Tag: Mixed Media

House of mystery progress update – putting up the siding on the Orchid dollhouse

Jen

Construction continues on my New England beach house project, using the Orchid dollhouse as the starting point. Ironically, while putting up clapboard siding, one manila strip at a time, I find myself cursing the noise of the workmen putting up clapboard siding, one wooden strip at a time, on the house across the street. Life / Art. I’m pleased with the effect of the paper clapboarding. You can also see a little of the interior and the kitchen cabinetry. This cozy-modern cottage will be the setting of a story about trying to get away from it all, as a graphic novel illustrated with collaged photos. Stay tuned for further updates.

  • Clapboard siding in progress.
  • Clapboard siding in progress, north wall.
  • The kitchen window.
  • Looking into the kitchen.
  • Unfinished interior with wine cork.

Journal sketch, Daedalus, and last season’s mums

Jen

I found these little chrysanthemum flowers floating loose in my journal from last October. They looked like suns to me, so I made this collage sketch, with another of my collection of fortune cookie messages, musing on the dangers of ideas, as in the Greek myth.

Daedalus's Promising Idea
Daedalus’s Promising Idea, collage with pressed mums