Funny

I could not stop laughing while I was reading this this morning.

http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/dear-walmart-someone-insulted-me-in-one-of-your-stores-your-ceo-must-now-resign/

Ah, the misunderstandings this shall cause...

Mad ACEO: Mountains

Theme this week: mountains!

I'd kind of wanted to do more than this, but at least I managed my five.  There's a lot I want to do with this theme.  :)

These are all illustration board.  I need to get some more of that!...

The first is sumi ink and Inktense blocks used as ink.

The following are all oil pastel, on Colorfix primed illustration board. (Australian Gray...I think.)

Aaaand...you can put them all together, like this.  :D

Kids were very distracting as I did those, but it turned out okay after all.  I'm liking how it looks on my screen, which makes it feel like I'm looking at them from a distance.  Scale isn't quite right on those mountains, but I blame the distraction.  And the fact that I should have had two more primed cards in there really.  Next time; I'm definitely going to do a more precise job without distraction.

Don't forget Jessica's!

Mad ACEO: Oil Pastel

The theme Jessica chose this week for our ACEOs was oil pastel.

I wasn't sure what I felt about doing itsy OPs, so I thought it was a wonderful idea.  :D

Turned out better than I had expected, as far as working small.

This first one...I swear it has oil pastel.  But only the cloud surrounding the Crawling Eye.  On Friday, Scarlett came home from dance with some Halloween stickers, some of which were disembodied eyes.  You know I had to borrow one of the stickers.  The rest is ink, watercolor, and white oil pastel.  Turned out great, though I wish I'd figured in the clouds into the comp from the first.  Still, I like it.

I made an effort to make my photos look nice!  The colors are still a bit off, but it's an improvement nonetheless.  This is my view of the sunset over the Salt Lake.  On illustration board, which is my favorite support for these.

Another illustration board, this time a marsh.  Probably has nothing to do with the Marshwiggles in Narnia because we definitely were not reading that the other day.

This one kind of got abandoned because I didn't like the surface...it's my lovely cold press paper which I usually love (see Mr. Crawling Eye above), but I did not end up liking the oil pastel on it.  Anyway, it's the sunrise from my deck, opposite the Salt Lake.

I ended up with four this week.

Mad ACEO: Ink

This time we decided on a series to post, because these things are addicting!

Mine turned out variously, but it was good practice!

Sorry these images are super yellow; I'd correct them, but not right now.

Mad ACEO: Black 2

Is this getting to be a habit?

We did another black ACEO...this time my picture is better, and I realized what Jessica was saying yesterday about the tooth of the smooth paper.  I hadn't seen a problem yesterday, but today I got out my Inktense blocks to use with my pencils and discovered that they really did not layer for long.

But my beeza turned out okay, anyway.

Mad ACEO: Black

Jessica and decided to do more cards today.  The theme was black, because black paper is cooooool.

I took a couple of pictures because I wanted to show off the shiny, even if the colors are a little weird at this time of the day for me.

I used my metallic pencils, my Inktense pencils, and maybe a bit of Graphitint.

Mad ACEO : Birthday

Jessica suggested that we do some ACEOs together.  I thought that was a fabulous idea, since I love doing them and would love to do them with someone else.

ACEO stands for Art Cards Editions and Originals, and I think this one might not *technically* qualify because it's just a little smaller than what the size is supposed to be, but...I don't care about technicalities.  I got these little colored papers when Jessica was here visiting and I thought it would be appropriate nonetheless.

Theme was birthday because...well, I couldn't think of anything else at the moment, lol.

Most often for birthdays, I have snowflake wrapping paper...because I love snowflake wrapping paper.  It was nice to do something a bit meditative today...this is inspired by the paper I used today to wrap Scarlett's present.  I don't usually use markers, so that was a fun change from normal.

Thanks for the suggestion to do these, Jessica!