Rain

Saturday, June 24th, 2006 | General, Illustration Friday | 9 Comments

Wonderful timing on this topic. Rain is what it did last night. Quite a lot, actually. And it’s supposed to rain all weekend. Well, I actually finished a “Friday” challenge more or less on Friday for a change. I challenged myself to do this one in a different style than my usual one. I discovered that simpler doesn’t necesarilly mean less time consuming!

Dance

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006 | General, Illustration Friday | 8 Comments

Happy Solstice! I posted just a hair too late to make it 6.21.06 but we can pretend. Thanks to Stefan for the lovely photo of the African village which inspred me to draw this instead of some stuffy Victorian ballroom scene. This piece is pretty big. I’m always torn about posting it closer to the actual size because I want to show more of the detail I worked on. Instead, I’m going to post a detail below.

addendum: Summer Solstice – The Longest Day
Also known as Midsummer (as in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream), this is a time when it is said that elves and fairies come out in great numbers and bestow good luck on humans (if treated with respect, of course).

June is also the time when, traditionally, couples who pledged themselves at Beltane would make their wedding vows and, even today, June continues to be the most popular month for weddings.

It was believed that, as the God and Goddess made their sacred union at Beltane in May, it was unlucky for mortals to rival them by wedding at the same time so would wait to make their vows in June.

New Website…

Saturday, June 17th, 2006 | General | No Comments

I took last week off from doing challenge blogs to finish up the redesign and build of my new website. I integrated my WP blog and I think this looks and works a lot better.

Now back to the regularly scheduled program…

Portrait

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006 | General, Illustration Friday | 4 Comments

Edit: I posted this last night knowing full well that the window shadow looked wonky. I just went in and adjusted its perspective so if you’re seeing this after 8:30 est on 6.6.2006 you are seeing the newer version.

Functional Art

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006 | General, Inspire Me Thursday | 1 Comment

I’m not sure this counts for Inspire-Me-Thursday because I was going to do it anyway. I’ve been gardening.

Basically I collected some twigs and branches and tied them together to make little pyramids to stake the tomatos and little ladder-triangles for the herbs in the bucket. I bound the sticks together with a hemp-twine. I’m going to have to redo my tomato stakes when the tomatos get get taller. I’m HOPING they’ll get taller. We don’t get a lot of direct sunlight.  Oh yes, the cat’s name is Charlemagne.

On another note, pardon my web-dust. I’m redesigning blog and website currently.