Monday, December 19, 2011

Bloomin'

Challenge 47: Work with flowers - artificial or real, live or dried, picked or bought.

So I have this wreath that a coworker made from wild grape vines growing in her yard.  I really like grape vine wreathes, possibly only for the nostalgia of my mom cutting wild vines and making wreathes a lot when I was a kid.  The wreath I have hanging in my apartment now has been decorated with different ornaments - dried flowers, toy spiders, handmade birds and flowers that I've made from felt, and other embellishments.  Here it is!


I've made several felt flowers before and usually attach them to hats I've made or sew a pipe cleaner on the back and bunch them together in a vase.  I sold one this summer to a boy who wrapped it in the button hole on his coat, rendering it a sweet boutonniere - I loved that idea!  Here are close-ups of the flowers on the wreath:




I love the look of flowers, and really dig the funky blue poinsettias you can get at the store during this time of year - so pretty!


The end!

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Face it!

Challenge 46: Face it.  What can you do with a face - yours or someone else's?  This doesn't have to be face painting; you could use food or something else to decorate it, or try molding it into a new shape with hands or tape and documenting it.

I actually have a lot of ideas for this challenge - I love painting, drawing, and sculpting faces.  These days, however, I've been finding that my time and energy are tapped.  I haven't done a challenge in a while and looked at this one and thought that I might have some old work I could showcase here to fit the challenge description. 

And then a wonderful, magical thing happened.  I scoured the digital pictures on my computer and found some gems. 

I few years back, a lot of people I know were trying out a funny website where you could take a photo of yourself and "insert" your face into pre-selected pictures, in essence creating a picture of yourself that looks like it's from another time in the past 60 years or so.  I can't remember the exact website, but I'm sure I could track it down if I wanted to check it out again.  Of course, I tried it out back when it was the new thing with my friends, and don't think I ever shared my photos.  Let this be my debut:


(1952)


(1960)


(1966)


(1994)


I know that these pictures aren't new work, but I thought they were funny and I needed a good laugh.