tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84728208433793378962011-11-27T15:52:41.700-08:00hilaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16191349907863635493noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472820843379337896.post-49952811788651895422010-08-01T13:12:00.000-07:002010-08-01T13:41:53.197-07:00

Whoop-whoop!So after a 7-8 month dry spell, I've finally gotten into another art-thingy. :)This time it is a juried art show and sale in Toronto.Yeah, that's the one. :DI'm really quite excited actually. My friend Cynthia was in a show there this past May and I visited her and found that it is a very nice locale. I can only hope that the weather will be as good. I've opted for a semi-enclosed

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At least it always tends to feel that way once I finish a piece. It's probably because I take quite a while to finish things and begin to feel bored with them and frustrated at certain points. I am happy with it, for the moment at least. I am also very excited to get started on the new one (this will be the start of 3 of a hopeful 5 in the series).In any case, the results:Poo. Acrylic on canvas.

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So recently I have (aside from getting the jewelry itch) been wanting to create more drawings.So I did.:)This first one is a simple graphite on paper illustration. He is a great big, greasy, fat guy who eats children. This is according to my friend Steph, who birthed the inspiration from a dream she had. I decided that I wanted to attempt a likeness from her description.Mmmmmm, gorgeous, is he

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Hey! Finished a couple things over the last couple months.They have nothing to do with the progress bars on the side of the screen. *sigh* they will get their rightful attention eventually.I got an itch to create some necklaces, simply to see what I might come up with. Arn't they purdy? There are more images of

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Awesomeness, all!I've finally finished a large 42" square painting that has been hanging on my wall since May. It has been neglected and pounced upon a couple times. The pictures below don't include a high-gloss finish that I plan on putting on, mostly because I wanted to details to show through without the shine from the lighting (can't afford professional pics yet).It is called Maggot. The

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Hey Hey!!!!!New image finished"Plum" is my first full Photoshop painting! I am really happy with this new piece. Recently I have become a bit disillusioned with my works-in-progress and taking the time to work on this image has really put me into a much better mood.I have decided to begin a series involving trees in one way or another. We'll see what happens with it.hmmmmm, nice and cheery don'

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Woooo! :DMy eBay auction that I created for my Keyboard Cat Painting finished up yesterday afternoon while I was at work. Now I have sent an invoice with updated shipping costs and once payment has been made I'll pack her off and ship her out. *sniff*It really was really enjoyable and relaxing making this painting. It has given me an idea to think about a subject matter that other people might

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Recently there has been quite a lul in the more immediately tangible aspects of my career. That is, I havn't been painting much at all. I chalk it up to crappy weather which has a bad tendency to influence my mood, and the fact that I have been attempting to experiment with the Gimp.This lovely program is a freeware version of Photoshop. I personally don't find it performs quite to par since it

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For all who love and worship Keyboardcat there is now a T-Shirt with which you can pronounce your affections to the world! Well, it hasn't quite become a T-Shirt yet, but you have a chance to vote for it to become so! So you should do so! lolThreadless, a website where people can submit images or text to possibly be put onto a T-Shirt, has, via Facebook has released one entitled: Three Keyboard

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Uploaded actual images of paintings I did in 2008. These came about because I was incredibly tired of knitting. (ALL of my projects in 2007 were knit or crochet-based) I craved working with oils and I have always been interested in macro images of food. So I started taking pictures of food I had already, was in the process of, or had just finished, eating. :D I thoroughly enjoyed creating

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apparently I need to post a code so that they know I actually run this blog. :Dty9rsnjiuqHope this works.

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Right, so in an attempt to get more exposure to this site and to my art in general, I have neglected posting here. But I'm here now, yay!So what have I been up to? Basically joining up with a lot of different Flickr groups, mostly ones that involve cats and paintings of cats. (Trying to bump up traffic for keyboardcat) I have also started a thread at the G4 channel website in the AOTS forum. It's

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Blah-diddy blah, blah.Alright, so I'm here now.I have been quite lazy about writing on here but now I'm back and now this blog may get a bit more lovin'.I've been spending a fair bit of time lately working on a website for my art which this blog is now a part of. www.hilart.ca I've also finished an oil painting in tribute to keyboardcat that, though not in my gallery on my website, can be found

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Sweet. Took me long enough.I am happy that things are starting to settle in here though and my work schedule allows me to create a home-schedule which has begun to show accomplishment. :)I've stretched and primed a new surface for yet another painting which is pretty darn quick for me but I'm excited with my quick progress and hope to be able to attempt selling some prints in the near future.The

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Right. So did I ever mention that I've previously attempted to start two other Blogs? ... And failed to keep them up miserably? ;) Anyway, I never made any commitments to this in any case. Honestly, I suck at keeping logs of things. But I'm here now.I have no pictures. This is because I really havn't been working on anything serious and the things I have been working on really arn't far enough

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Woooooo! Finally! :)Well, it's not that it took too much longer to really figure out what I wanted to do. I had a prototype fleshed out on photoshop. Just needed to try and weave paper in and out of the sometimes very tiny holes in the lace.So. There it is. Documented the best I can without any good slide film ... or a camera to hold slide film, lol. Now I just have to write 100 words about that

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Yay! The icky nasty cornstarch solution actually worked! .... Might have some gotten some inspiration from that ..... hmm.Anyway, I had draped the lace over some formed mounds of newspaper and got an interesting, wavy outcome. Very happy with how that turned out. Then I decided that I just didn't enjoy the colour as it had been originally so I applied a Walnut woodstain to it.Semi-finished

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CAUTION: Image-heavy post. ... Mostly because I've been lazy about photographing my progress over the past week and a half. It's very tempting to simply keep knitting once you're in a groove.Below is a paiting from a series I've been working on. I take images of food I'm eating/making then abstract it a bit in Photoshop and then paint that image. This one is of a Fudgicle. mmmm.

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The following images are of a piece I've been working on for a competition on the theme of "Energy and the Environment." There is a short statement that has to go along with what we submit but I'm going to worry about that after I've actually gotten more headway.mmmm, lacey goodnessmmmm, detailed lacey goodnessI decided on a simple honeycomb pattern, found here. It is a shape found in nature a

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yeah this is me, kinda. Just a silly little upload for my profile pic.

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