tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29107926617900835272012-01-19T15:16:33.815-08:00when i was a child, i loved to fingerpaint. the feel of the paint squishing between my fingers, the texture of the paper, the vivid colors. the freeform of the medium was also appealing---i had never felt confident as a visual artist, except in that format. years later the 21st century has provided me with another medium: the computer, and the open source platform OpenOfficeOrgsookietexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05065893491004805131noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910792661790083527.post-17834083959839921772006-10-04T18:05:00.000-07:002007-08-28T14:59:47.318-07:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/1600/pottery2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/320/pottery2.jpg" border="0" alt="sookie's pottery2" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2910792661790083527-1783408395983992177?l=sookiescanvases.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sookietexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05065893491004805131noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910792661790083527.post-36648255082356694572006-10-03T17:27:00.000-07:002007-08-28T14:26:35.066-07:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/1600/sookietexFont_f2.jpg"><img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="sookie's custom font letter f" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/320/sookietexFont_f2.jpg" border="0" /></a><strong><span style="font-family:courier new;">duplication of shapes and colors yielded a custom font</span></strong><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2910792661790083527-3664825508235669457?l=sookiescanvases.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sookietexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05065893491004805131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910792661790083527.post-31427177434284685902006-09-07T16:40:00.000-07:002007-08-28T14:46:28.357-07:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/1600/gemini_mercury2.1.jpg" target="ext"><img alt="sookie's gemini mercury" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/200/gemini_mercury2.1.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:courier new;">foreground: alchemical symbol for mercury<br />background: microscopic image of the element mercury<br /><br />both my maternal and paternal grandmothers were geminis. one of my siblings is a gemini. i am a gemini. this image is part of a slide show i made for a birthday card for my sib.</span></strong><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2910792661790083527-3142717743428468590?l=sookiescanvases.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sookietexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05065893491004805131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910792661790083527.post-62148194049114140072006-08-29T15:03:00.000-07:002007-08-28T14:54:18.869-07:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/1600/storage.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/320/storage.png" border="0" alt="sookie's hassock" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2910792661790083527-6214819404911414007?l=sookiescanvases.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sookietexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05065893491004805131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910792661790083527.post-23542319438000185042006-08-29T14:17:00.000-07:002007-08-28T14:58:39.242-07:00<strong><span style="font-family:courier new;">This is the original photograph that i found at </span></strong><a href="http://www.pbs.org/edens/tasmania/sympathy.html" target="ext"><strong><span style="font-family:courier new;">PBS</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-family:courier new;"><br /></span></strong><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TZ4zYEBSw1I/RtSP31-Md_I/AAAAAAAACFE/YMmHoB2jQUs/s1600-h/tazmanian_devils.jpg"><strong><span style="font-family:courier new;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103862467261134834" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="The Tasmanian Devil" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TZ4zYEBSw1I/RtSP31-Md_I/AAAAAAAACFE/YMmHoB2jQUs/s320/tazmanian_devils.jpg" border="0" /></span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-family:courier new;"><br /><br />that i tweaked<br /><br />and resulted in my Pollackesque image shown below</span></strong><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/1600/devil_n_details.0.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="sookie's devil_n_details" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/400/devil_n_details.jpg" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2910792661790083527-2354231943800018504?l=sookiescanvases.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sookietexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05065893491004805131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910792661790083527.post-79150399679863214772006-08-28T11:10:00.000-07:002007-08-28T14:57:03.134-07:00<strong><span style="font-family:courier new;">This started out as a pentagram...hit the wrong keystroke, and this was the result. While not the original intent, just goes to show mistakes <em><u>can</u></em> be salvaged.<br /></span></strong><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/1600/pentcurve3Drotate.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="sookie's pentcurve3Drotate" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/320/pentcurve3Drotate.jpg" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2910792661790083527-7915039967986321477?l=sookiescanvases.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sookietexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05065893491004805131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910792661790083527.post-60512119129012073572006-08-28T10:35:00.000-07:002007-08-28T14:55:59.167-07:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/1600/aniheart.0.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/320/aniheart.0.png" border="0" alt="sookie's aniheart" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/1600/magenta43D.0.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/320/magenta43D.0.jpg" border="0" alt="sookie's magenta43D" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/1600/magentanumb4.0.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/320/magentanumb4.0.png" border="0" alt="sookie's magentanumb4" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2910792661790083527-6051211912901207357?l=sookiescanvases.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sookietexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05065893491004805131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910792661790083527.post-71627669615771833142006-08-28T10:08:00.000-07:002007-08-28T14:53:06.741-07:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/1600/3Dspa_pillow.0.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="sookie's 3DSpaPillow" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/200/3Dspa_pillow.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:courier new;">is it a donut? is it a balancing apparatus for strength training [after having eaten too many donuts?] is it a pillow? is it all of the above?...that's the beauty of abstract; it can be anything you perceive it to be.</span></strong><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2910792661790083527-7162766961577183314?l=sookiescanvases.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sookietexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05065893491004805131noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2910792661790083527.post-13417741455356168072006-08-21T10:18:00.000-07:002007-08-28T14:51:06.869-07:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/1600/brightgoldenhaze.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/320/brightgoldenhaze.jpg" border="0" alt="sookie's brightgoldenhaze" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/1600/cake.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/320/cake.jpg" border="0" alt="sookie's cake" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/1600/psychDfloppy.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/320/psychDfloppy.jpg" border="0" alt="sookie's psychDfloppy" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/1600/workerBee.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2503/355321369847422/320/workerBee.jpg" border="0" alt="sookie's workerBee" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2910792661790083527-1341774145535616807?l=sookiescanvases.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>sookietexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05065893491004805131noreply@blogger.com0