Another snippet from the aforementioned painting; you can see a bit more on my new Flickr profile banner. (And Oddments followers may remember their digital genesis as The Triplets of Peaville.)
Acrylic on scanned maps on canvas. Total size 30″ x 24″; size of detail, ~8″ x 10.5″
This is another detail from the same painting as my previous post. Hybrids have always been an obsession of mine, especially zoophytes & even zoorobotanical specimens!
I don’t know if this is a jungle, exactly, but it’s certainly full of tree-dwellers! It’s part of a fairly large painting commissioned for a young child’s room.
Original & prints available on Etsy.
This is another curiotype for A.Word.A.Day. It was really challenging (but fun) to paint because of all the teeny-tiny tools. I cribbed them from Joseph’s workbench in Campin’s Mérode Altarpiece.
‘Tis the season for maximum mess-making around here. I love making gifts, but as always when I’m in the midst of an interesting project, I seem to develop a severe case of mess-blindness. Between all the crafting, Etsy packaging, card-making, decorating, gift-wrapping & artwork, my studio tends to build up quite an alarming residue of tools & materials as Christmas approaches.
By Christmas Eve I always feel exhausted, overwhelmed by the surrounding detritus, yet giddy with some sort of seasonal magic. I figure Santa’s elves must feel the same way. Also, I think a little celebratory beverage can make clean-up time a lot more bearable, don’t you?
Good Wassail to all of you lovely oddment-hunters!
Acrylic on text (scanned from an old dictionary) on canvas, 6″ x 6″
This painting was created for A Word A Day, back in 2011, when I’d just begun my curiotype alphabet of AWAD words. It makes me nostalgic to think of those days, now that I’ve completed all 26 letters… but the wonderful thing is that I get to begin all over again! Thanks so much to Anu Garg for inviting me back!
