Surrounded at Roman Susan

Gourd 2 is currently on display at Roman Susan for the Surrounded exhibition. 

37 x 13 inches, fabric, paper

New and Finally Finished Piece

Gourd 2, it is 37x13 inches and made of fabric and paper.

This was the entire process for this piece. A lot of piling heavy items onto it and waiting for it to dry. This image was the final step. Cut out fabric, glue to paper, cut paper, glue to paper, cut paper, and finally glue to illustration board...it's hard to decided when I should no longer cut and glue. :0 )

There were two tiny onions on my counter that started to grow so I put them in my empty pots to see what happened and now they are growing wild and crazy. It's fun to watch. 

Vegan Cinnamon Rolls and Gourds

I made this beauty yesterday for breakfast with Mr. Sanders. Vegan and from scratch, dough and all!

I have been getting super creative with soups and they are actually turning out great. Jacob is pretty happy about it. He'd eat soup for breakfast, lunch, and dinner if he could.

A bit of work in progress. This is another abstract gourd piece I am working on. The gourd I worked from is in front of the sewing machine. I drew the view of the gourd from the bottom onto fabric and cut it out of the fabric. On top of the sewing machine is an example of what they will all look like once I cut the paper around them. Now I am glueing the fabric to paper. It took a while to figure out how I would make these shapes and with what material. I originally would have sewed them but the edges would have frayed and look pretty terrible. The glue is actually keeping the fabric stuck to the paper and not allowing it to fray! From there I will glue the fabric on paper to more paper....hard to explain...but you will see soon enough!

This is my ooey-gooey wheat flour glue I make...it's an amazing alternative to commercial glues.

Paintings From a Year Ago and the BFA Show

I have been doing a lot of cleaning now that things are slowing down a bit. While cleaning I came across some paintings I did in September last year. At the time, everything was still very unclear (not that everything is clear now) and I wasn't sure what I wanted to do or say with my artwork. But during that confusion I continued to paint so Mr. Kennedy didn't think I was a bum. heh.

I had this idea that I would paint a bunch of tiny paintings and then make a collage out of them. But that idea, along with many others, turned into something else.

This is an image of my work at the BFA show last Thursday. I was very pleased with the look of my four pieces together. I really love talking to people about my artwork. I have trouble talking about all kinds of things but my artwork is one thing that is getting easier and easier to tell people about.

A close up of The Vegan Eats an Egg and in the back, on the left is Harvesting the Blue Potato, on the right is 80 Becomes 40.

A closeup of Harvesting the Blue Potato.

Diversity of the Tomato with it's 12 new tomatoes! It looks a lot better now that I added some more tomatoes.

A close up of 80 Becomes 40.

It's interesting to see where I started and where I am at now. I wonder how different my work will be next September.