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..Which lately seems kind of a rarity- sadly. ..But recently I did make this:

(As recently as tonight, actually! ^_^)

And this in turn has been made into an LJ icon, which appears in the cut below. :)

I'm trying to get back into the creative flow, and in so saying:
Here are a couple of things I've completed lately. (See, 'cause I have a BUNCH of stuff I started, but it seems inthe past two years I've acquired the dreaded Inability-To-Finish-Things Syndrome. I never used to have a problem w/polishing off whatever pieces I'd begun. I rarely failed to complete something in one sitting, and if I did the next time I went back to it (which was in a pretty short period of time), I got it- or them- done. Now however I've started a myriad of projects, and can't seem to get up the gumption to FINISH them. :P Dunno why.. but I'm guessing it's "real life" and Stress- yes; w/a capital "S."

Now that I'm in the process of remedying these factors however (although sadly, methinks "real life" will never entirely go away- something which is both a good AND a bad), I'm also in the process of creating more, and actually finishing what I start. ^_^

For example, I just made this for a friend of mine who's directing his own li'l movie. (I'm in it (I play a gypsy w/the genuine Gift of Sight), and I'm also the makeup artist. It was already shot once- sucking up my weekends for an entire 6 mos., but now it's being re-shot- and although I'm kinda chagrined that I was never actually asked to continue w/the project in the re-shoot (it was just assumed- which again could be considered both a good as well as bad), it looks like this acting crew & production's gonna be MUCH more professional, and with a markedly better script. ^_^

( ANYWAY, ENUFF W/THE GABBLE AND GET ON TO THE ART!! you say? Well then 'ere you go! )

So.. whatcha guys think?

Cheers,
Nae

I don't know if this is on any other journals, but I've been going through various files and rescued CD for various reasons, and this is one piece I don't seem to see anywhere else on my many pages- so I thought I'd preserve it here.

Red

I am succulent Red,
wearing your
Broken Breath
as we tremble in echo
of one another.
My heartbeat and the
smell of you
filling the Universe,
we feel each other
in varying, trembling
tones of
Red.
Finding myself
lost in you,
finding you
lost in me…
And we are immersed in laughing
Satiny,
Slippery,
Velvety
and Warm Beyond all
Else…

Oh, my
Self-Discovery,
How is it that you are
mine?
Reeling, -oh my heart!!!
…
I love you.

I've had these on my camera for a bit. Now that I can upload them, 'ere they be!


( Cut for the copious use of various photographs. )

If you haven't already, check out my other journal for an update on how my latest arts/craft fair went! :D
(It's got pics n' everything! :D:D)

Also, scope out this new digital pic I did, involving some of the makeup I've been working on for the last six months, on one of the movie's main characters. ^_^  (It was from a pic I did w/my cell of just him in a Hawaiian shirt in the completed makeup.  The character however is an ancient vampire who always wears a black hooded robe, n' who has veins emanating from him wips- 'kuz he be eeeeevil.. ;D) 

(And sorry to those who might've seen this already. This entry was essentially just for my fartistic records. ;)) 

Hope ya like! :D:D
Cheers n' hugs!
Nae

 

It was a while back now, (like in Nov. of 2007), but I only just NOW got my comp up wehre I could upload my pics, so here are some of my particular favorites from the bevy of pics I took of the girls from Mortifera. ^_^ ( Image-heavy bellydancing-centric post cut here, for the convenience of Friends journals and those w/slow connections. ;) )

The 15th is fast approaching. Let's hope I've gotten into the DC crafts fair I applied to, and that by then I'll have a job and actually be *gasp* working for a living!!! ;D O.O :D:D I'm hoping to have a job and a place soon, (thanks to the Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind), and look forward to telling all of you about my new, SOLO apartment. ^_^

Cheers, and goodnight! :D:D

Thanks to a new book I've gotten, I've been all kinds of inspired to do some jewelry work lately. ..Well, thanks to that and getting a request via my grandmother that someone in one of her ladies' groups has requested jewelry for the Red Hatters. :)
So I've made a few things. :) See below:

My Red Hatters Piece
(Pink Swarovski crystals, funky medallions, wavely, red crystal hearts, silver clasps on Beadalon wire.)

My first memory wire piece- EVER! :D:D
My first memory wire set- EVER!! :D:D:D (Completely Swarovski and my own little wire wrapping trick I learned from my book. :))

Quartz and Hematite Set.
My second piece on memory wire ever. :) (I'm so glad I got those memory wire shears!!)
(Cut quartz crystal and hematite rounds.) :)

Whaddaya think?? I'm SO happy I'm learning all these new skills and seeing my first real, professional designs up close for the first time!! (As in, in the book.) :D:D

Now the only quandary is whether or not I can actually let them go when it comes time to sell them... ;D

The Washington DC "City Paper" is hosting an alternative crafts fair entitled "Crafty Bastards," and I just entered to take part in it! They required 3 pics of one's work, $10 app. fee, and they'll jury your application for one of the 100 booths against the 300 applicants who'll be trying to get in. If selected, each entrant pays a nonrefundable $65 table fee for a 10x10 space, it's outside at the Mary Reed Learning Center, and one should bring all materials (sans electricity, of course), including tables, tents and any display materials (including items to be sold, of course. :)). I've -really- been wanting a bit tent for Starwood camping & vending over the past few years, so now that this is coming up (and hopefully I get in) I'd -LOVE- one now. (For shade, protection against inclement weather, as well as privacy and security.) So, these are the things I sent to them, and I'd -love- y'all's opinions of them- not "they're good," etc, but more whether or not you think I'll get in by virtue of what I sent in. I tried to show my artistic diversity, w/an oil pastel, a drawing, and a bunch of 3D stuff. I hope hope HOPE I get in, as this sounds like a FANTASTIC opportunity to meet new crafters, other artists, expand my audience, and have a great time at a superb crafts fair w/alt. music, art, food, and (hopefully) good times w/good, funky people like meem! ^_^ :D:D











So do ya think I'll get in?? *just remembers* SHIT!! I should have put up a pic of one of my cat sillhouettes!!! :( Pewp. Well.. hopefully I'll get in regardless, and be able to sell them there. :) Wish me luck! :D:D

I'm still working on finishing those directions, but I do have one thing accomplished:  I tried out painting my first wooden cat.  I think it went pretty well. ^_^  (It took like 17 coats of spray laquer to varnish the thing- but I think most of it was running off as I suspect the thing kept sitting at an angle on its perch outside. :P  Ah well, at least I know what kind of varnish works, and now I can get more if I need to, since I've used like half the can on this one kitty. ;P)

Tell me what you think:  :)  (Ooh, and one thing that's really cool about this cat and its ilk, they sit on your door sill w/o having to nail or peg anything in.  It just sits up there of its own volition. *beams*  Any way, on to the images! :D

I'm back in business, (so to speak), so I got working on my first AV banner.  (Leading back to the web site, that is.)  What do people think?

Not only have I FINALLY made a MySpace art-centric AV page, & I've also just completed my first advert banner for AV!!!  It's a little less "bling-bling" and professionally flashy than the one for our actual site will be, but hey, I'm still pretty proud of it. :)  (I'm diggin' making these banners!!  They might have their own types of constraints and restrictions, but it's fun to work w/a new set of criteria and in a new forum. :)) 

I'll be putting this up on the AV LJ info page, as well as on my Links pages, but if you'd like to use the code to advertise AV on your pages, feel free. :)

Peoples' Exibit A:


Good night, y'all!

I finally found a program online to put a slideshow into <a href="http://www.myspace.com/alternatevisions" target="_blank">my new AV MySpace page</a>!! :D:D  (<a href="http://www.slide.com" target="_blank">Slide.com</a> actually works w/Moxilla, doesn't seem to have an image max number, or a file size limit. ^_^)  Woot!!! </p>

Also, I <i>should</i> be selling a few things along w/Weaving Roses Saturday night at Midnight during their Halloween celebration. :)  Lets hope I have enough stuff! :D:D

Now go check out my new slideshow, dangit! ;D:D

The cats have flees. (Dunno how, since they don't go outside and we don't have any animal that does.)
Vacuuming makes the carpet look SO much better!! (Yeah, I know.. duh. Bit ot gets rodda fleas, too!)
I wanna see a bunch of people do the Thriller dance at my zombie Lurch.
It'd be cool to have a movie about what happens in an airplane during a zombie epidemic. (Like, a 747 w/a few passengers who might be infected, in hopes of heading to a place that's zombie free, etc.) I'm talking about the struggle ON the plane- not just the ones that happen when people get off it. :)
My aunt just had a baby girl: Carley Gray Franklin. ^_^
( And a Soundtrack of Your Life Meme, giddily thefted from discipuladc. )
I have a weeeeeeirrrd movie soundtrack life. *grins*

Thanks to a heads-up from sooper, I will not only be attending the HorrorFind convention in August, (hopefully) I will also be showing some of my dark art there! :D:D  My mom's alway said I need to "stop doing all of that.. gothic *cringe* stuff and start making other.. real art."  Well maybe here, here I'll find my niche; and maybe I'll actually sell something!! O.O O.^ ^.^*gawp, gasp wink and grin* 

I already have a few pieces in mind to show, plus if sooper and I can our two separate zombie things one, maybe I could actually show up w/some living dead photography too. *beams*  Lookin' forward to it, and I'm glad I've actually found something I can not only afford & attend,  but also participate in! ^_^ 

Plus they George Romero and Rutger Hauer are attending, too!! :D:D:D:D

Anyway, check out this link, and maybe I'll see you there! *does a little dance n' skips on out*

Well, I'm making art for this Red Hatters' Arts/Crafts/Flea Market/White-Elephant thing I'm attending on Saturday, and I finly have new piece!  Yay!  Or.. actually, I've colored a piece in that had linework done in pen. and now (at least as far as I'm concerned) it looks way better!  It's a mermie pic- something which I haven't really done in a long time, and I hope y'all enjoy it. *beams*

(And secretly, I aaaaaalmost hope it doesn't get sold on Saturday- although I know I need the dinero. *grins*  But maybe I can make enough off of other things that if this piece doesn't sell, it'll all still
be good anyway. :D)

And speaking of anyway, now I gotta get back to working and creating stuff!  Hope you enjoy!