This beautiful print is from a website where people can sell their handmade items, it’s called Etsy. Aside from artwork they have furniture, clothing, housewares, needlecraft, woodwork…etc. It’s a neat site, well designed and a great place to window shop or find that one-of-a-kind gift you’re looking for.
Category Archives: art
family portrait
After feeling a little burned out from the busy holidays I decided to try my hand at a the fun, no stress art form of collage. I scanned photos of my family from a favorite trip we took to Lake Michigan about fifteen years ago and glued them onto a background I painted and layered with torn paper and a map of the area we visited. I made our clothes with material leftover from all the sewing projects I never got around to and, ta da, a family portrait like no other (Mr. bookbabie insists I write that his legs are not nearly so chicken-like). There a lots of sites online to get inspiration from, Collageart.org and the Collage Artists of America has lists of artists and their galleries.
Rosie and Claudine Hellmuth are also websites of collage artists that got me motivated to make stuff again. Thanks girls! Next up, a collage of me and George on the red carpet at the Oscars, hmmm, what should I wear?
erin
I have always loved the human face. When I was a little girl my dad would bring home scrap paper from work and me and my sisters would draw on the blank side. My goal was to be able to draw a face that didn’t look like a monster! It took a long time, but I finally did it and eventually I taught myself to paint portraits in oil. Standing in front of a canvas in my studio, breathing in the scent of the paints and the turpentine, is when I felt most like myself.
This is a portrait of Erin. She is a young woman now, a student at MSU and she is still just as beautiful on the outside as she is on the inside.
january snow
We haven’t had much snow yet here in Michigan this winter, but here’s a little reminder of the beauty of winter. The artist’s name is Cat and you can see her work on her cool blog, The Odd Neighbor.
bookbabie 