Art Festival in Downtown Mt Pleasant!!

So these next few weeks im going to be super busy! i am going to be making a ton of work for the art festival downtown (which is really right outside my door).

I plan on making::

Tie Dye Shirts
Paintings
and selling my pottery i need to get rid of :)

BUT I am hoping to make lots of monies!!! woot woot!

I found this dye for fabrics at JoAnnes and it aparently can be used in a washer so we will see how it goes im going to do it tomorrow morning for the first time... hopefully a success!

as for the paintings I usually do celebs like the bill murray one that i had in a previous post but i am up to any suggestions as well as orders so if anyone is interested i would be glad to oblige you!

I also think i am going to open up an etsy store for my pottery and these random things that i do ... im excited i think im getting somewhere with the things i want to do and hopefully they will all come together!!! :)

As for my pottery i am still working at Space Studios in midland and even though i dont always have time to get out there hopefully this week i will be able to ... at least i plan on it on wednesday!


I need some more followers so I can get the word out so if anyone knows of good ways to attract more people to my site and would be willing to share them i would be really happy!!!


:D

alright...

so its been a almost a week since i updated about how my life is going. We had a memorial service for my teacher who passed away and it was really sad but at the same time gave everyone closure and it was nice to see everyone this summer even though it was a sad occasion. He is in a better place and at least it was quick for him instead of years and years of pain. He always said he was going to die young. Rest in Peace sir.

as for other things in my life i have been saving my monies in this piggie bank i traded an artist for...

Im not sure what for exactly yet but i know i will think of something once its full...





and i have decided to lose weight the natural way... no more atkins or south beach or specials ways of dieting.. just watching what i eat and excercising more often. I have been riding my bike everywhere and have managed to keep off ten pounds so that is something i want to keep posting about here to keep me motivated.

as for artists i have seen many artists this past week because there was a Bachelors in arts show at the art gallery at school and it is nice to see people out of just the ceramic media.

One artist i found online who does decalling who i think is amazing is Brian Boldon. I discussed him in my ceramics class as someone i look up to and though now i cannot fully persue something like this i definately want to in the future... here is just a glimpse of a few images that caught my eye...

 "Third person sky"












"While the body seems absent"




I just find all the work he does to be amazing....the decaling and the use of glass ceramic metal-working everything is so thought out and the images he gets are so detailed. REALLY COOL!

 anyways... those are my images for today and probably this week unless i have a chance to chill out and get back to this blog... im not used to reporting so much but i find that when i do i get more listeners and i like to share the work i like as well as the work that i will be making! so hopefully the next blog will have my work :)

Yesterday was a sad day... :(

Yesterday I found out that one of our art professors died. He had colon cancer and he had just found out a few months ago. It was all of the sudden and very shocking for a lot of us here at central michigan. He was a teacher that everyone loved. He was fair and honest when it came to critiquing artwork and I had the pleasure of having him critique my BFA work in the fall. He will be missed by all here. Its just so sad and shocking how fast life can be taken away and how undetected cancer can go for so long. He is in a better place though. And he left behind a legacy with his students to carry on.

He will be missed. Rest in Peace Lon Ferguson.

Lons Artwork.

Swiss cheese anyone?

Just some shinfo...

Swiss cheeses holes  are produced by a bacteria that is controlled by the person producing the cheese. They can control the size by chaning the acidity, curing time of the cheese and the temperature... Recently the USDS has set regulations in the size of the holes in swiss cheese which has pissed a few cheese makers off. Luckily its only in the US.