Spikey!

While moving, I found an old art project that is one of my favorites from college. I've used it as a decoration in my house ever since I made it.

The class I made it for in college was Design 3-D, and the project was to take any "mundane object," and use it over and over again to make something else. I played with all kinds of ideas (clothes pins, playing cards, etc.), but the one I settled on was golf tees. Lots and lots of golf tees.

I took one big ball (just a random kickball-type ball from the kids section at Wal-Mart) and three ping pong balls and covered every inch of them with golf tees, which resulted in a pretty painful looking objects. But they're awesome at the same time.

Here's some pics :-)









Needless to say, my teacher absolutely loved this execution. You can even take the smaller ones off, and stick them wherever you want on the big one...kinda cool so you can change the shape of the sculpture depending on where you need to put it. The original sculpture way back then had one more medium-sized ball as well, but for whatever reason, the glue I used didn't stick to the material that ball was made of, so I got rid of it.

I've thought about making more...maybe with a more natural wood-colored golf tee...and then use it as a modern looking centerpiece for a table or something, but haven't gotten around to it.

I'm still here.

Well hello there, blog. I haven't forgotten about you...promise!

I know it's been a while, but I have a good excuse. I've moved from Orlando to Atlanta (finally!)...

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...so I've been trying to get all settled before I get back into my art groove.

Anyway, next on the chopping block...

* finish that crazy peacock painting I started about a million years ago
* Mary and Maude painting (elephants from the Central Florida Zoo)
* and of course, work on whatever else comes to mind...which will derail my efforts to finish the two projects mentioned above, I'm sure. That's one thing I've learned over the years...you can't plan art. You can try, but it just doesn't work. At least with me.

So that's that. The only 'artsy' thing I've really done lately is a sketch of the White Rabbit (this version). Not for anything in particular...it's just a reoccurring theme in my life (which has come up again recently because of the new Alice in Wonderland movie)...and I haven't drawn anything in a while...so I figured I'd draw it and hang it up in my house somewhere since it's meaningful to me. I'll post a pic when I'm done. I'm debating on coloring it in with colored pencil, or just leaving it as a sketch...black/white kinda thing. We'll see.

Oh, and some good news that came out of my move is that our new house has 4 bedrooms...and we don't have anywhere close to 4 sets of bedroom furniture! So, that means we have a master bedroom, one guest room, an office....and I now have my very own art room! I've always wanted one of those. Mainly because I make huge messes when I work on my projects, and I have to clean up after them each time...now I can just leave it and shut the door ;-) Hopefully it'll make me more productive.

Hope to post soon with REAL updates!