Detail added to the gingerbread house, adding some people and the Food Court signage. One of my biggest fears is fire, so of course the…
Planning stage for some other buildings has started. A gingerbread house would be tasty – not only for its colorful appeal, but also for its…
I’ll keep some of the details that appeared in the sketching stage and include them later. I really like the “Not Dead Yet” name with…
Preliminary sketches – imagining how some ideas might fit together. These may not look anything like the final drawing for my quilt, but I’ve got…
I’m beginning to think that I’m trying to do too much with one artwork. Better to have too may ideas than none, but at some…
If I had one amusement house featuring all the ideas that I’ve thought about so far, it would be pretty jammed packed. I need to…
Thinking on the collapsing space of a traveling carnival ride, I tried to stretch the idea to something else that works in the same way.…
I’ve now searched the internet for amusement “dark rides” and funhouses. Some of them travel with carnivals, so they need to disassemble into a trailer…
If I’m going to put all my ideas in one house-like structure, then the large, ornate, and often creepy look of an old Victorian would…
The idea of a snake shaped slide is too good to pass on, so I’ve sketched out how it might look. Something as simple as…
I like the idea of a slide in my new art work, but not sure how it works with the idea of fear (unless, of…
I’m trying to recall any experience I’ve had with amusement funhouses as I think of how to incorporate their structure with my ideas about fear…
My photogenic family, looking our best!I remembered that we took photos at a boardwalk amusement hall in New Jersey. These might be handy references for…
A hall of mirrors was never as good as it promised to be. Amusing, yes, but the quality of mirrors wasn’t good enough to easily…
I’m onto the idea of a funhouse for my artwork. Maybe this piece isn’t as much about fear as I thought. I’m open to possibilities.…
Feels good to get rolling on this project…I’ve spent plenty of time on the conceptual part of my next art quilt, which has resulted in…
Thinking about entering the rolling barrel entrance of a funhouse, I can almost feel the pull of the brightly painted hypnotic stripes drawing me into…
A funhouse is different from the dark ride I mentioned in my last post, – it requires you to walk through various distorted rooms. There…
One of my biggest fears is that of the human aging process. Getting older has its rewards for sure, but too many scary possibilities loom…
One of my journal entries listing different aspects of fear brought me to the idea of amusement parks and the various ways people can laugh…
The topic I want to explore with my art work is fear. That’s a nebulous concept. Preferring realism in my art, I have to think…
Art Work … there’s a lot of that required to make an artwork. Follow my latest project as I bring it from initial flash of…