There are a few new things in the shop.
new owl
work in progress
I’ve got lots of work in progress. I’m making birds and owls like nobody’s business. There will be some new things in the shop later this week.
Bertha Whimsy Emerson
This is Bertha Whimsy Emerson.
She’s maybe, probably, gonna be half of a bride and groom pair. The picture below is taken through the view finder of an old Yashica-A camera that belonged to my mother and hasn’t been used in years and years. It still hasn’t really, the picture was taken with my digital cannon of the image in the view finder of the Yashica. If I wasn’t such a tired bird maker I’d tell you all about it, it’s my new favorite thing to do.
There are pictures of the Johnson Christmas window coming soon. Here’s a little preview.
pretty colors
I hit the vintage seam binding jackpot yesterday at the flea market. I love this stuff and it was almost free.
drop back and punt
That’s where I am with the Johnson Christmas window. About 75 % of what I was working on, planning on, failed dismally in the final stages so I started a lot of it over. It’s all working now but I had planned on installing it this morning and instead not one single thing, part or element is actually completely finished, also I need, or would very much like, white paper confetti ( the old timey kind) and I can’t find it, if anybody knows where I can get it in fairly large quantity in NYC I’d be eternally grateful. Here’s a preview for WIP.
Happy Thanksgiving.
my cup runneth over
This is the very beginning of the Johnson Shop Christmas window. It will be going up shortly (hopefully very, very shortly MJ) after Thanksgiving. I don’t have it exactly 100 % figured out yet but I’m ridiculously excited about making it. I’ll share some more work in progress shots next week.
celeste
I have neglected my blog and I’m going to have to continue to neglect it for about another week due to extreme busyness. After that I’m going to paper mache my ass off and make lots of birds and a bunch of other stuff I can’t wait to make and update the shop which is in dismal condition and get back to my old posting routine.
This is celeste who is very dolled up. She and some other birds went to Solocedros in San Diego last week.
rita
I sure do like making a little bird or something and then taking it’s picture
in a mini forest set. I sure do.
one last bit of creepy
My new boxes came today and I really like them.
The bird on the box is one of the miss johnsons. She’ll be in the shop next week with miss brown (below) and some other birds and things I’m working on.
A last bit of halloween creepiness. It’s a couple days late, I know, I had forgotten about it and just happened upon it this morning. It’s a tiny ridiculous little animation experiment and it’s a mess, but I had a good time doing it and I love an experiment. Last winter I saw Street of Crocodile’s and some Jan Svankmajer for the first time and was fascinated by them. I still am. I have an immediate gratification problem so I wanted to try to animate something right that instant. I made this creepy little greeting with stuff that was handy, my cannon power shot and i movie. I had a ball. When I get a little time I’m gonna experiment some more and if I ever get a bunch of time I’d like to really learn to do it properly.
(Don’t expect much, it just waves at you. Creepily. That’s it)
Happy Halloween!
morning
Part of the mess I made yesterday looked sorta pretty this morning. The whole mess isn’t so lovely but this is generally a nice place to be, a nice place to work. If it was twice as big I’d probably never leave.
I got the branches and some leaves and acorns (it’s a very good year for acorns, last year was a wash-out here) in Prospect Park yesterday after the flea market. I needed them for some pictures I want to take and something I’m making.
fleamarket/thrift report: mini hammer, little silver spoon with a ship on it, a cigar box and another thing I’ve already started to make something with, I’ll show it to you later.
*note on felt birds*
Little felt bird packages went out last Thurday so hopefully they’ll arrive in a day or two.
