Heather Eddy Art

A while ago I started a board on Pinterest called Art to Steal From. It should really be called Art From Which to Steal but that's a bit much, so I'm keeping it simple-minded for now. AnyWAY, here was one of the pieces I really liked and decided to make my own of today. It turned out rather well if I do say so myself.   It's wilder than the original I used as inspiration. It reminds me of how my hair works - it doesn't stay put.

Yesterday my son made a fortunate recovery from his stomach flu and was able to go to Hurricane Harbor with his aunt. That left Brian and me child-free and able to go to an art museum for the first time in our married life. It will be nine years for us next Wednesday. Yay! I was fortunate enough to go on a Study Abroad trip to London for six months when I was at BYU - it was nearly fully funded by scholarships for the needy, so it was a tough trip in that I was always struggling to make ends meet. Fortunately, most museums are free or donations-only entry, so I was able to visit anywhere my Tube pass could take me and I went everywhere! Upon my return to the states (it's been 20 years now since I went! Oh my!), I've been to a couple of museums here and there (I lived near NYC for a year and near SF, too, for a year), but nothing for the past ten years. Even when I got married, none of my suggestions for trips ever panned out. I was getting the feeling that art simply wasn...

And that's how you put the magic in Rhymes With Magic. All the photographs have been taken (yay for an unexpected day at home with a sick kid) and edited. I put the embellishments on several of the butterflies after I photographed them in their plain paper state. The experiments were a mixed bag of success. The glitter turned out great, but the inking projects turned out a bit more iffy. I'll work on them more later. You can't ruin something worse is my motto! Tomorrow is the Fourth of July so I'll either be in Los Angeles visiting The Getty museum or at home working on this again because of the kid still being sick. Either way, it's going to be a great day!

I figure if I use a filter, you won't think my work table is as horrible as it really it.  The butterflies are all folded and they turned out great! The ones I was worried about most ended up being the best. Isn't that just the way of life? Now I need to take pictures, do some magic and draw the patterns. Easy peasy. Oh - I can't wait to get back to painting. I miss color...

It's been quiet here on the blog because I'm actually working in the evening and on my lunch breaks on THIS! I have four different butterfly patterns that I've prototyped up. The folds work perfectly and all I have to do now is write out the patterns (for now they are on graph paper), photograph the plain paper butterflies and then try a little magic on them...

The butterfly patterns are coming along well! I've gotten five of them laid out and written up. Now I'm making up the prototypes (with colors and glitter!). After that, it's making up the patterns, taking pictures and putting the whole shebang together for the shop.

One of the funniest things in our job descriptions at work is "Other duties as assigned." That can mean anything from catching dogs running through the library to what I did yesterday and today: helped moved a library. Oh my aching everything! We kept joking that the director that scheduled a move in 109°F heat needs to be let go (she's retiring in a few months - ha ha!).  Anyway, the move was completed yesterday. Today I helped unload the boxes of books onto the shelves. Tomorrow I get to sleep in until 7am (5:30am the past 2 days) and I can't wait... In other news, I painted a few days ago. Hearts! I am trying to get my photo printer to work (it's been stored on a shelf for 2 years) so I can make prints on watercolor paper... I think these would look lovely.