WIP: May? It Must be Con Season!

Hello guys and gals. I've been a calligraphy machine churning out enough inventory to sell for Fanime, the local Japanese anime/video game/manga convention held during Memorial Day weekend in San Jose, CA. Thanks to Kimono Momo for lending me a small area of her dealer booth to show off my art against the backdrop of beautiful kimono.

At the moment I'm waiting for some smaller trading card sized pieces to dry. And while I'm doing that I'm punching out more cherry blossom shaped paper punches as well for a larger personal project. No rest for the wicked, indeed.

Work in Progress: Fun with Paper Punches

I've been searching everywhere for the perfect cherry blossom shaped paper punch. What I saw at the store and online were just vague flower shaped punches. I know, I'm being far too picky. But I don't want to just be satisfied if I'm going to get arts and crafts supplies. I need a durable product with a lot of mileage. Good thing places like Crafty Japan sell the exact paper punch I was looking for for less than $5. Sooooo happy when this came in the mail.

All right the perfect paper punch, I gotta test drive this thing. Good thing I have this big pile of pink origami scrap from a previous project. Yep it worked like a charm. Gonna put this all together and...well, I'll have to save that for next time. It's drying. Enjoy the teaser picture! =D

WIP: Seeing things in the clouds

Hello everyone. Beautiful Saturday so far, isn't it? I got a creative kick from watching the clouds pass by during lunch. I still imagine clouds taking the shapes of animals or objects. If I stare too long at the clouds transparent forms start floating by. (I know, it's from the random things floating around in your eye. But that's not a fun explanation.) I decided that would be the essence of what I would mimic in my last piece for The Hive Creations.



I wanted to integrate a beautiful image of a bird I could in a paper die cut. I used the die cut as a stencil and layered on the paint. Removing the paper proved difficult, and refused to be moved after repeated attempts. Lesson learned I would have coated the die cut in sealant. But now I find myself liking the bits that were left. Now it has an antiquing effect that makes the bird really pop.

Art Session: WIP shot.

Working on some Tiki-themed artwork for The Hive Creations. This one is still drying but I love it already. There's the face of a tiki on the left, volcanic stone in the middle, and a really bright slice of pineapple.



After some dinner and a break I'll be back to work making the final piece to this puzzle.

Needs more color--In case you were wondering.

Just in case you guys were confused about what I was kicking myself over, here it is:



I'm not completely discouraged though. I now realize I have to do something else to realize my vision. On the bright side this piece does show the silver pixie dust I mixed with my clouds really well. Time to make some adjustments and improve.