Found in Imagination, November 2020

 Two amazing things have now happened.

#1, I got out my oil paint to use.  For realz.

#2, I am posting on my blog!  Yay!

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.

So here I am to present to you my side of our November presentation, Found in Imagination.

 Found in Imagination #1: Key on Mars

 Found in Imagination #2: Phil, Sledding

 Found in Imagination #3: Paper Hearts

Found in Imagination #4: Bottle Caps on the USS Enterprise

Found in Imagination #5 - Aquarium Gems at the River

Found in Imagination #6: Dragon Chess

Found in Imagination #7: German Shopping Cart Washer Balancing on the Tetons

Found in Imagination #8: Micro Machine at the Mall

Found in Imagination #9: Very Round Flat Rock in Weird Landscape

 

Found in Imagination #10: Type Writer Ribbon on the Moon

Here are all of my "found objects" that I used.  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!).

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

United States Space Force Insignia

I am beginning a campaign to ensure that our newly minted United States Space Force is endowed with the right insignia.

FLIP: Thread

It's been ages since I've posted here...as usual, lol.

But Jessica 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

And I've got some new direction, so yay!

Ninja FLIP: Otterly Adorable

Jessica had a great idea to get us through the awful month of July.  We had a long narrative project that lasted the whole month with weekly goals.

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!

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.

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.

Story board for my original piece:

Completed image:

"So many things to pursue,

but giving big hugs is what we *otter* do!"

Now we just have to get through August!
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First storybook-type zebras

Took me a while to finish this one; I got blocked and distracted halfway through.

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).

Just an update to show I'm painting

Still trying to get into a mode where I can actually do this painting thing regularly.

FLIP: Broken

I am so majorly late on this and I don't even have a reason.  Sorry, Jessica!

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

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.

(I need a large bed scanner!)