LoveArt

 

My glam-girl love-card series…
The Eddie Deck






 

The Love Chakra-Mandalas


 

The Wolf Pack












From Easter Sunday
April 2019

 

New GirlArt Jacquard Style (for a Series)
June 2019

NEW~ September 2019

A spirit self-portrait

Friday, September 13th, 2019

Maybe more birds?

The “Wolf Pack” go out drawing again…
France~ Saturday, October 5th, 2019
…with my Dad, Steve!
~~2 new cards~

Juicy Drink
Sunday, October 6th, 2019

Ornate, luscious, leafy…
*Lotus~Tulip~Rosebud
Sunday, October 6th, 2019

Nin~Katia Chess Queen ~ Oct. 2019

Cero’s Personification as a Purple & Green Gerbera Flower
Markers on a 4 x 6 inch card
November 3rd, 2019

 

Kid’s Cards

 

The Freedom Deck


 

Evo’s Lovestory

 

The Andrew/Spider-man Story



 

Lady Black- Ocean Eyes Love Photo Sequence, August 17th 2013

 

Marc-André’s famous Montréal graffiti art finally done on paper as love art with Alicia while she drew, too, 2013. Meant as love art all along!!!!

 

Love springs eternal
Taz, Jazz, Flint!

Marc-André drawing the cards

I drew on his hand…a heart with Cupid’s arrow through it

Me and Marc-André, October 2013

 

Friends’ Art Cards, May 2014


 

Brandon’s Deck, April-May 2014



 

EMO DECK. Spring 2015 to January 2018. Ongoing.










 

Automotive Love Sequence. January 2018.

 

Super-strong Nature Art Cards by Mikhail. January 2018.

 

Super-strong Love!. January 16th 2018.
Disney’s John Smith and Pocahontas
In love…but who is my John Smith? aka Dreamwalker

 

Whale Eye. January 28th 2018
Ugh… I buy wedding rings for men that won’t show up.

Me

Rings I have, photographed on my thumb. Its blue topaz, and tungsten carbide inlaid with abalone

 

Love Art Photo Sequence. Photos of me by me. January 29th 2018

 

The LOVE-Bracelets. April-May-June… (ongoing) 2018



























 

 

Batik Bone Beads – How Are The Designs Applied?

Batik Bone Beads are predominantly the products of Ghanian and Kenyan tribes-people, however the process itself is said to date back to 4th Century B.C.E Egypt.
Batik Bone Beads History

Originally a means to apply pattern to cloth, the process was adopted within African tribes to apply stunning, contrasting designs to beads and accessories – often symbolic of regal, or higher social status.

The intrinsic colors of these African Beads are brown and white, with a bold design such as the Eye Design Batik Bone Beads, within The Bead Chest “Bone Beads” category.

Traditionally, Batik Bone Beads are made from the bone of agricultural animals such as cow or camel. Some are bleached using a simple dye and heat process, whereas others are allowed to darken with age prior to designs being applied.
Batik Designs

Designs would be carved into the bone using a sharp implement such as a craft knife or stone. Exceptional craftsmen would create the design during the wax-resistance process, painting on swirl or circular motifs with clear beeswax.

Beeswax is vital to the Batik dyeing process, due to it’s resistant properties. When applied hot to bone beads, it would be allowed to dry briefly – sinking into the bone, coating it with a laquer finish that dye could not penetrate.
Batik Dyes

Batik dyes are generally developed using natural resources such as tree bark, sap and plant extract. Darker blue/ black dyes were created using flowers from indigo plants. The Bead Chest’s Peacock Design Batique Bone Beads are a beautiful example of the stunning contrast that could be achieved.

Compared to the Batik cloth-dyeing method, Batik Bone Beads required little in the way of preparation prior to the dyeing process. Occasionally, bone may be boiled to soften it slightly – thought to make it more absorbent for dyeing, and more adhesive to wax.
Bone Bead Qualities

Bone beads also tend to be extremely polished – a process done prior to, and post-dyeing. The length of time a bead would remain dipped into a dye depended upon the effect to be achieved.

Starkly contrasting colors of brown-black and pure white were achieved by leaving the bead to “soak” for longer within the dye. The multi-tonal chestnut brown of our Kenya Bone Beads is achieved by a thinner wax application to the bead, prior to dyeing.
Batik Bone Bead Shapes

Batik Bone Beads come in a wide variety of shapes and colors, however cylindrical and circular beads were popular for tribal jewelry and accessories. At The Bead Chest, we stock an abundant variety of Batik Bone Beads – so why not familiarize yourself with some the most traditional designs including our Zebra and Polkadot Batik Bone Beads.

Learn more about Bone Beads
African bone beads come from Ghana, Africa. The design on the black and white bone beads is created through a dying method known as “batik”, which is a wax relief process. These African beads are strung on raffia and worn as is, but many beaders use these beads as the highlight of their creation.

Natural Bone Beads from Africa

Bone beads have a long history on the African continent. Bone is one of several natural materials that have been available in Africa for millennia including wood, stone, and clay. Bone beads have been made throughout the African continent including East, West, and even South Africa. Historically, bone beads may be made from any number of bone sources including ivory from different kinds of animal tusks or antlers. Other natural materials similar to bone used to make beads include horn, ostrich eggshells, marine and freshwater seashells such as clams, and also coral. Bone is unique among bead making materials due to both its strength and because it can be carved by hand and polished into many different shapes and sizes. Bone is also relatively lighter than similar size beads made from glass or metal.

One of the best-known varieties of bone beads is the Mudcloth Bone Batik from East Africa. Kenya in particular is a major producer of Batik Bone Beads. These beads are usually made from Cow or Water Buffalo bone that is first bleached and then patterned. Patterning is achieved by a special method where wax is used to apply a dye based on any one of a number of traditional geometric patterns. These designs may include stripes, dots, swirls, and other decorative motifs. Because each bead is individually patterned, this gives each piece a unique flair. The variety of different Bone Batik design styles makes these beads a versatile addition to any bead or jewelry designer’s bead chest and adds a great natural touch to any project.

Another type of bone bead that is made in Africa is the Snake Vertebrae bead. Believe or not, these beads are actually made from real snakes! Such vertebrae may be the inspiration for other Snake beads that have been made with glass that capture the same characteristic interlocking shape of real vertebrae. Such beads can be a lot of fun to work with. Likewise, fish vertebrae that tend to be more cylindrical and have also been used to make African Beads. Fish Vertebrae beads are amazingly light to wear and can be integrated into many artistic beaded pieces.

 

 

 

Fashion; Alicia the designer… June 11th 2018
…& the Venus photographer..
…&r.. my eye changed color

Alicia the photographer… June 11th 2018

Puzzle Project. June 22nd 2018
Birthday gift for my guy friends: magnetic puzzle. Its a marker drawing that I made then cut! (…& it goes on the fridge!)

 
 

Sunday November 3rd
Men personified as flowers
Flower Deck

Cero’s Personification as a Purple & Green Gerbera Flower
Markers on a 4 x 6 inch card
November 3rd, 2019

Eddie, in process



My love~
My Eddie☆
My Ké♡
As a flower~ ♤
Sunday, November 10th & Monday, November 11th, 2019

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS3hbkyUNp8

 

Keanu as a Blue Hanging Flower (DRAGON)
with his Egyptian eye & his portrait eye
4 x 6 card
marker drawing
Nov. 2019
Color-corrected for the color blue in photography

Flower Deck

 
 

Wednesday, December 4th
Nikki Carello as a flower
(its not finished yet~)

There’s a three dream story to this one~
☆☆☆♡♡♡◇◇◇♤♤♤

“At night, I was dreaming of the type of flower I was going to draw… I saw the design in my head, and saw flower vines that used to grow at my grandmother’s ranch; purple ones. Then I said aloud that I lost it; it was like I lost the design all of a sudden.

It was a psychic dream; the next day I found something… an artwork, with flowers, and flumes even, that I then identified as art by my ancestor, Raphael, a.k.a. Velasquez, aka Jacques Cartier (aka Steve H**ding)

The flowers were like my dream!

Yesterday, I went out drawing, and I managed to remember all my ideas, despite myself. ~When I looked at my first flower and realized I had done it exactly like all the things I had envisioned ~and it was done exquisitely beautifully”

Hallmark Raphaels

I had seen the star design of the petals, the overlay, & the flutes

Very very beautiful

opens vertically

gilded message

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

They’re the Hallmark flagships~

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sunday, December 8th, 2019
Nikki Carello as a flower
(~its finished now!)

My best boyfriend, Nikki Carello, Tsitsi, Titian~ namely, as what I came to call a “balloon” flower
~Nikki personified as a purple and blue star flower~

a closer look

 
 

Wednesday, December 11th, 2019
Presentation of the four flower cards together~ flower,,

Cero, Ed, Keanu, Nikki

~on my leopard-print wool scarf

 
 

Wednesday, December 11th, 2019
Jade & Éric, as birds~ as birds alighted

I changed from flowers to birds!
Jade & Éric
(left right)

exotic birds

beauties

Putting in the time…
Clear (& artistic!) shots of my bird art~card
♡♡♡♡◇◇◇◇
There is much ado in my imagery.
Jade is the color jade
He has his Jade gemstone glass ring jewel
He has armoured wing strength
His colors and markings are exotic; as is his eye
He has a grip on his branch, but his toe is clawing upwards
Once in a blue moon
Éric comes to alight!
Jade heralds what is perhaps a friend
Their pride comes together
Éric has beautiful coloring, and a showy long tail
It’s quite beautiful
His eye is as an Egyptian in a tomb
Has Jade guarded his branch from Éric?
Jade’s tail is placed in

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVW6wJ7MYDM

 
 

Friday, December 13th, 2019

I had to plan the composition of this drawing very carefully!!!!!!

Everyone wanted to see more of the bird’s~

Not done… yet ○●

 
 

Wednesday, December 18th, 2019
Kaleidoscope art~ …there are now two bird cards! Go Marker Drawings!
Watch my finished work dance & swirl as I present it!

Postcards

They are two-sided postcards~
a picture on each side of the card

I finished my drawing; my beautiful bird drawing

looking in, close-up

The pair of bird marker~art cards shown together


 
 

Monday, May 25th, 2020
Trumpets
Dads’ Deck!

These are White & Yellow Tiger Lilies, yet drawn as heralding Trumpets of blessed Love

The gray in the drawing is actually a metallic silvery marker; this photograph catches the light to make it reflect

 
 

Thursday, May 21st, 2020
I found some art supplies!
A new set of pens… plus a box of 100 4 by 6 cards… like for the Eddie series, when it began… for free!

Eddie Card~
“Our funky family tree”
~in our blue-pink tradition
In sunshine and in shadow

 

Dads’ Deck! 4by6
May 25th 2020











 

Blue Box of 100 Dads’ Cards

 
 

Katia & Nin Lovestory~special pages
(posted June 9th, 2020)



 
 

5by7s~special pages
(posted Friday, December 16th, 2021)

“I was drawing again last night….”

Glowing Christmas Tree 5by7 Artcard


































Blue Dolphin Alicia
5×7 Artcard Blue Dolphin Self-Portrait

 

Wednesday January 11th 2023
Betty Boop Bubbles
Out the door… quick selfies sequence

The “Betty Boop” shot~

 

Thursday January 12th 2023
~”Goodnight” ☆☆☆☆☆

The one I published last night

Big Hair in the Mirror

 

Wednesday, February 15th 2023
Here I am asking for magenta/fucshia/deep pink roses♡….
The florist called them “hot pink” !!!!
Photoset #1

Photoset #2

 

Thursday, February 16th 2023

Photoset #3

Photoset #4

 

Saturday, February 18th 2023
Flowers,,,, flowers,~ flowers….

Hot Pink Dozen Long-stem Roses Photoset #5 (yesterday, at night)

~they are in the kitchen sink so that the cat doesn’t knock the whole thing over!!!!

Incubus – Love In A Time Of Surveillance (Lyric Video)

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