Goose Flyoff

Laura and I represented Team Vogel Da and the Sirens at this year's Aleutian Goose Flyoff at the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge. After one video my batteries pooped out.

 For more, see Laura's blog, http://selchiedubh.blogspot.com/2009/03/aleutian-cackling-goose-fly-off_07.html

Shameless Homage, Repurposed Art

No time for art a Friday Night Art Project -- last weekend was our annual floor-to-ceiling Tea room cleanout and I spent Friday night pre-cleaning.

This is an illustration I did for the cover of this week's North Coast Journal (my employer, and so thus repurposed art) illustrating two separate stories concerning Aleutian Canada geese and Chinook salmon. I couldn't pass on the opportunity to do an homage to M.C. Escher's "Birds and Fish" tessellation. The illustrations were traced from photos in Adobe Illustrator, then assembled into the tessellation. Textures and color gradients were added to the final illustration in Photoshop. On newstands now.

Belated Art Project Post

Last week I opened a Zazzle shop and added a couple of my digital images for mini buttons.

zazzle.com/hollix

Not too exciting yet. It's a work in progress.

More ruckus to come when there's more there there.

My Fuzzy Valentine

After a day weeding vegetable beds and pruning bamboo, I needed an easy craft to satisfy the weekend art project. (What is craft but applied art, anyway?) Happy Valentine's Day to all!

Instructions for this project are here:
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2011/02/how-to_valentine_heart_chain_f.html

Kobukusa for Kristin

I sewed up a quick kobukusa for Kristin's birthday (we use brocade kobukusa in the Japanese tea ceremony). She was tickled by the dragon motif.

Fabric cut and pinned. (My kobukusa is on the right.)

Finished kobukusa.