Personally Christine: a log of the my personal art projects

Livingston County Pub Crawl Tshirt

October 20, 2011

Almost 48 hours to go until the Livingston County Pub Crawl kicks off! My husband Mike and I have planned a mobile party for friends and family, to show them around our neck of the woods. A stretch Hummer will take us to five pubs in the area, including a stop at the Dam Site [...]

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Going deeper with a quilt design

September 5, 2011

I started this quilt last year, based on a Zentangle drawing I made, and blogged about it then. I am just now coming back to it and was happy to complete the top piecing yesterday. According to the drawing I had made for it, I now had 5 orange pieces to applique and it would [...]

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Variations on one Zentangle

August 18, 2011

Zentangles always get their own way. I start with an idea, then before I know it, the drawing has raced off in a different direction. This one was going to be a square within a square, but it just didn’t cooperate: Not sure if I wanted to add more, I scanned the image so I [...]

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Self-similar images

August 16, 2011

So now I’m on a roll of making self-similar images. Not true fractals, where you can zoom in indefinitely, but fractal-like. Pseudo fractals. As before, I started with a custom shape in Photoshop. The starting image was a 5 x 5 grid of circle-ish shapes. I inset it into itself twice, then used that as [...]

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Mandala, Fractal, Zentangle…Zendactala?

August 14, 2011

On a day when there isn’t enough time to draw a Zentangle, I can still doodle in Photoshop! The fake fractals of earlier this week got me thinking about other ways to draw self-similar images. This one started from a custom shape in Photoshop, using copies of the whole shape to fill the holes within [...]

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Free-form beadwoven necklace made from scrap elements

August 12, 2011

I just described this piece to my husband…”I wanted this to look like a piece of net that had floated in the sea, and caught a bunch of things up in it; that got stuck in it; and stayed on it when it was pulled out of the sea.” I started this with a dichroic [...]

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Fake Fractals in Photoshop

August 10, 2011

I saw a Photoshop tutorial I had to try…How to Create Fractals in Photoshop Easily. These aren’t true fractals…if they were, you could zoom in indefinitely and keep getting images. However, it does create a pretty groovy facsimile image…these are fun.

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Beaded Michigan: My state in bead embroidery

August 1, 2011

I adopted Michigan as my home 21 years ago, and I have come to really love the state. This bead embroidery piece includes several symbolic elements that hold my memories…Copper Harbor, the Thumb, the swirl of the city of Detroit. I was inspired to make this piece after seeing bead embroidered works at the 2010 [...]

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Daniel’s Dragon: Polymer Clay Beast

July 24, 2011

Playing with my grandchildren, I’m discovering the ease and fun of polymer clay. The kids love getting their hands in it, and turning the crank of the pasta-maker as we work the clay. As a medium for an adult artist, I like it for a few reasons… I can finish the project by firing it [...]

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A Partial Eclipse of the Ferris Wheel

June 29, 2011

Production notes: For this image, I started with a shot from my Nikon Coolpix. In Photoshop, I used curves to brighten the colors. I also used a colored pencil filter on a layer, and set it’s opacity at about 40%. The sun was isolated, and color-adjusted through the Hue/Saturation dialog.

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