I am Legend

So I went to see "I am Legend" on Sunday, and it was not what I expected. We saw it at the IMAX theater, and it wasn't the best format for it, to many camera moves that make you feel a bit motion sick. I just wasn't expecting it to be a "thriller/horror" movie, I was expecting something else, but thinking back the trailers weren't very helpful. I don't want to spoil the movie but, there was one section which just didn't need to happen. I was almost ready to walk out at that part, with the dog. Maybe I'm just to sensitive or because I wasn't expecting it to be that kind of movie.

Random thoughts

So today is one of those days when I should be doing other stuff, but am feeling rather compelled to sit and procrastinate.

Last night I went to see I am Legend, with some friends. It was not the movie I was expecting, it was more of a thriller/horror film, than I had expected based on the previews. One part of the movie really upset me. I just didn't think it need to be done.


So my brilliant idea this morning was it would be a great dieting idea, if someone would create an advent like calender for dieters. Something along the idea of you can have one piece of this really good chocolate a day, to help keep the cravings down? I love advent calenders, I just had the last chocolate today, and it just seemed like such a great plan, make a monthly calender with really good chocolates, and you could have a piece a day. Ahh... well probably not such a great idea, but I was thinking if I bought something like that versus a bag of chocolate or a bar of chocolates, I could help keep myself happy (with chocolate) and stick to my diet (not so good at it, even when I try to think of it as a life-style change).

Ohh well, enough of my procratinating for this morning, but get on with the cooking and cleaning to prep for tomorrow.

Camera's

So yesterday I went to the book store and checked out the magazine racks, finding this one called shutterbug, which I ended up buying. It was a good buy because as I read thru it this morning I found a possible alternative to spending a lot of money on photoshop. There is a program by ulead, that goes for $90.00 dollars.I currently have an older verison of Photoshop elements, which I just don't like all that much. So I've been thinking I might just save up and buy the full version, but after seeing and reading about this alternative I may go that way instead. Some days I think I need to pick one medium and just really focus on it and other days I think why should I do just one thing when so many others really do appeal to me. Ah, well, sooner or later one of them will really get its hooks into me. Or maybe I just really enjoy working with so may different medias, and the fact is mixed media is the way I will go.

tower bridge

tower bridge
Originally uploaded by brannyrocks

this was just something I was playing arround with, I've been thinking about making some note cards from it.

love makes the world go

this is an older one, collage on canvas, the heart is done from love poems that have been torn up and glued to a heavier paper than painted with a red glaze. the words on thw heart were done with tile shaped beads. then attached using metal wire, so the float a little.

I like this piece alot but at the same time I'm seeing ways in which I could have done it differently. So last nite I started to do another version of it, and this morning I did some more, work only to fall in love with the background I created and the thought of covering it up bothers me. So I am not sure what to do now.

I've been thinking about going and getting a color copy made of the background and using that for my collage and finding a board to glue it to. I guess once it dries I will have to make a decision.

I'll try to post a photo of the background later.

raining hearts

raining hearts, originally uploaded by brannyrocks.

Another mixed media, painting. The cloud was done with mulberry paper than painted white, there are some under-lying colors. The hearts are made from paper and are attached using a thin gage wire, which I twisted to help thicken up and make the more stable.

I played with the paint colors a few times, which I wish I hadn't because a previous "version" of the "sky" worked much better.

I'm just starting to get back into painting, and the collage art has captured my imagination, so I've just started to explore this futher as well.

Most of my past art experience has been in clay or working with metal in jewerly making classes. I've never done any beading or that type of jewerly. I've mostly made rings that have stones set in them.

So I was just playing around and seeing how I could mix up the blue paint one this canvas and then decided to had the red paint, which I also mixed with white to see what would happen. It red section ended up looking a lot like an evening gown so I decided to use the photo of the woman, even though her arm is missing, it was a great exercise. I'm tempted to see I can find her some arms. It still feels incomplete, so I will probably add some more to it.