This makes me happy...

I’d never heard of Steampunk until this year’s Geek.Kon (behind the times much?), when I got to tour their Airship engine room of mystery (ooaaaoo). It was… cool. And now I’m seeing it everywhere, and loving all of it. It reminds me of opening up those random boxes in Myst… all the metal and gears and mysterious purposes. And I saw this and thought… why don’t all houses look like this?

One day I will live in a Buddhist Steampunk shrine with a shishi-odoshi and lots of hidden passages. This would make me happy.

Art show!

Big news! I have an artshow in December, here in Madison, at Mother Fools coffee house - yay! I'll be displaying my latest collage work and I think it will look really cool in there; the setting really suits the style of my artwork. So I have to get busy - 3 weeks to go....must start churning out the art. I'm not sure of the exact dates yet, probably Dec 1 through to the new year. I'll post again when it's set in stone.

Video Tutorial

This is the first part of my tutorial on creating my collages. It covers drawing and scanning; really quick and simple, but I hope it makes sense. I apologize for the shakiness; I didn’t have a tripod, so I used a husband instead.

I'll also be putting them on my YouTube channel

Woo, video!

This weekend was the annual Fall Art Tour, where participating artists in towns near Madison open up their studios to the public and let them wander around t see how they work and live. We managed to tour about eight studios around Baraboo. There was one – a pottery studio in a converted barn – that made me absolutely jealous; it was in the middle of no where, surrounded by corn fields, with a horse outside and a big old farm house. Sigh. We didn’t see anything we wanted to buy, but we did enjoy visiting the studios, and the drive through the fall countryside was very pretty.

I’ve been sketching a bit to keep from getting bored. It’s nice to be drawing again, and creating stuff that isn’t for work. And on the left is a photo of one of the pairs of pants I made myself for work. I love having pants that fit for once!