51 – Thoughts on fire
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
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
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
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
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
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.”
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
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?
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Art Work … there’s a lot of that required to make an artwork. Follow my latest project as I bring it from…