more miniatures

I was watching "The Prestige" and something about those piled-up Edwardian hairstyles and all the magician's finches fluttering anxiously in their cages clicked.

I don't know if I mentioned this, but all the miniature silhouettes I've been doing have been studies of a sort for what I'm hoping will be much larger, more elaborate pieces. I won't be offering all of those for sale, but I'll definitely be sharing them here.

new series of miniature silhouettes

There are actually six in the series so far, but the photos turned out so shoddy (it's raining today) I'm planning on re-shooting them on Friday. Still, I listed the girl with the mohawk and the girl with the bob, just for the sake of putting something new in the shop. I'm hoping to have a series of twenty.

adage felt cuffs

I made jewelry!




These are the first two in what I hope to be a series of at least ten wool felt cuffs, with partial adages cut out of the center and images from the saying cut out of the top edge. The wool is so soft and warm.

new drawings in the shop

a little better

I have to say, though, I'm missing my scanner pretty hard right about now.

new gouache paintings

The light is obviously really crummy, since I had to photograph it at night and all that. I didn't even bother setting up the tripod, since I'm going to re-take the pictures on Friday anyway, which is hopefully when they'll go up in the shop. I tried tweaking the contrast and exposure so you can see the colors better.

I'm really, really loving gouache. It's so satisfying and matte and lovely, and it doesn't have that tacky quality that acrylic does. For larger personal projects or projects for school, I prefer acrylic because you can paint layers and mimic oil (I still haven't properly learned oil because I can't possibly paint with them in my apartment, but next fall I think I might be wedded to it eternally so I might as well enjoy my freedom) but for these smaller projects, the ones that are almost more like drawing than painting, I think I prefer gouache.

"Sly Boots I" listed in the shop

I've decided to offer larger pieces unmounted as well. It occurred to me that some people might prefer them loose, to add to shadowboxes or whatnot, or to mount them on different paper than I might choose.

I'm also gearing up to add a bunch of Christmas and winter items to the shop; stay tuned!