This time we picked out her stuff and I have to say, it’s pretty weird! Not real sure what else to say about it. No harm was done to the Maria Osmond doll while making this piece:)

I did my part from yesterday’s Woogie Wednesday today. I took her big head and made it into a big headed monkey. I’ve been doing some different illustration work with found objects similar to this. So that’s it. We’re off to the circus where I don’t know if there will be monkeys or not. If it was up to me, I’d say bring them on!

It’s Wednesday again and time for Woogie Wednesday. It’s about 9:45 P.M. now and I’ve been going full force since 4am, but wanted to show a “ww” in progress.

I had several deadlines today and I knew I wouldn’t have time to do a “ww” project so while I worked I had the Woog work on her part of the project. She made several drawings of heads and then started drawing apples (with arms and legs) like crazy. Not sure what they deal was there but she was excited about them so I was too. So, this is the “Big Head” I chose to use and I will add my part tomorrow:

to be continued…

Originally posted on January 16, 2007

It’s Wednesday again and time for Woogie Wednesday. This is where we make one of my found object (Junk A Doodles) pieces.

Here’s what we started off with:

I then asked her, what should we make out of all this?
“Diamonds” she said with a smirk on her face. She was wearing a “diamond” ring and she wanted something to match.

I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do, so it took me a while to figure it out and in the meantime she lost interest but did check on me from time to time and hand me pieces of junk to use.

The best thing I could come up with was a cat with diamond stripes and diamonds on the collar. I also did a few stitch lines and am calling it Illustration Friday this week too.

Here’s how it turned out:

I’m still working on the Woogie Wednesday site, but prints should be up for sale over the weekend if not before.

Originally posted on January 9, 2007

It’s Wednesday again and time for Woogie Wednesday. This is where we make one of my found object (Junk A Doodles) pieces.

Here’s what we started off with:

I then asked her, what should we make out of all this?
“How ’bout a DUCK!”

OK. I guess we both have birds on the mind today.

She starts picking out which parts will be what and paints the head, beak and paper punches random bits, while I paint the background. She them turns her attention to doing one all by herself and confiscates 2 of the pieces. She made a mouse and thought it was hilarious that I took a picture of it:

And here’s how it turned out:

And then here’s out finished product. more of a chick than a duck. It would make a cute Valentine’s Day card I think.

I’m launching a Woogie Wednesday site next week and we’ll be selling prints of our pieces, so stay tuned!

Originally posted on December 27, 2007

We didn’t get a chance for Woogie Wednesday yesterday, so we worked on our quick project today.

The Woog received some pretty awesome hair accessories for Christmas and we needed to make a special holder for them. Here’s our materials:

*still working on lighting in my studio for pictures

And here’s how it turned out:

These are all from Pretty In Paper and I love, love, love them!! Definitely unique!!

Originally posted on December 19, 2007

It’s Woogie Wednesday again and today we’ve been working on our handmade gifts from the Woog to go with our handmade Christmas.

Earlier this morning we had a “photo shoot” for her Daddy’s gift and for some reason she has started flashing this really sqwinchie smile when I take a picture. This is one I think I’ll do in black and white.

*This isn’t the photo used as the gift though. That’s a surprise.

Then we moved onto gifts for grandparents and such. The Woog loved our magnet project this summer so we are making a magnet set entitled “Smiles of 2007″:

And then I had to figure out what I could make for my cousin’s tween boys. Not an easy task. So I thought up these gross eye ball magnets to make. All boys that age have got to love eye balls!!

She has a few picture frames to decorate and then she should be good to go on all her gifts.

Originally posted on December 18, 2007

We finished up our snowman and our cards go out tomorrow!

Originally posted on December 12, 2007

The past several (SEVERAL!) Woogie Wednesdays have consisted of deadlines for me or the Woog helping me measure, paint and whatnot in the new studio. We didn’t do pictures of those days because it really wasn’t all that interesting. But now, since the studio is done, this is the first Woogie Wednesday and really the first kind of art (besides those 60 illustrations I had due yesterday) that was done in the studio. And, since we’ve started late in the day it will continue into a Woogie weekend.

Today, we are working on our Christmas card. We’re making a Junk A Doodles snowman:

And the Woog is loving her new studio space. Here she is while the paint is drying:

And I don’t like to show a room that’s not yet fully decorated (hopefully I’ll be able to do that some tomorrow in between projects), but here’s a sneak peek at one wall:

Originally posted on October 3, 2007

It’s Wednesday again and time for Woogie Wednesday! We did something a bit different this week. While visiting my grandmother and mom today, I took a 4 generations picture. Although she seems so big in so many ways, her little dimpled hands seem so small.