Posted in Art, Digital Art, Digital Drawing, Digital Painting, drawing, Heart, tagged alabama, April 27 2011, Art, Digital Art, georgia, Heart, heart drawing, mississippi, tennessee, tornado on May 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I watched the tornadoes that ravaged the south on April 27, 2011 in real time from the comfort of my chair here in Iowa. (I posted more about that experience here.) It’s heart wrenching to see the destruction afterwards. The image for this piece of art has been haunting me until I sat down and did it.
Posted in Heart on April 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Art, Heart, Holiday, Photograph, Vintage, Winter, tagged Christmas, cookies, Heart, photograph on December 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I helped with the decorating of my friends’ Christmas cookies. They thought it was funny that I’d use so many silver dragees and figured people would break teeth on them. I argued that they were both stylish and safe as the dragees would take up some of the moisture of the icing and become soft. So I ended up with the cookies with the most dragees. I think they are very pretty! And I ate the little gingerbread man after taking the photo and the dragees basically melted in my mouth. It was nice they gave me the cookies in a heart shaped tin so I could use the picture on the blog. 
Posted in Art, Ceramic, Ceramics, Heart, painting, tagged Art, ceramic, Heart, painting on December 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I had to have this cute little thing to put teabags in. It was plain white porcelain when I started. That’s the great thing about hearts. It’s easy to make something up without drawing something first.
Posted in Art, Ceramic, Ceramics, Heart, painting, tagged Art, ceramic, Heart on December 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
More experiments in porcelain painting. It works like watercolor only better in some ways. You can work into the porcelain without it wearing down like paper. This must be the benefit of Clayboard. The tricky part is that the colors aren’t exactly the way they look after the piece is fired, but that’s some of the fun of it, too. The outside of the bowl is a pale green to match the leaf.
Posted in Art, Ceramic, design, Heart, painting, tagged Art, ceramic, Heart, painting on December 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve discovered the joys of ceramic painting. This is the first of my hand painted hearts.
Posted in acrylic, Art, Colored Pencil, Heart, painting, tagged Art, chocolate, chocolatier, dove chocolate, Heart, painting on November 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This past weekend I put on my first chocolate tasting party. I am trying out being a “Dove Chocolate Discoveries” chocolatier. I made this for my hostess.
It only took about an hour to put together. I started with a 2 x 2 inch canvas. I drew the heart with Inktense pencils, then smeared the color with a watery brush. The blue is acrylic craft paint. The dots are metallic copper craft paint.
The hardest part was putting the ribbon on. (The ribbon came from Dove Chocolate Discoveries.) I used an artist’s quality glue to start with, but it just wasn’t sticking. Then I got out a jar of Golden Acrylic Gloss Medium (after finding that the lid of the jar of matte medium is permanently affixed – damn!). I smeared that on with a palette knife. That seemed to work better although it still took a tremendous amount of time to dry.
I didn’t put any varnish on it, and there are a couple of messy shiny places where my medium coated fingers accidentally strayed to touch the front. I decided that added character. I don’t know how I would have varnished it for sure. Probably sprayed it with fixative (which would have darkened the pink ink – not good) and then sprayed some varnish on. I didn’t really want to darken the colors, though.
Posted in Art, Digital Art, Digital Drawing, Heart, Heart Drawings, tagged Art, Heart, heart drawing, orange on October 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just a simple fun heart.
It also looks good on a black t-shirt for Halloween.
Ask me where you can get it.
Posted in Art, design, Digital Art, Heart, tagged Art, graphics, Heart on October 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Another heart made using Photoshop brushes from my friend BSilvia at graphics-illustrations. I used them as an eraser to lift color out of rasterized shapes.
Posted in Heart on February 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. I made this in Photoshop, including the fabric textures, as a mock up of a quilted wall hanging I wanted to make. The way it ended up is very different except for the idea of using the hearts and the square of fabric I cut them out of. Hopefully someday in the not too far distant future I’ll have it finished and be able to post a picture of it here.
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