guitar experiments

Hi!! sorry I have been kinda behind...thanksgiving was strange, but I did accumulate some craft supplies
here is a fish made out of tissue paper...which i think will work well on the face of the guitar which i am blacking out
also i have origami fish and cranes that i plan to adhere to the front to give a 3D sense
i plan to use beads and shlacked blue m&m's (which i have 2 pounds of) as bubbles
i am going to paint the side of the guitar blue and use paint pens to write lyrics that pertain to my theme of "something-i-havent-decided in the key of sea"
the octopus legs on the neck of the guitar i am thinking of making out of some kind of moldable substance be it clay or that crayola model magic stuff which i really like and probably wont be heavy enough to detach
i think i will put some type of garden item...maybe a sparkly sea cucumber or coral in order to suggest "Octopus' garden"
i am trying to think of ways to display other undersea songs in an obvious way
here are some pictures of some stuff..my camera is re-charging so i will try and get some more up by tomorrow
AND i will take some pictures of earrings and stuff so you can pick your hannukah present :-)
because i usually bring a box of jewlery to let my teachers pick..but since that seems difficult this year i am doing selections virtually

Oh and another thing...my aunt is a fabric designer and she is studying in japan....and she has begun sending me cranes hence the childrens book and i guess a tradition of making 1000 paper cranes...but she also sent me a bunch of origami paper and these really old japanese script books to cut into more paper and maybe some collages.... just thought that you would think that was interesting
if you want i will take pictures of the paper too...its neat

GUITAR IDEAS!!!

Ok so here are some of my ideas all of which have beaded parts....
the first is an undersea, the second a sunflower (which needs a backround color...im having trouble picking one), a periscope, a solar system, and a crystal ball/mystical.

The Arts and Crafts Movement

Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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William De Morgan
The Arts and Crafts movement initially developed in England in the late 1800's, and celebrated its heyday from 1890-1929. The movement gradually spread to America to become known as the Mission movement. Beginning as a means of bringing back the era of skilled artisans and craftsmen, the movement saw a revival of medieval styles and designs as artists and manufacturers grew weary of template, mass-produced items. In the United States a certain process was developed in which a product would be factory-produced in parts and then finished by skilled craftsmen. Notable artists included Gustav Stickley, Charles and Henry Greene, William Morris and Charles Voysey. The primary mediums influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement were pottery, metalworking and furniture.

Art Deco

Harry Clarke
metal door by Rene Paul Chambellan

The Art Deco movement occured in the 1920's and 1930's. The movement was essentially a modified continuation of the Art Nouveau movement and was heavily centered on design. Beginning with mass-production of furniture and art pieces on the horizon, Deco faded when mass-production gave it a trite impression and consumer's spending was influenced by the beginning of WWII. Similar to the Nouveau movement, Deco was influenced by both modern and ancient techniques and viewpoints. A new and different aspect of Art Deco was the obsession with geometric figures, which can be seen in the spire of the Chrysler building in New York City designed by William Van Alen. Notable artists of the Art Deco movement are Rene Paul Chambellan(sculptor), William Van Alen (architecture), Eileen Gray(furniture and interior design), Harry Clarke(stained glass, and book plates), and Cartier(jewlery and interior).

Art Nouveau

Toulouse-Lautrec
Alphonse Marie Mucha

Art nouveau was an artistic movement in Europe and North America from 1890-1914 going out of style with the outbreak of WWI. Paris served as a central hub of the movement with its avant-guard societies and its hosting of the 1900 world fair. Other notable cities were Brussels, Glasgow, Vienna, Munich, Turin, New York City and Chicago. A result of the rapid industrialization and urbanization transforming the western world, Art nouveau can be characterized as a polarized mixture of old-world spirituality and modern technology. Metamorphosis and human interaction with nature are recurring themes in the movement, as the forward-thinking art world had been inundated with horticultural and biological information since Darwin's publications of the late 1800's. Some of the most important and influential artists of the Art Nouveau movement were: Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Otto Eckmann, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and Hector Guimard. Personally, I love the work of another artist, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Alphonse Maria Mucha's work reminds me of nursury rhyme or horn book plates.

beginning :-)

ok so i think this should work pretty well...im gonna try and get a scanner up and running so i can get non-digital stuff up
and maybe i should put jewlery stuff up...just a thought