tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4162367208694544022024-03-13T09:15:01.944-04:00I am RushmoreKaren Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.comBlogger455125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-38079152190554288552017-03-29T06:05:00.000-04:002017-03-29T06:05:34.919-04:00Yes, but is it done?<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Knowing when something is finished is hard. Maybe if I painted portraits or landscapes or fruit bowls it would be easier, but with an abstract composition there's never a feeling of putting in the final puzzle piece. Lately I've been mounting pieces on wood panels whether I think they're done or not as a way of pushing me past that completion paralysis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But now I have a tower of half-finished paintings on cumbersome wooden blocks piled up in my tiny art room and I keep tripping over them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some days I look at it and I love it and I'm ready to hang it up. Some days I look at it and think it's a meandering mess that needs a focal point, or a big shape or something.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And then there's this one:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's been through so many changes, and each new layer has improved it, but I don't know where to go next.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This one is definitely not done and it's been shuffled about for
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm liking the way this one looks:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But it doesn't have as much richness or depth as I'd like and I feel like I should keep adding. On the other hand, I don't want to ruin what I've got going on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because here's one that's gone way too far and is going to have to be reeled back in. Obliteration is in your future!</span><br />
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Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-30912286873732717622017-03-17T23:45:00.001-04:002017-03-17T23:45:28.937-04:00It's not a blizzard and I'm blogging anyway<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I came home from work tonight, eager to paint, to learn that not only did we not have heat, but the boiler was spewing water all over the basement floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So we turned off the water in the house, borrowed a wet-vac, and put in a call to the plumber.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile, it's freezing cold in the art room, and even if it wasn't, I'm such a colossally messy painter that I can't imagine making art without running water. I'm huddled under a blanket with the dogs instead. Who needs heat when you have hounds?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's another of last weekend's finished paintings:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started with one of those veiled black and white backgrounds - painted the green shape, and stamped/splattered some blue acrylic ink. It was a long journey from here to the final version. I got lost a long the way a few times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> For the next layer, I rolled some quin gold paint onto the gelli plate, scribbled into it, and then laid the painting on top to pull a loose monoprint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I scribbled on top with something black. Ink maybe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I stamped on some white paint with a homemade stamp...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">...then made some long drips of dark teal paint, and added more scribbles with a fine tip marker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Things were getting a little crazy, and I missed documenting a few steps, but I think I did some veiling with white, then stamped some green dots in the middle. It was looking like a hot mess and I wanted to cover up a lot of it, so when it was dry, I carefully taped down two orb-shapes cut from paper. Using them as masks, I painted black over one and green over the other. It was frightening, so I quickly added thin layers of yellow and white paint over the black.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was getting kind of muddy, so brighter and more opaque color went on next - extending the green area, adding the bright blue, and stamping some darker yellow in the upper left. The orange circle was drawn with crayon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I decided that lower right bit was way too busy, but also not very distinct. I honestly can't remember if I scrubbed some of it way, or just veiled with with layers of orange, but I made it disappear. The whitish area on the left is actually light blue. The black outlined shape is cut from paper and glued onto the surface.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's a close up of the yellow bit that I really love. I used a foam sheet that has little tiny circles carved into it as a stamp. You can see some of the lower layers of paint through the circles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Though I've forgotten doing this, at some point I must have smooshed on some matte medium for texture, as you can see in this close up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After I glued it to the board, I extended the black outline over the edge with paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was really ready to give up on this one a few different times along the way, but now I quite like it. I'm getting better at pushing through the ugly stages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wish me luck pushing through the ugly stages of home ownership tomorrow when I have to pay the plumber! </span></div>
Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-76522309896919788982017-03-15T07:06:00.002-04:002017-03-15T07:06:59.298-04:00Not dead<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I spent most of Saturday and Sunday painting. It's been a long time since I immersed myself this way. I worked on 6 paintings simultaneously, and took pictures along the way. I wasn't thinking about this from a blogging perspective - I just wanted to capture the transformation of each piece so I could reflect on it and learn from it. But after a series of text exchanges with my friend Lynn, and after catching up on months and months of her blog posts (and reading this post entitled "<a href="https://sunnyroomart.blogspot.com/2016/11/does-anybody-blog-anymore.html">doesn't anybody blog anymore</a>?") I decided to share.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's one of the finished pieces. It was created on 8"x 8" paper and then mounted to a wooden panel. I decided to paint the panel sides after the paper was mounted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The whole series of paintings came from a stack of black and white layered pieces that have been sitting around for months. I grabbed six of them and added one random element to each, and then another element, and another, working in sequence until something started to emerge from each one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's the evolution of the piece above.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(I don't have any process pictures of the base layer, but it was a series of black marks layered with white paint, created with the intention of painting over it.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of the six weekend paintings, I feel like three are finished. I even hung them up.</span></div>
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Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-78830087080377465002015-09-29T20:50:00.004-04:002015-09-29T20:50:48.912-04:00Lesson 3<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">This week's lesson in the Jane Davies class was about shape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's hard not to create Jane-like work after watching her demos, particularly because I love her style so much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are some stacked shapes like Jane's, done mostly with the gelli plate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and then because they look like stones, and I love stones, I went off on a stone-printing tangent and almost got stuck there for the weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I could experiment with this process for the rest of my life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Plus, they remind me of the Leo Lionni book "Frederick" and what's not to love about that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> But I grudgingly tore myself away from this so I could focus on the class assignment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's tempting to just show you the pieces I like </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and pretend the dozen weird and ugly pieces don't exist</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But it's all part of the process, and kind of the point of the class. Make a ton of work, and make it on cheap paper so it doesn't feel precious. Try things, leave them unfinished, take them too far, make some more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are some I don't love, but don't totally hate:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(except that big green shape reminds me of an Android)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And here are some that more or less please me:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As always, just as I start to hit my stride it's time for a new lesson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wonder what tomorrow will bring?</span></div>
Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-77992869573841109132015-09-22T20:23:00.002-04:002015-09-22T20:23:47.647-04:00100 drawings on cheap paper<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I am so excited to be taking the <a href="http://janedaviesstudios.com/workshops/online-workshops/">on-line Jane Davies class, "100 drawings on cheap paper."</a> The first time she ran it, it sold out before I could register. When she announced she was running it again, I jumped. That was almost ten months ago and the waiting has been killing me. Class finally started September 9th. I'm two lessons in, and loving it. It was worth the wait.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So far we've been working on line and layering, and using different techniques to vary the opacity of the paint. Adding, lifting, obscuring, veiling in all kinds of ways. I did more than 20 pieces over the weekend and I would just keep going in this manner but lesson 3 goes live tomorrow and I'll soon be caught up in that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are some of the highlights of the weekend. Some feel finished, others don't - all were a joy to create. (all created on inexpensive 9x12 drawing paper.)</span></div>
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Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-36053246909188990132015-08-11T21:59:00.000-04:002015-08-11T21:59:11.559-04:00Rainy day sillies<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Today's rainy vacation day was a good excuse to work on some pages in my collaborative round-robin art journal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started this book in July 2014 and it passed through the talented hands of <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/farstarr">Mandy</a>, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ginavisione">Gina</a>, <a href="http://sunnyroomart.blogspot.com/">Lynn</a> and <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bigmamabird">Carroll</a> before coming back to me. We all had such fun with this project we decided to send the same books around the circle one more time. (<a href="http://iamrushmore.blogspot.com/2014/07/another-round-robin.html">You can see the start of my book here</a>.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's what I accomplished this morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kinda wish it would rain again tomorrow...</span></div>
Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-31693793140273123562015-08-07T17:50:00.002-04:002015-08-07T17:50:27.312-04:00vacation art<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">At first I wasn't going to bring any art supplies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My notes from last year's vacation said "didn't do much art other than ICAD" and since the 2015 ICAD challenge was over before this year's vacation even started, I thought I'd free up some room in the car by leaving my gear at home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But then I thought "I could just bring one bag...." and I started to pack. I'll need some markers, and acrylic paint of course. And glue sticks and scissors and a brayer. Some colored pencils might be nice. And my little pan of water colors. Don't forget the brushes! Better get a bigger bag. A stamp pad and stamps are essential, and I wouldn't want to leave home without my x-acto knife, ruler and cutting mat. This bag's getting pretty crowded and I haven't even added my sketchbooks or collage ephemera...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ultimately I managed to squeeze most of my studio into a single bag and we'll just ignore the fact that the bag was the size of a Buick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway - I also packed a few dozen postcard bases that I had started at home last week. Day one on the lake I unpacked and got down to business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are the fruits of this particular creative burst.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All approximately 4"x6" on watercolor paper. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And to think I still have 8 more days of vacation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh ICAD, it's been grand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Must we part so soon? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am reluctant to let you go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We've had such fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Still, I will not take advantage of your good nature by continuing this relationship into August.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will be strong, stand tall, and simply say "see you next year."</span></div>
Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-73244557192155060682015-07-24T19:46:00.000-04:002015-07-24T19:46:20.828-04:00ICAD July 15-24<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Splatters and scribbles and drips and smears are all I want to do this summer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This year's index cards are certainly "of a kind."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have you read any good books lately? I've started and not finished about a dozen books recently because I just can't find anything that grabs me. I'm going on vacation in early August and need some good suggestions on what to read!</span></div>
Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-65163138038799241362015-07-14T22:55:00.000-04:002015-07-14T22:55:26.341-04:00Index cards forever<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I'm at that point in the summer where I start to think "I love ICAD so much. Flimsy 3x5 paper is the best substrate in the world. I'm not going to stop July 31st. I'm going to keep making an index card a day <i>forever</i>"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first year (2011) the challenge was June 1- Aug 31 and I kept going straight through 'til October.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But the very next year (even though the challenge ended July 31st) I only made it until July 5th because I had an <a href="http://iamrushmore.blogspot.com/2012/08/turned-corner.html">elephant sitting on my chest.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 2013 and 2014 I was going strong through June and July and was CERTAIN I'd keep going, and yet was ever-so-happy to stop once August 1st rolled around. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This year, August is only 17 days away and I don't feel anywhere near done with this project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even when it's past my bedtime and I realize I haven't made a card and I don't have any good ideas, I pull off things in haste that I end up loving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I am on a roll.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am on fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am going to do this forever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But.... I have unexpected travel this weekend, with long hours in the car, and hotel rooms, and loved ones and grieving, and loving and I already know I'm not packing much in the way of art supplies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Will I want to make something? Will I NEED to make something? Will I be cutting and pasting travel brochures and the yellow pages from the Holiday Inn Express in Cleveland? Will I forgive myself if I don't make something? This remains to be seen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's not like I don't have plenty of "extra" index cards to fill in for these coming days. I have a whole basket of alternates that don't get the official ICAD date stamp for whatever reason. Like this one:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">or this one: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I could have waited until next week and labeled them 7-18 and 7-19 and you never would have been the wiser, but I am a stickler for the EVERY DAY notion of this challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(perhaps this unyielding attitude is why I burn out by August every year.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*sigh* </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One day and one index card at a time.</span></div>
Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-39024340622877519442015-07-07T20:51:00.000-04:002015-07-07T20:51:26.652-04:0037 and counting<div style="text-align: center;">
Here are the latest in the index-card-a-day project. <br />
I haven't missed a day yet.<br />
I <i>almost</i> missed making one July 3rd because I was up late drawing cats in bars and watching the dreadful final season of the Gilmore Girls and then Max suddenly and unexpectedly had a fever and I stayed up until 2AM keeping him company while he shivered and when he finally fell asleep I realized I hadn't made an index card so I slapped something together before I collapsed. The next morning I looked at it and it was so odd I had to add a few more layers to salvage it. When I look back on this summer's collection of cards I think it's going to evoke the memory of a two-month fever dream.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hard to believe we are already 28 days into the Index-Card-a-Day challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So far, all of my cards have been dominated by paint. Loose and messy, with shadows and drips. I wonder if I will continue in this style next month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I kind of like having a cohesive body of work, but I don't want to be stuck in a rut either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do you post your work on-line? Do you feel your work looks better in real life or on the screen? I often like my on-line images better than the actual piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These next few are the opposite. I like them way better when I hold them in my hand. </span></div>
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As soon as I added the photograph to this next card I began dreaming of a whole series using photographs. Good thing there are still 32 days left in this challenge. </div>
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Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-14137668340519781492015-06-22T22:03:00.000-04:002015-06-22T22:03:30.102-04:00Carla Sonheim's cat class<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">So even though I felt like I was too busy to breathe, I impulsively signed up for <a href="http://www.carlasonheim.com/cats-online-class-with-carla-sonheim/">this class from Carla Sonheim.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Assignment #2 involved turning blobs of watercolor into cats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have become completely obsessed with making these.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bordering on bat-shit crazy obsessed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have given up sleeping in the interest of making more and more blob cats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I am forced to do something else, I am drawing cats in my mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You may think we're having a conversation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We're not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You're talking and I'm drawing cats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can't even manage to cull my blob collection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was only going to show you my favorites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Apparently I have 33 (out of 35) favorites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not only do I keep making more, I keep going back to these and adding a bit more detail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of them really need captions. I can tell I'm not done with this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not by a long shot. </span></div>
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Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-48704527029710937262015-06-20T01:13:00.001-04:002015-06-20T01:13:35.293-04:00The week in index cards<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Work is insanely busy, but I am compelled, driven, dare I say obsessed? with making index cards. For each one I deem "finished" there are a half dozen or more in various states of completion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Inspiration comes from so many places - this week from the trendy colors of consumer goods found in Target. Clearly I'm not using enough gray.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Patterns are everywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I take pictures of my favorite summer clothes and replicate the designs on index cards. I make and make and make until the design is no longer recognizable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is too much paint left on the palette, and I grab a blank card, and another and another until the paint is gone. The cards pile up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When it's way past bedtime and you realize you didn't make today's card, you grab one of those "leftovers" and slap a chicken on it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am scattered in a million directions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I look up and find myself on a road that doesn't lead to where I meant to go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This seems to be both literal and metaphorical. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's not necessarily a bad thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My week is a blur of color and shading and half-formed images, and half-completed ideas. I really hope I've accomplished all the things I think I've accomplished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I left the burner on for a few hours the other night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I probably need a spotter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I should probably go to sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But oh it feels good to want to make things.</span></div>
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Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-54894136308248843252015-06-11T21:22:00.002-04:002015-06-11T21:22:41.051-04:00Eleven days <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Use materials you hardly ever use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Try something new.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Revert to your comfort zone. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P0qOP50po6c/VXozCFHpOEI/AAAAAAAAboA/zWez_bwCVN4/s400/ICAD%2B6-4-15.jpeg" width="241" /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There's nothing at stake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's just an index card. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3Kp9aoytJ8M/VXozDsUnlLI/AAAAAAAAbnw/a_N5FxAf-Rw/s400/ICAD%2B6-9-15.png" width="243" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And yet my index cards over the last four years are some of my favorite things I've ever done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And the scrap pile gets marginally smaller day by day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What's not to love? </span></div>
Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-8127124931352848132015-06-01T21:51:00.001-04:002015-06-01T21:51:17.643-04:00my date stamp said 7-31-14<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's <a href="http://daisyyellowart.com/icad-base/">ICAD</a> season, and I can't resist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This will be my fifth summer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's card #1</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I grabbed my date stamp to mark the back, and not coincidentally, it was set to 7/31/14. Clearly the last time I used it was the last day of 2014 ICAD.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's to the 61 humble index cards of 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Will you be playing along? </span></div>
Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-90889137236620839852015-05-28T06:31:00.001-04:002015-05-28T06:31:23.275-04:00Organization<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">We mixed-media & collage people tend to accumulate a lot of paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It can be awfully hard to tame the ever-growing collection and organize in such as way that it's useful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I found a system a few years ago that works for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I bought this mammoth file cabinet at a thrift store for $20.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's ugly as sin, but it's well made, with deep drawers that roll smoothly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's squeezed into a corner of the art room, conveniently located next to my chaotic work table. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One whole drawer is devoted to images, sorted by categories that make sense to me. (Animals, people, nature, architecture, body parts, etc.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> That drawer also includes folders for security envelopes, old book pages, interesting packaging...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another drawer is devoted to my hand painted papers, sorted by color:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Within each color file there's even a separate folder to contain the smaller bits of colored paper that would get lost among the full sheets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This drawer has folders of painted deli paper, painted tissue paper, altered magazine pages, multicolored marble paper....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In addition to those drawers, I have this little portfolio of magazine images sorted by color. Sometimes when I'm working monochromatically I don't want to go looking through all my subject folders (Is there something red in the furniture file? how about in the insect file?). Nights when I'm sitting in front of the TV I'll grab a magazine and add colored images to this file. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> This bin holds specialty papers - little bits of colored rice paper and mulberry paper. Pretty origami paper. Cool vintage wallpaper your friend Mandy sent you... </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I have not one, but two, cigar boxes of text. (one for small phrases cut from books, the other for larger bits.)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> <img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fSQDuG9PWEY/VWbkhyiYyNI/AAAAAAAAbkU/b5rBI5Zw1lc/s400/IMG_5212.JPG" width="400" /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And then there's the junk basket. This is where all new materials tend to land. Anything that gets mailed to me, or that I pick up off the side of the road, or find in the recycling bin gets tossed in here. Often this is the only source of collage materials I end up using! Whatever is in front of my eyes is most attractive.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">When the basket gets full to overflowing I take a half hour and sort it into categories and file it away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's what works for me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to Marcie for your question, reminding me that I took all these pictures a year ago (in response to someone else's question) and never actually wrote the blog post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What works for you?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Do you have a system?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Do tell!</span><br />
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Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-32277203379665760942015-05-26T20:25:00.003-04:002015-05-26T20:25:48.978-04:00Thriving<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I spent part of the weekend making art with <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/farstarr/">Mandy</a> and <a href="http://sunnyroomart.blogspot.com/">Lynn</a>. Lynn confessed she'd been worried about me because I haven't been blogging.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It made me realize I haven't stopped because I'm miserable or unwell - I've disappeared because I'm happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My new job is somewhat all-consuming, and that explains part of my absence. But the job is good - I'm really loving it and I'm so glad I took the position. The people are wonderful, I have strong leaders all around me, I was able to jump right in and contribute my professional strengths, I have big plans for the next school year, and I'm feeling challenged in the best possible way. The learning curve can wear me out at times, making me more likely to come home and relax with a book or TV than make art, but that's not the whole explanation for the four month blogging hiatus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've had way busier times of my life and I've managed to make art and blog nearly every day in spite of it. Upon reflection, I realize what drove me to this creative process and on-line community was sadness and desperation. I needed an outlet, I needed escape, I needed to feel I was creating and contributing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, I'm happy. I'm relaxed. In spite of the demands that come with learning how to do my job, I feel I've finally achieved some balance. Work is good, family is good, personal time is good. Work and life are not keeping me from art. Instead, because I'm happy, I feel good about choosing to spend my time other ways - be it reading, or cooking or just hanging out with my guys. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't get me wrong. I'm still making stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another reason I haven't been blogging is because I've immersed myself in improving my acrylic technique and developing more complex abstract paintings. I have a dozen canvases propped around the studio in various stages of completion. I'm working my way through two of <a href="http://thelandoflostluggage.com/new-products-1/">Julie Pritchard & Chris Cozen's classes</a>, as well as two from <a href="http://www.carlasonheim.com/elements-building-blocks-of-painting/">Karine Swenson.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've given myself permission to straight-on copy the examples made in class in order to focus on technique without getting all hung up on originality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm learning a ton, and my skills are improving, but since I'm not doing my own work, I don't feel like posting pictures yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Luckily the 24 hours I spent with Mandy and Lynn were incredibly productive. In between all the laughing and talking and eating, we all did a ton of work. The images on this page are just some of the pieces I made at Mandy's table. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What I <b><i>will</i></b> blame on the job is my total absence from visiting all of your blogs and flickr accounts. I realize now just how much blog reading I did during the work day in my old job. That's not going to happen with this job. And with less time and energy in the evenings, creating is a
bigger priority than keeping up with social media. I miss my on-line
relationships, and I know someday soon it won't feel so overwhelming to
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Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-44017756929018651272015-01-31T22:53:00.000-05:002015-01-31T22:53:50.841-05:00Three element collages<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">This week's project for the class I'm taking was to create small collages using only three elements and then name them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I decided to exclusively use magazine images for my collages and I spent the day pushing pieces into different configurations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I only needed to make six for class, but of course I made a few extras (though you'll notice a few only have two elements - perhaps they aren't done.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Naming them was hard. I could only come up with titles that were too obvious and literal. I resorted to opening my box of random text and selecting titles from there. My course materials say "Titles are very important, they invite the viewer into each piece and also give them a hint as to what the work may be about."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You could spend a lot of time pondering the deep meaning of these titles, or you can picture me doubled over laughing as I matched collages with phrases.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's late, I'm punchy, and there's another foot of snow heading our way. At least there's no shortage of paper, glue and silly captions.</span></div>
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Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-53498125856289552592015-01-27T10:31:00.000-05:002015-01-27T10:31:12.068-05:00The view from Tuesday<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The news says my town already has 18 inches of snow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IUdr5bieV_o/VMeoctjUQiI/AAAAAAAAalQ/Jqhds27bKyQ/s1600/IMG_4928.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IUdr5bieV_o/VMeoctjUQiI/AAAAAAAAalQ/Jqhds27bKyQ/s1600/IMG_4928.jpg" height="400" width="300" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's hard to tell because I've got a 4 foot drift on one side of the driveway and a bare windswept patch on the other side. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We'll continue to have blizzard conditions well into the night. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Across town, my dog-sister, Maggie, is less than pleased. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It sure is white out there....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Inside, it's much more colorful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jake is enjoying the art room's new orange futon cover and coordinating pillow cases. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And there are sock-inspired postcards in various states of completion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm just waiting for the two teenage boys (who are currently sprawled on my couches after a late night of gaming) to wake up so I can start the baking portion of the day.</span></div>
Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-62079337685618585982015-01-26T07:56:00.000-05:002015-01-26T07:56:48.334-05:00Monday morning<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">These paints didn't have silly names like the last batch, but if one were so inclined, one could call them them Chocolate, Blueberry, Lime and Mustard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(and then one could go throw up at the thought of that culinary combination)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are bracing ourselves for a blizzard that is expected to bring upwards of 2 feet of snow, and while the National Weather Service is throwing around terms like "crippling" "historic" and "life threatening," all I can think is "day off spent painting."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My decline in creative output in 2014 was not <i>just</i> time spent staring at the wall. I also managed to read 63 books. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It seems to have become a steady habit. I've already read 10 books in January.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I recommend <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Farm-Tom-Rob-Smith-ebook/dp/B00FPQCWR8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422276738&sr=8-1&keywords=the+farm"><u>this one</u></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't bother reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Are-Not-Ourselves-Matthew-Thomas-ebook/dp/B00GEEB2WG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422276763&sr=1-1&keywords=we+are+not+ourselves"><u>this one.</u></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last night's family movie night was the 1983 classic "War Games" with a baby-faced Matthew Broderick. Our tech-savvy child of the new millennia enjoyed the liberties Hollywood took with its portrayal of the fancy-pants military computer which was about to start World War 3. (Gotta cover those machines with lots of colorful blinking lights in order to advance the plot.) But then there were the parts where his parents had to say "no, that's actually what computers and phones looked like."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I made lamb shanks in the crock-pot yesterday. Today I generously packed the small portion of delicious leftovers in Ric's lunch. Now am I wishing I'd been willing to stand in line at the deli yesterday so that I could have packed Ric a turkey sandwich and kept that lamb for myself...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's what else I'm going to do during the blizzard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bake. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Paint and bake and read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Plus I have the movie "The Way Way Back" checked out of the library, so maybe I'll do that too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This blizzard better last three days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My next series of painted postcards was inspired by a pair of socks.</span></div>
Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-80524276896445560602015-01-19T16:12:00.000-05:002015-01-19T16:12:00.292-05:00Ocean and Twig<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The people who named these paints might have been a little bit color blind, because this is not at all what I think of when I hear the word "Twig."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's more mustard, or ochre. Regardless, I like the way it complements Ocean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I always get stuck between thinking "this is only a postcard, don't over think it, create it quickly and let it go" vs. "imagine how much more you could do if you'd just spend some time thoughtfully developing your pieces."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Max looked at all twelve of the Job Lot series, and declared these his favorites, saying "I'm a sucker for orange and blue." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This amuses me greatly because</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. He certainly is his mother's son</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> 2. Even when I think I'm straying from my usual palette, I always come back to this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(and ocean and twig by any other name?) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Coming soon - a return to eye popping color.</span></div>
Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-31837607318190116872015-01-18T15:59:00.000-05:002015-01-18T15:59:00.034-05:00Ocean and Birch<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">More fun with the "job lot" paints, today using the colors Ocean and Birch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In addition to painting straight on the water color paper, I painted sheets of newspaper to use as collage elements, blending and overlapping the colors at times to create new shades. I also started digging through baskets of fabric and specialty paper looking for things in a similar palette.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(added bonus of finding all kinds of cool things I forgot I had...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One more series tomorrow - this time featuring "twig."</span></div>
Karen Isaacsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13974064156797038415noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416236720869454402.post-76714505556026561892015-01-17T15:46:00.001-05:002015-01-17T15:46:34.959-05:00Ocean and mushroom<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I have these funny tubes of paint that I found for a ridiculously low price at the local job lot. They are named like sweaters in the J. Crew catalog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nevertheless, I am drawn to the colors and have done a series of work using Ocean, Mushroom, Birch<i> </i>and Twig.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For today's viewing pleasure, I bring you Ocean and Mushroom.</span></div>
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(all on 4"x6" watercolor paper)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is one of those pieces that went from bad to worse, to "I'm throwing this away", to "okay I can live with it but it's kind of a mess."</td></tr>
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was intended to be the start of a background, but the more I look at
it, the more I like it just the way it is and the way it evokes the
shore. Just don't call that a mushrooom cloud in the sky.</td></tr>
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