Groundhog Day

soooo the sun came out today! white cold powder drifts
spent 1 hr 2o min shovelling my stairs, driveway and neighbor Blanche's front walk, path to street and path to mailbox... and a path for the mailman across our two lawns... gotta love our public servants who trudge through this FREEZING weather.

made the third batch of scones for the open house this weekend... banana chocolate chip... they were so good, M and I snarfed a few more than the usual one each "tester" these are pictures of the candied ginger and raisin scones

spent the day rearranging the living room, measuring tables and trying to maximize space for the party... if only 16 adults at a time show up from the mailing list of ~200 or so... we'll be just fine!

The Four Rooms Collective piece was accepted into the Globally Green Show... received our letter today!

Anne came over and we cut out tiny fox faces in sparkle vinyl... she was so brave to drive in this unplowed city!

Spent the evening cutting out lots of hearts and clamshell envelopes for the party!
Can't wait to see you all!

Fill in for January (incl. Dress-up Submission)

Pictures! here are some projects I completed....
These photos are by Susan Wolfe, you can find more of her gorgeous work on facebook.  This is the submission to the Lawrence Art Guild's Globally Green show
The elements being Air, Water, Earth, Fire, Earth, Water, and Air
Malissa Martin-Wilke, Karen Roberts, Jill Tichenor and myself each composed an element, shared portions of the preliminary piece with each other and then built these prayer flags for the composite piece: Earthly Prayers

Close-up of the charred wood integrated into the fire panel.

I did, indeed finish 20 basset hound dogs in winter coats christmas cards for my father (late late late xmas present)

The dress-up challenge for january was inspired by impressionism... i posted all the pictures and process descriptions on the MacKomics Studio Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/Liza.D.MacKinnon) but here are a few teaser pics...

I also developed a series of valentine cards that are currently for sale on my etsy site: MacKomicsStudio.etsy.com, at The Raven and the Merc in Lawrence, and Brightside Gallery in KC

This last one is actually a set of 5 and was my first etsy sale ever!!

I also developed some vinyl valentines - painted record albums in preparation for my show at Parisole Arts on Feb 4th First Friday.

This one will be donated to benefit the Ronald McDonald House in KC.

Always a happy past time for me is making hair accessories... I came up with a bunch of cuties just for valentine's day... here are a few.. many more have not been photographed yet...

many more can be viewed at MacKomicsStudio.etsy.com or on Facebook!

I'll try to be more timely next month!

ttfn

Rabbit Rabbit

Good luck the whole year long! Imagine a graceful leap off the end of the bed whilst whispering "Rabbit Rabbit" before landing lightly.  Certainly far from the clumbsy truth, but none-the-less... good luck for a year!  The sun was shining on the new day, the new chance, the new start and Birdy and I went for a long walk in the fields behind Haskell. I worked on my piece for the Globally Green Art Show for the Lawrence Art Guild (deadline for submissions coming up quickly!... January 15).  With the pieces from the members of the newly formed Four Rooms Collective,  I assembled the other elements: Earth, Wind and Water easily, embellished with shells, feathers and fossils and then set upon the bulk of the piece: Fire.  Upon discovering that the human heart with ventricals and other veins and tube-y things coming out of its top looked remarkably like the sacred heart icon I had envisioned for the center, I began embroidering over a printout of an illustration of a human heart.  Great idea until it comes time to pull the paper out from under the stitches... patience and tweezers!  Tomorrow I plan to pull out the hibachi and burn selected twigs for a flaming topper!

Original piece before cutting...

image used for embroidery:

Note similarity to sacred heart icon!"

Happy New Year!

Liza