wildspiritarts

Thanks to the Christ Presbyterian Carolers!

2009-12-12T14:39:00.000-08:00

Our Living Room was filled with Cheer!

The Carolers from Christ Presbyterian Church in Canton came to our door and filed in past the deaf kitty sleeping on the chair, gathered around the fireplace and tree, SO MANY, Wow, and such beautiful voices! And the Poinsettia was lovely too, how lucky we are.

Unfortunately, tho I knew some names, they all popped out of the way when they spotted the camera, leaving only the brave souls that I can't name in the picture! Please feel free to let me know with a comment who you are.

Blessings and Glorious Wishes of Rich Delight for the new year, all you sonerous Presbyterians!

Veprepose my new adopted word...

2009-07-18T14:39:00.000-07:00

Click on the mug to go to other fun and strange items you can buy with this word on it...

Just testing

2008-07-29T11:59:00.000-07:00

I got a message that I cant post to this site and here is a test to see if that is true...

Ohio after the rain and the toothsome quality of Nursing home food...

2008-06-22T15:18:00.000-07:00

Ah, under the canopy of the Amazon rain forest, so lush, so beautiful, so full of wildlife... well, in this case the wildlife consists of a herd of squirrels intent on consuming massive quantities of fermented maple seeds, thus blowing themselves up to gargantuan proportions and posing as presidential candidates... uppers, its Ohio at its finest! Really, it is beautiful, if you can stand the daily thunderstorms, and the humidity. (as a curly haired person, I protest this humidity from under an Afro of frizz easily mistakable for a pound and a half of cotton candy on my head and almost as sticky)

Toothsome, eh? White food and I'm not talking Caucasian here... Here we have the absence of color - no hue, not a speck of chroma, no saturation! nada... apparently the color is not alone in the dark corner it was banished to... the flavor is there too, shaking its spicy little head, ohhhh. Maybe I have been spoiled by California and Colorado, but my eyes bugged when I saw the first white bread and cold cut sandwich on her plate... no butter, no mustard, just bread and processed "meat" is that legal? OH no, here come the fiber police!

I imagine they were having a hard time, what with the fact that both the food and the plates were such a similar color, with people breaking teeth trying to consume the dishes... so they added dark green cups and little bowls for the rest of the food. (in their favor, they do provide tomato juice at every meal and don't question the need for 2 cups of hot water anymore...)

On the bright side, we did have a crafty time on Friday. Everyone got together in the PT room and made tissue paper "stained glass" collages. Several of the ladies commented that they did this in kindergarten, but everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and played along. I love that kind of thing and stopped in my quest to break the world speed record for creation of crocheted potholders, and joined in the fun! (the PT girls are great! Thank you PT girls. And Mootie improves daily, tho sometimes she doesn't want to admit it...)

On another note....

The heinous wallpaper of my childhood... still exists... a pastoral print of the English countryside in greens, browns and a surprisingly unappealing salmon(ella) color. It was here when we bought the house, we didn't choose it... In several places Emily and me painted over it, but along the way we lost interest and went to college followed by migrations westward. Now I have returned and low and behold, it is still here. Damn. So until we rip it down, I am painting over it with temporary art. Here is my mask wall. Improvement, eh?

Enjoy the onset of summer and find time to be thankful as often as possible, for everything! Go out and have a colorful lunch! Later, Li

North Canton Art Show...

2008-05-10T10:19:00.000-07:00

Well as a sort of "Welcome Back, home-girl" both Mootie and I got into the North Canton May Show. It is a really great show and everyone should go on over to the North Canton Library and check it out (if you happen to be within 20 miles, that is...) Here we are standing next to each other in art and...

Here we are standing next to each other in person. Here is a link to the library site, click on "lets go see the show!"

And here is evidence of the color yellow in nature. Nice, eh?

Happy Mothers Day to all of you mothers, including my brave and impressive sister, mother of soon-to-be 16 years old twins, Ben and Gracie Cornelius!

2008-05-03T20:33:00.000-07:00

Before I left the lovely state of California with my boxes of fabric and cartons of books, my friends had a party for me!

Here is Martha leading everyone in a rolicking drum circle!

You really dont get the full effect with these photos as there was quite a bit of movement and rich noises! Thank you guys!

This is the truck that arrived in front of our house and that was the weather... yes, gloom...

BUT this is what is out there right now! Transformation from the deepest greys to the brightest pinks in the time it takes to fill out a good collection of days...

and here am I... I think I am adjusting well, what do you think?

Love to all, LI

The Atlanta Airport...

2008-03-31T14:48:00.000-07:00

Here I sit in the Atlanta Well, the cell seems to be not working but I went through this long process and figured out how to PAY for wifi. All the other airports have free wifi... Not only do they make you pay for the air, but they gouge you for okra laden confections, strangely named "Okra Crisps" I watched in fascination as a man lifted the heavy Okra Pod Up to his mouth and it slowly bent into a L shape as a bead of glimmering slime meandered through the little hairs on the pod and dropped languidly off the tip of the "vegetable" He put it down and went over to stand in the line for MacDonald's.... I hightailed it to star bucks where there is nothing to consume that involves... Buggers.

So LiHertzi Design is moving to Ohio via Atlanta... See Ya there...

Traveling the Holiday Train

2007-12-21T14:13:00.000-08:00

Hey Everyone, Happy holidays, every one of them! The above pix is of me at the airport in Phoenix sorta, I don't remember it being that blue, but that's what it felt like.

Speaking of blue... This is Danny explaining how he is going to run for the Peace President! He is going to be in the spider man party so everyone better switch affiliations so you can vote for him in the primaries! He really is the best choice.

Here is Danny's full crew making double chins! We are sure we are ready for the presidency because between us we have the ability to solve all manner of Rubik cubes, put on our socks and shoes and knit a beanie. There you have it, the ministry of mastery, the department of looking good and the caucus of hooks and needles.

Vote For US!

Enjoy your holidays! LI

Crocheting a Barbra Chapman Frenzy!

2007-12-17T09:39:00.001-08:00

Marty's Raucous Purse, by LI Hertzi 2007

I am just in love with the textural quality of the wild-winging-it-but-deeply-artistic style of crocheting called "scumbling". I learned this technique from Barbra Chapman in a class at the Black Sheep in Encinitas, CA. Basically, you free form the stitching as well as the yarns, adding and dropping colors in mid-row, changing the stitch, bobbling, circling, backing-up and generally playing around as you go. How perfect for relaxing! No counting! Only noodling and "feeling" for what comes next.

Look at the texture! Now, this is a semi-monochromatic yarn selection... mostly oranges, reds and some purples, all huddled together on the color wheel, so it isn't as easy to show the tactile richness on a flat screen, but it is there.

I first heard the term "Scumbling" from my mother who used it to mean putting a light glaze of watercolor paint over a darker color to soften or give a glazed effect to a painting. This was when I was doing my graduation project in illustration and was flummoxed by making water ripple around a floating teacup!

The Free Dictionary by Farlex pontificates thusly:

scum·ble (skmbl)

tr.v. scum·bled, scum·bling, scum·bles

1. To soften the colors or outlines of (a painting or drawing) by covering with a film of opaque or semi opaque color or by rubbing.

2. To blur the outlines of: a writer who scumbled the line that divides history and fiction.

1. The effect produced by or as if by scumbling.

2. Material used for scumbling.

In crochet, I like the idea of blurring the outlines, and I encourage you to get wild and fuzzy with those hooks this holiday season!

Visit my other fiber-delighted blog here: Art Doll Adventures Blog!
Visit the site for my book: Li's Book!

Thanks for reading, LI

Beautiful even in Death, our Beloved BDC lay enshrined in eternal slumber

2007-10-30T15:01:00.001-07:00

BDC
Born - 1992

Passed into the sleep from which there is no awakening - 2007

For your service and loyalty you will be missed. Rest in Peace.

I am so aggrieved to let it be known that my dear and faithful BDC passed away this morning just before 8 O'clock in Carlsbad, CA.

BDC served diligently and without complaint until the very last day of his life, enduring grueling hours of labor in excruciating heat and never uttering even a whimper of discontent. No, He was my loyal companion of 15 years, spending every morning (except vacations and Christmas) serving my needs. Never did he grouse when the winter days in my Colorado studio meant working all day to cheer and warm the frosted denizens of that altitudinous state seeking graphic contentment. Never did he complain when he was unplugged from his life force and boxed in the dark for yet another journey, ah how he trusted me, yes, he trusted me completely. Never, Never, Never did he shirk his responsibilities even in the face of my heartlessly commenting on his worn out state and pondering right there in front of him, the allure of others of his kind. Oh How shamed I am! Ohhhhhh.

We believed that he was suffering only from the ravages of time and an injured power cord, but alas, as I lifted him this morning to lovingly load him into the car to visit the esteemed electrical healer, Billiam, for the laying on of hands, his bottom detached with a wrenching sound, and his poor innards were exposed to this cruel world. What pain he must have felt, but at least it was swift. The official cause of death is Consumption.

For his good service I am thankful.

(BDC was his familiar name, his given name being Black and Decker Coffeemaker)

The fires are slowing down...

2007-10-24T09:05:00.001-07:00

Li's Art Doll Adventures Site
Li's Recommended Doll Books for Doll Artists

The book is still on sale! Go to Amazon with this easy-Parcheesi link and buy one!

The "Fire Storm" Of 2007

2007-10-23T18:27:00.000-07:00

Well this was the color of the sky around 3 today. The air is yellow and flaky, tastes like over burned marshmallows and is prickly in the eyeballs, but over all, bearable. And considering that my home and most of my friends homes, still stand, untouched, except by soot, makes us some wicked-lucky San Diegans!

There is an ethereal quality to the last two days for me. All waiting and watching the maps, scrolling statistics, phones singing to me (I recently got some new rings and my brain is still surprised when the tiny John Lennon and Yoko Ono snuggled in their jammies at the bottom of my purse, begin to vibrate and chant loudly: "all we are saying, is give peace a chance, all we...) and relief!

I send my thoughts and prayers to all!

The Month of the Dead, October

2007-10-18T17:03:00.001-07:00

This month I created a doll in honor of my friend Mari who committed suicide several years ago.

She was creative and funny, with a wicked New York City sense of deliciously sarcastic humor, an astounding skill for astrology powered by an affinity for channeling and a deep spiritual connection that might seem impossible to reconcile in someone other than Mari.

She was of Italian descent and whenever we were out together, I was amazed by the spell she cast over men and women alike. She was so tall! So solidly confident! I was furious with her for taking her life, mad because there were things I wanted to tell her, things we shared and laughter that danced around us when we talked about even the most grim of things! She loved to play solitaire on the computer and had once owned a bookstore. She lived in Taos and had a dress shop in the corner of the square that was full of sheer fabric and silk thingy-dos. Her favorite color was beige, she smoked and her fast little red car was always saturated in Benson & Hedges residue and littered with potato chip bags. She did sweet things to surprise you but if you crossed her, she shunned you for awhile... then shaking a finger in your face with a look that skewered you onto the wall of the present, noted that you might not have your priorities straight because they were different than hers! Hah! Then later, it was all OK. Mari changed her name from Lynn to Mari and Mari was better.

She was haunted by something fierce, deep and sharp, but many of us loved her dearly and felt blessed by her life, including me. Halloween Thanks Mari...

This doll was created with wire, paper clay, fabric, stuffing, gauze, Kreninik Metallic threads and the arms of a dollar store Barbie that are tied behind her back. Enjoy Halloween and create something that is a stretch for you, something that wakes you up to a slightly different way of looking at this rich and juicy life we have! Make Stuff!

Li's Art Doll Adventures Site
Li's Recommended Doll Books for Doll Artists

The book is still on sale! Go to Amazon with this easy-Parcheesi link and buy one!

How to Shave a Pencil

2007-10-02T18:07:00.000-07:00

*Special Sketch Note for Discovering Drawing students*

Isn't this a delicious picture?
Look at all of that color!
Does your desk sport such brilliance?

Now, as we all know there are several ways to skin a point. Your first thought might be to poke it into that sleek electric pencil sharpener in the corner over there. And that is great for detail work and has a specific feel that is pleasing to the hand as well as the eye.

Another way might be to use an Xacto knife and shave the wood off to carefully reveal the lead as they did in this picture. I recommend that you try this method just for the fun/experience of it. It is a great way to BOND with your points, feel the wood, smell that new pencil smell, see the wealth of color and contrast, hear the sound of the shaving... (Employ almost all of your senses, except for tasting... Never, ever eat any part of a pencil it might be worse than running with scissors. Grin!)

Last weeks class focused on bonding with your points and tho we are mostly working with black and white, I encourage you to try the third "Daily Draw" with colored pencils. Besides being fun, you can experiment with carving the point on your pencils. Try crosshatching with a blunt tip and a very pointy one. Try smudging and doodling, try meandering touch and holding the pencil in a tightened fist!

*ALWAYS use care with sharp objects! I have several finger scars from pocket knifes, Matt knives, xacto blades and other slicing tools!*

Play! Enjoy the week, Li

Li's Art Doll Adventures Site
Li's Recommended Doll Books for Doll Artists

The book is on sale this week! It is cheaper than I have to pay to get them! Go quick before the sale is over! Go to Amazon with this easy-Parcheesi link and buy one!

The week of little things....

2007-08-30T17:44:00.001-07:00

The second set of small things first!

The second small thing that arrived in my week was encountered at Gee Gee's Stamps and Stuff in Carlsbad. A wonderful teacher Georgia Lichon taught the hows and what-nots of using Easy Cast Resin. I have never used this and thought that it would be fun for doll faces... I think it will be fun for hours... and hours.... and hours! Grin!

These were the first ones I did. Georgia had all kinds of images for us to use. (I, of course, brought my whole, big, honkin, sewing tool-kit full of photos, old art, collage and beads, tons of beads) She also supplied little plastic paint "tins" and some recycled packaging. The latter is what I used first to get the hang of it. The Easy Cast is basically smell-less and takes 72 hours to dry (Argh! No immediate gratification there) We first poured a little in, dropped our "art" in and then poured until the rest of the space was full.

Below is a pile-up of the other things we did. The ones that almost look globular, are from the paint "tin". You can get these at Michael's for pennies and as you see here, they make nice molds. The other shape is the bottle tops which are all the rage with the crafty types. Only last night at my doll club, I saw a lovely pair of earrings with Frida Kahlo featured prominently, peering from under her massive uni-brow, no doubt with haughty disdain for our doll-crafty selves. The creator had the last laugh tho, she surrounded the artist with a halo of patriotic glitter beaded the be-zeebers out of her! Tho a bit corny, I actually like the little caps and have a nice 6 of Sierra Nevada cooling in the fridge, ready to start on for some more raw material! (I hear you can buy them on line, but that wouldn't be recycling, now would it, hum?)

Have a look at my Art Doll Adventures site to see some really cool, English business cards, tiny and thick! As well as stickers and my usual commentary!

Finally...

I am teaching a new drawing class at Doll Street

"I draw every day - sometimes I draw for work, always for play, sometimes it turns into something else, sometimes it sucks, rocks, just is, sometimes I love what I do, sometimes I show it off and sometimes I tape a piece of paper over it, then do another drawing on top - so it is my secret, sometimes I wad it up and sometimes it has a life of its own, sometimes it is just a way to pass the time, sometimes it is spying, sometimes it is to catch a moment or just make a pretty picture to occupy my mind until I can figure out what I am supposed to do next, sometimes a drawing becomes a doll, a pot, a shirt/skirt/crazy hat, sometimes it feels like I am getting better at it, sometimes not, sometimes after it, I see differently.

My plan is do this until I die."

As you see, drawing is a passion for me! As well as therapy, work and well... FUN! There is nothing as delightful as catching an exquisite moment on paper or being able to translate that creativity swimming around in your head into "reality." This class is designed to wake up those eyes and hands to the truth that you ARE already an artist and help you enjoy it!

You will learn the basics of sketching through Exercises, Sketch Notes, Loosen UPs, and Daily Draws. The Exercises will lead you through a "how to" of the drawing skill we are exploring in the chapter. The Sketch Notes are just like my doll class Sketch Notes, they will offer you ideas about the feeling, thinking, and writing around the subject. The Loosen Ups are fun little exercises that will make you laugh, loosen up and draw like a monkey, just kidding on that last one, but that's the idea! and Finally, the Daily Draws are the drawings you can choose to do every day. Daily Drawing nurtures your innate talent, gently evolving it into the eye/hand/observation/soul skills that will shine more sweetly through all of your work!

Click here to see more or sign up! Have a great holiday weekend! Li

I just wrote a new Acrostic for my SugarPlum Scary Class...

2007-07-31T23:17:00.000-07:00

Soothing doodling
Kisses the pages
Easing me out of the
Turmoil of thought and into
Calm -
Happy to be watching the world...

By Li!

http://www.artdolladventures.blogspot.com

Art Doll Adventurer gets to paint!

2007-06-11T15:04:00.000-07:00

Life guard stand in Carlsbad at dusk

Oh Dear! This color looks so dull on my monitor!
It was warm and striking and the painting looks very richly colored!
Hopefully your monitor will render it with the vibrancy the evening deserved.

I decided to try a sketch last night just to see if I still remembered how to do it and still liked the process... I do... I have an easel named Daddy Longlegs that I have loved for years, a French easel, and ever so dapper, but Longlegs is missing a few screws! Upp and wing nuts and well, he is just so darned heavy. So I am off to find a lighter alternative. Anyone have any suggestions?

Enjoy the evening, LI

See Me Grinning!

2007-06-03T09:40:00.000-07:00

Yeah! The book is out in the world!

It seems to be seeping from the east coast - New York was the first "sighting" - towards this side of the country where it has yet to land in my mail box... I am hopeful for the mail tomorrow.

I have been working all weekend on creating blogs and generally thrashing around helplessly in Dreamweaver! Blogging is much easier, and oh, so addicting!

Here is the new website which will be updated... Hummmm... After I go buy a BOOK on Dreamweaver!

http://www.artdolladventures.com

And

Here is the new art doll adventures blog!

http://www.artdolladventures.blogspot.com

Enjoy! Create! Share! And Play! Li

Hi Everyone!

2007-06-01T10:15:00.000-07:00

Welcome to summer!

One of our "book dolls" waves you into the new season with wishes of a beach-full of creative inspirations!

Here is a little site that I made last week.
http://www.artdolladventures.com

Ahhh you say, where are the pictures? Whats with all of the black? hummm is this really the Li I know? Yes! it is a work in process, more soon.

In the meantime click on the Amazon link to see more and make comments!

Later, LI

li and anna

2007-05-23T11:22:00.001-07:00

Just trying to see if this works...

2006-12-13T17:04:00.000-08:00

Introducting.... The first cover for Art Doll Adventures!

It will come out in June of 07, as you can imagine, I can hardly wait! Here is the little blurb the Publishing Co wrote about it. Stay tuned for info and updates!

Art Doll Adventures
Exploring Projects and Processes through Cultural Traditions
Lisa Li Hertzi
Doll-making inspired by cultural icons

Finding meaning in your art is one thing; doing it for the fun of the creation is another. How do they go together? Making dolls inspired by cultural icons brings new meaning to your work and helps you connect with larger universal truths. Doll makers are very conscious of and interested in the history of the human/female figure and cultural icons, and often use them as starting points for their designs. Spirit dolls, African icons, goddess figures, and Hopi katichinas are all popular forms.

Using history as a starting point, Lisa-Li Hertzi has created five exciting doll projects, inspired by five very different cultural and historical icons/figures. Through the projects, she explores the creative process, the meaning and significance of each figure, and teaches techniques that doll makers are currently experimenting with: journaling, collage, mixed media, and found objects. Each doll is presented as a step-by-step project with complete instructions, and is followed by a gallery featuring interpretations by leading doll artists of the same cultural figure. Fantastic full color illustrations and patterns by the author are included.

Lisa-Li Hertzi is a professional illustrator, graphic designer, and artist, and runs the art department for Squadra Inc. USA. She is known for her eclectic line of cloth doll patterns, ranging from the Boulder Goddess which is based very roughly on the Venus of Willendorf, to Lilly, a Feisty cowgirl to the EarthSky Man, who was inspired by a raft trip down the Colorado River. She is a popular teacher, using both her patterns and classes to explore art, science, history, the figure, color, and more.

lamp

2005-02-20T21:10:00.000-08:00

lamp, originally uploaded by spiralli.

This is for the everyday matters challenge... its my desk lamp I got from my parents before art school! Okey, so thats hummm, 20 years ago! and it still works, needs to have the bulb changed about every 5 years and has been across the country the long way...

CarlsbadCHILLYbeach

2005-02-14T21:43:00.000-08:00

CarlsbadCHILLYbeach, originally uploaded by spiralli.

This Sunday was the first day since my oral surgery on Thursday that had even a hint of sun so I got my puffy faced self out to the beach and did some sketches. This one is towards Encinitas and features that one bright yellow burst of flower in the middle. We DO have spring here, its just more subtle and ozzing than in the midwest, considering the basic lack of winter for contrast...

angelATCli

2005-02-14T21:38:00.000-08:00

angelATCli, originally uploaded by spiralli.

Hey dollers! This is my atc for my angel goddess class! I did her as an experiment thinking that I was going to put directions on the class but there wasnt much interest or maybe the nature of atc's are that you dont need any direction or pattern!

They really are fun ...

GO see my new cafe press shop for some really cute Lucy and her happy heart things...
http://www.cafepress.com/bighappyheart

allINSIDEatc3

2005-02-14T21:34:00.000-08:00

allINSIDEatc3, originally uploaded by spiralli.

I recently had my wisdom teeth pulled - last week in fact, feels like yesterday - I remember this being a long drawn out process in the 70's, watching my sister go through it with bloated cheeks, massive moaning and days of horizontal orientation... Being thankful that I waited until the 21st century is what I am now doing. BUT there were moments when through the vicodin haze I thought I would never have a thought longer than, "hummm, Well... Oh" and in those moments I thought succinctly enough... "All Inside" and here are the atc's I stitched from my pillowed perch.

AllInsideATC1

2005-02-14T21:32:00.000-08:00

AllInsideATC1, originally uploaded by spiralli.

another one

bigeyesATCli

2005-02-14T21:20:00.000-08:00

bigeyesATCli, originally uploaded by spiralli.

my favorite doll painting atc...

bigeyesATC2

2005-02-14T21:17:00.000-08:00

bigeyesATC2, originally uploaded by spiralli.

One of my neighbors left a Blithe doll by the pool with only head, arms, and an abbreviated bodice... I made some atc's (artist trading cards) of her...

boxes

2005-01-09T22:19:00.000-08:00

boxes, originally uploaded by spiralli.

Everyone on the everydaymatters list is talking about this box thing... sorts fun... tho a whole page seems more my style.

Li

paintedONtheBEACH

2004-12-24T21:25:00.000-08:00

paintedONtheBEACH, originally uploaded by spiralli.

May you all have sunshine when you want it, following seas when you need them and the richest spirit of love all the time!

Blessed, exciting, interesting, fun and darn joyful Christmas to you all from sunny (and it WAS sunny today and 72Âº in the sun...) Southern California...

Love, Li

DaddyLongLegsonBeach

2004-12-24T21:13:00.000-08:00

DaddyLongLegsonBeach, originally uploaded by spiralli.

This is my easel daddy long legs - "legs" from here on out. He is situated in what Chuck used to call "that winter light" which I thought I would never see out here in the land of never-winter, but there it is... blue, very blue.

ChristmasSEAL

2004-12-24T21:06:00.000-08:00

ChristmasSEAL, originally uploaded by spiralli.

Today is Christmas eve and I am still in San Diego due to the weathers magnificent portrayal of a virulent travel scrooge in the Ohio Valley exactly where I was going to land...

So I went to the beach to paint to let it know I was only humbled by its theatrics, not wholly deterred or defeated!

This little seal barked out from the rocks and scampered into the water right beside my easel!

Carlsbad Beach on the 10th of October

2004-10-10T18:39:00.000-07:00

Carlsbad Beach on the 10th of October, originally uploaded by spiralli.

It is Fall... During the day its 72Â° and at night, just alittle cooler than last week, but the light is a loudmouth - blabbing the news, "falll, fall, FALL!" Its more blue and yellow - its a more sneeky light, a shimmer that just cant get rid of that violet stain... (that exact stain seems to be missing from my sweet little paint box - perhaps an upgrade...)

The color on the side of the lifeguard pod came out pretty darn like it looked, but the sky was not that green!

Thanks for visiting, LI

grinning

2004-09-26T21:54:00.000-07:00

grinning, originally uploaded by spiralli.

This is just to prove that I still sew... She was inspired by Molly at Doll Street delightfully replying to my grousing about everything including my always grinning friend with Oh no! Not something with a constant grin!!! Eeeee I just couldn't take it " which of course made me grin and the grousing was suddenly avian history.

Enjoy the week, Li

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OceanView

2004-09-26T10:09:00.000-07:00

OceanView, originally uploaded by spiralli.

Are you nuts? Of course we have an ocean view... Thats what the lady at starbucks said about the tiny sliver of purple, no the 5" sliver of ocean past the road, past the coaster track, past the big dirty dunes, past the one-0-one, past the bushy bit, THERE is the ocean. Everyone out here has an ocean view or at least SAYS they do.

this is a cloudy day in Carlsbad

2004-09-26T10:06:00.000-07:00

this is a cloudy day in Carlsbad, originally uploaded by spiralli.

Swamis beach

2004-09-26T10:04:00.000-07:00

Swamis beach, originally uploaded by spiralli.

My definite favorite beach... about which I wrote 2 dense paragraphs that were unceremoniously (not even an effin napkin on the table) feasted on by flicker...

This is the best beach in Encinitas to draw on... there is a whole multi-height amphitheater of seating rocks, a hefty contingent of el-buff-o surfer dudes for paint box assistance up and down the stairs, and polite snoopers (tourists mostly, who will almost always say that your work is "beautiful" despite its total f-up-ed-ness - they are on vacation and happy and nicey-nice. Stay away from the locals beach as they will stride right up to you, look at the drawing, look you right in the eyeball and say "you think THAT looks like THAT?", roll those bulging peepers and back away so as watch you squirm from a better viewpoint... for a long time... muttering all the while... )

crayons

2004-09-12T21:45:00.000-07:00

A woman on the Art Journal list was lamenting that she was too old for crayons and I felt the need to weigh in like the 300 lb lady at the circus on this issue... heavily. YOU ARE NEVER TOO OLD FOR CRAYONS, not for the delicious smell of creative wax fresh out of the box, not for the visual bountiful bucket of fresh clams of colors (not to mention names - wild strawberry... periwinkle... spring green) and specially, not too old to loose your head over the feel as they slide across the construction paper of your soul... Okey-Dokey Li! time for yer meds! Ok so I went alittle over the edge...

"The poet and baker are brothers in the essential task of nourishing the world" Isabel Allende

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Art Dolls, Graphic Design and Illustration
http://www.cafepress.com/wildspiritarts
http://www.cafepress.com/vote4teresa

"vinaka CAFE"

2004-09-12T20:51:00.000-07:00

"vinaka CAFE", originally uploaded by spiralli.

September is the month summer ends (of course here in Southern California, it is 97 degrees IN my apartment at 10 PM despite the Florida style hurricane effect of the 4 Target fans strategically aimed directly at my head) "Sad, sad, sad" as my sister Emily would say, but nowhere near as tragic as the end of summer in say... Florida...

I got all excited last night about my cafe press site - these things just seem to take me over now and then to the point of little or no return. It was suddenly 1am and I had just finished writing a "newsletter" , which, to my mild dismay, I discovered I could only send once (and can't even put pictures in - what effin use is T H A T, eh?) and then it dissolved into the ethers and I had only set up 6 people to send it to...

The directions clearly stated that one needed to plan the missive prior to stepping from the dock onto the rocket train of creation, but failed to mention the true keyboard dismembering speed at which that train rocks, Geeeeeze! Finally, by succumbing to actually following, very carefully, the directions, I succeeded and a newsletter spiffily formatted and all was shooed off to 6 people!

One of the things I love best about the web is that you can find all kinds of stuff, basically rearrange it and just give it to people, So if you want to get a DIFFERENT (meaning I will have to write another one...) newsletter about the political stuff - feel free to go to the site and find the newsletter sign up thing at the bottom. http://www.cafepress.com/vote4teresa

WARNING... a tad on the political side... the left political side...

I think I will try a doll one from the wildspiritarts site so go there if you want that so-far-imaginary newsletter. (you know, if I had a life this would just not be possible, count your lucky stars, Hah!)

LiHertz Design
http://www.lihertzidesign.com
http://www.cafepress.com/wildspiritarts

lotoPEOPLEbeach

2004-09-05T16:12:00.000-07:00

lotoPEOPLEbeach, originally uploaded by spiralli.

The last weekend of the summer, at least officially, here in CA it seems perpetual. This is my home beach... there does seem to be some overkill on the humanity element tho... Last year about now the tourists slowly dissipated, leaving the leathery crowd at the Starbucks snarking around about surf and boards and the unwelcome reoccurrence of... day jobs.

Did it with my trusty WN box... which is full of sand, somewhat like my house, and strangely, smells like chocolate...

LiHertz Design
http://www.cafepress.com/wildspiritarts
http://www.lihertzidesign.com
Art Dolls, Graphic Design and Illustration

CardiffBeach

2004-08-30T17:44:00.000-07:00

CardiffBeach, originally uploaded by spiralli.

this is the first time I used my little Windsor Newton box and the first post to this blog. Unlike Cafe Press, this was not half as plug and play... Go see my fun at cafe press: http://www.cafepress.com/wildspiritarts.