Made in Wisconsin.
Photographed in their new home on the banks of the MIssissippi river in Port Byron, IL.
Painted while living in Japan.
Watercolors and ink.
very small…. about 2″ square.
more Laimadoodle paintings
Paintings from a couple of weeks ago. Nothing special. Didn’t turn out the way i wanted them to, but I like them anyway.
tiles in progress….
i wouldn’t bother clicking on the picture to see it bigger – this is being kept intentionally small since all of what is pictured here is in progress. i’d like to figure out a way to make these into both a coaster and a wall hanging… but the hanging hardware i’ve found so far isn’t cooperating. plus, i think i should have attached the hanging hardware *before* gluing on photos/paper because any glue i use now can’t be cured by heat — or it *can* but i’d have to watch pretty carefully. i’m not sure if the chemicals modern paper is treated with make paper more or less flammable. hmm.
Garden monsters?
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These were harder to make than the other cement sculptures because the partly set cement was all crumbly which made me have to keep changing my design to make up for ears and eyebrows and eyeballs that crumbled off as I tried to shape them.
As of last night, I think I finally figured out WHY the cement was acting differently…. I forgot to close my bag of portland cement all the way, so I *think* that the integrity of the cement was compromised by all the water the portland cement had absorbed from the air… especially considering the large amounts of rain we’ve had in the last few weeks… now i don’t know what to do with my half empty, but slightly damp bag of portland cememnt… any ideas?
Garden critters…. part 2
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NOT zombies….. almost people!
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Well…. not perfect, but less like zombies than a good number of other paintings from the recent past. The question remains….. do i attempt to ‘fix’ the lady in the dress so she’s not slouching? Or do you like the uncertainty of her stance? and does her dress need straps?
lots of yellow paint…
I had help when I was taking pictures…. perhaps I should figure out a place to photograph art work that is not my basement floor 🙂
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these are just some acrylic ‘sketches’ from the past year… mostly just using up paint that was about to die.
oil pastels on watercolor
I needed a quick art fix earlier this summer…. so oil pastel on top of Japanese watercolors seemed like the way to go…. i rather like making blotches of whatever color(s) I happen to pick out of my box. Then come back after it’s dry to stare at the blotches to see what appears and finally to adjust it so that other people can see what I see. This time I used oil pastels on top of the watercolors. sometimes it’s ink. sometimes it’s acrylic. sometimes it’s more watercolors.
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I’m still researching digital cameras, so anything i post for the next month or so will be from my “archive” of pictures taken while “testing” a digital camera I borrowed from a friend. Most recently i’ve been messing around with straight up acrylics, trying to get bodies and body parts to actually look like body parts (instead of zombie people or distorted people or unidentifiable blobs). so far I have *1* that worked 🙂 you probably will not ever got to see the zombie paintings. i try to paint over them as soon as possible. they’re creepy.
Laima-doodles, take 21,987,266,001
More sketchy paintings by Laima….
I tend to sketch/doodle during most meetings at work…. here’s an attempt to see what would happen if I took something from one of my many notebooks covered in black & white Laima-doodles and made them BIG (these are roughly 2’x3′) and added color…. as you can see, I’m still working out the details.