After going to see Sweeney Todd with my sister and mother (who was covering her eyes during the red gooey portions of the film), Vasare and I decided to do an exquisite corpse type drawing in which we alternated drawing parts of a character. This is the result and my final posting for 2007! [...]
As has been the trend lately, I am late again with my every-seven projects. This past week I have been in Chicago for Christmas with a whole bunch of my extended family, so I have been busy with family stuff.
Here are photos of the Christmas card I worked on last week. They vary [...]
This past week I have been busy designing, printing and assembling Christmas cards, which I am hoping to have sent out this coming week. Since some people reading this blog will be getting said cards this week and next, I did not want to show too much of the card just yet. In [...]
In the spirit of Christmas, here is a snowflake I made out of some origami paper I had lying around. If you want to create your own, you can find directions here.
Red, Green and White 3D Paper Snowflake
I am a couple days late with this one, but I have also been in the San Francisco Bay area for a week. I was in San Jose visiting my friend Kathy for a bit and now am with family friends in San Francisco. On Saturday, Kathy and I went to Big Sur [...]
Every year for Thanksgiving someone in my family (usually my brother) runs the Virginia Run Turkey Trot 5K. This year Vasare, Linas, Vaidila, Kristina, David and I ran it. We decided to come up with goofy costumes for the trot to make it a little more fun. It all started with Kristina, [...]
This past weekend David and I went to Philadelphia to support our friend, Ashley, run her first marathon. We managed to get a room at a hotel that was right on the marathon route. At around 7:15 or so we looked out the balcony and took some shots of the runners at the [...]
Mmm . . . this week I decided to bake a chocolate fudge cake from my mother’s very worn and very (well) used notebook of recipes. This notebook was so used in fact that the handwriting on the other side of the page has seeped through so I could barely make out what some [...]
In an effort to work more with my hands (since I sit at the computer all day) I signed up for an Enameling on Metal class at the Torpedo Factory. The class is nine weeks, and on week seven I finally found my style within enamel. I have been fiddling with different techniques [...]
Recently I was inspired to start this blog as a way of forcing myself to be creative at least once a week. I found a bunch of my old sketchbooks the other day and realized it’s been a while since I sat down and drew something I liked. It’s easy to get wrapped [...]