Walking with Dinosaurs

I haven't posted here in two weeks! That's far too long, but, unfortunately, it was a bit unavoidable. My mom is moving into town. As the family member with a truck, I'm on call for any moving that needs to be done. So I've been pretty swamped the last week or so. That doesn't mean I haven't put a little work/play time in. I hope you guys love this like I do!!! An animated dinosaur scene to compliment the dino images I uploaded last!

A prehistoric pack

Some dinosaur images I made for an online card game. I am sending them to my sister Cameo for coloring, I'll add a link to the colored versions once they get in her DA. The Jack is played by a Velociraptor, Queen Triceratops, King Rex (of course) and the Joker is a Dilophosaurus, because while they're a bit intimidating, they're also a little hilarious!

Sea Serpent!

I have 2 adorable nephews, Cartier who is in those terrible twos (which really aren't so terrible) and Kash who is almost one. It's been pretty wonderful having them around the house. Working from home means I'm the number one go to girl for babysitting, which is mostly well and good as long as I don't attempt to get any work done. Anyways, my other sister Alisa (who I share a house with) and I gave them their own playroom in the house. It has an ocean theme, a mural is being painted in it and it has soft flooring down. The room naturally had this wood paneling wainscoating, so we used that to our advantage. The theme is "Out at Sea" and we are decorating the room as if they're on their very own ship. Not pirates, I'm gonna try and teach them to like being the good guys ;) They look out over the railing of the ship (wainscoating) at an amazing ocean scape. There is a brilliant yellow orange sun smiling down from one corner, swirling clouds overhead, an island in the distant mists and dolphins and sea gulls swimming in their wake. It's going to be a wonderfully fun room!

Anyways, all that was leading up to the purpose of the guy I'm about to post. It's a work in progress picture of the sea monster that is going to be attacking the ship! We're going to mount him coming out of the wall and hanging over the ceiling on pulleys so he can be moved up and down. He'll even have a baby monitor in his throat so that he can roar and maybe even talk to the kids as they pretend

He's been sculpted out of foam, I have a huge roll of carpet padding I bought for just these sort of sculpts! So far I had only had occasion to make a couple of masks, and some Audrey 2s out of it. Now though I'm using it to it's full potential and enjoying every bit of it. A lot of learning is going into this, what sort of adhesives to use. Hot glue and spray glue work pretty well, though since it's a thick cardboard, a few nails don't hurt either.

Anyways, I'll have more to show you later!

If you guys have any questions at all on how it's done, definitely ask. At the end of the sculpt I'll probably make a post of helpful hints and tips for creating your own.

Promotional Materials 2011

A little late in the year, but here you have it, my 2011 promotional materials! I have postcards and tons and tons of business cards. The postcards are from MyPostcards.com and the biz cards are from Vistaprint. Looking at the prints, I prefer the colors on the VistaPrint products because it's closer to what I sent him. The biz cards arrived a lot faster than estimated. So I think I'll be sticking with them for now.

Ink and Wash

Alright so I've been playing with my dip pens the last week or so, trying to get a handle on them. While I'm not totally happy with it quite yet, I have created some pieces I really love. Meet Kin, he's from Wytheria.com, which is, alas, still down.

He will be for sale at 'Art at your Feet' along with several other drawings and some pastels from my sister. It's in Blissfield Michigan September 10.

http://www.blissfieldmainstreet.com/events/aayf.html

Hopefully I will see some of you there!

Oh oh oh, my postcards are also in. I'm going to take a couple pictures and I'll post them here!