Outsider Art by FRESCURA

Andy Warhol 365 Takes

2011-08-08T14:00:00.000-07:00

Currently reading "Andy Warhol 365 Takes"
One of my goals this year was to view and read more about art. I checked this book out of my local library.

Here is a scan of my favorite piece (so far) in this book. Based on one of my favorite works of art: Sandro Botticelli - The Birth of Venus, 1482

Andy Warhol - Details of Renaissance painting 1984
Acrylic and Silkscreen Ink on Canvas

This book is no longer in print and is quite expensive brand new. My library is closed for over a month (remodeling) so I get to keep this book around until the beginning of September. Fortunately, I have another library that is only a few miles in the opposite direction that I can frequent until then. Did you know that you can log in to your library account on-line and request books, DVD's, and other media from other libraries? I LOVE the library. =0)

Finally posted some of my art at eBay!

2011-07-10T04:09:00.000-07:00

I have been meaning to do this for years and I finally worked up the nerve to do it. LOTS of artwork on eBay so I won't feel too rejected if it doesn't sell. =0)

Will be adding more artwork on a regular basis now. To see all the items I currently have on eBay, go to:
http://bit.ly/pujnDz

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Here is what I listed:

UNTITLED ABSTRACT - FRESCURA 2011
India Ink and Colored Pencil on Cardstock

UNTITLED ABSTRACT - FRESCURA 2011
India Ink, Pencil and Colored Pencil on Cardstock

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS / DAY OF THE DEAD
FRESCURA 2011
India Ink and Colored Pencil on Cardstock

Writing Down the Bones

2011-02-01T17:22:00.000-08:00

I seem to like reading about writing much more than I like writing! I have been writing quite a bit the last few months. For awhile I was writing every day, which I am working on doing again. This is a great book. Lots of ideas to come up with things to write about. I requested this book on-line from The Library Network and they sent it to my local library. This is a book I would like to have in my collection so I can refer to it when I am out of ideas.

Interesting that I do not feel any where near as self conscious posting my artwork as I do posting my writing! Probably why I have not posted any of it.

Still uninspired...

2011-01-21T17:01:00.000-08:00

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

-Pablo Picasso

Finally finished a piece I started in 2007!

I have been doing most of my updates on Facebook. Go to:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lois-Marie-Frescura/119687738067150

Happy Holidays!

2010-12-15T09:17:00.000-08:00

The urge, ability and vision to create is a solo endeavor.
-Linda Archinal

This is a skull I did for Christmas back in 2007. I have been blocked on and off since then so have not created too much. I have been posting more of my art on Facebook. Go to:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lois-Marie-Frescura/119687738067150

Artist's Block & Facebook

2010-07-10T23:00:00.000-07:00

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. -Andy Warhol

I came across this quote when I was searching on-line to read about Artist's Block. I think about creating several times a day...every single day! But have spent very few hours during the last two years actually creating. Maybe deep down I feel like it is a waste of time and that is what is getting in my way. I am still encouraged by the fact that I have actually done ANY creating in the last few months. Here is another Betty Boop drawing I was working on back in May. My how time flies when you are blocked. =0)

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Betty Boop FRESCURA 2010
Indian Ink and Colored Pencil on Cardstock

Hoping that it will encourage me to create some new artwork, I started a page with my art on Facebook. Go to:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lois-Marie-Frescura/119687738067150

Finally created something...Betty Boop

2010-05-11T14:24:00.001-07:00

Nothing too original, just happy I actually started and finished something. I hope this is the end of my creative block. I WAS blocked for over 2 years!

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Head of Betty Boop - FRESCURA 5-11-2010
Black and white drawing - ink on cardstock

Millefiori Skull by Frescura

2009-10-07T18:03:00.000-07:00

Millefiori Skull by Frescura 3-28-2008
Colored pencils and marker on card stock

I used to think that you had to have a vision of a finished product before you started a piece. This is not the case for my art. It comes to me, bit by bit, as I work on it.

Not sure exactly when I started this. I drew this skull and filled it with circles and then set it aside. When I pulled it back out, I started filling it in with lines and color and this is what I ended up with. It wasn't until many months later that I realized how much I was influenced by the books I was currently reading about polymer clay. That is how this piece eventually got it's name over a year later. Millefiori means "a thousand flowers" in Italian and is traditionally created using glass. The books I had checked out of the library had instructions on how to make intricate canes out of polymer clay to slice into beads or disks.

I never did make anything out of polymer clay, but it had obviously influenced me. If you have never seen Millefiori, here is a picture I just found on Google.

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To see all my designs currently available on items at Cafe Press, go to:

http://www.cafepress.com/frescura

Here are a few items I just added. Click image for larger view.

Millefiori Skull Button

Millefiori Skull Banner

Millefiori Skull Sigg Water Bottle
I want one of these! =0)

On Writing...

2009-09-08T12:22:00.000-07:00

Another fantastic book that has me very excited about getting past my creative blocks. I checked this book out of my local library because funds are low but will add this book to my collection as soon as I can. Like the "War of Art", this is definitely a book I will read again and again.

I had a dream...

2009-08-26T08:25:00.000-07:00

I had a dream about seeing someone again and it reminded me...

"Where you used to be,
there is a hole in the world,
which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime,
and falling in at night.
I miss you like hell."

~Edna St Vincent Millay

Not sure if the person I miss was REALLY who I thought they were...
or who or what they claimed to be...
In the end, it doesn't really matter. The void is still there.

At Last...

2009-07-13T10:39:00.000-07:00

FINALLY put the colored pencils to paper and "doodled" something. I see some things I like and will use another time...and many things I won't!

Colored pencil, marker on card stock.

Frecura 7-13-2009

The War of Art!

2009-06-28T10:08:00.001-07:00

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield.

I just got this book out of the library a few days ago and I love it! I am about 2/3rds through it and already looking forward to reading it again. I have been much more productive tackling those everyday things you put off. I should be back to creating very soon...

SO tired of being blocked...

2009-03-15T02:49:00.000-07:00

Every day I am hopeful that I will create something...maybe tomorrow will FINALLY be the day...

"Enlightenment--that magnificent escape from anguish and ignorance--never happens by accident. It results from the brave and sometimes lonely battle of one person against his own weaknesses."

-Hindu Wisdom

Blocked...

2009-03-10T23:23:00.000-07:00

No new art. I have been blocked for MANY months now. I still have lots of ideas but can't seem to get anything started...

"I have had just about all I can take of myself."

S.N. Behrman (1893 - 1973)
American playright and screenwriter

2009-02-11T13:22:00.000-08:00

"If he closes off every passageway and escape route, It's because he wants to show you a secret way which no one knows."

-Rumi

Finally an update!

2008-04-23T14:09:00.001-07:00

I have been posting my art on Myspace. Lots of art & artists!

http://www.myspace.com/msfrescura

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Sugar Skull by FRESCURA 3-23-2008

Colored Pencils & India Ink

Creativity

2007-04-02T11:08:00.000-07:00

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Arthur Koestler

My Stimpy

2006-09-12T14:34:00.000-07:00

A photograph I took of my Great Pyrenees Stimpy on 6-30-2006.
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Triangular

2006-09-07T17:17:00.000-07:00

I did this in 2004. Pencil and Marker.
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Attention Please!

2006-09-02T14:22:00.000-07:00

Sun & Sky

2006-08-29T08:22:00.000-07:00

Have not felt much like creating lately. I did these in 2005. Pencil, Colored Pencil, Pen, and Marker on index cards. Click on pictures for a larger view.

Friends

2006-08-21T08:31:00.000-07:00

Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden,
though he may be in the fire.
Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire,
even though he is in the midst of a garden.

-Rumi, "Mathnawi" [IV, 1976-1978]

Sins

2006-08-19T16:43:00.000-07:00

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

Elbert Hubbard, American entrepreneur and philosopher
(founder of the Roycroft firm) (1856-1915)

Conscience

2006-08-19T16:35:00.000-07:00

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Izaak Walton

Secrets

2006-06-09T17:39:00.000-07:00

The morning breeze has secrets to tell you.
Do not go back to sleep.

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi