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Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
9:29 pm	phhhfffffttttttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is getting to be a habit maybe even a routine Current Mood: fluffy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 5th, 2010
9:40 pm	ho hum another year another post yawn (Comment on this)
Sunday, January 25th, 2009
8:45 pm	not again two years two posts this bunny is on a roll! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 28th, 2008
12:48 pm	omg it's been almost a year since my last post ::shame:: maybe i should cross post my sports column? (Comment on this)
Monday, January 29th, 2007
3:44 pm	holiday card - relief woodcut (1 Comment |Comment on this)
3:42 pm	girl in chair - relief woodcut (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
11:23 am	Red bunny - woodcut (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 9th, 2006
11:35 am	Linkie Please gnimbley has a web site war poetry or maybe it's peace poetry i am not sure anyway, you know that google ranks things based on the number of links it gets sooooooooo it would be nice if you would link to his site on your web site or live journal or blog or whatever you can copy the text in the box below thanks! <a href="http://www.whyarewein iraq.com/"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v314/gnimbley/WAWpictures/Link1.jpg"></a> (Comment on this)
Thursday, August 31st, 2006
3:16 pm	gnimbley loses his mind (so, what's new?) my friend gnimbley has a new website it's a poetry site about iraq and war and stuff we wants you to send him poems do it or i will make you eat rubarb "Why are we in Iraq?" That would seem to be the burning question of our time. Certainly, it gets to the root of the question: What is America's role in the world today? "Why are we in Iraq?" To some people, the answer is obvious; to others, frustratingly obscure. "Why are we in Iraq?" Some think the United States is in Iraq to do good; some think they are there to do evil. Some believe America has lost it's way; others believe that to question its leaders is to lose faith in freedom. Is this, then, what has become of the American dream? And if so, do we rejoice? ...or grieve? This is a call for poetry in response to the question: "Why are we in Iraq?" If you have something to say about Iraq and America, their peoples and their future, we invite you to submit your poems for publication on the website. Submission guidelines and the submission form can be found at: http://www.whyareweiniraq.com All poems will be considered for publication, regardless of political point of view. The purpose of this site is to propagate discussion and expose readers to differing points of view. Poems will be judged on their artistic merit, and how well they deal with the subject, not on political correctness. We are looking for poetry. We don't want stories, memoirs, essays, letters, learned dissertations, reasoned arguments, sermons, rants or anything but poetry. We don't want to know what you think; we want to know how you feel. (Comment on this)
Friday, April 21st, 2006
2:10 pm	Quarter 'til Midnight a recent woodcut a copy of this will be on display at the indianapolis art center along with two other prints of mine from may 3rd through may 31st copies of the print are available if anyone is interesting in supporting a bunny's pursuit of the arts just not the actual one you see in the pic that's mine! (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
8:12 pm	colts sign av take that, boston! (Comment on this)
Monday, March 20th, 2006
9:25 pm	oh snap fluffy has gone neo-pop comformist fluffy Look out for the m HOLE Username: From Go-Quiz.com (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 28th, 2006
3:16 pm	today is today people have been asking me why aren't you posting your art work any more? actually no body has asked me it's just a device to start this entry okay? the major problem is that my drawing instructor wants everything to be 18" x 24" try fitting that into a scanner and when i take photos they come out all brown and strange so i haven't got good pictures of the drawings i entered two works in the indianapolis art center's student show neither were accepted one was my bunny print i posted earlier i entered it because you can enter two works for the entry fee and i needed a second work should have entered my barn yeah that's a wood cut print anyway, the other work i entered was a drawing of an african woman i had more hopes for it getting in but i am not good enough yet i do have it framed hanging on the wall in my stairway so sometime i will take a picture of it and post it here classes have started up again and i am working on new art i did a picture of ben kingsley that i don't like but my instructor likes right now i am working on a picture of my brother-in-law with his cat i have high hopes for that drawing and in print making i am doing my first relief wood cuts both feature saxophone players it will be a while before i post anything since these are multiple colors and the print has to dry between colors so, later (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
8:42 pm	more portraits okay my last entry showed a portrait i did in class two weeks ago btw, all these pictures are reduced to 33% pictures are still dark the bg is white drawing paper i'm still working on better photos i need to scan them but they are too big for the scanner anyway the teacher assigned us homework do a portrait at home from a photo or a magazine picture here is what i did some software guy from newsweek (i think) out of a magazine anyway okay well it's not great took me an hour to get the first few lines then a couple of more hours to get the rest of the lines and then i did some shading the teacher didn't like how dark i did the lines in the face she thought the nose was too small and the mouth was off center c'est la vie then in class last week he had to draw from a live model first we did an exercise in chalk where we had to do the shadows only mine ended up making her llok lioke a cat woman! (no pictures of the chalk exercises in order to get a better picture i took these outside and photographed them in sunlight the chalk exercises were on newsprint and they wouldn't stay in the wind and i wasn't really interested in rigging something up to keep them still) then we spend two and a half hours drawing in pencil this is lisa her mouth doesn't stick out that far but i really like the eye! her hair was amazingly full (and had just been straightened) i sucked at doing her hair but, all in all, not bad especially for a bunny seeing as we don't have thumbs and all ha! after that class our teacher assigned more homework an portrait at home from a magazine photo this is a east german (iirc) guy from national geographic this is my most successful portrait to date i'm getting better, yes? the teacher really liked the shading she even showed it to a couple of people to show them about shading and tonal values we had class last night and did another portrait of a live model more homework and another live portrait next week and then we are on to full figure drawing this is enough pictures for tonight i'll show you more next time (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 20th, 2005
4:18 pm	portraits tuesday night is drawing class we are doing the book drawing on the right side of the brain i am not going to post the early exercise stuff if you've read/done the book you know what that stuff is we are now into portraits this first portrait is from a magazine photo that the teacher gave me it was done during class the full size image linked to the thumbnail is actually reduced 2/3 from the original note about picture quality i had to photograph the drawing since it is too big for the scanner the picture came out with a dark brown tone it is actually pencil on white drawing paper i used the iphoto function "black and white" to get rid of the brown color but there is still an overall dark cast to the drawing i'll see if i can figure out a better way to take the picture later so it is more like what it really looks like (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
8:18 am	Woodcut Dragon here is the first woodcut i made in class (it's actually my second woodcut because i made one in a "sampler" class last spring) the subject is a dragon figure from the smithsonian (the full size image is 1/3 the actual size the rabbit print i posted earlier is also 1/3 actual size) i drew the image on paper and transfered it to pine after i had the image on the wood i realized that in order for the image to stand out i would have to carve away a lot of wood surrounding it i didn't want to do that much carving so i decided to add the ying yang symbol in order to reduce the amount of white space i had to carve sort of an after thought to reduce work yes, the ink is red i have done black, red and blue ink on white mulberry paper prints i am going to do some orangish-yellow ink on dark blue paper prints as well then if all goes according to plan i am going to cut some of the prints up mix the colors up and mount them behind a mat paper grid we'll see if that works the way i envision probably not but at least i will learn something (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, October 16th, 2005
3:28 pm	bunny! relief wood cut printed on newsprint with black ink this is the test print i did one good one on mulberry paper and have to get some more paper for the rest of my prints i am thinking a white paper with green fibers and then mix up an orangy brown ink (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, September 2nd, 2005
10:16 pm	today hi haven't been posting but will start again soon too sunny and fun out to be inside pawing at the computer i started a new class last night wood cut print making we cut up blocks of wood put ink on them and then transfer the image to paper then in a couple of weeks i start a drawing class so i will have lots of stuff to put up then and later when I get some wood cuts done i will start making paper again so i can print on the paper wheeeeee!!!!!!!!! first i have to get the tools and the paper and stuff to make the prints then next week we start making prints meanwhile have fun toodles! (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 4th, 2005
8:22 am	wow it's been a long time since i posted, huh? well, i've been busy on other stuff gnimbley was working on his play finally finished it and he's putting up his own web site it should be up this weekend just the play and a few other things at first i'll give you a link when it's available and guess what? he's going to put up all my bedtime stories yay! here's the artsy fartsy thing for today my other attempt at andy goldsworthy paper I first made the blue sheet using the modeling clay let it dry completely and then i dipped the mold in the vat of yellow paper hoping to fill in the holes that way but the blue paper went soft much too quickly and i ended up with what you see above oh well i still have two more ideas one of them will work guaranteed oh yeah i signed up for two more art clasees this fall a drawing class with a lady who is supposed to be a really good teacher and a class in wood cut block printing so this fall i should be posting lots of stuff here now back to bothering gnimbley as he works on the web site (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
3:16 pm	andy goldsworthy paper as i said once or so here i am trying to make paper and one thing i was trying to make was andy goldsworthy paper who is andy goldsworthy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Goldsworthy I saw the movie rivers and tides and he uses a spiral in a lot of his work kind of a signature thing for him anyway i thought it would be cool to merge two types of paper together and decided as an homage to andy to experiment by trying to create a sheet of paper of one color with an andy goldsworthy spiral of a different color so far complete failure well, not total failure i have tried two ways neither worked i have two other ideas that i will try later maybe one of them will work anyway the first idea was to make a spiral of modeling clay and place that on the mold and then draw the fibers from the vat with the clay on the mold so i get a spiral shaped hole in the paper so far so good that worked fine i removed the clay and then tried to fill the resulting hole with a different color paper pulp first i used a turkey baster to squeeze out the pulp into the spiral but the pressure of the water pushed the other paper around and the second color ran all over the place then i tried using a spoon similar problem then i tried picking the pulp out with my hands and squeezing out the water and placing it in the spiral that kinda worked but the nice sharp edges left over from the clay were gone and i kind of had a mooshy spiral see? the sloppy part at the bottom is where i tried to use the turkey baster anyway i will post attempt number two some day when i feel like posting and then my next attempts when they are done i am not going to make more than just these andy goldsworthy papers this is just to experiment i plan to make bunny paper natch' once i get the technique down or maybe i will murder lmno again (2 Comments |Comment on this)