tenth bird

Do you see it?


Make something that camouflages with something else.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.
--Quintilian

incidental bird

For ninth bird I drew using my left hand. What was funny about this experience was not only how strangely it turned out, but also that my brain couldn't really handle it. I would become absorbed in my drawing, and my brain would get frustrated with my left hand's inability to work quickly and neatly. Several times, my right hand snatched the pencil away from my left hand (but don't worry, my right hand never actually put pencil to paper).

To appease my brain and release a little of the agitated tension that my right hand acquired from "watching" my left hand fumble about, I drew an additional picture.

Chris: "Why don't  your people ever have faces?"

ninth bird

This project was much less time consuming than my previous projects and had the charm of being utterly ridiculous and stress-relieving. 


Work on the other hand. Pick a medium you're comfortable with, then work with your nondominant hand--if you usually favor your right hand then only use your left and vice-versa.


Ok, we won't talk about the structure of that sentence.
I decided to draw because I didn't want to cover myself in paint or glue or accidentally adhere something to something else. See first bird. 

Yes, I drew this completely left-handed.

Proof!

eighth bird

Do something using only water as your medium/inspiration.

Ok, so, I'm officially obsessed with stop-motion videos. True story.

Technically, I cheated because I also used a camera, my computer, and food coloring. Hopefully, you'll someday find it in your heart to forgive me.

I also took some fancy pictures with water. ENJOY!

seventh bird

This one took forever long, and was rife with disaster, but I think I still like how it turned out.


Make a stencil, and use it in your artwork today.
--I really feel like this should have counted for two days. Technically, it's asking you to do two different things. (gripe gripe gripe)


OK. Because I am over-industrious, I decided to make a one-time-use stencil and paint a t-shirt.

Here is le plain t-shirt from I Have No Idea.

I decided to do rain drops. Two wax paper sheets worth of rain drops.

Which I then had to cut out.
And this is when I started to question myself.












The plan was to iron the wax paper onto the shirt, then spray paint it. 
I looked on a website, and it promised that this idea was trustworthy and good.

The ironing, it did not work. Apparently when not-so-trustworthy webadvice said wax paper, they really meant freezer paper (not the same thing). But I did not cut out all of those stupid raindrops for nothing.
So I glued the wax paper to the shirt.
--Except for one bit, which I left loose for EXPERIMENTATION.

These are the spray paints that I am using.

Mid-process.

The stencil is very obviously not salvageable. Also, while most of it came off, there were a few bits that needed some extra encouragement.
Also, my fingers are still paint-y.

A close-up of the rain drops. 
The wax paper that I didn't glue down smeared, so I just sprayed a light mist of paint over most of the shirt to make it look more intentional.

Outside, right after completion.

Inside, drying. Tomorrow I'll wash it to see whether  removing the glue residue affects the paint.




Overall, I think I like it. But, next time, freezer paper. 


I will post the washed, completed project asap.

incidental bird

Ok, so my latest project is taking me a million years to complete. I will post as soon as I finish!


In the meantime, I have been creative at work. If you will accept slapping something choppy and amateur together for a teen group as "creativity."


My library teens are in the middle of a project for a video contest. We've storyboarded our video and are two meetings away from putting it together (it's a stop motion project). Several teens have missed meetings and wanted me to post pictures online so that everyone's on the same page. I thought the pictures and dense text were difficult to sift through because I can't create photo albums for fb group pages. So I made a text-heavy, hard to follow video instead.


Cheers!

sixth bird

The second food-related post! This one is much more friendly.


Make something with your breakfast before you eat it.

I call it "Pinwheel on Toast."

Another version.

Toast made more delicious with lime curd, blackberry jam, and cream cheese.
YUM!