Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Self Portrait Tuesday


SPT - Dec. wk 4
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I won't have time today to take a new self portrait for the last week of SPT's December Challenge, so I'm using a photo I took last week. A reflection of me in my bathroom faucet.

Friday, December 23, 2005

Happy Birthday!


BIRTHDAY CARD
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This is a Birthday card I made for the ZNE Greeting Card Challenge (it tied for 3rd place). The base is an original traditional collage, but I added the text in photoshop. Reprints of ZNE Greeting Cards will be sold in The ZNE Store on ebay.

Stars in her eyes


stars in her eyes
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A 4x4 piece I did for a chunky book. I donated the original to the ZNE Store on ebay (it will be listed soon).

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Self Portrait Tuesday

Reflective Surfaces - Week 3

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I've been in the kitchen a lot lately because I've had to really cook most of my meals now that I'm on Atkin's again. On the low-cal diet, I had mostly slimfast shakes and microwaveable meals... so I would be in and out of my kitchen. Anyhow, this framed vintage poster hangs in my kitchen so I chose to use it as my reflective surface this week.


PS...I had suuny side up eggs and bacon for dinner tonight. It was the 1st time I've attempted to cook sunny side up eggs and I actually got it right the first time!!! It's a BIG deal to me because I'm not a good cook (but I am an excellent microwaver AND a great boiler of pasta and such).

Illustration Friday (Imagine)


imagine IF
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This week's IF theme is "imagine". December has been a hectic month for me, so I haven't been making any new art. This piece is an old one, it's an original mixed media art card and it was sold earlier this year.

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Atkin's

I wanna lose a few more pounds before New Year's Eve, so I started Atkins again today. My 1st day back on the Atkin's bandwagon was okay. I'm going from a low-cal diet to a low-carb diet, so it is difficult but hopefully it'll be worth it. It is just a bit nauseating to be eating these fattening foods that you are encouraged to eat for the induction phase. And for me, I always have zero energy during the 1st few days of induction, so that's a bummer too. When on Atkin's, I take the recommended multi-vitamin and 3 EFA pills a day, but my vitamin doesn't help with energy. The EFA pills (combo of flax, fish, & borage oils) do make my skin nice though...which is a bonus that I wasn't expecting.

I never thought I'd try Atkin's because I'm really not a big meat eater and I LOVE CARBS!!! I tried it for the 1st time this Summer and had good results, but I eventually hit a plateau so I went back to counting cals (another thing I said I'd never do). I'm definitely not someone who could stay on Atkin's forever because it it just too restrictive for me, but I will be staying on it until I hit a plateau or reach my weight loss goal (whichever comes first).

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Self Portrait Tuesday

Week 2 of December's Reflective Surfaces Challenge. This isn't the most flattering photo, but I love the look of it. Candlelight was my main lightsource, which meant that I had to stay really still for the picture to be in focus. As you can tell...that wasn't easy for me to do while holding a CD in my hand, but I actually like the way it turned out (even though it is a bit blurry). I made no adjustments to the photo, it is shown as shot.

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Sunday, December 11, 2005

The Look of Love


orangutan3
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Another shot of Mommy & baby. I just love the look on her face in this picture. She was very attentive to her baby. Such a good Mother!

orangutan


orangutan
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Another photo from my trip to the Zoo. I watched this Mother orangutan go fetch a blanket, return to her post, and wrap up herself and her youngster. Very sweet! I wasn't able to get a picture of the baby but I did get a glimpse of it. She kept it covered up most of the time because it was cold out.

giraffe


giraffe
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I went to the Zoo today for the 3rd time in my life. They had 2 giraffes there and the smaller giraffe kept sticking out it's tongue. It was gross and funny at the same time, so I had to take a picture. Is this normal giraffe behavior??

Thursday, December 08, 2005

Illustration Friday (Blue)

This week's IF theme is blue. I thought I'd try something a little different this week. Rather than doing a traditional mixed media piece, I chose to create a piece of digital art. And since I've been blue myself lately, I wanted to put myself into the piece (literally). I used a self portrait that I altered in photo shop and then I added some fitting lyrics from a Jeff Buckley song (opened once). I'm not 100 percent happy with how this turned out but I am as happy as I can be with it right now. If I end up making more changes to it, I'll post a new pic.
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Self Portrait Tuesday

December's challenge is to take pictures of yourself in reflective surfaces. This week I chose to use a small makeup mirror as my reflective surface.
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Thursday, December 01, 2005

Illustration Friday

This week's IF theme is small. I know it's weird that I used a big man in my small piece, but I am loving my vintage big guys so I had to use one of em. FYI...The brown paint in the background is a bit lighter than the picture shows. Two things you can't tell from the picture...the black border is painted masking tape AND the heart isn't painted onto the picture (it was glued on).

small IS THE NUMBER
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Small is the number of them
that see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
~ Albert Einstein

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