eighty four : great art from sketchy beginnings

the amazing inspirational bicycle buddha Carmen Mills created this poster     based on my  sketchy fever art

Carmen is a fabulous designer and my heart is tingly for this chance to work with her

The poster is for the 19th annual Vancouver International Storytelling Festival    under the artistic brilliance of Naomi Steinberg   another bright force for connection and meaning with whom i find myself in cahoots on this project.

Ah    collaborating with stars    I asked for it    flexing my creative muscles back since post one of this blog    lucky luck

eighty : my sister’s baby makes mom so happy

rose-coloured glasses gave this picture it’s shine   blue sky   magnolia tree   even a rose-coloured car!

i’m a grammy and everyone is healthy!

mom and dad celebrating     and what a time to be born   in blossoms!

why so happy? my sister’s baby is born!    Heiko Cedar Ingram-Ross

my sister elissa and her husband patrick     proud new parents    i love you all!

seventy seven : massive edge landscapes

spectacular march bicycle trip on the oregon coast with allison.   characterized by unheardof snow    extremely high winds    hail    hardy days spent outdoors exploring in the company of elk, peregrines, eagles, hummingbirds, ferns.    The spotted owl and marbled murrelet remain illusive.

seventy five : lunch as art

home made turnip pickle    home roasted warm sunflower seeds    salad    grated beets    red cabbage    sunshine     ✔

seventy three : strong beautiful cyclists in my life

b:c:clettes did a photo shoot on the weekend.     while getting ready i listened to a Hugo Chavez speech     and was inspired by his words:     mobilize the human spirit

thanks for taking the picture mom    i mean linda    who is lori’s mom

sixty one : how to take a picture of sunlight : part three

skipping into sunshine
where my head disappears

immersed in streets   with the spring springing
still low sunshine smiles
and it is
all
right
here

what a grin!

fifty eight : how to take a picture of sunlight

get giddy go!

camera relic in hand
even speedy shoes can’t go so fast nor penetrate so deeply
as the sunshine
bringing us all out

low hanging into low-lying eddies and cracks
shadows show it
the smell of whitchazel proves it
my head disappears and i see an early bee!

stay tuned for more from this series of sunshine photos…

fifty six : beauty

this is my fierce and beautiful bike

forty four : new years resolutions

i’ve been putting off this post because it involved more sitting at the computer       which is what i’ve been doing since 2012 began. lesson about creativity     right now it is more fun for me to just make things.     i am going for a run

do you want to be different?      what shines in your future?

pressing my words into fine silver foil
makes a double sided book with two versions of every mark

(ok and i don’t know how to spell affect)

my product is the manipulations of the thing i make, not the thing itself.    See 13 more pictures

forty one : walls of infinity

12 pictures in beautiful weeping wall series  

thirty : two trees

trees in my neighbourhood    are things i’ve got
structure stretching up, an exchange
light in the morning light in the afternoon   dark most of these dark days
ah   but look at us, we are beauty!

twenty four: snowy owl

i rode my bicycle to Fraser River delta
and there saw a snowy owl (tho drawing is short-eared owl)

picked up a strong feather there
and attempt two     cut a quill pen.

this time success!!! beautiful double lines.
please click on picture to appreciate details!

here is my beautiful instrument:

note twist-tie tension

sixteen: shower curtain cover

we have a shower curtain that does not reflect house values in appearance.

In practice it does reflect house values, specifically because it was salvaged from somewhere it was not needed. We took it because we needed a shower curtain.

LEFT is my first attempt at designing a cover for it, which will hang on the outside. it is from my collection of sheer fabrics.

note the umbrella pieces salvaged from a campaign umbrella. David Eby would be proud!

 

RIGHT is attempt two, the winning design. these fabrics were selected to allow the maximum amount of light to penetrate into the shower, to reduce need for using artificial light.

i’ve ironed the fabric, now i need to find time to sew this project together. will update with more pictures when finished.

so glad to use this fabric… no doubt some of it is vintage, and has been in my possession for years!

fourteen: my thinking is built of stones

scrap paper initially used as resist for spray paint project.
mark making materials not ideal, but made with what i’ve got at the studio. i remembered to bring my eraser with me from home in my bicycle pannier, since i’ve only got one.

i found these words in The Open Road by Pico Iyer. It is a book about the Dalai Lama, who “speaks slowly and carefully, in precise, rounded phrases, as if offering the stones out of which he’s built his thinking.”