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[November 10, 2009 @ 6:05am] |
NaNoJouMo- Union
Originally uploaded by lessherger.
I did this image for union. I used it as a technique video as well, you can find it on youtube. I started by putting a THICK layer of white acrylic paint on the background. I scratched into it to write. I used a mask to keep the center area white while I built up layers of color and grunge around it. I then pulled the mask off and added a layer of clear gesso, I could have used white but the clear left the little bits of color that made their way under the mask. I drew the face of the sheep in with soft pencil and white acrylic paint. I then added the original queen of merde image with a dragon from a bacardi ad wrapped around her head. I'm very happy with how this turned out.
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[November 09, 2009 @ 11:30pm] |
"Look in the mirror and count back from 10... If you can get down to zero I'm wrong"
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I'm learning how to feel again; every day I feel something different. It's not always a pleasant, and thats a good thing. I can't be happy all of the time. I can't be stable all of the time. I can't just expect things.
I've realized that I've spent the majority of my post adolescence in some sort of stagnant state.
It's gone.
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[November 09, 2009 @ 7:01pm] |
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"to all my dreamers out there; i'm with you. all my underdogs; i feel you. lift your head high, and stay strong. keep pushin' on"
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[November 09, 2009 @ 10:24am] |
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( Read more... )favorite poet: countee cullen
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[November 08, 2009 @ 7:58pm] |
nanojoumo- purity
Originally uploaded by lessherger.
I get a kick out of all the online "purity" groups. SO when the word purity came up for nanojoumo day 2 I had to lampoon it. The purity "logo" was put online as a purity card for a church gorup. It looks far cooler here than it did on the card. I pulled the card in to MS Publisher, reversed it and resized it to be about 8x10, i then printed it off onto a sheet of transparency film. I put it on the right side of the film this time and used a great deal of matte medium to transfer it to the pages.I had to cut it into 2 pieces to get it on, and I'll tell you the fold was a beast. the original logo was clearly going for a "urban and graf" feel. So the tendency of the transfer to peel and not go completely was a perfect medium to really take it there. I then outlined the letters with my pentouch pen, pressed down to get dribbles and runs. While that dried I looked at hundreds of images of scantily clad women bent over various objects, and quite frankly there are things that can't be unseen. Just the very act of attempting to find the image for the right corner has left my brain irreparably damaged. The things I do for art. I found the perfect picture, of a woman, scantily clad washing a car. I wanted the legs to frame the corner, so I first drew the leg for the right most side in soft pencil, added the crotch area and then the left leg. Next was to mix up some white person flesh tone and layer it over the drawing. I added her thong and it's all set. I blocked in some green coloring to set off the legs. Then I mixed up some gesso really thin and used a liner brush to spatter it on the page...
Maybe not the most pure purity page, but it's exactly what popped into my head when I first saw the word as the prompt.
( more pics after the cut )
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[November 08, 2009 @ 4:03pm] |
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i wish i had money to do my externship in europe.
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[November 08, 2009 @ 2:52pm] |
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I'm curious to know how many of you work in your journals on a daily basis. I would love to get into the habbit of working in my journal daily.
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[November 07, 2009 @ 2:39pm] |
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[November 05, 2009 @ 10:39am] |
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Well, I have a new boyfriend named Manuel Q, We've dating for about 9 months now... we took about 2 weeks off. (lets not talk about that.) But anyway , Everything has been fine, but recently i went from staying @ his house every night , every day to maybe once a week, because i pay 750 for a bedroom i never sleep in, but we've been fighting like crazy since i started staying at my house. God forbid he comes over to my house, I mean seriously can't even get him to come over, EVER. So annoying, might have something to do with my roommates BIG scary dog that were not supposed to have. anyhow, other than that everything is great.
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| Words with Meaning |
[November 05, 2009 @ 12:05pm] |
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Hi, guys! Geof here.
So I finally got around to working on an art journal, and I'm filling a nice, large journal at the moment. (I think it's like, 12''x8''? I dunno, it's a guesstimate.) I have a lot of decent magazine clippings, but here's the problem: I can't seem to find the right quotes/lyrics/etc. to post onto the pages to go alongside them.
Help?
I'd love it if you could reply to this with some of your favorite sayings: random song lyrics, excerpts from your all-time favorite books, quotes from movies you've seen that hits home. I don't have any standards: they can be happy or sad, powerful or easy, inspirational or depressing. Hit me with 'em!
Thanks, lovelies. Hopefully I'll be able to post some piccies, whenever I get around to buying myself a camera with birthday money.
<3.
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[November 05, 2009 @ 8:56am] |
there’s an interesting idea where if you think of a diary entry…we talk about songs being diary entries and all the rest… I love this idea that violence is loud and peace is quiet. And you break it down to the simplicity of a diary entry, and you go to yourself, “You know, on the happy days, I never wrote. On the happy days, there was no music. And on the happy days, there was no diary entry.”
-glen hansard
as writers and artists, do you feel this to be true? do you find yourself to be more creative when you're depressed? do you turn your sorrow into something? do you do what you do when you're at your happiest?
and pengiun-magpies, so it's not text only ^_^
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[November 04, 2009 @ 8:38pm] |
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"sometimes it’s easier to say that you don’t care… than to explain all the reasons why you do."
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| long time lurrrking (like..years literally) |
[November 04, 2009 @ 4:40pm] |
an old journal - some scans... mostly from 2008.
The first half was lined, the other half unlined.. I like the second half better but what can you do. I journal just for me... so they're rough and unfinished in places .. where my brain puked all over the paper or something. :)
( Read more... )
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| Question, Text Only |
[November 03, 2009 @ 10:55am] |
Out of this question and specifically the comment about how you shouldn't censor, my question becomes, how do you not censor.
I'm not concerned that someone will read my journal. In fact, I feel quite safe that no one will. But, I sitll find myself censoring what I write. Or trying to make it sound a certain way, or come across a certain way. Perhaps, I'm worried about how it will be in the future when I go back and reread (which I rarely do anyway), or fear of something else?
So, (for the mostly text-only journalers), how do you get over the self-censor block? (I in no way mean to exclude art journalers, it's just that I am text-only).
Do you just push through it?
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[November 03, 2009 @ 8:55am] |
i don't keep a traditional sketchbook- i draw on book pages [only from books that are already destroyed and beyond repair].... i was feeling a little blue one day and turned on the tv to have a sulk; martha stewart was on, doing a segment on mushrooms and i thought "oh it'd be lovely to draw a mushroom!" and so i did, and i felt much better afterwards. in fact, it made me feel so much better that i haven't stopped drawing them since :)
( shrooms, crows, and a jellyfish for good measures )
new friends always welcome- i'm reqbat on lj, fb, flickr, etsy, everywhere! :)
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[November 02, 2009 @ 8:08pm] |
I posted a while ago with a few pages of my "boyfriend book".
I'm here to post a few more.
I'm Elise, nineteen, & an art history major at a state school in Connecticut.
( I might be something someday. )
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