Well, I know its been a while since I posted anything, and I actually had a post about some other smaller projects that will be coming up in the next month or two, but hadn't posted it yet, because I hadn't gotten a chance to take pictures for it yet, and then never got it posted, so I guess I will just go into that stuff a little bit here. Part of the reason I've not had the chance to get pics taken and posts posted about other stuff is that I've been focusing most of my crafting time on getting Gallery B done (which is the main content for this post - because it is now DONE! - well except I still have to figure what I'm doing about the steps for the front, but that will come later), but before I get into that, let me just quickly go over some of the other stuff I've been up/will be getting up to......
So, one of the other reasons I've not gotten much posted here is that for the past several months I've been trying to re-do my craft room. It started out as just wanting to rearrange and reorganize a bit, but then I found a workbench at Harbor Freight that was
perfect, and then since I going to get that more stuff was going to have to be rearranged in the room and then I decided that if I was going to be moving everything around anyway, I should paint, which I've been meaning to do for years, and then since I was redecorating I had to get curtains for the room..... anyway..... I'll post about it with some pictures when its all done, but the point is that it turned into a much larger project than I intended and then ended up with hardly any time to work on it, so now almost two months later I'm just getting around to trying to get all the boxes that have been taking up a ton of room in my kitchen, and trying to get the room back in order. I still have one corner of the room I haven't been able to get to to paint yet, but once I get everything else back in working order then I can pull the stuff from that corner out into the center of the room long enough to paint that haha.
I've also got some smaller projects that I need to get going on because they are mostly Christmas presents (which also means I cant really talk about them until after the recipients have gotten them), But I'm really excited about a couple of them so I've been trying to work on them a little bit here and there between other stuff. Pretty soon though they are going to have to take the priority. In the meantime though as well as trying to get as many of the Whimsy street shops done by the first weekend in December, I'm also doing a mini Parade float for my husband to have in our town's Christmas parade again this year. The theme is "the Magic of Christmas" so I'm planning a float with lots of lights. It's going to be a North Pole Magical Forest. So I'm thinking a big pole and light up trees and other light up decorations like the type you would see in someone's yard at Christmas time. But again I'll get more into that in a separate post.
So now on to the main event so to speak, Gallery B. Because I haven't really posted much about it as I went along (and honestly so much of it got done so quickly, even had it not been during a time with so much else going on I probably wouldn't have ended up getting it posted as I went lol) I'm going to break it up into 2 posts so it's not quite as overwhelming picture wise.....
So for this post I'm going to mainly focus on the artwork itself, and the next post will be the structure and the artwork in place and finished pictures and stuff. All of the art is my original work, most of it acrylics on "canvas" or bristol board. I think I may have already at some point talked about how I made the canvases, but in case you missed that or need a refresher, basically its just a white cotton fabric glued to a thin piece of bass wood. There are a few pieces that are pencil or watercolor or some other medium though so I'll caption each piece with what it is. The frames on the framed art are either thin strips of balsa or the same model railroad plastic u-beams I used for the baseboards in the gallery (but you'll see that more in the next post) so without further ado here is all the artwork that is on display in Gallery B.
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| Acylics on Bristol paper |
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| Pencil on Bristol |
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| Pencil on Bristol |
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| Colored Pencil on Bristol (and then mounted on painted balsa wood) |
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| Watercolors on Bristol (with a balsa wood frame) - this one I may have already posted pictures of a while ago, but I figured I'd post it again just in case |
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| Acrylics on canvas |
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| Acrylics on canvas |
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| Acrylics on canvas |
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| Acrylics on canvas |
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| Multi-medium on bristol and the frame is made from the same plastic u-beams that I actually bought to use as baseboard |
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| Acrylics on canvas |
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| Acrylics on canvas |
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| both Acrylics on canvas (apparently I didn't take individual pictures of these) |
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| Acrylics on canvas |
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| Acrylics on canvas |
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| again, I think I already posted these two a while ago but here they are again, both acrylics on canvas and the frame on the one is balsa wood |
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| starting to see what they look like on a wall (kind of a sneak peak for the next post ;) ) |
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| a group of the art |
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| group picture of most of the artwork completed. |
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| and my little statue I made.... it's meant to be bronze, but it's actually made from clay and wire and a little metallic paint |
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| I made the pedestal for it from basswood |
So after that load of pictures I'm sure you'll be ready to hear that this is where I'm going to take a break and come back with part 2 of this post tomorrow..... ;)
