A Bit more Shameless Promotion

As I mentioned in a previous blog, I'm going to be published again soon! The book is entitled Interactive Art Workshop: Set Your Mixed Media in Motion by Kim Rae Nugent!

Amazon just added the "sneak peek" features to the book! Although you don't get to see any of my art, you can see my name in the appendix which is really exciting. :)

http://tinyurl.com/52jfd6

(And just in case you are wondering- the first book I have had art published in is:) http://stampington.com/html/artist_trading_cards.html

Woohoo!!

Monsters!!

I'm on a Monster Kick (as if you couldn't tell). Not only have I been making yet more monster tiles, but I have branched out into canvases as well.

Olaf and Penelope are my first attempts. The colors are a bit faded in these scans and some of Olaf's antennae are missing because the canvas was too big for my scanner. But you get the idea.

Olaf

Penelope

And at the urging of my husband and friends Mish and Julie, I have added some of these to my Zazzle storefront!!!

http://www.zazzle.com/discodog01

(or see my add to the L on this blog).

AND I just opened a CafePress store as well so I could sell my Monster Tiles!!

http://www.cafepress.com/discodog01

I'm planning on adding more to my "zazzle line" soon so stay tuned!!

More Pottery! (Big Surprise)

Before and After pictures of some of my latest pieces:

And the pieces that should be finished later this week:


I decided Vases may be my Xmas gifts this year! Hence my making so many!

I also decided I'd make a few similar-looking monsters so I could bear to give some away or sell them!!

This little guy above was going to be more like the one I made last time (see the beginning of this post), but I made a mistake w/ the paint so I just added some ears!

The one above was my attempt at carving a face out of the tile. It may not be completely successful. After I took this photo, I ended up carving more of the black from the bride of her nose/brow area. I am hopeful this one will turn out interesting but I may have carved too much away. We'll see on Thur when I get the pottery back!!

My name is Rita and I am a pottery paintaholic.

Above- My Vase!

Yet another monster!

A futuristic cityscape!

All my tiles so far!!

Good Gorilla News for a Change!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/05/congo.gorillas/index.html

The Blue Angels 2008

Seafair is going on right now in Seattle. We are lucky enough to be renting a house with a great view of Lake Washington so we get to see the Blue Angels from our front porch!!

I even took some videos, which you can see here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/discodog01

Viva Mexico Charms!

I'm in a Viva Mexico swap and decided to try my hand at bottle caps. I know they've been done to death, but I haven't really used them much and since I had a stash handy I thought what the heck!!

My charms are of Luchadores... My husband got me into Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) years ago with all the wonderful old El Santo films....

Someday I hope to actually see a Mexican Wrestling match in person- I have heard they are quite the experience.

Viva Mexico!