Watercolors, Walls, and What???

A card I did up for a 50th wedding anniversary some friends from church had. 

A commissioned work done for a friends birthday.

My closet and it's hidden glory!  I don't have doors to my closet because I took them out and put up hand sewn drapes.  Some day I'll cover the whole thing with chevron...but I have to be bored first.

This is just a funny tree I took a photo of.  What do you see?  I see someone who did a hand stand but she did it in sinking sand!  AHHH!

A LITTLE ART - A LOT CRAFT

Pee-Pee Tipi!
I sowed these up for soon to be born baby Caleb!
When changing the little guys diaper you just place it over his wee-wee to prevent an embarasing face full of pee!

70s inspired marker and pen drawing.
It's just my style integrating small lines and details whilst adding color to make it complete!

Tissue Paper Ghosts!
It's not October yet, but it's close enough.
Plus, I have tons of tissue paper that I gathered up from Heather's baby shower gifts.
You win some...you win some more.

Mod Podged Tissue Glass
I used that lovely tissue paper again on a plain rectangular glass vase.
I saw the idea online as well as tons of others that I hope to be able to complete.
It'll look wonderful in my dark green bathroom!!!

Tissue Pom-Poms
I used all kind of different blue pieces and made 3 different balls.
After I accourdian folded the pieces I cut the ends of them differently so they weren't all the same!
The blue is good to use during the winter season hung from the cealing...away from the cats.
I've also been thinking about using it for decorations for when the baby comes!
Can't wait!

Recycle It- Draw It

Homemade Weekday Organizing Dry-Erase Board
I was going to buy one for $16 but then I thought about old janky whiteboard I had and decided to re-vamp it by taking some black electrical take cut in half length-wise to make the cells and writing the days of the week in sharpie along with a little box for the date. 
Too bad I came up with this organized system days before the last day of classes.

This was a drawing I did of a sideways tree...just kidding.  I tried to rotate it but it didn't transfer. Boo.
Very simple, I came up with this idea this summer I think.  It was much smaller though I love how it turned out with the large profile.  It's about 12X19.  I made 2 others as well but I already turned them in for my Independent Drawing credit.

I call these crayon bottle caps.  I got the idea from a valentines idea where you melt crayolas in small heart shaped pans and you attach them to cards with some witty thing about the world because when you use the right crayons...or follow the directions they come out looking like planet earth in different colors.
Some of them turned out way different, but I thought this one was cool because you can still see the shape of they crayon...however...

This side didn't melt all the way.  Oh well...some did some didn't.  I call them bottle caps because I used an aluminum cupcake pan, the toss away kind that I was planning to recycle and then I remembered my crayons!  The sinchedness in the pans made the sides look like a bottle cap!

PAINTINGS AND A PRINT

"LOST MAPLES" I received an award for this painting from Texas Lutheran and it will be in their permanent collection.

I made prints for my graduation party invitations, so here is one!

"FRONT YARD" a painting I did of my front yard...with some adjustments of course

CHRISTMAS CACTUS- a painting I did upon request from my Granny Pat.  I hope she likes it!

A Painting and A Pillow

Here's that still life I did. I enjoy the fact that when I put in the highlights of the glass they seem more real.  I photo of the painting doesn't do the fabric justice because it's really more green than grey and there's an orange tint to it.



Another pillow case I made, this time with little yellow flowers!  I'm not sure if I want to keep making pillow cases or start something totally different.  We'll see! 



THINGS I'VE MADE SINCE MY LAST POST!

Brandt and I made these plates some time after Christmas.  I got spray paint as a gift and it's just what I needed to vamp up some clear plates purchased at Goodwill.  I was so pleased by their outcome that I purchased more plates and even a glass cutting board!

Heather gave me this piece of furniture for Christmas.  I asked for mainly craft supplies and also things to refurbish.  This piece originally had plain white knobs with exposed screws and it was all the color of the feet.  Brandt helped me sand down practically every inch of the thing while I rubbed it down with a red stain.  I got the new knobs from Hobby Lobby hoping that the color would go well and what goes better with a red stain than red striped knobs?  I have been contemplating painting red and white stripes on the feet!

This is a still life that I set up all by myself.  I must admit that my professor was there to help out a lot.  I shall post the painting some time because the colors are much different than what you see.  I went with an orange and green concept.

Here's the inventory I have (minus the "Ash" mugs) from the end of last semester.  I enjoy making pottery!  Good thing I'm in Ceramics III!

This is my bedroom in my apartment in Seguin.  It's still lacking in the wall areas, but I haven't figured out how to get the painted panels up to spice up the color.

Here's the living room with Brandt's and my MOM AND POP chairs.  The rug makes everything come together!

Our kitchen is quite colorful if you think about it.  A blue skillet, orange tea kettle, red oven mitts, green rugs, and off the the left is a violet pot holding a plant.  It's not really a pot...but I can't think of any other word to call it!  AND! Did you know that a great way to finish off a room is by adding pictures to the walls???  I tore out a bunch of silly pictures of models from my Vogue magazines and they added the perfect touch to making the apartment seem more homier!

I just started and finished this pillow case this evening.  I basically just referenced a pillow case my Grandma made for my little pillow, adjusted the size a bit and sewed away!  My friend Marta was over while I did it so it wasn't boring...but then she left before I was done and that's when I wanted it to be done already!  So funny :)  I bought a stack of fabric pieces from hobby lobby so I can make 4 more if my heart desires.  Every child needs a little pillow.  It's so practical...especially when you grow out of carrying stuffed animals onto air planes you can still get away with carrying a little pillow around with you!

Yarn Tree!

I made this for Heather as a Christmas gift.  She loved it!  And so does everyone else :)

I took the picture with my phone in the living room so it's kind of a dull photo. 

The background is bright orange and the yarn is a tri-brown colored.  Does that make sense? Sure it does!!!

Here's the paper mache raccoon I made for my sculpture class...I later glued black/white and pinata styled fringe onto him for fur.  It was a failed attempt but oh well...It lives in my apartment now and has a broken leg.

Here's my mirror from childhood that I recently bedazzled with glitter paint in the Martha Stuart section at Home depot.  Heck yeah!

This is the bottom of my left food done on gray paper with black and white soft pastels.  Now I'm working on the same toes just zoomed in and with marker!

I made this cat out of felt and pillow stuffing for an assemblage project I did for sculpture...I don't think I'll put it in the student show since it's so fragile (the whole assemblage) so I'll pry him off of her hot glue seat and put him in my shadow box at home!  I just now thought to use that magazine rolled box! Fun!

JUNE PAINTINGS

Trumpet! This trumpet painting was painted for Evan who played trumpet with me in the Jazz band and the Concert band at TLU.  He's off in the real world now! Waaaaaaa!

Flower! I painted this for Granny Pat!  She likes to spell it G-R-A-N-N-I-E and sometimes if she's watching me write it I'll spell it that way. I couldn't seem to make it the purple in the photo she had, but I don't have the picture with me anywho BUT HOPEFULLY SHE LIKES IT.  It was just something little she wanted to fit in a frame she has in her dining room.

FOR SALE:

I took this with my phone so it's a little crooked.  I took it to hobby lobby to get a custom frame...boy they're expensive.  I have to go back today and take my chapel painting back since Kim T. apparently likes to stain her picture frames the same color as their wood trim in the house.  Then I can get it less than $75 since I can use that mat board that I cut for this one instead.  Brilliant.  Any who...It'll have a brown frame and the acrylic in-lay (like glass) with a green mat to match the picture.  When you get paper custom framed the bugs don't end up crawling inside.  Tell me if you're interested...it'll be on facebook :) I'm thinking 50 for the artwork plus however much the frame ends up being, but I'll let you haggle a little. eehohertz@tlu.edu.

RECENT CREATIONS

These are my very own peanut butter peas in an apple pod.  I cut up my apple, slapped on some PB and added a few Reese's puffs to the mix.  They were pretty yummy and now it's my favorite way to eat an apple...even if it's not GP's kind of healthy snack.

Brandt and I made "Rootbeer."  I quote it because that's what it's supposed to be but honestly it just tastes like beer with an odor of rootbeer.  Brandt tries to argue that it still tastes like rootbeer but I've had my fill of rootbeer and I know that that's not it.

Here's our Mexican Pie that Brandt and I made using his Vegetarian cookbook.  It was beany and cheesy an all around delicious...but be prepared for the aftermath.  "Take Beano before and there'll BE NO gas." 

Hear ye, hear ye!  Doggy Bad Breath Treats for Ginger the Zook Dog! 

I finished my name!  They "ILY" is now joined to finish my name!  I couldn't find any more vibrant (haha, I totally spelt it v-i-b-r-a-n-d-t at first) papers to use to go with the "theme" that I didn't ever define.  Oh well.

Lastly, here's my heart mosaic that I did when visiting Rachel.  She made a circular one with Texas mosaic-ed into it.  It ain't half bad!  (I'm not sure what words are incorporated into "ain't" besides is and not.  But where does that silly A come from?)

Hungry for an update?

These cakes were made based on this neat little cook book that tells you of all the things you can make using a box of cake mix.  They are called Banana Split Cakes.  They taste nothing like a banana split and more like banana bread.  I guess it's an easy enough recipe if that's what you would rather have.  I think I'll stick to sweeter things!  Plus, since I got 2 cupcake pans for Christmas I must get some use out of them before I have to go back to school.

My BFF gave me a "Big Ass Book of Crafts" and I've been dieing to make things.  Recently I have finished a set of bookends with a nautical theme due to me having a handful of shells from my past trips to the beach.  However, I didn't have enough to make them look as spectacular as they do now so I decided to buy a wicker basket full from Hobby Lobby.  Now I have more shells than I had in the beginning with few ideas as to what I can use them on.

I made this collage so that I could present the pressed bluebonnet that I picked from my yard.  Ah!  I know...don't pick the bluebonnets!  It's okay, it's private property!

This was my first official attempt at a self portrait.  It was one of our assignments for my Painting II class.  It looks like me sure, except I may have had red hair at some point in the semester, but never dark brown.  Maybe if I lightened it up some it would look even more like myself.



This is a painting of the chapel on the campus of TLU...I think I depicted the dead grass/dirt quite well.  Kim Thonhoff wants me to paint another one just for her...now there is grass growing there, but I might change of the angle so the features of the chapel are actually appreciated.  This one was from Painting I.



This Painting I assignment was to duplicate a painting of our choice.  I picked Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring Click here to view the original.  This was the first person I had ever tried to seriously paint.

This is from High School...Granny Pat really likes it and is going to purchase from me.  I never thought it was of worth but BEHOLD! it apparently is! This is a mixed medium piece consisting of string, gesso, scrapbook paper, mod podge, and acrylic paint!

This is my brother!!! The second figure painting that was asked of us from our painting II class.  It was a challenge to make the people look alive...I tended to want to make the skin more gray than a lively pink.  Matt wont buy it from me because he thinks it's silly to have pictures of yourself in your own home therefore my room is it's own little gallery.  I tried to ask him if he thought his dogs appreciated having pictures of them around the house.  Haha!

An odd angle...but it's my trumpet painting with an Aborigine flair with abstract influence.  I did this in painting II as one of our free bee options.

Swiss Chard!!! I believe this was from painting I...oh, I have other paintings that I need to take pictures of around the house.  But anywho...I think this was an our choice kind of assignment.  Fun huh?

Finally, this is a shadow box that I covered in rolls of magazine strips to give it some life and purpose because it was collecting dust elsewhere.  Just recently I decided to tape the picture to the glass (it's a hassle to open the box just for a piece of paper) because I love making and eating cupcakes.  I don't do it often enough!  Haha!  My waist line is probably appreciative to that.

I like it! Start with cake, end with cake!