Travelocity
Like I said, I've been playing around with encaustics lately. So far I haven't even started painting, instead it's an extention of collages for me. And I do love my UFO's still. Remember this?
'Aliens-Oh yes, that's the night I was abducted'
Hint: click on it and see it larger. The previous ship is in the center, four in from the edge. I made it from a picture in National Geographic, a lighted tent at a campsite. Below that and one square over to the right is Yours Truly being carried off by the Swamp Thing. Imagine: 'eeeek, eeeeek, eeek!' with dainty pounding on his massive chest. Thank you to an old Life magazine featuring Sci-Fi movies.
'Aliens' was built circa 1989 or so from leftover cuts off the edges of another quilt, 'Duomo di Siena'. I couldn't let all those damn pieced stars from the ceiling go to waste so they became those damn pieced stars in the sky. Imagine- it never sold... I do not understand... It was actually my first foray into image transfers so I collected 'aliens' like Mork, My Favorite Martian, David Bowie, the usual suspects and transferred them onto the background with resounding success. And that, for the good, fueled my 20+ year romance with gel medium as transfer stuff. (That's not to negate my longer romance with gel medium as my go-to goo for so many other uses.) Yeah, I (heart) gel medium. I'm a simple gal.
So, I must race out of here today to get back home to my tub of Bolognese sauce bubbling slowly in the Crock Pot. Tastes like it may be a hit so I am going to stop and grab some broccoli rape to sort of cut the richness. It loses a bit being heaped on my low carb pasta but if that's what I have to do to eat pasta once in awhile I will not complain. Hopefully my local Italian friend will be a happy man tonight. I will not be talking about Aliens, I promise.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." (Oscar Wilde)
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Tonight, at 6:30 EST watch Diane Sawyer on ABC. My daughter and son-in-law are interviewed about their close call with their baby daughter Hazel swallowing a lithium button battery and the ensuing fight for her life. Watch if you have any young children in your family or if children ever visit you in your home. Watch! I cannot caution you enough. Thanks Full story link here, click on the video and sit through the commercial.
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