tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2495953462867308952024-03-13T14:39:47.452-07:00Zany Zebras"Rapid sketching is THE medium of moms of very little people"~!Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471520584436478348noreply@blogger.comBlogger285125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249595346286730895.post-37082027900597538212020-11-30T18:07:00.001-07:002020-11-30T18:36:45.115-07:00Found in Imagination, November 2020<div><p> Two amazing things have now happened.</p><p>#1, I got out my oil paint to use. For realz.</p><p>#2, I am posting on my blog! Yay!</p><p>This year, I managed to complete all 31 days of Inktober in the theme I had chosen. As a result, I felt like I was on a roll and wanted a similar but different project for November. Jessica suggested that we do a project together involving...oil paint!! And so we did. We totally did.</p><p>So here I am to present to you my side of our November presentation, Found in Imagination. <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> Found in Imagination #1: Key on Mars<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f9nmGTU66j8/X8WT2YHPI5I/AAAAAAAAF6g/4FXWN-XrEvoU4VlcwzHvhRLQmqeqDm2vQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/11-06-20%2BFound%2Bin%2BImagination%2B1%2B-%2BKey%2Bon%2BMars.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1456" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f9nmGTU66j8/X8WT2YHPI5I/AAAAAAAAF6g/4FXWN-XrEvoU4VlcwzHvhRLQmqeqDm2vQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/11-06-20%2BFound%2Bin%2BImagination%2B1%2B-%2BKey%2Bon%2BMars.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"> Found in Imagination #2: Phil, Sledding<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1LyijQLvJlg/X8WTdesWTqI/AAAAAAAAF5o/8zb9UUJfHKE2Z58tEqj2O2ZEBelt5nSDgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/11-07-20%2BFound%2Bin%2BImagination%2B2%2B-%2BPhil%252C%2BSkiing%2B%2528Sledding%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Not only are these "found objects" in the general sense, but each of these objects has a particular history in being "found" (sometimes over and over!).<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NX6AD4jhRCc/X8WToKgUyNI/AAAAAAAAF6M/ZLjgwZ3pt4c8hEOEJ2CGvKUBT6GK85IWgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Objects.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NX6AD4jhRCc/X8WToKgUyNI/AAAAAAAAF6M/ZLjgwZ3pt4c8hEOEJ2CGvKUBT6GK85IWgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Objects.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thank you, Jessica, for suggesting this project. I don't like all of my results...and that's okay because they each explored something unique that I've been needing to do. And just getting out my oils again was so blissful and wonderful. I realized that doing 100% oil paintings is maybe not what I want to do be doing right now--but I so so sooooo want to use them in my mixed media. I have been hesitant to do so simply because I haven't gotten them out seriously for so long. This is just the kick I needed to get back in the oily swing. So, thanks for the motivation and inspiration and support, as always, Jessica. <3<br /></div><p></p></div>~!Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471520584436478348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249595346286730895.post-51890435242861017432018-06-20T12:26:00.002-07:002018-06-20T12:26:34.374-07:00United States Space Force Insignia<div style="text-align: center;">
I am beginning a campaign to ensure that our newly minted United States Space Force is endowed with the right insignia.</div>
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~!Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471520584436478348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249595346286730895.post-1580438376614698332018-02-17T11:57:00.000-07:002018-02-17T11:57:03.155-07:00FLIP: Thread<div style="text-align: center;">
It's been ages since I've posted here...as usual, lol.</div>
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But <a href="http://stapeliad.blogspot.com/">Jessica </a>convinced me to do another FLIP, and I'm so glad because I got to realize that I'm not totally hopeless about painting, after all. :p</div>
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And I've got some new direction, so yay! </div>
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~!Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471520584436478348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249595346286730895.post-13233941944692027612017-08-02T08:08:00.002-07:002017-08-02T08:08:53.141-07:00Ninja FLIP: Otterly Adorable<div style="text-align: center;">
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Did I procrastinate? Yes. Did I not meet the weekly deadlines? Um, it's true, I did not really meet the deadlines, though having them there was a really great incentive and it was helpful in proceeding. I actually learned a lot this month doing this. It was great!</div>
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The weekly goals involved writing a story that could be told in four images, making a storyboard for said story, and then completing the images.</div>
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I did all of that, though I completely shifted gears halfway through and changed things up unexpectedly. I had written a nice little story that was okay and short and, I thought, to the point. And it was. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized I could condense it and condense it until finally...it just ended up being a single rhyming line, lol. And the images I had cooked up worked so well together on a single long page that I thought I'd better just roll with it. Originally I was not going to do all this calligraphy, but it called for it.</div>
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Completed image:</div>
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but giving big hugs is what we *otter* do!"<br />
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~!Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471520584436478348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249595346286730895.post-76423697320268305152017-07-10T08:52:00.000-07:002017-07-10T08:52:59.965-07:00First storybook-type zebras<div style="text-align: center;">
Took me a while to finish this one; I got blocked and distracted halfway through.</div>
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I'm particularly excited about this; at first I cringed at the background, think it's too bright, but I'm going for a storybook feel and it ended up fabulous with the zebras. I'm also thrilled with the incorporation of line, mass color, and fine detail...it's something I didn't think I'd be able to achieve, so this combination of media is enchanting to me. I'm really looking forward to more now. Hopefully I'll stop getting so blocked (though I find that unlikely; it's summertime and summertime is always miserable).</div>
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~!Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471520584436478348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249595346286730895.post-70576549551966388342017-06-27T07:50:00.001-07:002017-06-27T07:50:05.117-07:00Just an update to show I'm painting<div style="text-align: center;">
Still trying to get into a mode where I can actually do this painting thing regularly.</div>
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~!Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471520584436478348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249595346286730895.post-57768880783498916642017-06-21T11:44:00.001-07:002017-06-21T11:44:19.934-07:00FLIP: Broken<div style="text-align: center;">
I am so majorly late on this and I don't even have a reason. Sorry, <a href="http://stapeliad.blogspot.com/">Jessica</a>!</div>
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Anyway. This week's theme was in honor of my fridge, which is now thankfully *not broken*! Yay! I guess it did some good. :D</div>
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This may not seem very broken to you, but this is my old character from the game City of Heroes, which *is* broken and it makes me sad. (It was an online game and they have since taken down the servers so it is no longer playable.) It still makes me very sad to think of it because I really loved playing it.</div>
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~!Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471520584436478348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249595346286730895.post-47130500523148702802017-05-18T21:30:00.002-07:002017-05-24T07:05:21.668-07:00FLIP: Shoes<div style="text-align: center;">
Back again this week with <a href="http://stapeliad.blogspot.com/">Jessica</a> with more randomness. :D</div>
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As I was doing this one, I kept thinking, babies of all species are all so silly.</div>
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~!Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471520584436478348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249595346286730895.post-35576464161723200742017-05-11T13:33:00.001-07:002017-05-11T13:33:27.892-07:00FLIP: Spikes<div style="text-align: center;">
I took a longer break than I had expected with various painful developments, but I hope I'm starting to get back on track again. I am glad to be flipping out again with <a href="http://stapeliad.blogspot.com/">Jessica</a>. :D</div>
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Actually this worked out well. When she told me our theme weeks ago, I had an image in my mind and I really did not know how to do it. I went ahead with thinking of other ideas (which haven't gotten finished themselves, either).</div>
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So here is my random idea for this week. First time using a pose from Body-kun. (Hahah, yes, that is really his name. His friend is Body-chan.)</div>
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~!Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471520584436478348noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249595346286730895.post-14717060728090202332017-04-13T07:48:00.002-07:002017-04-13T07:48:23.878-07:00FLIP: More Cowbell<div style="text-align: center;">
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Don't forget to check out <a href="http://stapeliad.blogspot.com/">Jessica's</a>, because...we need more cowbell.</div>
~!Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471520584436478348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249595346286730895.post-51207902082147898532017-04-06T01:30:00.000-07:002017-04-06T01:30:26.077-07:00FLIP: Wasabi!<div style="text-align: center;">
I loved this week's theme! It gave me fun ideas. I'm looking forward to seeing what <a href="http://stapeliad.blogspot.com/">Jessica</a> did.</div>
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I actually drew several characters named Wasabi, but this is the one I was really after. I've tried to do my own dragons before, but this is the first time I've ever really been pleased. (Oh my gosh he's soooo cuuuute!)</div>
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I actually had to draw Wasabi the cat before I could get this one down right. :D </div>
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Acryl gouache, again. :) I love it.</div>
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~!Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471520584436478348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249595346286730895.post-34028472720594702712017-03-29T21:42:00.003-07:002017-03-29T21:42:57.617-07:00FLIP: Prohibition<div style="text-align: center;">
This took me a little longer than I expected because I had to readjust to my new glasses a bit, and I was a little slow in figuring things out. There's still a lot more I'd like to do with this theme, and to ultimately come out with a finished product I have in mind, but here is today's offering. :)</div>
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Acrylic gouache in my large watercolor Moleskine. (Bonus points if you can tell what the original reference was, lol.)</div>
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~!Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471520584436478348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249595346286730895.post-46422766444833305502017-03-27T20:25:00.000-07:002017-03-27T20:25:00.544-07:00Yay I can see again!<div class="mobile-photo">
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After a very painful week, I finally got new glasses! Yay!</div>
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~!Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471520584436478348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249595346286730895.post-74894336970453605762017-03-22T11:49:00.000-07:002017-03-22T11:49:08.518-07:00New paint!<div class="mobile-photo">
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I may have gone a little overboard, but it was in sale...</div>
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~!Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471520584436478348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249595346286730895.post-8449394739948399662017-03-21T08:45:00.000-07:002017-03-21T08:45:51.896-07:00FLIP: Crystal<div style="text-align: center;">
My glasses broke, but here I am still! Actually I got this done last week and I have another that is unfinished that would also fit under today's theme.</div>
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This week, Racoon-kun is back at work, precipitating crystals. :)</div>
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This is acryl gouache and oil pastel on top with transparent gesso in between.</div>
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~!Careyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471520584436478348noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-249595346286730895.post-84490902273311509652017-03-13T21:00:00.000-07:002017-03-13T21:00:33.728-07:00FLIP: Smoke<div style="text-align: center;">
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I don't know if I mentioned before, but one of my purposes is to do some pictures that my toddler would like to look at. As a side note, I love love love how this acryl gouache scans! I tested a bit of regular acrylic with this one and did not like it as much (look at the fox's back; it's really darker but didn't scan as well). I do think this image needs a bit of tidying up still with some ink and whatnot, but overall I was pretty thrilled with its outcome.</div>
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My eldest needs a baby turtle quilt. :)</div>
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I mentioned wanting to do more illustration/design work and so Jessica suggested we begin FLIP...fun loopy illustration project. :p I'm very excited about this.</div>
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This week's theme is Messy (totally a theme, not just the state of my existence right now).</div>
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My scanner is horrible at this type of thing, so it only scanned sections of the pages, but I thought all things considered I'll just go with it.</div>
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I got some acryl gouache paints that I have been experimenting with, and I have discovered the Cassowary. They have them here at my new zoo.</div>
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This is a sketch in my Canson XL mixed media sketch book, 7x10</div>
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This is an ACEO, acryl gouache with a touch of oil pastel. Not much oil pastel as I was just testing, but I was amazed how well it blended with the paint! I have a hard time telling where the op is, it blends so well. I am thrilled!</div>
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We visited the zoo this week...twice!</div>
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The snow leopard cub is getting big. We stared at each other for a while after his mom woke him up from his nap in the sunshine at the top of the hill. (Actually, I think he was staring at Matthew sitting in the stroller, lol.)</div>
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This is the mama before she went to check on him. I used watercolor markers.</div>
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And to my surprise, there was a baby zebra! He was born late this year, though it looked like he won't be alone for the winter as one of the other zebra looked quite well along herself. These are sketches of the daddy zebra and (I'm pretty sure) pregnant mama. The herd did look pretty sparse last time I was there; I suppose it had something to do with these developments.</div>
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I really wanted to get color on this, but for the life of me I cannot fight out what is bugging me about this drawing yet. It's something subtle that I'm somehow not catching. Going to let it sit and will come back to it. I think the curlers are really throwing me for a loop. (Haha!)</div>
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This is another sketch for the dressers. :D</div>
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Here is a color chart of all of my Sennelier oil pastels!</div>
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The ones marked are among my favorites, especially for portraiture.<br />
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Yesterday Nancy said she got some Sennelier oil pastels. I was a little tired and thus not mentally charged for much painting, so I decided to do a little color chart of my Senns. I needed to get my pastels organized, anyway, they've been a mess especially since they fell on the floor months ago.<br />
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This is what my box looked like after I took out all of my Senns.<br />
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This is all of my (small) Senns. I have a couple of large sticks that live elsewhere. It is pretty incredible that I only have this many...<br />
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And here is what they look like, newly organized!<br />
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And because I had it to show Jessica, here is a box of Mungyo oil pastels that I can't stand to use because they smell so bad, which is a real shame. But the kids use them, so they are still loved.<br />
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