Monday, June 23, 2014

M is for Maid Inchie

Hm.  When I saw 'maid', the first thing that entered my head was Ann B. Davis, Alice from The Brady Bunch, who died this month on June 1st.  Isn't she the quintessential maid?  One thing I just cannot do is to draw a portrait of someone specific, so I decided to do a photo collage but I don't have a working printer, so I went digi.  She's a tiny little thing and I did it completely electronically using a couple of different photo editing software programs I use.  Is this cheating?  Hope not!  I know I could have some more fun with it if I had a printer - at least some embossing or something on the final print out, but you gotta go with what ya got. Here's to you, Alice!


... and here's to Every Inchie Monday who keeps us inspired!

Thursday, June 19, 2014

L is for Lavender Inchie

Well, I have to say that this week I didn't want to think outside of the box.  I actually really like lavender, the flower.  I find it awesome that this week happens to be lavender... the same week that the lavender festival is taking place in Southern California.  Unfortunately, I can't make it to the festival, but how fun that this is our theme!

Because I really like lavender, I wanted to attempt to paint them as a watercolor instead of finding some obscure way to depict lavender.  My watercolor experience is um, this and that beer I painted, so I have some things to learn, but I really like working with watercolors and I want to do more with it... you know, like actual sized pieces?  haha  .  No time this week to do a make up inchie, so my lavender:


Now I can finally head over to Every Inchie Monday to see the rest of this week's offerings from all of the Inchie artists.  I bet a lot of us stayed in the box with these gorgey flowers.

Sunday, June 8, 2014

L is for Legal Inchie (& I is for Implausible)

Well, as you know, I've been MIA.  Whoops.  Maybe it was because I got "stuck" on implausible.  Maybe it was because I went through a rough patch where I just didn't have the energy.  Maybe just a combination of things.  But, I seriously don't want to give up on my inchies and so I'm here!  I'm back!  And, because I don't want to skip any, I'm going to work on hitting those I missed when I do the current ones.

Today, I offer you L is for Legal (Okay, I'm starting to feel like Sue Grafton here!).  When thinking about "LEGAL" you just sort of think of the usual things like a gavel or scales or a judge, etc etc.  I wanted to do something a bit more than that.  When I really thought about "LEGAL" it made me think about those things out there that cause such an uproar in our world, so I stepped a little outside the box on this and decided to depict some of those controversial subjects.  Three pretty common debates taking place right now:  guns, same sex marriage and marijuana.  Should they be legal?  Shouldn't they?  Who decides and why?  And how does FREEDOM relate to these decisions?  I can't answer all of the questions and this is not a place I want to spend debating, but these are definitely things in our world that we have to consider, so I give you my Legal Inchie:


Oh, and since I have a little catching up to do...  what feels implausible tonight?  Well, with my recent poor showing, it seems a little implausible that THIS GIRL will put out 52 inchies this year...  here's those 52 that at the moment I worry about myself actually doing.  I can, though.  I know I can.  Implausible?  Maybe... we'll see, won't we?


Don't give up on my Every Inchie Monday!  I'm still here!