Working: In the Studio and beyond

 

 Yesterday, I spent the day working in my studio.  The morning was windy and clouds rolled in and out offering excellent albeit fluctuating lighting.  I was able to start painting on Antoinette Gasmask.

 Today I was at the Five Rivers Art Alliance Family Art and Science Festival.  I worked with Sebastian Meade from Acts of Random Art to promote the Snail Mail Event and help folks make some art postcards.

We ended up being situated in the Imaginarium Tent where the wood scrape creation table was.  Our set up was in perfect company!

I am an evil mother and drug my daughter and her friend to the festival.  I think they had fun and were good sports and made some cool art (shown below).  The weather which was feisty yesterday, was cooperative today.

 This family has fun stamping, drawing and gluing.  Before making art with us they had visited the face painting tent.  The young sir in the striped shirt was a skunk!

 Some budding artists making wood scrap sculptures...

 My daughter's collage...yes, she is her mother's daughter.

 My collage doodle today...

A drawing that my daughter's friend made that really creeped me out.  I asked her to hide it.  But secretly I like it.

Making problems only to create solutions...

This doesn't look like much, does it?  Art in process is often boring to observers.  I make art because I am trying to figure things out.  I make problems for myself on the page and then create solutions.  Sometimes.

Sometimes, I make things simply to shock (not to often anymore) and sometimes I make art to watch the paint dry.  Sometimes.

Those things up in the photo are the raw material for collage postcards.  As soon as they dry, they will be trimmed to the size of the index card, flipped over to the text side and I will add elements to the page.  Simple.

Usually, I make the little collages for play...for shits and giggles.  That is their prime purpose: to entertain me. Truthfully, though cutting out images and playing around helps me think about the problems I create for myself on my larger, more "serious" paintings.

The secondary purpose of the little collages is to send them out in the Snail Mail Event.  This is a lovely little way to send art (mail) out to folks, receive mail and perhaps build a little art collection.  Also, it supports the USPS which I personally think is a very cool thing.

Finally, the creator of the Snail Mail Event, The Actor of Random Art, will be at the Five River Arts Alliance Arts and Science Festival on September 9 (Sunday) to host a table on creating recycled collage postcards.  In addition to our gig, there will be lots of other art, music, maybe food and hopefully fun.  Oh and there will be SCIENCE...art AND science.

Would you like a postcard?  Comment below, send your address deets to bridget3000(at)live(dot)com, and maybe share this blog with someone you like.

Thanks.

This happy child collage will fly off to someone else tomorrow...



8 little collages drying on the board...

Fox boy