made a box

yah.

(finally) finished drawing

#2 pencil, black bic pen

another drawing of my dog,

on her 14th birthday,

whom I love more with everyday she comes closer to death.

more crafting

model night

wednesdays.

some more stuff i done

i've been scared of color

I wanted to put spots of color in here but I chickened out. I'm scared i'll screw it up so I scanned it now just in case. Then I realized it didn't matter if I colored it because I did it on the wrong paper. It was a spontaneous drawing that accidentally became involved. Maybe I'll do it again on better paper, but I really hate doing things over.

Another quick drawing I did right before the top one.

studies, experiments,

a work in progress,

this took a while

look what I found!!

sketchbook+

Now I know for sure my scanner is shit city. The shirt in this drawing was painted with neon gouache. I know it doesn't scan well in general, but I've had more success with other scanners getting closer to true color in the past. Anyway I was jotting down some opinions I had about art and how important the hand of the artist is to me when I drew this.

"going back to rehab" - once again scan looks shitty, neon colors are lost.

wink! white-out on sunglasses found in Berthoud, CO.

matchbook impulse

With these two (for my sister and Sabrina), I might want to go back and actually paint something on the beads:

This is an earring I invented for myself, I have large (but quickly shrinking) hole in each of my lobes from when I used to stretch them out for plugs. I used feathers, wood beads, and colored string. It ties into a bow around my lobe:

Other than that, been working in my sketchbook and reading.

Hey, has anyone heard anything about Portfolio 30???

shitty scanner

I miss SVA in moments like these. I'm not sure if this is done yet either. It's just something I did for fun on my day off, but maybe I should add some color? Fix something? More contrast? Anyone?

postcards

For Ronit,

and for Skramz,

hopefully they will make it home....

postcards

O.K. so I didnt actually get around to sending a single postcard to ANYONE during my trip to Colorado and Seattle. I did work in my diary a whole bunch, but I spent more time in flea markets picking up handfuls of antique postcards from all over the world. I messed around with them and will start mailing them out this week.

This one is for Shane in Ireland-

annnd this one is for my grampaaaa...

this second one was actually a coaster I got from a bar in Boulder.

If anyone ANYONE would like to be on my mailing list, shoot me your name+address to: missykaempf@gmail.com ,I might be mailing these for a while. I am running out of vintage postcards though.....

P.S.- Here is an awesome guy I met on Pearl St, Boulder: Bruce Campbell

mom and dad!

paper doll

safety first!

More henna themed stuff. Silver paint marker on black rubber gloves. I was going to decorate them both differently but I got a little bored and just wanted to finish so I can move onto the next project. Whatever that is.

mailed a package yesterday.

I haven't finished anything real in a month. I went overseas for a few weeks and didn't stop moving. Then I sort of rebooted myself. Now I can rock and roll again.

henna happy

I'm leaving for Ireland tomorrow, gonna be gone for a few weeks. So I figured now is a good time to henna some tattoos I want, since I won't have another job interview for at least another 3 weeks.

I even jazzed up an old tattoo....

crawling out of a rut

Lost all interest in illustration, but not many other ideas outside sculpture and installation. Sabrina gave me a few odd items she found and I decided to do something with them. This army tool wrap is now a trailer :) with beads glued on. I know what I want to do with the pair of chemical protective gloves she gave me but haven't finished it yet.