Polaroid Land Camera

The Polaroid Land Camera is one of my favorite cameras. They're so attractive and iconic. I don't own one, but I'd love to have one. This drawing was made with pen and markers.

Self Portrait

I found this the other day while searching through my external harddrive:

Ages ago I made this self portrait. I suppose I never really looked much like this, but I did have a hooded sweatshirt with little cat ears on it. :-)

Awards Part 3

The award ribbons I've been working on are finally finished. I'm quite pleased with how they came out! They took a little longer to put together because of a few little set-backs, but I certainly enjoyed working on 'em.

These ribbons are currently for sale at the Handmade Galleries. Check them out in person.

Terrariums Part Two

I've been making new pieces to bring to the Gallery. These three are my newest "terrarium" additions. The last few terrariums I made were fabric, but I thought I would try my luck with paper and origami, I'm really pleased with how these turned out.

The terrariums are all made using paper, glue, fabric, ribbon, love, recycled glass and more glue. One uses paint, and another uses 100% pure Cayman Islands sand. They stand about 1.5 inches, 3.75 inches and 4 inches tall.

And more:

Screen Prints

Here are some pictures of my finished screen prints. These ended up turning out quite well. An addition of 15 is available at the Handmade Galleries.

And now some close-ups so you can see all the detail in these prints:

Awards Pt. 2

I have some follow-up on my previously posted rosette project. A week-or-so ago I went to Michaels, and ended up picking up some "Aleen's Paper Glaze" a neat product that makes a shiny glaze atop paper. Lots of people use it for scrapbooking, and a few blogs I follow have used it to seal some of their projects.
I got a new printer last week, and last night I printed up the awards to go in the center of the rosettes. They looked really nice! I used a bunch of fun fonts to say things like "Winner" "First Place" "#1" that sort of thing. Then I made sure to read the back of the bottle of the "paper glaze" to confirm "would not cause colors to run." Great! After applying the glaze to each of the rosettes I left them to dry overnight.

When I checked on them this morning they looked really good! The glaze got nice and shiny...almost glass-like.
...And then I looked a little closer. Turns out that the paper glaze won't make colors run... unless they happen to be waterbased, and then...well, you can see what happens.

We'll see how easy this is to fix. I'll be sure to post updates once I get these rosettes finished.

Like a Polaroid Picture

The other day (while photographing some of my new artwork) I made a fun and easy way for my boyfriend and I to display some of our favorite Polaroid pictures.

Between my boyfriend and I we have about 4 or 5 Polaroid cameras, a fish-eye lensed camera, a Diana Camera, a Fugifilm Instax camera, and a few digital cameras (mine is an Konika Minolta that just keeps on kicking after 8 years)...to be honest, most of the cameras are his, but we do have a lot of fun taking them on adventures. Needless to say, we have a lot of pictures to display, but renting apartments makes hanging photos a little difficult. I was quite pleased to make this easy display. It was nothing fancy, but it certainly makes the apartment feel more like home!

Oh, and YES, that is a traffic light in the picture. And YES it does work. :-)

Awards

Growing up, I was never one to get too many sports related awards. As an artist, I was never one to excell in sports. I was OKAY, but never a blue ribbon player. I always coveted the big red and blue rosettes that my athletic friends won for getting first place in a race, or being on the winning soccer team.
I have gotten awards, but most of them were placques, certificates, or pins. I always wanted a big rosette.

...So I made some!

These were a blast to make. They are not 100% done (I still need to think of the awards and accolades to go in the center of these lovely things. They are made from paper (recycled heavy-weight paper, and origami papers), glue, math, and love. I will be sure to post pictures of them again when I am finished.

I think these will do well in the gallery.