Inspiration and horses

Well, I stumbled across the world of breyer horses on Youtube of all places. I used to play with model horses as a child and it seems that many young girls nowadays like them as well....only these kids have the notion to make little films of their storylines and such. Cute. Alas I don't have money to buy breyer horses, however that was not gonna stop me- I felt inspired- and I got out the scissors, prismacolors and cardstock and made roughly 20 horses. Here we see the mares and foals huddled together as the stallions fight.... needs a background I know but I only meant to show off my horse making skills :)

Merry Christmas! kitten card

Gallery Updates

Well Climate gallery posted some photos of the exhibition "der Zeit of Drawing" and I finally found a photo with mine in it(top row on the right-hand wall), which makes me feel much better, here is the link to the picture
Also my family went with me to see the "9x12" show in Ft. Worth and photographed me next to 2 of my pieces, we couldn't get a picture with the 3rd one "Cowgirl and Kitten" because......It has been sold! How exciting for me, I hope it has a very happy home and that whoever bought it enjoys it a lot! :D

Christmas Time

Well Merry Christmas! I have some fun things planned for this week :) anyways. I got this movie "The Flight Before Christmas" and I love it, saw part of it on tv....interesting story and beautiful animation-made in Finland about a little reindeer fathered by one of santa's reindeer, who journeys to the north pole to meet his dad (suprise, you have a son!) along the way he comes to realize that real family are the ones who love you and have always been there for you, its quite a different style than the Disney/Pixar movies and I enjoyed it a lot! :)

Also I got me a party pack of lip smackers in the coca cola flavors..... I've always liked the soda pop flavors the best :)
Coca Cola always seems Christmas-y.

Yeah!

Mary

I just learned that Mary Travers passed away. She was part on one of my favorite bands {Peter Paul and Mary} so I shall post some of my favorite music videos of her. These three stayed together as a group from 1960-2009.....a lifetime.....

Mail me art update

Well my bunny for November got there ok here is the link
and I made an envelope put of patterned paper and drew on it for this December one :)

kitten flash movie

My first flash class is over and I made a short animation for my final. "A kitten becomes jealous and annoyed when its human girl acquires a boyfriend."....Please enjoy!

news and another sketchbook

Anyways I got a email from Climate Gallery saying the opening for "der Zeit of Drawing" went well. I am gonna try to see if my cousins up in NY can visit the gallery and see my work..kind of check everything out for me.....In other art news I finished my 3rd sketchbook for the sketchbook project "Past Present and Future"and will send it tomorrow. I also have to go to Ft.Worth to see the 9x12 show......

Thanksgiving :)

Finnished watching the parade! waiting to take off to my grandma's house and realizing I just got paid....must not get to excited ;) I probably won't go shopping on friday......Well other than a perfume here a necklace there I don't know what I'd spend money on ..... I need to make a budget and stick to it and save money for the month I dont get paid ( I work for a college). But I am glad not to worry about it to much :)

sigh................

I have to find new friends , because the ones I got in high school and junior college are not acting like my friends......

November Mail Me Art

This little guy is on his way to England for the "Mail Me Art" Project for November. I hope he will have a good trip :)

So now I like dangle-y earrings ? :)

Lately I have taken a liking to earrings..... I don't know why.... Perhaps it is because of the variety of unique ideas that I see.




It's always fun to be wearing a bit of art!  I am especially developing a liking for "dangly" earrings even though I did not like them growing up...... You will note that my taste is very eclectic and eccentric though, and here are some from etsy that I especially like (and now own). These range from dichroic glass in fiery lavender and sky blue, to playful paper dolls reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland. I also love the current floral trends as well as anything that reminds me of ice cream....because who doesn't!   ;)

So, here are the featured earrings- all found on etsy.com in the following shops.
The paper doll ones are by munieca
The ice cream ones are by ajillionpieces
The flower ones are by smilingsoul2
The dichroic glass ones are by myfusedglass

Yeah! Mail me art made it safely -October

I Finally got to see that my October submission got to the UK alright. It is inspiring and I will be making another package to hopefully ship out this weekend :)
See me in the October Gallery of the Project http://mailmeart.com/going-postal/gallery/mail-me-art-two/?album=1&gallery=11
hint: mine is right in the middle of the second to last row.

yesterday I thought "why not take some strides towards being a professional artist" So I studied my " general career-advise" books again (Children's Writers and Illustrators Market, and Artists and Graphic Designers Market). I decided on 2 things
SCBWI and Artdealineslist. The membership to the 1st is $75 for a year. No thanks until I am making more.... Artdealineslist was $24 to subscribe for a year and I HAVE enjoyed the gallery shows I've been in so far. What I got was to be redirected to a blog which I guess is updated with lists. Did I have to pay to see that blog? I did a google search for the blog, found nothing other than the other page that one goes to to subscribe. But couldn't I find it now I have the URL? How do they know its me, or is it just that I know where to find it now? Do I get more than in the "free" email subscription version? Plus, dont read the guys blog blog. He seems like a little, sarcastic , sort of dirty man. Nothing is wrong with being sarcastic but when one posts a letter from a subscriber/proscective subscriber, with ones sarcastic responses interjected, thats a bit to cheeky for someone like me who just PAID to be redirected to a ........blog..........

So my Assessment is that we will see, though I can't really tell if I HAVE actually been bamboozled or not......... yeah we (everyone who listened to anything online or in print) all just paid for a freaking link......grrrrrr!!!!! Oh well..............

9x12 show

These then are the 3 pieces I sent for the 9x12 Exhibition at the Fort Worth Community Art Center.
"Little Circus Kitten 2"
"A cowgirl and her Kitten"
and "Mandy"

All of these will be for sale at the Exhibition :)
they are 9x12" and done in prismacolor. The colors are richer than on the monitor and I did cover each with a coat of glossy acrylic spray after I scanned them in. It really gives a nice shine and enrichens the colors up.

Hawaiian theme gift basket

These are some ideas for a Hawaiian themed gift basket for a girl.
1. Pacifica solid (or spray) Perfumes in Waikiki Pikake or Hawaiian Ruby Guava
2. Tickets to see the movie "Princess Kualani" (aka. title "Barbarian Princess") staring the beautiful and refined Q'orianka Kilcher
3. a Fabric lei or , for a modern twist, a flower hair clip (from Claires or anywhere else that sells them)
4. a cd by Isreal Kamakawiwo'ole, his rendition of "Over the rainbow" is amazing!

lovely dolls

I have found a lot of pretty ball and joint doll photos. I think maybe these kinds are the only ones I find pretty. There are a lot of different facial features that I have seen. I like the cute sweet versions.

Scketchbook Project scetchbooks 1 and 2

These are some scans from two of the illustrated sketchbooks that I am doing for Art House Coops "Sketchbook Project" for their Brooklyn International Art Library, set to open in 2010.

The first one is "It's not easy being green" in which a kitten has developed a passion for "painting" , much to the dismay of her human who just wants her to stay clean! , hilarity ensues.
Note: I will be adding some color to this one, but I wanted to scan the drawings in first just in case.















The theme of this bottom one is "The Elephant in the Room", I explored the theme of elephants and did finally get a mini-story involving a circus elephant and a acrobat girl .

:)

I'm just testing how different styles of posting will look,
this is a flyer for my first gallery show that I was in.

It was a dual show and very fun :)

My Maya Bunny

Kawaii, no? Look at my first maya project. I did a journal, lollypop and a plush bunny. Here are some jpegs of it. I have not learned animation yet, just rendering and texturing but it is a lot. A very big program. I really like the cute bunny, its my favorite :)

Ah, Memories........

I love Tania Raymonde as Cynthia in Malcolm in the Middle... She's so cute. I was soooo this girl at that age. Very nerdy, though I was much shyer but just as persistent and - the hair, I would do all kinds of funky updo's with mine, from princess leia hair buns to briads all over ......sometimes both at once. and the "please be my friend" party invitations (see clip) .........cracks me up...yep.......................................

hahahaha

Finnaly? Well this one I like the kitten on......

What shall my future background be?

I drew this tonight but it does not look right. It looked ok when I tried it but I think I shall try another design that touches more on "window forrest" theme.......

a konno pic and a wish for mail

must post this cute pic of Konno Asami, my favorite celebrity. she's so sweet ^^


Also I was thinking..... I wish I could suscribe to something that sent me art and gifts and surprises each month. I love getting things in my mailbox. I want to get flyers for artist shows, and art galleries, poems, candy, free samples, stickers, magazines, postcards.......

Trouble is that most places now do their promotions via email.
hmmmmmm..... Its not as fun as real mail at all ...wwaaaaaa!!!!!

new look

I changed my template again :) Even though I had a super background *ahem.... one could not read anything and I thought "it looks cool but I can't really read the words, I keep starring at the background..." So I cropped the pic and now have it as my header background, and I have a new template that I like..... very stretchy....
so until I have time to draw an amazing blog background that wont drown out all of the stuff ON my blog I might just use this look :) hope everyone likes it.

Drawings for the Drawing Show

Ok so here are some of the drawings I have been working on to consider fo the drawing show @climate gallery ....... You have no idea how hard these were to upload, I scanned them in emailed them to myself then opened the email and tryed to upload but my files had gotten "corrupted" but I could still upload them on flickr so I had to upload them to flickr then download them from flickr and then I could get them off my desktop, finally! did I metion I love flickr now? Anyways i will probably have to clean them up and maybe ink them or something......... but I actually really like leaving my drawings in black and white.

myspace???

Why do I dislike myspace? why cant I get into it? Maybe it is because of the fact that if you use it for personal use then all there is to to on there is stare at the same friend pages day after day.....which really don't change.... it is fun to add/view bands and artists and stuff and view their wall spam, but I don't need to be ON myspace to do that. It is cumbersome to find anything on myspace between all those adds. I don't buy the jazz about it being a good networking site......It is hard to even find where the common interest groups are......

One writer on readwriteweb sums my feelings up..."MySpace's core nature is to express yourself into a void and hope people come to visit your page and check it out."

Exciting news (as you can see)

As you can seee......I finally finnally finally figured out how to change my background to a picture.......I used to think that there was no way I could really ser my blog to look unique but I finnaly learned how to tweak my html :) :) So happy. Right now I have a wallpaper from a japanese teeny-bopper first love type drama. It goes nicely with my Robert Frost quote though its a little distracting. I had toooo much trouble trying to get one of my own works from flickr though I think I will draw something special, just for this blog and scan it in. !!!! :)

hmmmm......I think I like blogs better than twitter. I like being about to see the photos and such all together on the page, sort of like a magazine. I guess twitter is good for making announcements and networking maybe but....its sort of boring.

Well, I jumped on that twitter bandwagon....not because I envision myself writing down my random thoughts and doings at any/every moment of the day, but rather, a LOT of people, bands,artists and such seem to be using it and I was curious about them I suppose... www.twitter.com/musicaltree
Does it matter? I don't know yet.

Also, I have my links on my website. I wonder which ones I ought to have up....I don't think I need to have the flickr one because I'm bad at uploading to that...and my website already has an art gallery people can look at and my blog has photos and art they can look at.... I might delete that link just like my myspace, because..... what is the point if you have already found my website? I mean its just the same stuff all over again right?

artist stuff

I updated my website ( www.musicaltree.webs.com ) with the tour dates for the sketchbook Project and the Drawing Exhibition I am going to be in. More Events/Shows to follow. Please go if you are in those cities and tell me how it was. (can't afford to travel with my art, can't mail myself :)
I feel sort of like a musician, putting in all of these dates and places where people can come see some originals of my art, like bands go on tour too, ya know?.......


P.S. (the link is not working because blogger is being buggy and keeps putting extra stuff at the begining of the URL, so just type the website URL address in your browser:)

happy cat

now that I have successfully written the longest most annoyed "window forrest" post ever I will give a soothing image of "happy cat", let "happy cat" make you happy.





amigurumi by megipupu http://www.flickr.com/photos/megipupu/2898626294/

art world politics?

So I've been reading up on the art world and visiting professional art blogs. and I have realized a few things. I find so much out there about people discussing what is "art" and what is "not". I find both sides to be ludicrous. One person says that you have to be represented by a "legitimate" gallery-however those galleries only represent you if they can sell your work and pretty much make a profit from it- so its all about the money, and the illusion is that this prestige means that the art is "good" , who's to judge? Then we have the folks (along the same lines) that bash what they call "vanity galleries" these are galleries that make you pay to exhibit your work in them. The "prestigious" galleries "look down" on them- apparently. ( I suppose artists are supposed to take that as a horrific thing?, lol.) Then you have another sect that spins extremely philosophical discourses on how there is no real art anymore, and even takes this so far as to make their own snobby judgments (usually based on age or on method) of what "good" and "bad" art is. Sometimes these are just stereotyping art school graduates from movies, or declaring that art has no meaning anymore, accusing all artist of being vain, "you haven't suffered enough or cut of an ear, etc. etc."

I find them all to be missing the point in the same exact way. Art is art and all art is priceless, therefore monetary value (or philosophical value) is bestowed or debunked by the viewer. SO the prestigious galleries that are supposed to make one "legitimate" are only "legitimate" if you are one of that circle and/or believe that philosophy- or if you are going the route of selling expensively only to the "upper crust" "art collector".
As far as those who bash vanity galleries, I suppose if you are trying to climb into the elitist circle, then you might have a problem- because those who side with the elitists may look down on you. However, I would like to think that artists would rather work with people open minded enough to at least look at their art before rejecting them . My advice: If you want to have a vanity, and you can afford to -do it and just don't tell the elites, if they are that snobby they wont show up anyways and who's to know? In the meantime everyone else will probably love getting to mingle and enjoy your work.
To the last example, the Philosophical one- just as subjective and biased as the "elitist", they are gonna miss out on enjoying the art and the artists. p.s. - I like my ears :D

finally I appreciated the thoughts expressed by Joyce Fournier in her response (titled "Everyone pays a fee") to an art gallery thread , talking about how the current system often shames artists out of being independent (and out of exhibiting in venues other that elite, selective galleries), I also appreciated Joy Enelman's response to the thread as well
"... many artists do not necessarily want to sell, but wish to communicate their ideas visually to an audience and listen to the comments about the work. Not all artists 'have to sell' and the idea of making art (only) for the sake of 'selling' is in itself a travesty.

Art is first about communication and to communicate, the artist needs a venue. Who pays? Does it matter whether it is the artist, the gallery, the government? Isn't it more important that the artist gets a chance to show, discuss, talk about and share his/her vision?

What is this modern mentality of 'money first, second and third'?

Where is the art for art's sake?"

mail art

This is my first piece of mail art that is traveling to the UK right now, for the "mail me art 2" gallery show/project. I hope it arrives there ok :)




I also entered/submitted for entrance into, a call for art from Climate gallery in NYC, it is taking drawings for an upcoming exhibition on drawing which is cool.

koo and poppet cuteness

when I found this I just had to blog it: This girls shop is called "koo and poppet" and she makes such cute, simple, cute plushies.

her blog is http://www.kooandpoppet.blogspot.com/