Art and Cornfields

Visual artist, part-time educator, frequent daydreamer

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So many hunky unicorns on the museum's shirts for walking in the Pride parade.

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Peninsula Arts with Plymouth University

Currently listening to the Moby Dick Big Read. I can’t decide whether the best part is the variety of readers’ voices or the links to awesome Moby-Dick related art with each chapter, but it’s very early days yet. Right now, Tilda Swinton is telling me all about the instinctual human desire to go to sea.

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Making patches for Girl Scouts at the museum!

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New portfolio site! I’m excited... and still working out some kinks.

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Experimenting with some quick and dirty paper marbling methods for work. Normally you would blend methylcellulose and water into this really gloopy mix, drop inks into that, and then rinse the excess gloop and ink off of prepared paper, but I wanted to cut down on the number of steps. 

The oil and food coloring method was definitely too oily, but on my second attempt, I tried thinning out oil paints with gamsol, and that worked pretty well.

Some of the links I used to start with:

http://billnye.com/billnye_resource/marvelous-marbling/

http://www.rookiemag.com/2013/01/diy-paper-marbling/

http://marbleart.us

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Cool art and cooler people at Cartoon Crossroads Columbus. (Thank you Kate Beaton!)

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Photos from Monday-Wednesday, when I got to take a workshop on plein air painting. Loved the chance to paint all day!

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Also...

Overcast (rains even when the sun is shining), 2015. 4.5″ x 6″, acrylic on paper, ink, and color pencil.

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Alas and So Cool, 2015. both 4.5″ x 6″, watercolor and ink.

Some of the small drawings I’ve using to experiment with calligraphy.

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The Whale art round-up in honor of seeing other cool Moby-Dick based art.

From top to bottom:

The Zen of Queequeg. 2012

Cetology. (in progress)

The Whale prototype 1. (2012)

Bonus:

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Moby-Dick night

I made some very embarrassing noises in my cubicle when I found out that Wild Goose Creative was doing a “Art of the Leviathan,” a Moby-Dick inspired exhibit and a month’s worth of events, but I didn’t do much research about the events besides getting them on my calendar, so the Why Read Moby-Dick panel at Wild Goose Creative tonight was a great surprise. The discussion focused on Moby-Dick’s relevance today from four very different perspectives, which was fun to listen to while surrounded by art based on Moby-Dick. I have to admit, listening to Dr. Renker and Matt Kish talk about their own experiences with the book was a real highlight.

Next up is the round-the-clock Moby-Dick reading on Saturday.

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Making tiny Superhero lairs with the interns at the museum. Shockingly, mine is the ocean themed lair.

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Collage in progress.

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Want my art on stuff? I'm now selling prints and printed products via Society6.

From now until March 8th, you can get free shipping worldwide on my art using this link:

http://society6.com/michelleboerio?promo=3TKJ89N7QNCN

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Seraphim, March 2015. Watercolor, found paper, acrylic, nails. 

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the Condom Boutonniere Adventure

An acquaintance asked if I would make boutonniere's for the MC's of a condom based fashion show. I said yes, because my last words will probably be, "Sure, how hard can it be?"

This is basically what happened:

wow, that's a lot of condoms now what?

Sewing = yes, hot glue gun = not so much. This could take awhile.

The leaves are tissue paper over cardstock. I added pearls to some of the flowers, because pearls are classy (nods innocently).

... and flowers-- just don't try to use them as originally intended.