I've been working on the Incognito paintings for the Santa Monica Museum of Art, so I cannot reveal them, and I've had to put a hold on the Victorian Tattoo'd Animal Container sculptures, so I cannot show you any of the progress on those art projects. Instead, I thought I'd show you my paint palettes and some kirigami butterflies from my calendar.
I use meat trays as my paint palettes--- after they've been washed of course. They are made of styrofoam which isn't recyclable, so it's a way to be recycle them. After the paint dries, I just add new paint on top, so they build up into strange almost abstract paintings. I think they're sort of pretty.
The kirigami calendar pages don't look pretty until they are cut out. Above you can see all the pages that I've yet to cut into new and lovely shapes. Yeah, I'm a bit behind. Most of the month of January has been snowflake shapes and designs.
As the end of the month nears, there is a fold I've never heard of, butterfly fold. It's a more complicated way to fold the paper and now instead of shaded of blue paper to cut, I get shades of red paper.
I had to read the instruction card on how to fold the butterfly. It was a little confusing as are all these kinds of paper folding instructions. I think my folding wasn't exactly right.
But I cut it anyway to see if I was even close to what it was supposed to look like.
It turned out all right, so I cut another one.
I liked the red one and the hearts in the middle of the wings.
These 2 butterflies are actually intended to be a duo, so I glued them together.
It's not perfect, but it's still a pretty heart butterfly. I think it's wishing you a Happy Monday!
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