i haven't posted because life has just been chugging along - days made up of naps, heat, runs to the grocery store... the usual. but yesterday we had a fabulous family day! pat, anabelle and i spent the afternoon at mandalay bay's shark reef. we saw komodo dragons, sharks, jellyfish and lots and lots of fish, including lacy and papery lionfish. anabelle was mezmerized in her own laid-back sort of way...
last night pat and i left anabelle with maria and we went back down to the strip to sushi roku for dinner. what a fun night!!!! cocktails, yummy sushi, fabulous strip view and good good chats. afterwards we meandered around the forum shops, wandering in and out of stores like niketown, y-3, nanette lepore, brooks brothers, louis vuitton...
now. on the art front...
my portrait of pat is coming along:
my good ol' friend anna came to town last weekend and among other things we talked art. she gave me lots of good inspiration and ideas. ideas that involve: scale, repetition using different materials, color to create depth, sewing with thread, sewing machine without thread. love you anna!
and then -- OH NO -- i got completely carried away, distracted and i overworked it in a big bad way:
how does one fix a pen and ink drawing?????? ugh, i can't and won't touch it until i figure out how. help! it's heavy and off balance and pat told me he suddenly feels jealous of the house (which i think in art talk means that my two subjects are not working together to make up a very nice composition.)
ok, off to sunday morning yoga class. have a good day!
My friend Lara--an amazing artist--has "fixed" pen and ink drawings by attaching a veneer of clean paper over a mistake--I think she uses some sort of glue to attach the new paper, and then she draws over the new white space. While you can tell close up that there's another layer of paper, you can't tell from any distance, and in a way it sort of looks cool even if you do notice. She posts work at www.larabirdart.blogspot.com, and I'm sure she'd tell you more about this process if you asked her. I think what you're doing is really cool!
ReplyDeleteThank you SO much Melissa. I really appreciate your help. I went to Lara's blog (wonderful) and emailed her already!
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ReplyDeleteThanks again Lara! Okay, I'm sooo back in the game. ;)
ReplyDeletethat heading was too funny!! i miss you guys so much! i love this drawing you are doing with pat! its so amazing up close! you never cease to amaze me with the variety of things you can do with a piece of paper, pen and pencil! you are one of the most incredible artists...ever!! i'm so happy i can at least see what you are up to all the time.
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