Hello!
Finally little bit nice weather to walk. We have pond and lakes near us. And this season I can meet the swans.
Ducks, geese, swans stay in couple. Looking them in the chilly pond is so calm.
I got the Christmas ornaments at Michelle’s .
It is hard to paint on the surface of a clear plastic ornament.
first, apply gesso on the ornament, then paint with acrylics.
ends up this.
Flower is my imagination. we don’t have flowers yet.
and I love birds!
I like painting crafting. Always making something like a breathing everyday.(happy!)
but it is not always to have satisfied results. Sometimes, I enjoyed making art but not liking the art I made.
then what? Throwing away is probably most of people do.
but I want to use it!
Wanted to try modern art , abstract painting.
Yeah, it was fun, but I don’t have senses of unintended painting.
what do I do with this painting?
this was canvas tempera paint.
so I can easily fold and keep shape .
this time I made a boat
Done!
then added the person ( another cut paper work)
accordion fold
I painted sunset color on huge paper.
I liked this painting as flat condition too. But wanted to try different view of this .
fold like pleated. Or pinch center to make ribbon shape?
add LER light from back of the art?
still ongoing project for this.
I made this gel print at MFA craft workshop. It was fun activity with kids.
For a while we hang on the wall.
Now I want to change the style. The wall and flame are limited. Next art is waiting the spot light．
so old art piece were cut out and fold to make a paper sculpture.
then this art becomes brand new art.
Hi! I am a holder.
I kept MBTA receipts to keep records of my traveling Boston.
That receipt papers are bit nicer paper than supermarket paper receipts.
So fold 1/4 and stapled in half. Made leather cover like travelers notebook.
This notebook is for sketch journaling during train ride to Boston.
(The train is slow and less frequent now. I need to entertain myself during the train ride…)
what do I sketching? Just random ideas, stI bought .. something like that.
even I mistake something like sparring wrong,, That is not a big deal, since this is just a receipt paper. Not fancy watercolor papers or anything.
Happy journaling!
This is the season to send letters with lots of hearts.
One of my art friend in Japan said she will send Valentine’s Day card to USA.
I was so happy to hear that!
Because nowadays, I feel like less people appreciate the letters.
Just send the cards with love or xoxo signs and name.
And confirmation message will ring my phone. “Did you get my letter?” 😣
Most of communications are done by phones , messages ..or you can know the friends status though SNS.
The seasonal greeting cards still give me happiness.
I want my friends have small joy when they open my letter.
This time I add the embroidered book mark, mini water color art card.
Yes, the watercolor paint is one of the flower paint from previous page.
My friend is an artist, so she might do something with it.
I want to give small “wow” to my friends.
Hopefully this letter is worth to keep for a while. Not throwing away.
happy Valentine’s month!
I like buying mysterious paper in Japan.
around the Kyoto Sanjo area, there are some interesting paper makers. They sell the left over papers for cheap price after they cut off the main part.
this is a Washi paper called “ LAMIESU”.
translucent like the transparent paper but not shiny like that.
This paper is laminated one side to keep moisture or oil leaks from the food.
I watercolor painted Washi side( not laminated side) .
Paint color are translate and watercolor did not bleed through the back side.
keep painting the back yard’s flowers
Oh I saw more arts in Boston nowadays.
last year, I found bunch of colorful cow in all over the Boston from south station to east Boston harbor.
These Arts figures are temporary or not,
I like the impact of the installation outside. since all arts get out of the limitations of museum sizes, rules, etc
I am a big fun of Setouchi international Art Triennale.
It is an art festival held in every 3 years on the islands and coastal cities in Seto Sea of Japan .
That is huge project to show art installations out of the museum box.
Arts were placed in some rural island old house, in the forest, some random building.
Seeing arts Outside is totally different experience from seeing the art quietly in the museum.
It might be the great background of the view, it might be the mood of the outside air.
I enjoyed Biwako biennale which held in every 2years around the Lake Biwa. I like Quebec winter arts installation too.
now in Boston!
The winter active arts started this January 15 to April 17.
Free and open to public area. the art installation location map is this.
which is great! Which might collect more variation of comments from Art fun or non Art fun. Especially in old historical city like Boston, some people afraid of jammed the iconic landscape with new stuff.
but definitely these arts gave strong impacts to people walking by Boston. The impact of Boston is alive.
Most of my friends in Japan imagine Boston is the place there are bunch of university and tech company. But Boston has lots to see, not only the university village!
Hi crafters!
My family are big fun of Apple products. iPhone, Mac book, iPads….and I have kept all the Apple products boxes …
Those boxes are so strong and so beautiful to throw away. But never come up the ideas to use them.
today, finally I up remake the one iPhone box into a pen tray.
i grabbed some scrap of clothes from patchwork pile. Glued those clothe with Elmer’s school glue to the box.
it is surprisingly easy to glue the clothes onto the box. This cotton clothe print design is “ forest retreat”.
I tacked the corner like wrapping the gifts.
for inside of the box, I used Japanese masking wide tape( Washi tape wide type) . Washi tape is easy to undo or adjust the placement . Nicely hide the edge of the cloth.
this William morris design Washi tape is available in 100yen shop in Japan.(Currently 70cents value shop)
the size of iPhone SE box lid is perfect for the BIC pen.
now I am very happy to find the usage of the iPhone boxes!
autumn is good season to walk around the outside.
I love the open studios event. I joins these events in Somerville and Cambridge so far in the past.
This year the Cambridge open studios held in September. I completed the central sq area gallery last time. So this year I wonder around the edge area of the Cambridge.
Day 1 Walking from porter sq .
I enjoyed so many different styles of art. Also I like to visit the artist cozy home gallery.
all open house art is has super nice organized room with great furniture settings. I hesitate to ask permission to take photos of home of course. So at least outside I sketched on the train back home.
Ahhh… every Christmas, birthday, it is hard to see the cute wrapping paper is throwing away.
I tried do origami using the wrapping paper. But hard to make crisp fold.
I made bow ribbon topper out of the used wrapping paper. It is cute but the paper topper also will be throwing away after 1 time use.
I realized the wrapping paper has grid line on the backside.
so I cut along the simple shapes like square and triangle, then use as patchwork materials.
Then glue wrapping paper parts onto the some square paper.
Done!
Now flame it, hang on the wall.
This paper patchworking art is simple, repeatable work. It is too addictive to stop making it.
Happy up cycling!
How may styrofoam food tray I am consuming in a week? I collected styrofoam food trays and counted them.
It it scary to see the reality. But this is the styrofoam trash as a 4 person family /week.
I buy vegetables,cheese,ham,etc…many things are on these styrofoam tray wrapped with plastic. I like repurposing the trash.
I washed and cut the edges to make then flat styrofoam .
Then keep in the plastic container which was BBQ meat container.
use pencils or ballpoint pen. Draw the image you like on the styrofoam plate.
Then, add ink on the styrofoam.
I used roller for adding ink onto the tray. Ink is acrylic ink this time.
Ink tray is the plastic container lid of BBQ meat😝
Applying the ink on the styrofoam, put the paper on the styrofoam. Rub the back of the paper to attach the ink to paper.(I use my hand to rubbing)
Done!🥳
I like simple black. I added yellow to see the different.
Styrofoam printing was fun. It is safe Art for kids because no knife to make prints.
Can’t stop printing! This is the view of my kitchen floor in the end of the art making day
Now I need to clean these and cook the dinner!
This art is now exhibiting in the art fest at Quincy May13-June 11 . (@ Qarts gallery)
The stamp ink pad works too!( left side was stamp pad ink, right side is watercolor and crayon to add detail color )
I tried the watercolor using brush for colored printing. It works too. Need to adjust the right amount of water is a bit challenging but watercolor printing might be easier to clean the mess.
Let’s use kitchen trash to make art🤩
Happy up cycling 🥰