distant relative of a Bush??

I had to try one more! In my previous post they say i look like Laura Bush. This one says i look like Sophia Bush which is her daughter(??). I don't think i wanna play this game anymore...gettin' too creepy!! could i be related??!!

Laura Bush is my Evil Twin!!!

How funny is this?!? the first pic i tried said i looked like Dave Chapelle! Oh my Gootness!

Yahoo!!! i mean Google...

I can't believe Blogger finally updated their damn selves! Yay!!!! We shall see if it works out with the photo uploading...

This is a collaboration for the Library project with Brian Raszka. Brian and I sent old books that we started to alter leaving the rest for the other person. I sent him "The Wisdom of Confucious". He sent me an old vintage charm on mathematics! My fave subject! not really.

I really was/am not happy with what I did to the back cover here. He started it off with the image of the snake and bird which I altered beyond recognition. really. These are three of the many stages I went thru with the back cover. The present version is the one on the far left. You can see I lost the snakes tail and the clown..oh yeah and a couple small black birds- both not Brians. I love how I painted the "8" which is a cardboard stencil. The purples and deep blues look awesome in person, but over all I'm not thrilled with it. I guess I can't be thrilled with everything I make or I won't learn anything...aarrghh.

I'm still having a blast with "the Library Project" on Flickr. The fun won't last forever, but when I'm done there will be something lined up waiting. With art there is always something next. Cuz creativity never ends. Thank Goodness I have a healthy hobby.

Links to my Portfolio...

I've decided that I'll be keeping this blog since Flickr has adopted a new policy which blocks art from public searches and searches within Flickr itself. That made me a tad nervous being that Flickr holds my portfolio. However, if you scroll down there is a link to my Flickr photo's.

Blogger isn't necessarily set up to house a portfolio. Also, there is another link to my photo's at Flickr if you go into my profile here and click on 'My Web Page' link.

I'll stick links everywhere if I have to! heehee! :)

this is a collage i did early '06 titled Green.

Illo: insect....eewwww!

Here's an odd piece I had fun with in one of my latest altered books. I'm submitting it to Illustration Friday for "insect". I didn't intend to turn him into an insect, but since that was this weeks theme I decided that was the direction he was going in. Now he is a bug and he seems to be happy with the choice. He seems to be big enough that the birds won't eat him. Yuck.

Altered Book pages 2 and 3

Page 3 is on top and 2 on bottom. Its a spread I did about just a little bit of anger I have toward an ex fiance. I did the entire spread spontaneously. So I was surprised to see all the anger come out of my subconcious. I cut out random words and sentences and pasted them down quickly so that I did not have time to make decisions. Page 2 even includes his name! And the picture of the man in the center which says "the master story teller"-that's him alright. Its funny because the picture is actually of L.Ron Hubbard. I didn't realize Hubbard was a big science fiction writer before he wrote his latest novel which he turned into a religion- his religion. Sheesh! What narcissism. My ex was a narcissist. If anyone has been in a relationship with a narcissist they know what I'm talkin' about! :) Scarey stuff. We all have narcissistic qualities to one degree or another, but a real narcissist can be a very, very dangerous person. Thank God for the therapeutic value of art! Not to mention how much fun it is!

My altered book, "Wake Up"

Aaaahhh!! Its been too long since I've posted! I've been working on an altered book called, "Wake Up". Its evolving nicely. I'm gonna post how it evolves- gotta catch up though! This is the first page...its way different now!!