Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Gluten free & Hypothyroid

Well after years of expensive tests and stupidity with western docs I finally gave up and went to a Naturopath. I haven't felt this good since I was in college. If ever. I can't recommend Dr. Molly Force in Port Townsend highly enough. She has given me my life back. Turns out for years I have had hypothyroid and am super allergic to gluten. For years I asked to have my thyroid tested and thought it had been...the doctor made a mistake. I sort of knew about the gluten...I have tried in the past to go gluten free and or cut down on it. But now I have to go completely gluten free. I am also allergic to soy, dairy, corn, almonds, sesame,beef and peas. Combine that with my anti-inflammatory diet that rules out a lot of food. I usually cook from scratch thank goodness so that makes things easier.

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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Just listed an upcycled scrabble tile pendant with a print of my artwork whale on a wave on etsy

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Monday, August 17, 2009

Blackberries & cookbook

Went blackberry picking this weekend. Picked more than enough to make some fresh blackberry ice cream. I make a yummy mix of yogurt/ice cream/sorbet. Turns out fab. Now to write down the exact recipe! I am working on my cookbook this week. I think it is going to end up being more than one. Today I am writing down recipes...not easy when I don't use exact measurements. Soon I will be testing the recipes. Fun!

Friday, August 14, 2009

Cap Mushroom

Finished another collaboration with Denise Weir. This cap mushroom is available in 9 colors on my sim Axis Mundi in the game Second Life.
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Check out my newest creative adventure at pay it forward art.

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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Process of making a 3D character-OWL

I just finished making this steampunk owl with my friend Denise Weir. It is available for sale on my sim Axis Mundi in the game Second Life. Here is our process on this particular piece.

This character started with a fine art painting of mine:
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Then I made a drawing with a side view for Denise to work from:
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Denise sculpted in Maya to create this little fellow:
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And then once the pieces were imported into Second Life I finished building the character in world and added hand painted textures. You can see that along the process the eyes changed and his personality changed a little bit:
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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Arbor with Morning Glories

Another collaboration with Denise Weir. This rustic steampunk arbor features sculpted morning glories. It is available on my sim Axis Mundi in second life.

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Sunflower

I just finished this sunflower I made with Denise Weir. It will be available soon on my sim Axis Mundi in the game Second Life.

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

ScribbleCast 16 Kingfisher

Scribblecast 16 Kingfisher is up! You can find my last three ScribbleCast episodes on the right side of my blog or you can help me out by going to iTunes and subscribing. Just search for ScribbleCast.

Episode 16 features baby robins, fledgling wrens, hummingbird & kingfisher footage, plus I paint a mixed media piece with a kingfisher.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Flowers in Second Life

I have been busy working with my friend Denise Weir to make flowers and mushrooms in the game Second Life. She is doing the 3D modeling in Maya and I am doing the texturing and some of the in world building.

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Saturday, May 16, 2009

Vegetable Tags

Now you can get my art on these cute veggie tags. I have sets in my ebay shop and etsy shop (see the right side of my blog for links). There are all sorts of veggies available radish, peas, lettuce, carrot, onion, zucchini, eggplant, cucumber, squash, asparagus, pepper, tomato and corn. I will have more varieties available soon including herbs!

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Friday, April 10, 2009

Thin Line

Have you ever noticed that thin white line at the edge of horizon on a body of water? Some people just don't seem to see the line. Some days I really don't feel like other people. For me? The line is obvious. There it is. There it is again. It's right there! Sometimes I feel like I am on the other side of that line watching other people who can't see me over there.

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Thursday, April 02, 2009

Thursday, March 19, 2009

More Magic: the Gathering Artist Proofs

I just posted my most recent Scribblcast where you can watch me do an original work of art on the back of six artist proofs from the collectable card game Magic: the Gathering. The proofs are up for auction on ebay with no reserve.

Check out the ebay auction here.

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Watch me paint the proofs here..

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Magic: the Gathering Ornithopter Scryb Sprites

This is an artist proof of two of my old cards from Magic: the gathering. The image pictured is original art on the back of the two proofs. It is available on
ebay right now.

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Sunday, March 08, 2009

Where Am I?

Where am I? Well...I am feeling overly Emily Dickenson. Like what is the point?

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Scribblecast 13 Painting trip to the Oregon Coast

Check out my Scribblecast 13 where I go on a painting trip to the Oregon Coast. You can click the link below or on the right side of my blog I have links to the last 3 episodes.

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Friday, February 20, 2009

Cuttlefish

Cuttlefish my new favorite animal. Hopefully the radiologist is right and my wrist is not broken. I merely sprained the heck out of it and dislocated and then relocated? (ick) some bones. All I can say is it hurts like heck!

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Wrist

I have a lot of new art to post but it looks like I have broken my wrist. My painting hand!...so I won't be updating for a week or so.