sunshine on a table

sunshine on a table
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There was this little sanded spot on this very much used table in the woodshop. He appeared there with the help of a few colored pencils.

Help the RGV Foodbank by Donating Art

On October 18, 2007 the Foodbank of the Rio Grande Valley will hold their 3rd Empty Bowls Lunch and Silent Auction.

How it works:
For $25 a person can purchase a ticket to the lunch which gets them a nice meal and allows them to choose a bowl made by a local artist to take home with them. The bowl is both a piece of fine art as well as a reminder that there are many empty bowls here in the Rio Grande Valley.

How you can help:
The foodbank is looking for donations of handmade bowls made by local artists - they do not have to be functional.

The foodbank is also looking for donations of art to be part of their silent auction.

This is a great way to support the foodbank - especially if your short on cash or time to donate.

If you are interested in donating art or would like to know what you can do to help you can leave me a comment, contact me the.wendy.lady[at]gmail.com or contact the RGV Foodbank.

Join UTPA, Artists Unanimous - the UTPA art club, and the RGV Foodbank on Sept. 8 for a Bowl-a-thon, a day of bowl making, in the UTPA ceramics room.

Empty Bowls Lunch and Silent Auction
October 18, 2007
11 am - 2 pm
Pharr International ConventionCenter
3000 N. Cage Pharr, TX 78577

click HERE for a brochure

new painting

My Drawing 3 Project

I took my Drawing 3 class as a Mini-mester class - that is three straight weeks of class everyday that counts as a full 16 week semester. It was intense. Our finished project had to be LARGE. Much larger than I had ever worked before. Luckily for me I walked into the class with a pretty good idea of what I wanted to do.

Here is the finished work. The working title is "Everday Hands - connected."



The concept was to incorporate contour drawings of my hands, rendered on a variety of surfaces with photos of objects I use every day.

Here is the basic process I used for each composition-


1. an initial background drawing of doodled contour hands in Sharpie marker on a 20"x20" piece of cardboard.
2. photographed the drawing and altered it in Photoshop to make it black & white, erase and stress areas as well as resize it to 30"x30"
3. drew image of hand of a surface - in this case, using chalk on a concrete parking lot.
4. photographed high resolution image of drawing and then erased background in Photoshop.
5. photographed high resolution image of object and cut it out using Photoshop.
6. gave background a color
7. incorporated hand, object and background in one composition and printed it out on a large format printer 30"x30" with a 3" border making size 36"x36"
8. reworked printed image with marker and pastel chalk.

some of the various images I worked with:


The final image:


Red: hand rendered in clay using scraffito holding my favorite clay tool - a pencil
Orange: hand rendered in India ink of various pieces of paper (bills from the mail) simply laid on top of each other holding my cell phone.
Yellow: hand rendered in chalk on a concrete parking lot holding my car keys.
Green: hand rendered in the steam on my bathroom mirror holding a cup of coffee.
Blue: hand rendered in gel pen on yellow notebook paper holding a gel pen
Purple: hand rendered using my Wacom tablet on my computer over an image of iTunes holding my iPod.

The unconscious subtext is the rampant consumerism of ever day life. It was until I had the whole piece put together that I realized nearly every object's logo was clearly recognizable.