I love Bob Burridge, and have taken many classes with him. The thing he does best is to be loose. He is as loose as I think you can get, I love it. Bob puts the 3-year-old back into you when you take one of his classes.
This video helps do that, and I for one, need to pay more attention to him!
Woodland Spirit Doll
Why do you suppose we create a project and stop just before it’s finished?
I do this all the time, I start a project, and I’m over it before it’s completed. Is everyone that way? I’m over it, and ready to move on to the next thing. This is clearly a flaw in my personality!
This is exactly what I’ve done with the “Woodland Spirit Doll” series. I started these dolls when I was just out of the hospital and recuperating from hip surgery. They were given all the patients and love,one would give a new puppy or a child. Slowly they became little people and started to speak to me in a way that prompted me to give them each a different personality.
But, soon I realized they were far too delicate to place on a table or place on a nail and hang on the wall. They needed protection…a box to place them in. Now I’m getting into an area that I never planned to go to. Boxes holding art pieces just hasen’t been my thing…but it is now!
I have put the largest into a frame with glass in front, and not wanting to remove it, I forgot to take a picture before putting it together. The picture I did take, has a my reflection in the glass. I apologize for this, I’m sure many of you can relate to this.
Woodland Spirit Doll
This is the first of the four Woodland Spirit Dolls, all mounted into a black glass covered box. Once I get them mounted I’m finished. The boxes have been purchased, and to top it off, I have dropped the fourth and smallest box and broke the glass.
Way to go Karen! Sometimes one has to shoot themselves in the foot before the finish, just to make things fun!
The third and forth of the dolls are not yet finished, but when I’ve completed them, I will definitely post them.
I very very much appreciated all of you reading my post, it keeps me going. Thank you
Many artists use Tyvek in their art, and in unexpected ways. This is just one way of working with this amazing paper. Both mixed media artists, and journalists use this product, and I’m guessing if we put our heads together we can find all kinds of ways to use Tyvek in our artwork.
This was interesting to me because it occurred to me that my way of using this product wouldn’t be like this, not that it’s wrong, it’s just not how I’d use it. Admittedly I’ve only tried it once with the heat gun, and it did exactly what it did in this demo. Working with it while it’s all bawled up and curled at the edges takes the steam out of my sails….so to speak. As I’m thinking about it, Tyvek would be perfect for beads also. Since I don’t make anything with hand-made beads, it’s only a suggestion…
Abstract Mixed Media
A Little of This and…A little of that!
This little 12″ X 12″ canvas is the result of experimenting with wild abandon. For me….It’s a miracle! Some little thing in my brain stretched, and twisted, and turned until I was pulling all kinds of things from the dark corners of my studio, and this was the result. My “PLAN,” would be to continually be creative in this direction. That’s my plan, but we all know, sometimes the best plans don’t always turn out the way we had planned.
I had so much fun with this one that it’s presently sitting in the Escondido Municipal Gallery for a show. If my muse sticks around and I treat her with lots of goodies, maybe I can pull more off, enough to continue growing and creating in a non-objective abstract way! One can only hope right?
My inspiration frequently comes from many directions. I see colors I love together in fabric stores, or I watch a video and they are using something new I haven’t experimented with yet. I get much inspiration from Zebra Design & Destinations. Z lives in Equator, and not just paints, but creates on many levels. I’m in awe of how she lives and creates. Cathy Carey has been a huge influence with style and color. Bob Burridge for his fun and loose abstracts, and still I struggle. If you look long enough, you can find artists that really touch something in your heart, and can learn from. Regardless of what their medium, or style, I find there is always something to be learned.
I hope you like my mixed media abstract, with any luck at all…and the creeks don’t rise, I can do more, show you more, and trigger something in you that says, “Wow, I should try that or maybe I could use this combination, or turn it a different way.” Maybe there will be something you see, and it triggers something you had forgotten and wanted to try.
It’s all good….It’s all ART!
Old as Dirt and Proud of it! 
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