The Paper Crane

I’m still try­ing ot fig­ure out exactly how to pho­to­graph my embroi­deries. Either they come out too dark or too light and washed out. Light is hard thing to mas­ter. So these two below are dark, but hopfeully soon I will find the right balance.

I am work­ing on…

A great street artist and designer Bren­dan Scan­lon, A.K.A SOLVE will be missed. He was Mur­dered last week while walk­ing home from a party In Hum­boldt Park. Stabbed in the heart and found dead Sun­day morn­ing. It is an injus­tice and tragedy, I am out­raged and appalled by such…

The next cou­ple of posts are images of some new paint­ings I started this week. Each piece is still in progress and does not have a title yet.

Gouache and col­ored pen­cil on paper.Gouache and col­ored pen­cil and graphite on paper

Pen and ink in my sketch­bookI’ve been…

Still work­ing on this guy…

Started this one this morn­ing. Still in progress as well.

Gouache on paperI woke up and my quilt gave me the idea to make the painting above

Gouache is my new favorite medium. This was what inspired me, I am really inter­ested in explor­ing geo­met­ric shapes (espe­cially tri­an­gles) and the col­ors and shapes of quilt pat­terns right now and these elec­tri­cal tow­ers sparked some new ideas for future drawings/embroideries/gouache paint­ings. Like the one above.

Totally…

Another friend is mov­ing away to the Big Apple. Yet again I won­der, why doesn’t any­one ever stay here in Chicago? This has been the year that many good friends have moved East to the city that never sleeps, I will admit, I am quite sad. But I’m stay­ing and…

My great friend Whit­ney is going to Europe for the sum­mer tomor­row. Today we had a pic­nic in the park and flew kites. Best!Pic­nic food from Sultan’s.

Tom Smith dropped by to hang out for a little while.

Then the flying began!!

I was hav­ing trou­bles with the wind.