Talk about a body! What better way to end Creative Every Day’s Body-themed month than with Adam Lambert. I’ve got two tickets to see him at Fantasy Springs Resort and Casino in Palm Springs in February. It wasn’t easy – I do not know how to be the first on those phone lines or on the internet! But I’ll be there.
This guy is as gorgeous inside as he is outside. And his voice is indescribable. But I divert. Easy to get diverted by Adam Lambert.
This will no doubt be my last post for January so I thought I’d put in a few things I’ve done up here at the cabin. The photos are very bad, however. I had to crop so they would be straight and lost a little of the art. Contrary to usual patterns, the plate to my tripod did NOT show up after I ordered new ones. So much for that theory.
Besides writing a poem and a few stories, I did an 11×14 of the Shadows study in my workbook. It’s less crowded on the bigger sheet, and at first I wasn’t sure about it. Now I like the simplicity.
For those of you who didn’t see the post, these figures are my grandchildren. I took the photo so long ago, and it was during the infernal photo-organizing project that I rediscovered it. Which reminds me that when I’m home Sunday, I have to finish that project up. Anyway, you can see the original post here. And the original shadow.
I did a quick journal page with a photo I plan to use today in a full-sized work. But it’s not going to be like the journal page. Years ago I was driving Caliente Creek Road and stopped into Twin Oaks General Store. This Popeye can was on the shelf. I didn’t know Popeye graced canned food, but I loved it. So of course I took a photo.
Maybe I should call it Spinach?
The last one I did was hard. I couldn’t get it to work at all until I spattered paint on it as water droplets from the wave.
The wave and the people in the boat are from that Japanese Print book we were discarding. The fire is a photo I took at an oil well blowout in Coalinga years ago. And the eagle is a photo I took at the San Diego Wild Animal Park carousel.
So it goes. I’m going to finish up my last day up here with another story and another collage, as well as uploading photos to my flickr page. Flickr seems to be productive – I’ve had two photos put in tour guide books because they were found on Flickr – one from the San Diego Wild Animal Park, one from Stanley Park in Vancouver. Important to put those tags! Some of the same photos plus more from Vancouver and the Wild Animal Park on on my web page in the gallery. They are in the flower gallery, a sub-gallery under nature/travel, and in the animal gallery.
For all you Creative Every Day folks, see you in Feb. with HOME as the theme.
Tags: Adam Lambert, carousel animal, CED2010, collage, Creative Every Day, Photography, popeye spinach, shadows
Mrs. Reep! I love looking at your updates and collages. Collage is the most architectural art form and I love to see how different people approach it!
Hope all is well!
I love your shadow art, Susan!!
well, aren’t you the busy productive creative bee? my favorite is the wave . . . and not just cause it was the hardest, though there’s undoubtedly something to be said about that.