Personally Christine

Livingston County Pub Crawl Tshirt

Christine — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:07:11 +0000

Almost 48 hours to go until the Livingston County Pub Crawl kicks off! My husband Mike and I have planned a mobile party for friends and family, to show them around our neck of the woods. A stretch Hummer will take us to five pubs in the area, including a stop at the Dam Site [...]

Going deeper with a quilt design

Christine — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:46:42 +0000

I started this quilt last year, based on a Zentangle drawing I made, and blogged about it then. I am just now coming back to it and was happy to complete the top piecing yesterday. According to the drawing I had made for it, I now had 5 orange pieces to applique and it would [...]

Variations on one Zentangle

Christine — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:12:44 +0000

Zentangles always get their own way. I start with an idea, then before I know it, the drawing has raced off in a different direction. This one was going to be a square within a square, but it just didn’t cooperate: Not sure if I wanted to add more, I scanned the image so I [...]

Self-similar images

Christine — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:19:31 +0000

So now I’m on a roll of making self-similar images. Not true fractals, where you can zoom in indefinitely, but fractal-like. Pseudo fractals. As before, I started with a custom shape in Photoshop. The starting image was a 5 x 5 grid of circle-ish shapes. I inset it into itself twice, then used that as [...]

Mandala, Fractal, Zentangle…Zendactala?

Christine — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 16:42:01 +0000

On a day when there isn’t enough time to draw a Zentangle, I can still doodle in Photoshop! The fake fractals of earlier this week got me thinking about other ways to draw self-similar images. This one started from a custom shape in Photoshop, using copies of the whole shape to fill the holes within [...]

Free-form beadwoven necklace made from scrap elements

Christine — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 02:26:05 +0000

I just described this piece to my husband…”I wanted this to look like a piece of net that had floated in the sea, and caught a bunch of things up in it; that got stuck in it; and stayed on it when it was pulled out of the sea.” I started this with a dichroic [...]

Fake Fractals in Photoshop

Christine — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:10:09 +0000

I saw a Photoshop tutorial I had to try…How to Create Fractals in Photoshop Easily. These aren’t true fractals…if they were, you could zoom in indefinitely and keep getting images. However, it does create a pretty groovy facsimile image…these are fun.

Beaded Michigan: My state in bead embroidery

Christine — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:40:26 +0000

I adopted Michigan as my home 21 years ago, and I have come to really love the state. This bead embroidery piece includes several symbolic elements that hold my memories…Copper Harbor, the Thumb, the swirl of the city of Detroit. I was inspired to make this piece after seeing bead embroidered works at the 2010 [...]

Daniel’s Dragon: Polymer Clay Beast

Christine — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:00:41 +0000

Playing with my grandchildren, I’m discovering the ease and fun of polymer clay. The kids love getting their hands in it, and turning the crank of the pasta-maker as we work the clay. As a medium for an adult artist, I like it for a few reasons… I can finish the project by firing it [...]

A Partial Eclipse of the Ferris Wheel

Christine — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:04:55 +0000

Production notes: For this image, I started with a shot from my Nikon Coolpix. In Photoshop, I used curves to brighten the colors. I also used a colored pencil filter on a layer, and set it’s opacity at about 40%. The sun was isolated, and color-adjusted through the Hue/Saturation dialog.