May 2008 Newsletter
Well it’s been a while since the last newsletter. As far as the website goes, I’ve upgraded the software I use to run it, and after working out a bug where all of the titles vanished, it seems to be quite stable. I’ve added a few features. One is a copy&paste bit at the bottom of each article on the off chance anyone wanted to link to it. Another is an additional search box at...
Enter Here >> Sculpture Gallery
I had dabbled in some Sculpey knick-knacks but started to attempt “real” sculpture in the spring of 2008 when I took my first sculpture course. You can view my various attempts in the Gallery…
Enter Here >> Photography and Photograms
I began doing black and white photography, including darkroom processing, in 2006. I enjoyed the medium quite a bit but do not currently have the facilities to do much more of it at this time. I have a collection of photographs and of photograms (no camera is involved, you place objects directly on the photo paper and expose it, then develop it as a print) in my Gallery…
Enter Here >> Painting Gallery
I began painting in August 2006. Most of my work is online in my Gallery…
An Analysis Of My Painting "The Enlightenment"
I was contacted by a student named Roy who was writing an art analysis paper for a class. The assignment was apparently to choose the work they found most compelling from the student exhibition and write an analysis of it. Roy told me he had chosen one of my pieces, The Enlightenment, and wanted to know if there was any other information about it that he should know. I told him it...
Fun Toys: Impressionist Painter
Try your hand at impressionist painting! It’s easy! Just click in the box and move your mouse around…
Time-Lapse Progress: Still Life #2 (oil on canvas)
Here is a time-lapse movie slideshow of webcam images, followed by some higher quality images of the second still life I did…
Fun Toys: Fractal Generator
Explore the Mandelbrot Set with this Java fractal generator…
Clothing Design: Wedding Dress, 1991
In 1991 when I was about to get married to Rob, my mom and I went to bridal shop after bridal shop searching for just the right dress. We didn't really find anything that stood out to me, and the price tags would make your hair fall out!
Eventually we decided to have the dress custom made rather than buying one off the rack. Surprisingly, this was a much less expensive option! I sketched out...
Clothing Design: Bloomers, Skirt, and a Blouse, 1991
In the summer of 1991, my (now ex-) husband and I visited my mother-in-law’s house in rural Michigan, (this was before she was my mother-in-law). She had a wonderful antique treadle Singer sewing machine. On a whim one day…