I'm Back Part 2

So carrying on with this such and such bla bla bla stuff.

This was fun,  I did this back in digital imaging sophomore year, we needed to take an image of another piece of artwork and insert another image into it using photoshop. This painting is by Angelica Kauffmann and its called Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as her Treasures. Its one of my favorite paintings because it speaks to me as a mother who values children above all other things. So it was fun to insert my face in place of Cornelia's.

This was a sculpture that I did with my daughter when we were walking home one day. It was fall of 2011 and there were all these large lovely fall leaves on the ground. So we just picked up a whole bunch of ones we thought were pretty and brought them home. I had this old black mask that reminded me of the leave shape and some pretty colored yarn like fall. So Emily and I used my glue gun, yard, wire, and some sheer green fabric that was embroidered with vines and leaves to create this autumn fairy looking creature. This is not a complete picture of the sculpture, but its the one reference I have on my computer right now. I will endeavor to get a full pic of it up soon.

This was a fun ink and colored pencil drawing that I did. The image is really dark because I took it with a crappy camera (I have a new camera now). But despite how dark it looks I like that about it, because it feels more real to me when I think about how much a love Seattle and what it has meant to me.

This was an accordion style book that I made for my friends birthday present. It was also apart of an assignment for my book arts class spring semester of my junior year. I had all these lovely blank cards that had pretty red flowers embellished on the covers of all the cards and I thought about using the blank insides of the cards as picture frames for images that I found in a art catalog of some pretty paintings that I felt my friend would like. I bound the entire compilation in a fitted sleeve that closed with a jewelry chain that wrapped around an encased crystal bead to keep it all together. This was really fun and I am looking forward to making more of these in the future.

This is a painting that I did in my Biological Anthropology class when I went to Cascadia Community College. We were learning about malnutrition and how that has affected people all over the world. I was moved by the affect that this had on children, that the education and understanding of how food works and the nutritional needs of the human body are not understood and/or unavailable. That these are things we take for granted and that when I think about how I am just one person on this giant planet, but in a society so fortunate in the case of food that we feel nothing when we simply throw away our left overs, but that there are children in other parts of the world that when they physically can't move due to lack of food are believed that they are about to turn into snakes and are then taken out and left in the wilderness. The  people that do that believe that if they go out the next day and the child is gone then it has become a snake and are left to wonder if the next time they see a snake that if it is their child. Yet what is obvious is that the children are then left helpless to defend themselves against predators and are likely eaten alive. Makes me cry every time I think about it. So I had to respond, I had to speak up and say something in the best way I could, through art. So I understand this painting is very heavy handed, and a hit over the head, but it was a sense of desperation and despair that I painted this with and a desire to want to bash the world over the head and scream in the face of apathy and say WE CAN SAVE THEM IF WE ONLY GOT TOGETHER AND TRIED DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!!! Children should NEVER  have to suffer like this, NEVER EVER EVER EVER!!!!!