14 posts tagged “artist”
Shameless of me I know, but I was really happy with how these turned out so I decided to share them with you all. I designed these from photographs I've taken of the letters of the alphabet. And from these I've uploaded the images and had a line of t-shirts, etc made on cafepress.com
Check this out: http://www.cafepress.com/carmenrose
That's where you can view the clothing options with the above designs on them. Here are two examples I liked:
It’s been a crazy busy week as I prepare to take work to a gallery in a nearby town on Monday. I’ve been full tilt at this now for so long I think it has all started to blend into mush in my head. Anyway, as I look around at the glass I have finished this evening, I’m pretty happy with the results. When I left my job in 2004 to go full time artist, this was the media I was working in. And I laid it aside to focus more on the jewelry and here I am again. Next week I’ll be back into soap I suppose. We’ll see.
If you want to see the rest of the photos check out my art blog: http://croseprose.blogspot.com/
Off to bed for me. I have to get up very early for a show in the morning.
I listed some soap today on Etsy finally. I have a ton of other stuff to get done but I’m so tired that I thought I’d go home, have a nice lunch and see if I could get some work done while lounging on the sofa. Not bad work if you can stay awake… which I have managed to do so far. Anyway back to the soap… I don’t have all the other kinds photographed yet, so some will have to wait until another day. I’m happy with how it looks for now though. I hope it’s all sold by morning! LOL!
Oh, this gadget made me VERY happy! It’s my "tool box" for the Farmer’s Market. And hubby just shook his head and laughed at me while I exclaimed over its possible perfection at the store. And I brought it home (only $20!) and began to pack it with my gear and as each element fit in perfectly I was more and more delighted. Then he saw me rolling it down the hall with my camera in my hand. Then he looked very amused indeed. I know. It’s the small things.
So in the top there are my little tools, my calculator and the clock with the thermometer reading in it, a pair of scissors, etc. Inside the top compartment is my cash drawer with its neat rows of quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies. There is a hand towel for cleaning up dirty fingers. This is all gear that is helpful to have right at one’s fingertips when selling in a mobile situation.
In the bottom section are my bags, and they fit perfectly. Two sizes of small shopping bags and a stack of small black bags. I have a few rolls of ribbon in there also and a bag to put trash in. Yep, it’s perfection! I’ll test its road worthiness tomorrow afternoon.
Did I mention that it had a pull out handle and wheels? Yeah baby!
My work has been juried into Oasis Gallery in Harrisonburg. I started out at Oasis back in 2004 and worked in the media of Art Glass at the time. It was quickly profitable enough that I left my cush job as an Art Consultant to go do the art glass thing full time. I’ve worked professionally in 15 different art media since then and I migrated away from the Art Glass into/through other things. Recently I pulled out my glazes and glass supplies and made up some things for one of our adoption fund raisers, trying to use up supplies I had on hand. When I was in the middle of the work, I remembered how much I liked the process and how beautifully the work came together. I found it very rewarding and decided I wanted more of that in my life again. So here I am again. I’ve recently left another job and in some ways I feel like I’m repeating myself by going back to the glass. But on the other hand, there are few things more important to me than being able to do the work that I love… (without an EXTERNAL Boss! - My own internal drive is enough, thank you!) and that work is anything that has to do with color and creativity. It doesn’t matter to me what the art media is, just so it involves color and creativity.
This image is one I created ages ago that shows me weaving a rainbow into my glass. I’m happy with how it turned out. That was long before I chopped off the hair. It is watercolor on paper layered with marker and metalics. And it actually looks like me. Complete with my pixie ear. Though I don't have any cool star tats. Tsk!
The first time I was into art glass, I did coorportate gifts for GE one year and ended up mailing my glass all over the country and to some foreign countries as well. France, China, Japan, Italy, United Arab Emirates, etc. That was so cool! So I have art in collections around the world. Ha ha! Sounds cooler than it is since my work wasn’t actually collected by those folks, it was given to them as gifts. But it’s fun to think that there are bits of my work in some really far away places. I'd like to get that GE gig again but they give a different coorporate gift each year and I was able to do it for two years because of the different media I work in. Still, I'd love to do that again!
Yesterday and today I am working on building a website for a friend. It’s an interesting process. He gave me the link to a website that he really likes the look of and wanted something similar. It has been very interesting to see it begin with just the basics and then plug in the material and continue to develop it. I think it would be very interesting to watch another programmer work and see how the project takes shape for them. I’m sure there would be some similarities and also major differences. Since I am self-taught I imagine there are plenty of differences in the way I work from the way others work. The idea of watching the development reminds me of time lapse photography where you get the see the movement of the clouds or stars in the night sky. It would be interesting to watch the development of a website in the same way.
If you’d like to take a look, here is the link: http://www.pastorstevepaulus.com/index.htm And I especially like this page: http://pastorstevepaulus.com/links.htm where the colors seemed to connect and blend in a way that makes me happy. I haven’t heard from Steve since yesterday afternoon very early in the development so I don’t know what he thinks of the progress. I hope to see what he thinks of things soon. I’ll include a link to another website I designed as well: http://www.stauntongrace.org/
Oh, and here is my blog that deals with whatever creative thing I'm into at the moment. Want to see what life is like for the artist who is into about fifteen different art media? That's the place where you can watch and giggle. :) http://croseprose.blogspot.com/
ooOOOpppsy! I've been FRAMING... silly me!
I am hoping to have my alphabet photography juried into a local gallery and so I’ve framed up some words to give them a feel for how they look so they can pass judgment.
It really is fun to see this sort of thing come together. So take a look and let me know what you think.
It would have been easiest to make all the letters available unframed and people can find their own frames at Target or Michael’s or wherever, then they don’t have to worry about transporting glass (or shipping glass which can be a real nightmare) and such.
But it’s also great for people to see how nicely they frame up and how the word really begins to show up rather than just a few quirky photographs stuck together. I must be easy to please, but this really has been fun!
Last week sure had some ups and downs. I had one really difficult day with my Mom and I was pretty furious this morning, but in spite of all that it was really a lovely week.
I spent the day with my Mom on Thursday which was a really mixed bag. We got a lot of chocolate made for the fund raiser but it wasn’t much fun as she nailed me at every turn with the different things she did not approve of. So most of the flavors I’ll be serving have not passed the Mother Darling taste test. Oh well. Guess my guests will have to find a way to muddle through in spite of the chocolate horrors I’ll be serving. I’ll spare you the run down of the “bland” and “yuck” and “you’ve got to be kidding me” flavors. She did like the marzipan (the one formula I did not make.) I’ll post photos of the finished kinds when I get a moment. I already had a back ache and spending the day with her just made the pain radiate a little lower than usual. Poor hubby got to hear all about it when I got home.
I got a bit of a shocker this morning when I realized that another event had been scheduled in the fellowship hall for the night of our fund raiser this Saturday. The church secretary made a mistake and both of us planned to use the kitchen and fellowship hall area. The church secretary never said she was sorry, only that she hated that it happened. I have struggled at other times to know how to deal with her so this didn’t really help. Well, I didn’t get much out of the sermon as I tried to think through our options. After the service the lady from the other event and I got together and walked around the building considering our options. We had finally come to the conclusion that they’d just have their event in a private home until her husband showed up and said no way, they were having it at church. Oh well. So on the day that we’re throwing this huge party, the kitchen is going to be in use from about 3:00 – 6:30 and then their mess will get cleaned up somewhere around 8:00. And we are supposed to work around that for our 7:00 – 9:00 event. I was furious when I found out because I had this carefully planned out and had reserved the kitchen and fellowship hall both Friday and Saturday all day long. We had both done exactly what we were supposed to do in reserving the date with the secretary. Only this time it just didn’t take. I was not mean or rude to anyone, but neither was I fake-nice about how I felt about the situation.
Hubby and I had a delightful dinner at one of my favorite local places Friday night. We ended up having one of the most interesting conversations ever and it was a lovely “date.” I’m happy to be married to a guy who is so good at talking with me about important things. I am crazy about him.
Saturday I finished up a wedding cake and BL and I delivered it to a picturesque barn on a lake. It was one of those hip trendy not-really-a-barn-at-all kind of barns. Everything was wrapped in tulle and Christmas lights with a pristine hardwood floor. LOL! The cake turned out beautifully and I’ll post photos when I get the time.
In other news. I’m in the process of handing my Cake Decorating job over to a teen who will graduate from High School this Summer. Yeah, I’m almost 40 and pretty darn good at the whole cake decorating gig. And I’m passing the – uh – decorating bag – to a teen! Does that seem strange to anyone besides me? She’s a beautiful girl with a delightful disposition and I think it will be good for everyone. She can’t do what I can but she’s a teen and everyone has to start somewhere. We’ve been working on a strangled shoe string with BL refusing to order the needed supplies so I’ve really nailed her hide a few times this week when I didn’t have the stuff I needed to do the work. I’m hoping to be able to leave the new girl with the equipment to do the job. On the other hand. It is just not my problem.
Saturday evening we spent with some friends and had a very nice time. I had no idea that one couple has one adopted child. They had worked at an adoption from Bolivia and something happened and it didn’t work out. So they put their name on a domestic list while they were considering their options and *poof!* they got a domestic assignment. So instead of a little brown boy, he’s pastel. Then they had a pregnancy that actually went to full term and the little boy acquired a matching sister. Lovely family. I knew they were older than most parents but had no idea what their story was.
After lunch this afternoon with friends, we sat around and talked at length about things like pacifism, politics and a variety of other faith and praxis issues. Very interesting and engaging conversation though I fear that we may have freaked out the turkey farmer who was listening. He’s such a darling creature and I adore him, but I can only imagine what he thought of the conversation.
Looking forward to this week will involve finishing up lots and lots of details for the big “Art & Chocolate” event Saturday. I’ll be wrapping up the work on the art I’ll have for sale. And of course there is the chocolate to finish up. There are tons of details and things to iron out so it’s going to be a very busy week. Hubby’s parents will show up late Friday to help out, so that adds a certain amount of additional work to get the house ready for guests in addition to everything else. I hope I can get all the needed details rounded up. I wish I knew how many people to plan for. I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
And finally (insert trumpet blast here) I’m going to start a new business. I’ve got an appointment to take work to a gallery in H’burg that has been a very profitable venue for me in the past. That will be good. I decided to pass on the local farmer’s market since they’d only allow the soap that I make and not the jewelry. And there is a marvelous little boutique in H’burg that I’ll try out as well. I think my more expensive work will be a lovely fit there. So I’m going to start getting my work out there and see how people respond and take it as it comes. There are lots of local and regional venues to choose from, it’s only a matter of time. I’m pretty excited about that though. And I’m blessed to have a hubby who is willing to see me give this a shot again. It really is time.
Ok, this has been a very unusual Sunday at my house. I skipped church. I know I know – sue me. And then I scrapped my NaNoWriMo project. But I slept late and got up while hubby was preparing for work. He made the two of us a nice breakfast and off he went. I brushed my hair and washed my face and headed for the laptop computer to see what could be done about my NaNo. I sat looking over the pages from the previous days and my 16,094 word count and pretty much found it an annoying disorganized mess. So after trying unsuccessfully to categorize and separate out the different kinds of writing, I gave up. I had some sections of the novel written as a journal, some were memories of an earlier time and some were straight narration. Well, it was confusing crap. So I started over with a blank word document and set my word count on the NaNoWriMo.org website back to zero. (gulp!)
I started in with a new vision and wrote for a while. After a while I’d get to a point where I remembered something I had written in the first draft and so I’d go cut and paste it into the new document. It was kind of an interesting process.
At 12:30 pm I had zero words
1:00 – 618 words
2:00 - 3102 words
3:00 - 4478 words
4:00 - 5429 words
And at 5:00 I had 6811 words.
Now THAT was FUN!
I’m taking a break fairly often and since the dogs keep wanting to be let out and then let in – I’m interrupted often but I think that might actually be good for me, who knows. So, I’ll see how far I can get for a while and then lay it down until tomorrow. If I get really frustrated with my word count I’ll just go word mining in the old document and cut and paste a really big chunk. But at the moment the story line still kinda makes sense and I’d like to keep it that way. I guess that's the tension between simply writing first draft and allowing it to be what it is (crap) or going back in and messing around with the stuff that has already been written. Anyway, I'm feeling better about the project and as far as I'm concerned - that is the point.
Yeah, I spent most of the day uploading a bunch of new stuff to Etsy.com for sale. Yeah baby, surf on over and check out the goods. Especially if you enjoy beading like I do. Today I posted beads I've made from polymer clay. And I realized a little bit ago that there are tons more of these beads and such that I didn't find when I did the first batch! Oy! I've got more work to do!
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