Posts made in February, 2006
Illustration Friday: Song
Here’s my drawing for Illustration Friday and Yankee Doodle Dandy — that’s the song. You may remember I started this drawing for a quilt long ago, around the fourth of July, but I never got around to explaining it. One summer during college I got a job delivering singing telegrams. I usually wore a tuxedo jacket, shorts and tights and delivered a balloon bouquet as I sang...
Read MoreAnnual Planning Retreat
This is where we’ve been for the last two days — holed up in a little cabin in the woods. So nice that it snowed for our adventure, the only snow we’ve had this year! Made the whole thing more romantic. Russ and I always take a little retreat early each year to examine our lives and goals. The first day we start by reviewing the previous year accomplishments and financial...
Read MoreDoes It Still Work?
Wow, thanks for all the great compliments on the card. It helps to have encouragement on my design as I get ready to present it the museum curator. However after sleeping on it, I started to doubt my little kokeshi dolls in the corner. Although they match the color scheme of the card, they aren’t representative of my work in the show. PaMdora now has fans, and maybe if they see her face,...
Read MoreNew Directions
Sometimes when you don’t work for a while and then you come back, things just fall in place really easily. We need to have a postcard design for our upcoming group museum show in April. I was going to just send the museum some single images and let them pick. But a single image wouldn’t accurately portray the variety in the show. Then I had this idea, and it came together fast. My...
Read MoreWhat to when You’re Sick?
Emmie was half right! Rita, Penelope, and George were based on real people. Matty and Tish were completely made up. It’s been a week since I posted anything, because I’ve been sick and in bed all week. Haven’t done anything except read and draw my new Valentine’s Day header. Here’s some books I read that you might enjoy also: Quilt Artistry: Inspired Designs from the...
Read MoreI Brought Some Friends Home
I’ve been thinking that PaMdora needs some new friends, so I sketched some while I was in Mexico. Some ideas came from this cool retro clothing book that I bought in a museum last summer. Other drawings are kind of vague caricatures of real people. Can you tell which ones were drawn from real people and which ones were from pictures? And here’s an old “friend” that I...
Read MoreReally I Have Been Drawing
I’ve been doing a series of drawings to somehow show how it feels to do yoga on the roof. This one is an arial view. That weird-looking thing that sort of resembles a vacuum cleaner is a round boombox I’m using to play yoga-ish music via my Ipod.
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I'm an artist who makes humorous quilts and drawings and shares a studio in an old peanut butter factory with my husband who is also an artist and sculptor. You can also see more of my art at PamRuBert.com
