Collages. Steve Martin's Shoes and PINK

All the artwork from the recent art show is still sitting in my studio mostly unpacked  And assemblage was far from my mind.  No art for me this week, I thought.  Then the redoubtable Jerry Boyd -see his own great stuff @ thatjerryboyd.com - posted a wonderful picture of green shoes purportedly belonging to Steve Martin and that sent me on my way.  

Steve Martin's Shoes

The woman in the picture is Lorde, a 16 year New Zealand singer.   I love her energy and the image in the collage captures a feisty, centeredness I appreciate.  The image is amped up with various effects. 

I was thinking about colors I don't use too much and PINK came to mind.  And from that, surely a whole piece of pink would be fitting.  Finding pink things was fun.  I even just googled 'pink things', which turned up the pink gun.  I tried many pink combo backgrounds but my favorite acid green popped up and won the day.  Pink with an acid green side. Fits me fine.

PINK!

It’s February, waaay too much snow, but I’ve been busy

Wow, I can’t believe I haven’t been here for a whole month! But life definitely gets that way. I did have some fun at the Holidays, creating a few impromptu gifts for some special people and making a raft of mini-collage cards. Here’s a few. The tea cup is for my son and since he truly appreciated it, you can see it must be a family trait. His friend Rachel enjoyed her snake-accented jewelry torso as well, so good matching sensibility between them too.

My current project, which came about in a synchronistic way, is helping my dear friend Jerry Boyd, launch his website and get his wonderful but with that lovely touch of weird I treasure novel published. One of my other hat’s is Synchronicity Press, and I do enjoy the design element of publishing. Jerry’s cartoons are pun-filled, fantastical, whimsical and delightfully odd – all of which are great traits as far as I’m concerned.

Check out all of Jerry at ThatJerryBoyd.com. And there’s more to come too.