Squirrelly, You´re Too Sensitve! (random illustrations)

Unfortunately, I cannot download the newly revised front cover I made today using COREL DRAW. This software program is meant to be excellent for people like me who want to meld original art work with text; however, I generally have very little patience for slogging through the mounds of instructions. Today I slogged! But I am all slogged out and so will not try to figure out how to (or if I can) download images created in Corel onto my blog. Progress, not perfection.

Through the Looking Glass, CVAG 2010

I entered four pieces in this show - a copy of my book Squirrelly, You're TOO Sensitive! (it is missing from the black podium as someone was reading it), the marionnette, the collage (same one on the opening page of this blog), and the piece of writing framed above behind bars called, In a Cage.

It was a very moving show, many different genres and tones. A success.

Repurposed Wool

The row of 3 forks in the background are salvaged items from a thrift shop - silver forks which I hammered down flat and then curled the outer tongs for decorative purposes. The lowest fork I further transformed into a hook to hang my car keys on by curling the tip of the handle up.

Repurposed Materials - Objets d´Art

A shattered window pane found on the ground at my friend´s farm, transformed into a...whatever you want it to be... a sea urchin, a sunflower, junk....

An old ball of unused wool wound and starched over balloons to make a thingamabob.

Right Off - Repurposed Sewing Machine Mask

Masks - Repurposed, Recycled Materials

Socrates - busted soccer ball turned inside out.

Right Off - made from the wreckage of my beloved and now defunct sewing machine that my family had sent to me when I lived in the wilds of BC on the base of a mountain in a mouse infested log cabin. (Thanks to Sears Canada, that marvellous company that keeps Canadians who live in the middle of nowhere well stocked with important items like sewing machines!)

Bubbles - hand sewn, layered bubble wrap and plastic twine.