Kitchen Fly

Just a spider doodle, and what I've been doing.

I wanted to tell anyone who's interested what I've been up to, and as I really don't enjoy just posting words, I grabbed this little red bulb and tried to turn it into a spider (eight legs added to most any object ends up looking like a spider).

The deadline for me to turn in all my images to my publisher is fast approaching, so I've been trying hard (probably too hard) to get as many created as possible. Problem is, you can't rush creativity and have great things happen. My plan is to just make as many as I can, and then hopefully I'll have some that are very good, and I think that's what's happening so far. Last week, I think I made my best one in quite some time. After something like that happens, it makes me want to try and equal it with a few more, so I get caffeinated like a madman and want to put it in high gear. But like I said before, that usually doesn't work very well. Thank God I love what I do, because if I didn't, I'd have a headache from thinking about this all the time!

I've probably been posting about half as much as I used to, and I guess it might stay like that for a while. I'm kind of hording some shots that I would usually post, just so my publisher can pick and choose what they want exclusively for my book (about half of the books images will be totally new). I'll do what I can to keep the images posted here as frequently as possible.

Best,

Terry

Art Meets Nature

Art meets Nature

My seventh grade biology book, mixed with a few art supplies.

The female preying mantis kills the male as they are mating, then creates life from their act. The male is dead, but has done what he existed for in the first place.

In the same way, an artist's brush empties a tube of paint, leaving it a shell. But the brush then uses what the tube contained in order to create.

Here's the updated "mask" for IF (illustrationfriday.com)
I think he has more of a "reason" now, you know?

Mask

18 gauge galvanized wire, about 8 inches tall.

For IllustrationFriday.com. Mask was this weeks word to illustrate, and it was more challenging than I anticipated. Not from an idea standpoint, but simply creating it for some reason. Thanks for any comments in advance!

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Here's the latest "cork people", a sophisticated dancing couple. Made for a couple of wine drinkers/

dancing partners.

Invention

24 gauge dark annealed wire. Maybe 6 inches tall.
For Illustration Friday, this weeks word is "Invention". Don't know what this machine is supposed to do, but I bet it would be interesting.

Funny, scrolling through some of the other entries for this week, it seems boxes with funnels leading into 'em is a common idea for "invention". As you can see, it was what I thought of too. Just kind of interesting, like we all watched the same cartoons when we were young.

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"Clear" --

24 gauge dark annealed wire. For IllustrationFriday.com. (clear was the word this week). Thanks in advance for any comments!

"Smoke", for IllustrationFriday.com. As always, comments appreciated from the illo-friday crowd, as well as any others who happen to stumble upon this! Took about an hour with 18 and 22 gauge wire.

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A couple of my wine corks and wire guys that I posed for Illustration Friday (www.illustrationfriday.com). It's a cool site, check it out sometime.

The theme word for this week (and this pic) is "ghost".

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Hello, People! Welcome to my Blog!

I made these little guys yesterday out of some wire and a couple of things laying around. Enjoy!