woogie wednesday

3 minute drawing class

2008-07-23T09:07:00.000-07:00

I'm trying to get a book project completed today so not too much time for a "true" WW project but today we had a 3 minute drawing class. We drew a lion and I roughly sketched out each feature and then she drew each feature in her "sketchbook." Looks pretty good!

This gave me an idea for another fun project so stay tuned for that. We also have the unicorn to make from 2 weeks ago. It's sitting on my desk all painted and ready to be junked.

In Austin

2008-07-16T05:21:00.000-07:00

No Woogie Wednesday project today because we're in Austin, TX. I was thinking we might be able to fit something in but our day is pretty full so we'll try next week.

Unicorn pieces

2008-07-09T16:46:00.001-07:00

We're starting a little late today because I had a project to finish up and the Woog decided to take a 3+ hour nap so we probably won't have the finished product to show until tomorrow.

She knew right off the bat what she wanted to make so for the first time, I let her pick out the items for it. The first thing she dug out was a box of pencils and declared that it would be the horn (glad she's seeing a vision with different objects) and the frame would be the head and the Melissa & Doug puzzle box would be the grass. The star and hardware bits were extra things she just threw in. I'm guessing he also wants to paint something purple. We'll see how it goes!

Oh, and today she drew one of the best portraits I think she has ever drawn. You can see it here.

uncle sam

2008-07-04T16:07:00.000-07:00

Completed! The Woog's involvement was pretty minimal for this one than it usually is. Since her daddy was home she wanted to play with him a lot which worked out well for this piece since I did a lot of painted detail.

uncle sam progress

2008-07-04T13:17:00.000-07:00

Happy 4th!! We're working on the base of Uncle Sam and doing this one a little different by using clay (she made the "snakes" for his hair and beard) and painting the body in gouache. We'll then junk it up from there. Check back later...

uncle sam's a comin'

2008-07-02T05:11:00.000-07:00

Yes, it's Wednesday! We might be dragging this project out for a few days since the Woog is going to play at a friend's house later this morning. In the spirit of Independence Day I think we'll do Uncle Sam. I thought about this last night while in bed so here's a sketch done about midnight last night with the only light coming from the tv (it's kind of obvious I couldn't see my paper very well!). In the meantime, check out what we did to celebrate the holiday last year.

to the moon

2008-06-25T15:24:00.001-07:00

Thanks to Amy's post this morning I sent my husband and the Woog to the moon. Space was our inspiration today and this is what we came up with, It took way much longer than I anticipated because we kept switching stuff around. I think we pretty much used all the junk we picked out.

space

2008-06-25T10:09:00.001-07:00

Here's the begining of todays project. The theme is space. We may not use everything here but we'll sure try. Check back later today for the finished piece.

Woogie Weekend

2008-05-12T13:15:00.000-07:00

Woogie Wednesdays haven't been happening for a while but we did have a Woogie Weekend and made Mother's Day gifts for the Grandmas. She loved stacking the buttons and arranging the flowers in all their vases.

Cupcakes

2008-04-09T13:44:00.000-07:00

The Woog turns 4 on Saturday so we spent some time today making cupcakes for her Mother's-Day-Out class tomorrow. She wanted a Tinkerbell birthday and since I don't care for character themed parties, clothes or home decor I told her she could have her Tinkerbell birthday at school and then we'd have her "W" birthday at home. She seemed excited with that so we have Tinkerbell blow horns, napkins, hats and cupcakes all ready for school tomorrow!

traveling tail

2008-03-12T09:09:00.000-07:00

We FINALLY (sorry guys!) got around to putting on the tail and taking a picture. Traveling Tales is the brainchild of Stacy at Mama's Doodles. Here's the flickr group with instructions. She's currently on maternity leave but go ahead and bookmark her shop here and in the future you can get a tail all your own.

SNOW!

2008-02-27T07:27:00.000-08:00

It snowed today, so we went out this morning and playing the the snow as our "project" for today.

This is a Weird one!

2008-01-30T13:03:00.001-08:00

This time we picked out her stuff and I have to say, it's pretty weird! Not real sure what else to say about it. No harm was done to the Maria Osmond doll while making this piece:)

Big Head Monkey

2008-01-24T13:57:00.000-08:00

I did my part from yesterday's Woogie Wednesday today. I took her big head and made it into a big headed monkey. I've been doing some different illustration work with found objects similar to this. So that's it. We're off to the circus where I don't know if there will be monkeys or not. If it was up to me, I'd say bring them on!

Big Head - in progress

2008-01-23T19:53:00.000-08:00

It's Wednesday again and time for Woogie Wednesday. It's about 9:45 P.M. now and I've been going full force since 4am, but wanted to show a "ww" in progress.

I had several deadlines today and I knew I wouldn't have time to do a "ww" project so while I worked I had the Woog work on her part of the project. She made several drawings of heads and then started drawing apples (with arms and legs) like crazy. Not sure what they deal was there but she was excited about them so I was too. So, this is the "Big Head" I chose to use and I will add my part tomorrow:

to be continued...

Fee-Fee McGee

2008-01-20T16:43:00.000-08:00

Originally posted on January 16, 2007

It's Wednesday again and time for Woogie Wednesday. This is where we make one of my found object (Junk A Doodles) pieces.

Here's what we started off with:

I then asked her, what should we make out of all this?
"Diamonds" she said with a smirk on her face. She was wearing a "diamond" ring and she wanted something to match.

I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do, so it took me a while to figure it out and in the meantime she lost interest but did check on me from time to time and hand me pieces of junk to use.

The best thing I could come up with was a cat with diamond stripes and diamonds on the collar. I also did a few stitch lines and am calling it Illustration Friday this week too.

Here's how it turned out:

I'm still working on the Woogie Wednesday site, but prints should be up for sale over the weekend if not before.

Chicky Duck

2008-01-20T16:41:00.000-08:00

Originally posted on January 9, 2007

It's Wednesday again and time for Woogie Wednesday. This is where we make one of my found object (Junk A Doodles) pieces.

Here's what we started off with:

I then asked her, what should we make out of all this?
"How 'bout a DUCK!"

OK. I guess we both have birds on the mind today.

She starts picking out which parts will be what and paints the head, beak and paper punches random bits, while I paint the background. She them turns her attention to doing one all by herself and confiscates 2 of the pieces. She made a mouse and thought it was hilarious that I took a picture of it:

And here's how it turned out:

And then here's out finished product. more of a chick than a duck. It would make a cute Valentine's Day card I think.

I'm launching a Woogie Wednesday site next week and we'll be selling prints of our pieces, so stay tuned!

Bow holder

2008-01-20T16:40:00.000-08:00

Originally posted on December 27, 2007

We didn't get a chance for Woogie Wednesday yesterday, so we worked on our quick project today.

The Woog received some pretty awesome hair accessories for Christmas and we needed to make a special holder for them. Here's our materials:

*still working on lighting in my studio for pictures

And here's how it turned out:

These are all from Pretty In Paper and I love, love, love them!! Definitely unique!!

Handmades

2008-01-20T16:39:00.000-08:00

Originally posted on December 19, 2007

It's Woogie Wednesday again and today we've been working on our handmade gifts from the Woog to go with our handmade Christmas.

Earlier this morning we had a "photo shoot" for her Daddy's gift and for some reason she has started flashing this really sqwinchie smile when I take a picture. This is one I think I'll do in black and white.

*This isn't the photo used as the gift though. That's a surprise.

Then we moved onto gifts for grandparents and such. The Woog loved our magnet project this summer so we are making a magnet set entitled "Smiles of 2007":

And then I had to figure out what I could make for my cousin's tween boys. Not an easy task. So I thought up these gross eye ball magnets to make. All boys that age have got to love eye balls!!

She has a few picture frames to decorate and then she should be good to go on all her gifts.

Our Snowman

2008-01-20T16:37:00.000-08:00

Originally posted on December 18, 2007

We finished up our snowman and our cards go out tomorrow!

Woogie Wednesdays are back!

2008-01-20T16:36:00.000-08:00

Originally posted on December 12, 2007

The past several (SEVERAL!) Woogie Wednesdays have consisted of deadlines for me or the Woog helping me measure, paint and whatnot in the new studio. We didn't do pictures of those days because it really wasn't all that interesting. But now, since the studio is done, this is the first Woogie Wednesday and really the first kind of art (besides those 60 illustrations I had due yesterday) that was done in the studio. And, since we've started late in the day it will continue into a Woogie weekend.

Today, we are working on our Christmas card. We're making a Junk A Doodles snowman:

And the Woog is loving her new studio space. Here she is while the paint is drying:

And I don't like to show a room that's not yet fully decorated (hopefully I'll be able to do that some tomorrow in between projects), but here's a sneak peek at one wall:

Generations

2008-01-20T16:34:00.000-08:00

Originally posted on October 3, 2007

It's Wednesday again and time for Woogie Wednesday! We did something a bit different this week. While visiting my grandmother and mom today, I took a 4 generations picture. Although she seems so big in so many ways, her little dimpled hands seem so small.

I want to junk my pumpkin...

2008-01-20T16:33:00.000-08:00

Originally posted on September 26, 2007

It's Wednesday again and time for Woogie Wednesday! today I'm also announcing a contest I'm hosting for Halloween. Pumpkin Junkin' I had this idea last year but didn't have the time to execute it. It should be lots of fun so won't you join in? All the details are on the site.

The Pumpkins:

The Junk:

The Final Product:

And Details of Each

Finally Done!

2008-01-20T16:32:00.000-08:00

Originally posted on September 10, 2007

Well, we finally finished up our pieces from here and here. Hope the little ones like them!!

Still In Progress

2008-01-20T16:31:00.000-08:00

Originally posted on September 5, 2007

Well, here it is Wednesday again and we're still working on the dog gifts from last week. I've gotten busy with work so we haven't been able to make much progress until today.