As I mentioned in my first “Sharing is Caring” post, we’ve had a burst of creative energy lately. We’ve recorded a podcast, made some playlists, did a freewrite together, and made a TON of art!
Let’s get right to it!
First, (I’m pretty excited by this), I made a piece of crypto art and donated it to a charity auction for Covid 19 relief efforts. The auction takes place on Tuesday (31 Mar. 2020). Check out this tweet for a few of the details ( ~~~ embed:1244791142295560192 ), and if you’re interested in crypto art OR helping out with this unpleasant illness business, check out the auction! Here’s a low-rez look at the image: twitter metadata:bWFrZXJzcGxhY2Vjb3x8aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9tYWtlcnNwbGFjZWNvL3N0YXR1cy8xMjQ0NzkxMTQyMjk1NTYwMTkyICksIGFuZCBpZiB5b3XigJlyZSBpbnRlcmVzdGVkIGluIGNyeXB0byBhcnQgT1IgaGVscGluZyBvdXQgd2l0aCB0aGlzIHVucGxlYXNhbnQgaWxsbmVzcyBidXNpbmVzcywgY2hlY2sgb3V0IHRoZSBhdWN0aW9uISBIZXJl4oCZcyBhIGxvdy1yZXogbG9vayBhdCB0aGUgaW1hZ2U6fA== ~~~
In other art news, I’ve been BUSY… Here are a just a FEW of the things I / we have made lately. Drawings, photography, digital art, finger art, all that fun stuff! My creation urge has been stuck in overdrive…
“Self Portrait (27 Mar. 2020)”
[Digital photo with digital embellishments and colors. 2020.]
This piece ended up being one of the slides in our “Shelter at Home – 001” video. (You know, from the podcast we recorded a couple of days ago.)
“Collage (The Film Breaks)”
[Ink, felt pen, paint pen, and collage elements on found cardboard and black paper in a glass covered, front loading frame. 2020.]
As you may have seen in some of my previous posts, I’ve been making a lot of art with my granddaughter lately, although she’s only nine-months-old, and mostly just smashes and drools the works, which I think adds some much needed texture! “The Film Breaks,” the largest element of this collage, was one of those grandkid works. The others are just a few of the weird “little” pieces that I make on tiny chunks of cardboard, usually cut-up food containers.
“Thumby Says, ‘Hi’”
[Ink on thumb, photographed, with digital embellishments and color. 2020.]
Okay, I know this is a bit of a weird one, combining photography, absurdity, and dermoglyphs, but I think it’s funny. Thumby came from a group phone-call between Mariah and I and our kids. The granddaughter (on our daughter, Frankie’s line) kept getting bored and crawling away, so I tried to be funny by drawing a face on my thumb and sticking it up to the camera. It worked about this well…
But the thumb face amused me, so I took it another step and made the digital piece…
“Wild Gators Dancing on Their Tales”
[Digital photography with digital embellishments and color. 2019]
I’ve been sitting on this one for a while, but this seems like a good time to share it. While sitting in my car on lunchbreak, I noticed a door with some strange patterns in the woodgrain. See what I mean?
I thought it looked like cartoon gators dancing while standing on their hind legs. I had HOPED to make a drawing based on it---even did a bit of a sketch…
But then I moved on to other stuff. Still, finally found an opportunity to share!
“Self Isolation”
[Digital photograph of a cat in a laundry basket with digital embellishments and color. 2020.]
That’s Ralphie in the basket. I thought he looked funny, so I took the picture. Plus, I liked the look of the pattern of holes in the laundry basket!
“Wouldn’t Hurt a Fly”
[Muffin with digital embellishments and color. 2020.]
We had chocolate chip muffins for breakfast a day or two ago. When I cut into the thing to eat it, it suddenly took on a life of its own! A friend of mine said this drawing actually disturbed him. That made me feel good…
Finally…
“Bunny (Over the Edge)”
[Felt pen on found cardboard with drool, digital embellishments, and color. 2020.]
This is one of the images that I made with the baby’s help. I think it looks pretty interesting. I even emailed it to a friend of mine, Richard O., who wrote this back as a response: (He gave me permission to reprint his message…)
Bunneh looks like she was in a pharmacy buying Rolaids, a Daniel Steel novel that she may or may not already own, and an impulsive selection of 2 Kit-Kats in a new mint flavor which she hoped will taste a bit like Girl Scouts' thin mint cookies and then came out to find a homeless man wearing an old, heavily-stained and tattered McDonald's paper hat (which might be worth money on eBay if in better condition because those pointy paper hats are straight '80s, man), who was milling around her black Jeep Laredo and she accidentally made eye contact with him which began a fair deal of harassment and she just wanted to go home because of the covid and finally dashed around the passenger's side of her Jeep and crawled over to the driver's seat and locked the doors, but now she noticed the homeless man was gone until she put her car in reverse, gave it some gas with her well-worn Adidas which she only wore at home due to the holes near the pinky toes but it was only the pharmacy and she didn't want to change, and when the Jeep jolted back it bounced up because it ran over something and she realized the homeless man, now without his paper hat because it was stuck to the Jeep's left rear tire because of the moisture from a recent rain, had laid himself down in protest because all he wanted was $5 to get a fortified beer with 8.1% alcohol for $2.59 and a bag of cracker jacks because they don't use those boxes much anymore and hoped immensely that the prize was not another damn sticker because he was tired of lame-ass prizes when they used to be cool like a decoder ring or at least a tiny red airplane with a spinning, black, plastic propeller with one irregular, paper-thin piece of plastic jutting out from one of the blades from the mold because it wasn't trimmed properly but it can easily be fixed, and at least he could use imagination but a sticker was just a stupid sticker, maybe just a picture of a red airplane which would make him really mad, and now Bunneh had an out-of-body experience and put the Jeep in drive and punched the gas, running over the man again, i think just his arm but it would certainly come up in court and she didn't even remember driving home and was now in the kitchen washing her hands because of the covid and trying to remember what she had touched on the way in the house because that needed cleaning because of the covid and, oh my god, why am i even thinking about covid, i just probably killed a guy and Walgreen's probably had outdoor security cameras, why wouldn't they, and now it was a matter of time before there was a knock on her door, just a matter of time, like a prison sentence, just a matter of time, and since she owned her house and lived alone, when she got out in 20 years on good behavior because they never found out she took a borrowed shiv to that bully Big Anna in the cafeteria after Big Anna took her undercooked tater tots and had to show she would not be a doormat or she would never eat another undercooked tater tot again, she would probably return home and see the same mint Kit Kats on the table, frozen in time, and the memory would all come flooding back. The cops are almost here, I just know it.
She looks just like that, no?
HILARIOUS!!!
There were a couple of variations of bunny, which I think are worth sharing…
And that’s it! For now…. I’m sure we’ll make some more stuff, since we’re stuck at home for the next month or two! (THANK GOODNESS!!!) Be safe out there! Wash your hands! And make some damn STUFF! (It’s fun!!!)
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