Blue self portrait

It seems that I managed to go the entire month of September without blogging. How did that happen, you ask? Well, as it happened, I only intended to skip the first week of September. Jon and I went to visit some college friends in Ohio and had a super fabulous time. We went to the Cincinnati Art museum, the Ohio Renaissance Festival and a little hippie town with lots of fun shops! We also spent plenty of time hanging out, playing games and eating food. It was wonderful to see everyone and I started missing them as soon as I got home.  Shortly after arriving home, our computer decided it was sick of being alive and bit the dust. We decided that, rather than buy a brand new computer which we couldn't afford, we would buy the required parts and bring our old computer back from the dead. The parts took several days to arrive and when we finally got them in the computer, it still wouldn't work. Several things were tried and failed, then retried and failed again. Having run completely out of ideas, Jon took the computer to a small computer repair shop and the guy there got it to work. Thus concludes my woeful tale of computer troubles and the reason why my last post was August 29th. 

Alright, enough talking! Onward to art!!!!!!! Here is a recent "experimental" self portrait. 

Not going to lie, I love the way it turned out!!!!!! It's watercolor/collage hybrid. If you look closely at the pictures below, you can see little bits of torn magazine integrated into the picture. 

This next one was also an experiment. 

It's pretty different from my "typical" collage technique. I tried to go for something that felt more like an object and less like an image. I think they have a kind of topographical quality. (Sorry the photos have a bit of a glare. They were already framed when I photographed them and it would've been a huge pain to get them back out again.) I recently submitted these to a local art show, but sadly, they were not accepted. When my husband went to pick them up, the lady there told him that she loved the pieces themselves, but didn't like the frame. Go figure? I was a bit annoyed, but also pleased that my artwork hadn't been the offending factor. 

Well, I've gone on long enough.  Have wonderous beginning of October!