There's something about a newly organized, clean studio space that just makes me want to create! (and inevitably make a mess again!) I was thumbing through some old unfinished drawings and I happened upon this beautiful sketch I made, apparently in 2014, of a Masai woman with a basket on her head. For awhile I was very interested in these striking African portraits of different native groups throughout Africa. Almost on impulse, I decided to carve around the drawing with an Xacto and mount it to a canvas using scraps of 1970's-era National Geographics for the background colors. I may not know where this piece is going, but it sure is fun to mess around!
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Slowly my basement is starting to lose old junky items and is actually looking like a somewhat usable space! As an artist and art teacher, hoarding for sure is in my blood and I have countless boxes and drawers of found ephemera and started projects that I know one day I will eventually get back to :/ I have gotten better about being ruthless with my disposal - recently I burned an entire dresser that had broken drawers and was a beast to move. I also had these flat file metal drawers that I know are usually stupid expensive to buy new so I held onto these old beat up ones that were donated to me by a friend. I knew they needed a lot of TLC. Fortunately my husband loves diving into a new project, so he spray-painted them, spruced them up and put them on a rolling workbench unit with a nice thick counter-top. It's coming along great, hopefully I can keep my "collecting" in check!
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