The 30-30-30 Project: Day 20

Two thirds done, woo hoo! I greatly enjoyed the last two days, I think you can expect to see more of this technique, as this is something I really need to practice now. And I finished my sales tax forms today, isn't that exciting.

30 days, 30 art pieces, 30 bucks each




all pieces are 2 x 3.5 inches and in archival poly bags
shipping in US $1
shipping outside US $2

opportunity

The first seven (7) people to respond to this post will get something made by me. (This is posted in 4 places, fyi).

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make. I will not take requests.
- What I create will be just for you. But it may be similar to other things I've made, and I may post instructions for making similar items.
- It'll be done this year (2009).
- If I reply to your comment to say you're in, I'll ask you to email me your real name and address.

The catch is that you have to put this in your journal as well.

The seven people will be confirmed once they have committed.

The 30-30-30 Project: Day 18, 19

I was tempted to not post this, or do something else, but a commitment is a commitment, grumble. It's not a very good resemblance.

Day 18:



But I REALLY like this!

Day 19:



In other news, let's see... I picked up my 50 boards from the gallery. Egads, I have to prime them all! Oh well. I'm glad to be working on board instead of canvas. I think I'm not going to actually do one per day. I'm going to work on them maybe twice a week and do several at a time. It really makes more sense that way, less wasted paint.

Reno recap

Okay, I gotta write this all down before I forget what I want to say! This was my second year visiting the Firearms Engravers Guild of America convention in Reno. I had hoped to be an exhibitor this year. That didn't pan out, long story, won't get into it, but I went anyway and took samples of my work and a portfolio and did the nomadic wandering thing. Which by the way is totally acceptable, lots of people do it. I'd met a fair number of people last year and was eager to see them all again. I'm an active member of a couple of online engraving forums which has been a great way to "meet" people and a lot of those people were there.

I took a bus again this year. Not Greyhound, that was just a little too weird and scary last year, so I opted for an All West casino tour bus. Sweet deal! Costs less than a tank of gas, they give you cash and a meal coupon on arrival, and the bus was half empty and mostly populated by old people. The weather turned out pretty good, I actually could have driven, but it was so convenient to take the bus. I'd totally do that again. It was snowy in the mountains and did snow in Reno while I was there. Strangely, between Saturday morning and Monday late afternoon I did not step outdoors. It's kind of weird that you can exist entirely within a casino.

A view out the window on the way there:

View out my room on arrival:

View out my room at night:

The "mining machine" inside the dome at the Silver Legacy:

I was so tired when I got there (because I'd been up til almost 1am finishing the tiger, and then got up at 5:30 for the bus) I ended up napping for almost two hours before I went down to the show. I knew I'd be totally useless if I didn't! Pretty much as soon as I walked in the convention hall I was greeted heartily by a couple of people I didn't know but who recognized me from the forums. How awesome. After about three hours I finally made it from one end of the building to the other, meeting and greeting all around along the way. It's just the most amazing bunch of people, so much incredible talent all in one place and people are SO nice and friendly and helpful! I did lots of good networking, and everyone is more than happy to introduce a newbie around to all the pertinent folks. I love these people. Seriously. I don't say that lightly. I showed my work to a lot of people and got a lot of compliments (mind you I'm totally star stuck by some of these engravers, so you could just knock me over with a feather when some of them compliment my work) and a lot of really helpful advice on marketing and engraving.

Saturday night was the big banquet. I did not have a ticket, as it cost a small fortune, so I got a table for one in a nice restaurant in the casino (I think that's the first time I've ever eaten alone at anything other than a fast food joint, it was kinda weird but also kind of empowering). And I was served my food while the rest of the engravers were still in line! Ha! I goofed around my hotel room on the internet for a while before heading back downstairs, as I'd been encouraged to come into the banquet hall after dinner to watch a bit of the auction. I was mortifying underdressed and slunk over to an empty seat for a while before heading back down to the convention area to watch a little jam session put on by some of the engravers who are talented musicians. Dang these guys are amazing. I'm about as unmusical as it gets. They played old cowboy songs and a little rock and roll and some old Scottish tunes I and I was just enthralled. I faded out around 11pm and headed back upstairs for some much needed sleep.

Sunday was another convention day. I hadn't been sure what I'd do all day but no sooner was I in the door then I ended up chatting with various people and time flew, I made a bunch more good connections and also got to just sit and catch up with some friends I haven't seen for a year. And before I knew it, 5pm rolled around and people packed up and left. I was kinda sad to see it end. Lacking dinner plans, I decided to experience room service. A little pricey, but convenient.

Oh, I have to throw in here that I think hotels are weird because they are so incredibly wasteful. For one thing, who actually uses an entire bar of soap while they are there? And for crying out loud, I'm ONE person with a room for TWO nights, I do NOT need a fresh bar of soap every day. Why on earth would they throw out the barely used one and give me a new one if I'm staying another night? And same with washing towels. The little "save the environment" card says if you hang the towel on the rack they won't wash it. So I did. They washed it anyway.

But I digress...

I headed back downstairs that night to see if there was another musical jam session to be found (and was terribly tempted to stop in one of the many bars, the place was populated by rugged looking dudes from the Safari show. However, good judgement once again won out, thank goodness). And sure enough, a jam session was just getting underway! So I enjoyed good company and good music for a few hours before I went to bed.

I had originally toyed with the idea of going home Sunday afternoon, but wanted to catch the seminars on Monday so I stuck around for those and I'm glad I did. While none of them applied directly to the work that I'm doing now, it was great to catch a glimpse into some other forms of engraving. I gotta say though, 8am is a tad early. Three cups of tea later, I was still barely functioning. I went to lunch with some of the guys and had a great time, then headed back down for an informal "show and tell" session.

Now I have to say something about the demographic of this world. I'm an oddball. Good thing I'm used to hanging out with old guys in the chicken world, I feel like I fit right in with the engravers too. ;-) There are exceptions, of course. They're great company. So for a few more hours people just sat around and visited and looked at each others work and asked questions, offered advice, etc. We were kicked out around 3pm, and I had an hour and a half to kill til the bus got there. I searched unsuccessfully for a wireless network (apparently available only in the rooms, those sneaky buggers), gambled $5 and won $0.50 (which I didn't bother to cash in, and I really don't know a darn thing about how to use those machines, I just put in a dollar and pulled the handle), finally caved in and had a tasty green beverage (DW it's just not the same without you!) and headed outside to catch the bus for the ride home. It was so beautiful, the sun was going down over the mountains and the clouds were pink and gold, but the bus windows were too dirty for a photo.

And I couldn't stop smiling, because it's this feeling again of that is exactly where I need to be. Engraving. Scrimshaw. That's it, that's right for me, I fit, and if I can toot my own horn just a smidge I'm darn good at it! And I love it. Now if I only I could find this feeling with a man, sigh. But I digress. ;-)

So I have a lot of ideas and suggestions to put into play. This week however I am focused on getting my sales taxes done since they are due on Saturday and I don't really feel like going to jail. Priorities, you know.

Clearly nobody had let me write anything lately, geez.

Tiger Engraving finished

I finished this late Friday night last week. Well, technically early Saturday morning. ;-) This is my first attempt at a technique called bulino, which is named for the particular type of tool that's used. This was all done by hand (which nearly killed my hand!).

On the bright side, it looks like a tiger, so that's good! Definitely a good start but there's a LOT of room for improvement, so it's very much a learning process. I over-polished the piece, it should not be so shiny. Blame my art background for that one. ;-) In the world of printmaking, plate tone (the ink that would catch on a non-polished plate and therefore print as a light gray) is a BAD thing. In engraving, it's apparently okay. Live and learn. I was also far too heavy-handed with this and need to make smaller markings. Looking at other bulino engravings this weekend in Reno was really helpful. AND, I did not manage to actually remove all the metal I wanted to remove, much of it was just displaced in the form of a raised burr, which is very bad. I have ordered some sharpening equipment and I think that'll be a big help, I really struggled with sharpening the tool by hand and think I messed up the geometry pretty badly which is why I was not able to properly cut the metal.

But all in all a good start and it'll only get better from here! :-)

Photographed through the microscope (not inked):


Photographed on my table (not inked):

This piece is not for sale.

The 30-30-30 Project: Day 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

Reno was great! I'll try to write something more meaningful about it tomorrow. I'm struggling to catch up on things, and it's going to be a real hairball of a week.

The temptation to bail out on the 30-30-30 Project was overwhelming. Missing 5 days was extremely difficult to make up, but I made a commitment to do this, so I will. I decided to sorta go with a theme in catching up. That helped. This project is extremely difficult for me. Moving on to a new thing every day is really tough, it makes me feel scattered. I guess I actually like to work on the same project for long periods of time. At least the 50-50 show has a theme I can go with!

Okay, so here's a crapload of pics. I'll get these on etsy when I can.

30 days, 30 art pieces, 30 bucks each.

Day 12 (SOLD):



Day 13:



Day 14 (SOLD):



Day 15 (SOLD):



Day 16 (SOLD):



Day 17:

January 21 work in progress

Okay, engraving solid dark areas with this technique is very intense, it really wears my hand out. I could buzz this thing out in about 10 minutes with the airgraver BUT I want to see how long this takes by hand. In order to do the bulino technique properly I need to remove tiny chips of metal (that's what I'm doing). If I just stippled with the airgraver it would merely be displacing, not removing, and would only texture it. Tempting, but no. I REALLY gotta get this done before I go! The background is going to take many many many hours.

The 30-30-30 Project: Day 11

30 days, 30 art pieces, 30 bucks each.

Day 11:




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for a bit of GOOD news...

I'm so excited! And I just can't hide it! You know how people say "I'm jumping up and down." I really did! And I yelled WOO HOO very loudly. Because I was accepted into 20th Street Gallery's 50-50 show.

[insert wild applause here]

Thank you thank you. Yes, this means you should buy lots of things from me right now before I take the Sacramento art world by storm.

50 days, 50 pieces (see, the 30-30-30 is just a warmup!). My theme is chickens. 6 x 6 inches. Acrylic and ink. I start January 30. I finish March 25. This was my sample submission:


Blue Rosecomb
acrylic and ink on board
6x6 inches

January 20 work in progress

Ugh, this is SO hard to photograph! Still a long way to go on this.

The 30-30-30 Project: Day 10

30 days, 30 art pieces, 30 bucks each.

Day 10:




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January 19 work in progress

Nasty fluorescent light color today. Yesterday was really a fluke!

The 30-30-30 Project: Day 9

30 days, 30 art pieces, 30 bucks each.

Day 9:




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January 18 work in progress

I'm trying to get this done or close to it by next weekend so I can take it to the engraving convention in Reno and find out if I'm doing this right. It's so weird. Looks great one way but in most lighting the image shows up negative and it looks like crap. Evidently that might just be the nature of the beast, so to speak. I can see why people ink them (this is NOT inked in the photograph, it's all in the lighting) but the purists say if it's good you don't have to ink it. Eh. I don't know.

I have no idea why it turned out accurate color in the photo tonight, that was a fluke! Usually the fluorescent ring light on the scope makes the photos turn out a bit green.


tiger engraving
1 x 1.5 inches
on copper

The 30-30-30 Project: Day 8

(This is my 900th blog post!)

30 days, 30 art pieces, 30 bucks each.

Day 8:




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January 17 work in progress

As photographed through the microscope, yeah baby! I got a midget camera for Christmas (hey, if the big one is "The Beast" this one has to be "The Midget") and the lens is so tiny I can shoot through the scope. Awesome.


Tiger engraving
1 x 1.5 inches
copper

The 30-30-30 Project: Day 7

30 days, 30 art pieces, 30 bucks each.

Day 7:




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SOLD

The 30-30-30 Project: Day 6

30 days, 30 art pieces, 30 bucks each.

Day 6:




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This project wasn't actually supposed to be art therapy... :-/ This is actually a tree in the back yard. I sat on the sidewalk and drew it while Jessie (dog) panted all over me and Olin (cat) played with my shoe laces. Maybe I should have written that on there. I love them. The critters. Not the shoe laces.

If you're wondering about the swan and tiger projects, I'm still working on them but have not made much progress. To say that this week went in an unexpected direction would be an understatement, and that has really thrown me. I'll bounce back... again. Sigh.

The 30-30-30 Project: Day 5

30 days, 30 art pieces, 30 bucks each.

Day 5




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I hope your day has been better than mine. I know this piece broke the rules a little, but that's all I've got in me today.

my heart on my sleeve

Dear Universe,

You suck. I know, that's a little harsh, but come on now. Why do you have to break my heart? Every six months, is this the new theme for me? I don't deserve this, I really don't. I am good person, I have so much to offer, and the only people capable of seeing that are the ones to whom it doesn't even matter. That's not fair, I don't deserve for this to happen. Is it too much to ask that there actually be someone out there for me?

Don't tell me to get back on the horse. I can't even think about it that for a long time.

Please send Cupid down there, I'd like to kick his cherubic little booty into the next century.

I am broken.

The 30-30-30 Project: Day 4

30 days, 30 art pieces, $30 each.

Day 4:




This will be posted on etsy when I get a chance (a couple days max) but is available now.
$30
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I submitted an application to the 20th Street Gallery's 50-50 show today. I should find out next week. I also went to see the Warner Brothers exhibit at the Crocker.

It's been a rough day in the emotional department. I'll have to get back in the saddle, but I think the horse done run off this time. *sigh* I really just want to go to bed. Maybe I'll rant at the universe another day. Damn cosmos. Seriously. Sorry. Sometimes these things just slip out.

The 30-30-30 Project: Day 3

30 days, 30 art pieces, $30 each.

Day 3:




This will be posted on etsy when I get a chance (a couple days max) but is available now.
$30
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US shipping $1
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The 30-30-30 Project: Day 2

30 days, 30 art pieces, $30 each.

Day 2:




This will be posted on etsy when I get a chance (a couple days max) but is available now.
$30
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January 11 work in progress

I don't know if I'm doing this right. This is not a good photo either, I didn't feel like getting lights all set up for this.


Tiger engraving
~1 x 1.5 inches on copper

I've made a lot of progress on the scrim piece but have not inked it so there's really nothing to see yet!

30-30-30 Project: Day 1

Okay, if you didn't catch this in an earlier post, I'm working on a new project, I call it the 30-30-30 Project. Starting today, ending February 9th. 30 days, 30 art pieces, $30 each. All images will be 2 x 3.5 inches. The theme is pretty broad, anything I find around here, but I have to work from life and not from photos. That's not something I do often. I also have a self-imposed time limit for each piece, as I tend to work very slowly. I really have no preconceived ideas of what I'm going to work on, part of the adventure is finding something every day. I'm excited about this! :-)

So here's day 1:




This will be posted on etsy when I get a chance (a couple days max) but is available now.
$30
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a weekend of chickening

It's been a while since I've been to a show. And it'll likely be a while til the next one...

I'm just going to be totally straight out with this. The rumors are flying that I'm getting out of birds. I'm not. I'm likely going to cut way way back and may get pretty close to out, but I love the birds and the people too much to let it go completely. There are a couple of reasons why I am doing this, I just don't feel like getting into all that right now. I am not sure yet what I'm going to do, there are several options. I need to do a little "chicken inventory" and give it a lot of thought. I don't take this decision lightly.

But I will ALWAYS be the chicken lady. :-)

Anyway.

I left here at 4:45am Saturday morning, and if you know me at all you know that's really not prime time for me, as the ultimate non morning person. I'd actually gone to bed shortly after 8pm on Friday but that was pointless, I tossed and turned til after 11 anyway. Sigh. I must say traffic is very light at that time of day. I'd been concerned about fog but other than a few light patches the night was clear and VERY cold, and it was beautiful to watch the moon sink down over the mountains as the sky started to glow in the east. I wasn't too perky on Saturday. I took 13 birds (5 colors). I don't have anything in super condition right now and did not expect to do much damage. And indeed I didn't. I was very much beaten! That's okay, I had some tough competition there with very nice well conditioned birds.

It was a fun weekend anyway, winning really isn't everything. It's nice to win, but I'm not one of "those" people who can't handle it if I don't (you chicken people know who I'm referring to). ;-) I had a great dinner and conversation with DW that evening, and was able to hit the road and head home pretty early this morning.

Oh, I do have to complain about the hotel. Because I like to complain. This is the third or fourth year I've stayed there and I've always been quite impressed and felt it's one of the nicest places I've ever stayed. This year they completely failed to impress me. When I checked into my room it REEKED of ant spray. Okay, I'm pretty easy going, ants happen, I get it. But when I found dead ants all over the bathroom, in the bathtub, and piled up (seriously, piles of dead ants) along the walls that was a little much for me to take. I went and asked for another room. The next one also smelled of ant spray but at least didn't have any carcasses so I just opened the window and by the time I went back in the evening it was fine. But I hadn't really noticed til later that the bathroom countertop had streaks of what looked like soap scum all over it, and when I pulled back the covers on the bed ewww! Seriously, if the sheets are that disgustingly stained, throw then away! Good thing this room had two beds, the second one was much less offensive. But the heater rattled so loud there was no way I could sleep through it, so I had to turn it off. I woke up shortly after 4am so cold that all my joints hurt. I grabbed the two extra blankets out of the closet and threw those on the bed and managed to fall asleep again til my alarm clock went off at 7. Another sleepy day. There was a 2-hour nap with my name on it when I got home. So as much as I'm not too good at "roughing it" I kinda hate hotels too.

Anyway, here are some pics of my birds:

Black cockerel, I really like this guy and thought he might do well. He didn't.

Blue cockerel (out of the Blue Brassy breeding pen).

Golden Duckwing cockerel.

Blue Brassy Back pullet.

a head full of ideas

Gah, I really need to catch up on emails! I've been slowly chipping away at them, but I need to just sit down here for a few hours and get it done. It's newsletter time, but I have this whole guilt complex about sending people a mass email if I haven't yet answered a personal email. Maybe tonight I can chip away at that a bit more.

So my brain is kinda all over the place about art. Obviously I'm going to be focusing pretty hard on scrim and engraving. I have not forgotten about drawings and aspirations for galleries. Jackson Hole still bounces around my head a lot and I WILL be submitting work up there. Why have I not done it yet? Because I don't have enough of the type and caliber of work that I need for a place like that. Obviously I have a lot of art, just not enough samples of a particular genre and media. So that's all still a work in progress, and I ought to start on another large drawing for that.

No, I have not heard anything from the Miniature Show yet. I don't expect to hear anything until March.

I want to make more stuff. I need to have projects to work on, I need to wake up and think "okay, I'm working on this today" so that I don't fritter away time wondering what I should work on, and doing silly things like ceaselessly logging into Facebook (OMG addicted!!!). So I was sitting here last night and BOING this brilliant idea popped into my head, my own little spinoff of something that a local gallery does (they call it a 50-50 show, it's 50 art pieces in 50 days). See, a lot of you tell me you love my stuff but can't afford it. So I thought well, I ought to do something people can afford to collect. You guessed it, that means it's gonna be really small!

Therefore, I am going to have my own little thing going on, and I am going to call it the 30-30-30 project. 30 days. 30 art pieces. 30 bucks each (plus tax and shipping). This will start January 11 and finish February 9 (bonus points if you catch the symbolism here). Each piece will be 2 x 3.5 inches (the size of a business card). Media can be graphite, colored pencil, ink, acrylic, or any combination thereof). Subject matter: "stuff I see around here." Yeah that's pretty broad, but I have to work from life, not from photos. Could be still life, animals, botanical, self-portrait, etc. I must do one per day, though if I'm out of town I can do two in a day to compensate. I will post one per day, unless I'm gone and then obviously I'll do it when I come back. And I'll try to draw interesting things.

ARE YOU EXCITED??!?!?! Get excited! This is exciting! Come on, gimme a woo hoo! Your chance to own a piece of my stuff at a price that doesn't break the bank (though by all means feel free to buy the big stuff too!)

I was up for hours last night thinking about this. I'm excited!!

And then today I got to thinking about the actual 50-50 show, and I looked up the info and the submission deadline is next Wednesday. Well heck, I'm gonna enter that too, and if they accept me I know EXACTLY what I'll do. :-)

And in other news today I washed seven roosters. Tomorrow is the hens' turn. Show time!

January 6 works in progress

Hmm, at some point I'm going to have to do another ginormous painting or something just to offset the minisculity (I know that's not a word) of the artwork on which I am focusing these days.

I completed the image transfer for the swan scrim. I can't quite decide if I should do the whole swan and THEN the background, or vise versa, or just work on everything at once. I'll sleep on this.


I decided to do a tiger image for the wee little piece of copper. Step one (after doing a sketch, of course) is to transfer the image. Mmm, this is harder than it is with scrim (where I tape the image on and "dot the outline"). On the copper I took a piece of polymer clay and squished it on the surface til it got that cloudy filmy stuff on there, and then I taped on the image and put a piece of carbon paper in between, and traced it. That worked pretty well. This is out it looks with the carbon transfer:

And then I lightly scribed the outline and wiped away the film. Actually I first scribed too lightly and had to go over it a second time. Live and learn. This is entirely new. I'm going to jump headfirst into a technique I've never tried. This may crash and burn if I screw it up too badly, but I'll keep you posted either way! :-D This is photographed in the vise, just fyi (the copper is now superglued to a chunk of aluminum, which is clamped in the vise jaws). Metal is going to be a real beast to properly photograph. Scrims are so easy, I can just scan them!

random crap

Wow, time keeps slipping away somehow.

I drove 200 miles north with BM on Saturday to visit JC and DC for our annual Christmas visit, which turned out to be a slightly after-Christmas visit this year because of our crazy schedules. It was a whirlwind trip and very cold up there (I was quite amused by the horses crunching around on the frozen ground Sunday morning) but great to see everyone. :-)

Pretty view toward Mt. Lassen from their ranch:

Can you believe these colts are the same age? That's Aidan (Gypsy Horse) and Doc (Azteca). Doc is really tall!

I started a new scrim project today, it's a swan in full color. I only managed to get the image prep done today, I'll work on the transfer tomorrow. Shown below is the original sketch, the polished ivory, the scanned/shrunk image I'll use for transfer, and a color swatch. This is a pale image, lots of pale blues and grays and browns, so the challenge will be to portray this white bird against a largely white background, keeping the colors soft but allowing enough contrast, all the while dealing with a surface that isn't even white! Hmm, a challenge indeed. But I've been wanting to try a color image that is really subtle, so here it is.

I also cut down a piece of copper and got that all polished and ready for engraving. I need to just jump in and give bulino a try. I have been studying and drooling over the books I got for Christmas (thank you P family!). I did a little experimenting with graver geometry tonight. I have one "real" bulino graver that Rod gave me (I think it's a 60 or 70 degree V-point) and I compared that to how it would look with a round-point scrim tool, just for kicks. Definitely better with a V-point. But I don't like the hand position I have to use with a normal graver handle. So I ordered another pin vise so I can rig up another one of my little nifty handled creations. Plus I don't have anything in the way of good sharpening equipment, but that and the new Airgraver ought to be here within a couple weeks. I have not decided for sure on what image I will put on this little piece of copper.

I need to make an armrest for use with the engraving vise. I can see why people cut a half-circle out of their tabletops and put the vise in that space. I'm not too keen to chop up my table so I'll clamp a board on there first and see if that gives me somewhere to put my arm.

It's all so complicated! ;-)

Oh!!! Early warning, I will once again be performing with the Arabian Jewels bellydance troupe at the Rakkash Festival (yay we got in!) on March 14th at 6pm at the fairgrounds in Vallejo. More info as it gets closer!