paper clay, acrylic paint and ink
3/4"-1 1/4" tall
These took awhile to make. And my daughter instructed me in how to paint many of them. The gold paint was her idea, although I decided to use it also on the windows, to represent all the light and merry making going on inside of the little houses.
Yellow House
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I have not decided what I will be doing with these little houses. My daughter says I should make teeny tiny people to go with them, but that would make them millimeters tall, since the largest house is only an inch and a quarter.
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This one. One inch and a quarter.
And the gold roof. My daughter's idea. These are things that I am adding to my total of 100 works in 100 days, although they are not paintings. A lot of things go into being me, me as an artist. And a slight obsession with houses and miniatures are some of those things. And sometimes miniature houses.
I was thinking I should make some little set, a little diorama or something with them, putting them into tiny boxes. I don't know. It's an idea.
63/100
Sorry about the photography. I am not quite set up for a photo studio. That's one of the things I want to set up in my work space, and I'm not sure quite how I'm going to do that.
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This one reminds me a tiny bit of the house where I'm living now. I think that's why I painted it the blue-gray.
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This little house sometimes finds its way into my paintings. I have no reason why. You'll have to figure it out yourself.
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With these houses, I am still behind in my challenge. There are 14 days left. I have 34 pieces left to do. That's about three a day.
This is indeed a challenge. A tighter one than I gave myself to begin with.
Oh well. I guess the whole commitment is about the COMMITMENT. Am I committed? Yes I am committed.
It turns out I was not as committed to nanwrimo this year. I gave that one up as soon as I sat down in my new studio and thought about all of the very many things that I really wanted/needed to do, various other commitments that I needed to take care of to get my house in order.
One of the things I am committed to is to get an agent for my novel. I don't talk about my fiction writing in my blog very often. For some reason, it doesn't invite as much show and tell as the artwork does. So much of it is still in process and not ready to be shown.
The art is though? I can't explain.
Well, today I also did some work on querying and synopsis. I can't say even that is complete, but it's the process that is important. And it is, indeed, getting my house in order.
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2 comments:
What will you do with these houses? Are they for sale? Will they be curated into a show? I'm curious and find them delightful.
Thank you Kim. I am curious what I will do with them, too. I love miniatures and imagine little miniature shadow boxes or assemblages or dioramas, but I am still not sure what will come of them. Sometimes I'm just compelled to create, without an end project in mind.
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