an arm next to the pumkin on top.

This explains it all!

"Mother of Two Arressted for Murder"

More blood and the sponges she tried to clean it up with...

Inside is the body she tried to get rid of. 

It wouldn't fit in the box, that's why she had to chop off its arm and leg.

She buried it with its beads because they got blood all over them.

It still has one green eye to see you with!

A little bit of the shirt is still with the corpse, not all of it has rotted away.

Ahhhh, and a cock roach eating away the flesh.

Hee hee haa haa. 

Happy Halloween!!!

Dog ATC's

"Princess" (Traded)

"Johnny asked for a puppy" (Traded)

"Dogmatism" (Traded)

"Want a Biscuit?" (Traded)

"The Owner Always Wins" (Traded)

"Dogs, dogs, dogs" (Traded)

Gnome ATC's

"Female Gnome" (Traded)

 "A Family of Gnomes" (Traded)

"Not All Who Wander Are Lost" (Traded)

ATC's

What do you do with all those really bad photographs?

This is for a swap that calls for using the Florida state bird and flower. You knew the Tom Petty is from Gainesville, right?

Swap - Silly Me (Ends 9/15/09)

Cards need to be to me by September 15, 2009

• If you plan to participate, leave your name and contact information in the COMMENTS below.
• This will be a 1 card for 1 in return.
• Number of participants - unlimited.
• Please include your name and e-mail on the backs of your cards; along with the name of the Swap.
• Please include a self addressed stamped envelope for your returns.
• Please Contact me if you can not make the mail by deadline.

Silly Me...have fun with a self portrait...how do you see yourself? I have a feeling that I see myself very different than others see me. How about you?

ATC Details

ATC using photo, clippings from a magazine, pieces of sheet music, and water color paint sticks.

• the dimensions of the ATC must be 2.5"x3.5"


• an ATC mustn't be sold, only exchanged, as the whole essence of these tiny works of art is about artists meeting (by correspondence or online if need be) and exchanging their works, thus meeting many artists and getting exposed to many personal styles


• on the back of each ATC the artist writes part or all of the following information: name, contact information, title of the ATC and number (1/8, 2/8...) if it's part of an edition.


• they should be sturdy enough to survive mailing, and of reasonable thickness - some artist use recycle cereal boxes, chipboard, heavy card stock


• Almost all Fine Arts media can be put to the miniature canvas of an ATC, either alone or in combination with others: fabric, pencil sketch, charcoal, cartoon, watercolor, markers, color pencils, pastel, crayons, inks, dotting, collage, photography, calligraphy...

For more information, check out this great website: http://www.cedarseed.com/air/atc.html

Artist Trading Cards - What Are They?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Artist Trading Cards (or ATCs) are miniature works of art about the same size as modern baseball cards,[1] or 2 ½ X 3 ½ inches (6cm X 9cm), small enough to fit inside standard card-collector pockets, sleeves or sheets. The ATC movement developed out of the mail art movement and has its origins in Switzerland. Cards are produced in various media, including dry media (pencils, pens, markers, etc), wet media (watercolor, acrylic paints, etc), paper media (in the form of collage, papercuts, found objects, etc). The cards are usually traded or exchanged rather than sold.