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.