Paint + pen

Some little retro drawings on canvas. I wonder how high I could stack them. Hey, if these were blocks, that would be fun. Except babies would probably chew the paint off. Scratch that.

Mini canvases

Impulse purchase from the checkout counter at Blick: a pack of teensy little 2" x 2" canvases. Why is everything that's miniaturized so irresistible? Anyhow, I made them into magnets.

See? Aren't they cute?

After painting, I covered the back with self-adhesive paper and glued on magnets. These things weigh practically nothing, so they'd be easy to mail to someone. Or keep them and turn your fridge into a Smurf-sized art gallery. Dick Blick even sells tiny easels for them.

Fabric and paint

I had leftover fabric from a pillow project, so I decided to try out Anna Maria Horner's silhouette idea. Worked like a charm! You stretch fabric over a canvas, paint it with gel medium to sort of seal it and make a smooth surface, transfer or draw on your shape, then use acrylic paint to fill in the outsides. You can see her tutorial here. (This design is based on some Chinese paper cutouts I saw in a book. The purple fabric is this stuff.)

Clarification: I didn't cut out a stencil like the tutorial said, but transferred my design on with graphite paper and then painted around it. And I used Golden brand matte gel medium instead of mod podge.
This was a project for my friend's office. (Some of you know who I'm talking about.) She has a little sofa, a desk, a bookshelf, and some naked walls, so I put together a few decorations. Because nobody should have naked walls. Sewed some pillows, found this print on Imagekind, got a cheap frame from Ikea, and made the purple painting to take up some wall space. This Photoshop collage was my test to see if the things would look okay together.

New paintings are in the shop

If you have bare walls, you can go see if there's something that strikes your fancy in the shop. I just put in 11 new paintings.

Little lonely painting

When I was on the vines kick, I made this 6" square guy. I thought I might hang him in the kitchen, but it turns out there's no wall space. Tragic. I guess he'll live on the shelf of paintings that might become presents someday.

Sitting around the house

Here's a small painting I did awhile back.

Stripey twirly art

Here are some of the first paintings I made to fill up the empty walls in our condo. Maybe a year ago? Can't recall. Here they are in their natural habitat.

Purple painting

I'm giving this one to some people I like. I think it will look right at home in their house. But yikes! Does anyone else get scared when giving your art as gifts? What if they hate it, and keep it in a closet, only to whisk it out and guiltily hang it up just before I come over every time? Or what if they get sick of it on their wall, but feel obligated to keep it forever? I'll make sure to tell them to dispose of it whenever they don't want it anymore.

Alien life in the living room

I made a bigger (30" x 40") frog-legs-cauliflower-lotus painting to hang in the living room. Might be a little too polka dotty for me, but I'll wait and see if it grows on me.

Paintings with white vines

More curvy things.

Alien life forms

This is a 12" x 16" acrylic painting I made of.... sea life? Cauliflower? Alien plant species? Hard to say, but it was fun. I like curves and organic shapes. No straight edges for me.