Wednesday, August 24, 2011

{LIVING LARGE} Hover Craft Meeting at Ashley's

HoverCraft is in the works! Applications are going live September 5th-October 3rd on the HoverCraft Blog. Artists are announced the week after that! Stay tuned by visiting the HOVERCRAFT BLOG

Cortney, Alyssa, Ashley and I met at Ashley's 3rd floor loft apartment in Walkers Point. When you enter a room and expect your eyes to stop at a wall, it is always a pleasant surprise to not see one inhibiting your view. The walls around the outside were more like eye asprin than regular old eye candy. Ashley and her fiance must have been curators of a museum in a past life.

Forward
Ashleys loft

Going Global
Ashleys loft

Diner
Ashleys loft

Lounge
Ashleys loft

Flu Clinic Parking Only
Ashleys loft
Ashleys loft

Window to the World
Ashleys loft

High and Mighty
Ashleys loft

See more pics HERE

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

{SAVE WETLANDS} Sky High Skateshop/Gallery Temporary Mural Project 4th ed.

Around 10 months ago I began a weekly project to draw portraits of endangered species using a specific centrally balanced format and limited pallette that formulaically popped and included a garland frame associated with identity shields. EGRET, POLAR BEAR

Not being able to decide what animal deserved the most attention, I instead went to biomes.
sky high gallery mural design idea
I researched a list of Wetlands Habitat plants and animals.

My final image starts with individual elements that are pencil sketched and then inked, then scanned. data
The resulting images must be "closed configurations" which means that they have a "closed circuit" contour line enclosing the entire "object." If they are not, they can be corrected in photoshop.
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In this way, objects can be individually selected by selecting the negative space around it, then selecting the inverse of it.

Each object is pasted into the new composition on its own labeled layer, transformed and arranged, thus "knitting" the composition together in photoshop. This was a progress report on the image layers
mural progress report

Final images can have hundreds of layers, which i keep separate the entire time rather than flattening any of them.
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This image was then saved as a flattened object, and taken to kinkos to get a transparency made.
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Luckily i have a pretty sweet hallway to work on this. The wood needed to either be installed somewhere or stretched on a frame. The projector has to be far enough back to focus properly. I drilled it in to the brick. Now for the fun part. Actually painting!!!
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Here is the border finished with and without the projector. data

Fun to see progress when you turn off the light.
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Stay tuned! The mural goes up next week Thursday, ready for the friday Fine Line 4th Edition party at SKY HIGH

xx, v

Monday, August 15, 2011

Aug-Oct CRAFT and EVENT CALENDAR at LOOK NOOK!

Craft Nights at LOOK NOOK are free, and may require some basic supplies. Please check the calendar descriptions or bring a project of your own!
**please NOTE: No Craft Nights Sept 3rd and Sept 17! Please see alternate
events in chronological order below.

SATURDAY AUGUST 13TH
CHOPTOP™:
Ponybeaded fringe trim and ladderwoven slash mesh, makes a no sew bandana or croptop. Bring your own tshirt.

SATURDAY AUGUST 20TH
INTERSECTERS™:
Intersect insects with the intersecter. Back yard fun for hours with a stick, a wire, and some stitched mesh. Supplies included.

SATURDAY AUGUST 27TH
KURTSY™:
Kutely Kut Kurtains (AND BANNERS)! Chop old sheets into new cool curtains in a snowflake manner with scallops and cut-aways! Bring an old sheet or hankies will be provided for a small banner.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3RD
NO CRAFT NIGHT!
MADE IN MILWAUKEE FASHION SHOW AT CATHEDRAL SQUARE PARK

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10TH
CORTNEY Heimerl ART OPENING AND CRAFT NIGHT!
PLAITRAITS™:

Pen engraved portraits on small styrofoam plates, ink brayered, stamped, and embellished. Bring a loved one or a portrait of one.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17th
NO CRAFT NIGHT!
**NINE WEST VINTAGE AMERICA
DENIM CUSTOMIZATION BOOTH AT
CARSONS YORKTOWN MALL IN CHICAGO 11AM-1PM

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 24TH:
FLAURETTES™
Faux flower and feather flair! Use deconstructed fake flowers, feathers, felt and hot glue to make fresh barrettes! Bring what have you.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 1ST
BLANGLES™: Beaded bangle bling. Pile beads on a spiral wire strand to look like many bracelets in one! Bring beads to share.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 8TH
***Last day of EAST SIDE GREEN MARKET!
WINDWELLERS™
Wind telling dwellers! Make a mini windsock! Turn it into a creature. Then, laugh.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 15TH
Regular shop hours resume!
HUGE FALL VINTAGE SALE!


FRIDAY OCTOBER 21st and SATURDAY OCTOBER 22nd
GALLERY NIGHT/DAY
Cortney Heimerl

Craft Calendar August-October
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

{QUEEN ANTIQUES LACE} Ann and Flame's House

Ann Powell is a local lifetime collector of antique and vintage clothing, textiles, paintings and housewares. Over the years she has graciously imparted many items to me, knowing that my appreciation for them will not set them to waste. Yesterday I came to her house to help her set up her online shop Queen Antiques Lace on etsy, and enjoyed roaming her home and yard gawking at the items in and around her eastside museum of a home.
Anns yard
Anns yard
Anns dining room