party hats: happy new year

Wonderful hats from the super-creative Etsy shop of madame alyn's bin. Alyn Carlson realizes ingenious thoughts in a range of media. She drinks Vo Vos, makes valentines from Marimekko scraps, herds chickens, and finds silver linings in places where most are too embarrassed to look. She is also an exquisite designer with a serious graphic design business and name cache up the yin yang.

Alyn's Favorite Art Materials

paper, air, moth dust, special magicalness, paint, pigments, figments and twine

Her graphic design and more fine art can be found at alyncarlson.com.

Happy New Year to all of you!!

party hats: happy new year

bokeh

Bokeh describes the rendition of out-of-focus points of light. Differing amounts of spherical aberration alter how lenses render out-of-focus points of light, and thus their bokeh. The word "bokeh" comes from the Japanese word "boke" (pronounced bo-keh) which literally means fuzziness or dizziness.

Images via Flickr and Etsy {click to enlarge and/or purchase}. Images 5 & 7 are my experiments with this photographic technique. View more of my photography in my Flickr gallery.

bokeh

new leaf for a new year

As of today, this blog will no longer be written as a requirement for my art class--hooray!

This being my third blog, it might not be updated as often as the others but my vision for it has always been as a place to simply post when I feel inspired. I'll share my studio art projects and photography. I'll share work from other artists. I may even write a bit now and then. I'd love to build a great blog list to follow so if you know of any really quality art {any medium}, design {ie: of the art sort not the interior or exterior type--visit my other blog for that kind of goodness} or photography blogs do leave me your suggestions!

Let's journey this road together, shall we?

new leaf for a new year

edward cullen: portrait of a {post}modern anti-hero

Three weeks. One hundred hours {give or take}. One BIG book, papers, paints, and much modge podge later...here's the end result of the Edward Cullen curated exhibit. I presented it in class with music from the Twilight soundtrack playing on my laptop {hidden behind the exhibit}. I also created a mini Zine of the exhibit information--it is not pictured here as I submitted it for my final grading.

The photos in this post are presented in the order you would view the exhibit in reality. Please click on the images to enlarge.

{Disclaimer: The original art in these photographs, and the photographs themselves are copyright Tina Pfeiffer 2009. I do not hold any copyright nor do I claim ownership of any of the images from Twilight used within the project.}

edward cullen: portrait of a {post}modern anti-hero

final project aka mess-in-progress

sneak peek!

Crunch time. Will she finish? Must. Get. It. Done. Ah, winter break is sounding better every day!

Back to my glue-paper-paint-ink-brushes-pens-printer-gesso and mess that is my dining room table...

Wednesday, 12.9, 12 PM, ready or not, here I come.

final project aka mess-in-progress