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51 – Thoughts on fire

July 3, 2020

Detail added to the gingerbread house, adding some people and the Food Court signage. One of my biggest fears is fire, so…

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50 – backdrop? More like gumdrop

July 1, 2020

Planning stage for some other buildings has started. A gingerbread house would be tasty – not only for its colorful appeal, but…

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44 – Please wait for assistance

June 13, 2020

I’ll keep some of the details that appeared in the sketching stage and include them later. I really like the “Not Dead…

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31 – Drawing the line between scary and fun

May 5, 2020

Preliminary sketches – imagining how some ideas might fit together. These may not look anything like the final drawing for my quilt,…

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30 – Diving into a pool of imagery

May 3, 2020

I’m beginning to think that I’m trying to do too much with one artwork. Better to have too may ideas than none,…

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29 – Complicated possibilities

May 1, 2020

If I had one amusement house featuring all the ideas that I’ve thought about so far, it would be pretty jammed packed….

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28 – “Nothing to see here folks, move along.”

April 30, 2020

Thinking on the collapsing space of a traveling carnival ride, I tried to stretch the idea to something else that works in…

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27 – Pack and play

April 29, 2020

I’ve now searched the internet for amusement “dark rides” and funhouses. Some of them travel with carnivals, so they need to disassemble…

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26 – How about a creepy Victorian house?

April 27, 2020

If I’m going to put all my ideas in one house-like structure, then the large, ornate, and often creepy look of an…

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25 – Snakes and slides

April 24, 2020

The idea of a snake shaped slide is too good to pass on, so I’ve sketched out how it might look. Something…

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24 – Exit by twists and turns

April 22, 2020

I like the idea of a slide in my new art work, but not sure how it works with the idea of…

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23 – This way to the egress!

April 20, 2020

I’m trying to recall any experience I’ve had with amusement funhouses as I think of how to incorporate their structure with my…

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19 – Memory fills in the details of reference

April 14, 2020

My photogenic family, looking our best!I remembered that we took photos at a boardwalk amusement hall in New Jersey. These might be…

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18 – Distorted reflection

April 12, 2020

A hall of mirrors was never as good as it promised to be. Amusing, yes, but the quality of mirrors wasn’t good…

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17 – Mining a vein of ideas

April 9, 2020

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…

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13 – Feels good to get rolling

March 31, 2020

Feels good to get rolling on this project…I’ve spent plenty of time on the conceptual part of my next art quilt, which…

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12 – Hypnotic rabbit holes

March 27, 2020

Thinking about entering the rolling barrel entrance of a funhouse, I can almost feel the pull of the brightly painted hypnotic stripes…

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11 – Finding my way out

March 24, 2020

A funhouse is different from the dark ride I mentioned in my last post, – it requires you to walk through various…

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10 – The dark ride of aging

March 22, 2020

One of my biggest fears is that of the human aging process. Getting older has its rewards for sure, but too many…

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7 – Scary fun

March 13, 2020

One of my journal entries listing different aspects of fear brought me to the idea of amusement parks and the various ways…

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6 – A list of ten things

March 11, 2020

The topic I want to explore with my art work is fear. That’s a nebulous concept. Preferring realism in my art, I…

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1 – Find out what I’m thinking

March 1, 2020

Art Work … there’s a lot of that required to make an artwork. Follow my latest project as I bring it from…