I Must Confess

I got my issue yesterday and normally would have devoured it within a few hours. I was way too tired last night. This evening I got an email from my friend Robin who said she'd gotten her issue today and "yay for you!." I responded with "I have no idea what you are talking about." I was getting her email on my phone so I hadn't scrolled down to see that my art was on the page. I grabbed my copy and there it was!! I had forgotten about submitting this and today of all days when I was dragging my you know what around this was a big pick me up. Here's a closeup of what I did submit. So, I'm cheating a wee bit for today's face. I'm giving you this one instead- from October 2013. Thank you Robin for this alert. Thank you for visiting my blog and taking the time to comment.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

I'm still working on my faces in the morning. Okay, I'm not really working too hard on them lately because I'm getting bored and I keep telling myself I need to work on faces in different directions and I haven't gotten to that point yet, so frontal faces are what I keep doing. I will show you the okay ones and the crappy ones, too. Yes, a lot of crappy ones. Or I could rationalize it in that they aren't so bad for 5 a.m. I have to laugh because I think they are a reflection of me and how I might feel in the morning.... and in that sense they are true to life. Getting up out of bed in the morning when I have to go to work is not terribly enjoyable, so if I have to get up I might as well get up(sit up in bed with coffee) and do some art no matter what comes out. At least I am showing up. On another note, I saw an article on page 56 in May/June Cloth Paper Scissors on making houses out of woods scraps. I love houses in my art. I suddenly had the urge to go to the very unorganized garage and find the hand saw. I took a small piece of plywood and drew the outline of two houses and with much muttering I managed to saw out the images, breaking or at least chipping each one at the tip. No matter, I glued them with matte medium and put a paperclip on it. I then sanded them to remove splinters and then gessoed them, let them dry. Then I covered them with paper. Here they are at this point.Then next step is to sand them again and then start collaging and or painting them with painted papers. The houses by the artist in the article are darn sweet. Imagine the neighborhood you could make! I'm off to play! Thanks for coming by................................xoxo................Jo