Tag Archive: “art”

A quick purple marker portrait of Margaret Atwood.

Posted on Sunday, March 18th, 2012. Tags: art, weekendartifacts.

Weekend Artifact 6: Play-Doh Bust

I need to do more of this. Very fun.

(Scale: about two inches tall.)

Posted on Saturday, March 10th, 2012. Tags: art, weekendartifacts.

Weekend Artifact 5

Update: I have chopped and channeled this portrait to ameliorate a case of artist-induced horseface. See if you can find the seam!

Posted on Sunday, March 4th, 2012. Tags: art, weekendartifacts.

Weekend Artifact 4

Painting with pencil on a graphite canvas.

I like to draw faces in profile. It’s easier, yes, but I think there’s another reason as well. My doodles are often based on photographs trawled from the web, and it seems the camera is more likely to capture a candid expression when the subject isn’t looking directly at the lens. Almost everyone affects an expression when they know they’re posing for a picture, be it serious or hammy or coy. Those faces are a lot of fun, but I am more interested in unfiltered appearances. Even a face in repose can convey some feeling or story – perhaps that’s what the artist reveals.

That’s getting a little too artsy fartsy for my taste, though. Just look at the pretty pictures!

Posted on Sunday, February 26th, 2012. Tags: art, weekendartifacts.

Weekend Artifact 3: Spider Plant

Posted on Sunday, February 19th, 2012. Tags: art, weekendartifacts.

Custom Kindle Screensaver Images with kite

The Kindle comes with a set of “screensaver” images that appear on the screen when the device is asleep. Most of the images are portraits of famous authors; a few are images of other artwork. All are appropriate choices for the cover of a reading device – but I’d rather use my own images.

Out of the box, it isn’t possible to customize the Kindle screensaver. However, there are couple of unsupported tools that can enable this feature. I tried installing one called kite and was pleased to find that it worked as described. So I picked out some old drawings and now my Kindle’s got some fresh new faces: