Tell All~~Tomorrow On The Pulse!

Hey dear readers; tomorrow the Blog Mistress will be featured on Seth Apter's blog, The Altered Page, in a continuing series he started back in June of 2011.

The question in this installment is;  

“What is the one thing that you know now that you would have liked to have known when you first started to create art?”

(omgosh.....there are so MANY answers to that one....)

These are always fun reads on different artist perspectives, and especially for me, because I haven't a CLUE how I answered the question presented about art! 

In fact, sometimes I grimace a bit before hand, trying very hard to remember what I said and hoping that I won't look at my response and think, "WHO said that and WHY???" and wonder if I should go hide my head in the sand a while.

(you know me....always pithy!)

So hop on over tomorrow and enjoy some answers that are no doubt EXCEPTIONAL, and then check mine too....lol!

I'll be reading it as if it was the first time I saw it!

Thanks Seth, for keeping us thinking and always presenting a new challenge for everyone.


Pax....

Feel The Pulse!

I am delighted to be one of the featured artists today over at Seth Apter's blog, "The Altered Page". Currently he is running a series about techniques and tools artists can't live without.

Please take a moment to drop by and see what cool things are there, plus meet up with other artists you may have never had the chance to enjoy before.
Oh, and there is one other reason too...... (hangs head in shame)
I can't remember for sure what I wrote. 
I have a pretty good idea, but it's been a while and I've slept since then! ;-)
Thanks Seth for connecting more and more artists across the vista of blogland!


Pax....

Taking My *PULSE*......

.....Just reminding everyone to visit Seth at The Altered Page for:

And get me something to check *my* pulse for being included! 
Have a GREAT SUNDAY!


Pax....

At Last......Art.......

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, art does NOT happen.
I had started this piece quite by accident when I was finishing up my Michael DeMeng Colorwash Class. See, that tin *was* a saddle soap can with openers on the side. I think I was trying to soften up my Doc Marten boots when I discovered the soap had totally gone kaput.
The tin was rusted exceptionally well, and after my initial fit that I didn't have saddle soap, I looked again at the beauty in the rust; something normally to discard, but all I could see was a shrine shape.

So the round part was done. And then it sat......and sat.......and......SAT. I knew I wanted something on top and I knew eventually it would be free-standing on a slim metal pole attached to a fancier base.
Fast forward to, well, TODAY. It was too hot to sew, too miserable to do much needed work in the yard and I see this piece, begging for attention.
Guilt, my dear readers, GUILT propelled me to go to the cellar and dig through boxes of *stuff* (M.A. part of that digging was through the box of metal bit you sent!!!) and finally found a fancy metal piece that could be altered for  a finial.

It was originally gold and shiny like the piece on the left (which I am sure will work itself into the base somehow) but with some folding and nipping and paint washes and the heat gun, I had the aged and lovely crown.
Ah yes, that was what I was looking for!
And close ups~~the interior with a paperclay stamped piece, with tons of mediums and paints.....please don't make me try and think what I used...

I did use Kroma Crackle on this; there is a learning curve to the medium and I am still curving and learning.

But this, the face on the front.....this is what I wanted, exactly. The soft glowing kindness, the gentle color, the crackle of age.
For whatever reason, I was reminded of Orthodox Icons and then I thought about the Hagia Sophia's beautiful round domes...my mind was pulling together all the wonderful remnants I have seen from archeological digs, and thus, this piece in process.
I now have to find both *stem* and *base* but this has motivated me to look, and to finish.
And by the way, this Sunday, please stop by Seth Apter's incredible, great art blog, "The Altered Page"....

....because I will be part of The Pulse, in Style File! 
If you love mixed media, Seth's blog is a MUST to follow. He does amazing work and is constantly introducing new artists there.
Anyway, I've rambled enough.
I just want to say.....art felt really GREAT today!
Wishing you beautiful visions, inspiration, and all the style you could ask for! And of course....


Pax....