tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319399267255585512011-04-21T17:27:15.881-07:00little faceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09803006285914778149noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939926725558551.post-9033515990186126012008-11-02T18:53:00.000-08:002008-11-02T19:24:09.873-08:00Halloween evening was perfect here in our midwest city. Cool but not cold, no rain, light breeze.<br />BDE (Best Daughter Ever), our 9-year old, had a great time trick-or-treating up and<br />down two long streets with her best friend, and best friend's little sister, who also happens to<br />adore BDE. A fine, congenial and energetic group. The only ones who were tired at the end<br />of the evening were the grownups!<br /> I'm getting ready for a show this coming Saturday, and have been burning serious midnight<br />oil. If I push past sheer exhaustion I usually come out the other end with enough energy to<br />keep going until 2-3 a.m. Of course I have to be up around 7 a.m. so there's no sleeping in.<br />What I do love about the wee hours is that the house is very quiet and one idea just leads<br />to another. A long time ago I read a great book on the creative process, and the author<br />described the process of "receiving" ideas and inspiration this way: (I'm paraphrasing)<br />A small person sits below (in the artist's subconscious) and hands scraps of ideas up through a trap door into the conscious mind.<br /> I sure can visualize that...I picture my little person as a gnome-like man, kinda crabby and<br />very insistent, reaching an arm up through the trap door and waving one little piece of paper after another like a flag until I snatch it---<span style="font-style: italic;">here, take this take this...it's a GOOD idea. Here's another one, take it!</span><br />When I'm in sync with my subconscious I feel as though I'm just channeling ideas. Not all<br />of them work, but that's ok. The whole process is the point, and often times really good<br />stuff comes out of the process, "mistakes" and all.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31939926725558551-903351599018612601?l=littlefacesonline.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>little faceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09803006285914778149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31939926725558551.post-90189882259513692862008-10-28T17:02:00.000-07:002008-10-28T17:28:46.085-07:00<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">I'm not a huge science fiction buff, but I did go through a phase in 6th grade where I read lots</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">of sci-fi books featuring robots. I never collected robots as a kid, as toy horses pretty much</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">had my heart. Fast forward to my early adulthood, and I became entranced by those crummy</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Japanese horror movies that were so badly dubbed. I was crazy about the monsters in them...</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">the more rubbery and clumsy the better. Some of the movies also had robots in them, and</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">I think that's when my love was rekindled. I started collecting robot toys (mostly knockoffs) and was so taken by the fearsome way in which they were always portrayed on the box art.</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">The paradox is: here's a primitive looking thing with dots for eyes, a grill mouth, an antenna</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">on top of its head. Frequently it's painted a primary color. Robots like that are supposed</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">to be scary enough to intimidate everyone. To me they just look charming and vulnerable</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">in the same way a 3-yr. old kid in a Batman costume looks charming (and not scary.)</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">It also amazes me how much character can be expressed by dot eyes, a triangle nose, a</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">rectangle mouth. I wanted to see if I could capture the same feel when I made my faces</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">jewelry. Even if I set out to make identical faces, they're always a little different. And when</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">I get a bunch of them together it just cracks me up...I feel like the alien in the room!</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31939926725558551-9018988225951369286?l=littlefacesonline.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>little faceshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09803006285914778149noreply@blogger.com0