Heights of Folly

Another painting-dweller. (Photoshop sketch version.)

Where's O'Wald?

My sister has the amazing ability to glance down at a field of clover & almost instantly pick out a four-leafer. I've always wondered how she does it. Do they wave to her or something?

So in honor of Sarah, & St. Patrick of course, here's a crowd of ordinary shamrocks with one resident oddment waiting to be discovered.

Photoshop

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Leafnosher

Another being from the painting I mentioned...

Photoshop

Drifter

It's raining, it's pouring, & I'm imagining a little oddment hitching a ride along the gutter... life is but a dream.

Photoshop with text from a Ahn's New American Interpreter, 1923

This Island Earth

More tweaks & additions to the "Mysterious Series"... the first state of this one is here... not sure if there will be more.















{Edit: It can now be revealed that this piece was for a series of illustrated definitions/initials on the wonderful word-lover's website A Word A Day! This one illustrates the word "terrene."}

The original art & prints are available in my Etsy shop.

Days (& Days) of Wine & Roses

Yes, this is a piece I've posted before, but I really felt like it needed a little something more, so I added this garland of roses, which I hope will reinforce both the "pleasant fragrance" & "redolent of the past" elements of the definition.

Incidentally, this was redolent of my own past, since I seemed to get a great many overly-sweet, decorative, flowery jobs when I first started freelancing. Much as I love flowers, that rut got very boring very soon, so I did something of a rubber-burning U-turn away from rose-land, & I am painfully rusty with rose painting now! (As I'm afraid is obvious here.)

Not long ago I was contacted (via web) by one of those early clients who asked if I was the same Leah Palmer Preiss who used to do pretty things!  I had a good laugh over that one. I can wax nostalgic over many other things, but oh, I'm so glad I made that move.

Emergent Earthlings

Late again, & still unfinished, but since Isaac was asking for process shots I don't feel quite so bad about it! I'll post finishes on Saturday if I can get all my deadline work done tomorrow. %}

Acrylic on text on canvas, 6"x6"

Third in the mysterious series... all will be revealed anon!

Perfoliate

Is it an animal disguised as a plant? An oddment disguised as a "P"? Or a curiotype disguised as an entry for this week's IF?

Photoshop with text from Gray's Introduction to Structural & Systemic Botany, 1876

Julaceous

Ever since I first encountered pussy willows as a little girl I've had a soft spot for catkins. This particular (Curiotypical) species appears indecisive until one examines its terminal floret.

(Click if you dare.)

Photoshop with text from Gray's Introduction to Structural & Systemic Botany, 1876

Perennial Curiosity

I loved the quotation in this week's IF prompt:

“A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.” ~ Frederick Seitz

I think artists tend to be the same way, don't you?

This curious specimen grew out of the painting I'm working on (with a few changes).

Photoshop, text & acrylic textures. Please click to see details.

Camouflage

You may have passed this oddment in the park without even realizing it!

Character for... you guessed it.

Photoshop & acrylic textures.

Mothroom

The other day, my cat was chasing a moth, & my husband remarked that they must be tasty appetizers for her, like little flying mushrooms. I immediately ran to the studio & started sketching! Of course this fellow eventually fluttered right into the painting I'm working on.

Photoshop with text & paint.

Home Sweet Home

Stuck in the house again...

Another tidbit from the painting I'm working on.

Photoshop, text & acrylic.

Ecosystem

Yet another sketch for the aforementioned painting!

Digital with elements from antique maps

Caution: Slow Painter

Another sketch for that multi-character painting. You know how artists sometimes sneak self-portraits into crowd scenes?

Digital with elements from old maps.