See It Say It Saturday - Create Yourself
Anyway….I picked aLaNi’s piece after seeing it in her gallery on her ZNE page. As part of our first assignment on the Design Team this year we had to pick 4 pieces of art from the photo’s available to look at on the ZNE Network. So then after we picked 4 pictures, Chel assigned different Saturday’s through out the rest of 2008 to different design team members. Well today is my first Saturday for the year and it means a LOT to me to be doing my first See It Say It Saturday today because it’s my Auntie Jean’s b-day today. She is a very special lady to me because she is the only living relative I have left of my Dad’s immediate family. And she’s not doing so well lately…healthwise…so the art I created for today is dedicated to her; my Auntie Jean Wetstine, my Dad’s older sister. She’s a very special lady that was a nun for a short time in her early years right after college. After leaving the nunhood she became a school teacher and she helped foster and encouraged my earliest endevors into the art world by buying me lots of crayons and paints to play with whenever I went to visit her as a child. She later began working in adminstration for nursing homes. Although she has been retired for many years she still tries to make it to church almost everyday and I know she prays for me and my family daily!! I Love her so much!!
Anyway…now on to the second part of my design team assignment….my response to the art I picked. So you can see why it caught my eye and why I picked it I thought I should put it here for you to see!
Isn’t aLaNi talented?! Anyway….I love this piece because of the bright colors and because she used elements like the Eiffel Tower as the hat and a picture of a window as the body. But it made me feel like the quote used on the piece is all too true…we become who we create ourself to be…not by searching or trying to find ourselves. And I feel that creating art is an integral part of who I am. So it applies well to me!! So in response to aLaNi’s piece I made my own piece of art. It’s not really like aLaNi’s piece but I used the same quote on mine. I used my new metallic watercolors to paint the background after I drew circles on the paper with regular ole’ Crayola crayons. I altered the face from a magazine ad that I stole from one of my daughter’s magazines that I just had to swipe once I saw the colored hair. (And if I had the guts…I’d LOVE to actually die my hair like this.) I created her body from a piece of Basic Grey scrapbook paper that I also altered a bit with different gel pens and markers because I wanted it to be a bit brighter. And the quote was created using again markers, gel pens and paint pens. Anyway…now that I’ve made it I’m not really sure what I’m going to do with it. I might sell it or I might just frame it and keep it. Not sure yet….but I’ll finally put it in this post so you can see what it looks like.
I decided to call it, “Create Yourself,” and I’m a little disappointed that you can’t really see the sparkly detail of the background because it makes it very pretty!! Maybe I’ll come back tomorrow and post another pic that I take outside with the sun shining on it so you can see the sparkly detail.
If you’d like to participate in the See It Say It Saturday for this week, please go to this site to get the detials of what to do and then link back to it from your own blog/site with your response. You can also post this banner so it’s easy for others to look for your response on your blog/site.
I hope you all have a blessed week as we’re leading up to the day of celebrating Jesus’ resurrection!! Please pray for my kids and myself as we’ll be traveling to Miami, Oklahoma to go on a Spring Break retreat with our church youthgroup called Clayhouse.
