This is actress Lalla Stanhope. The only information I can find is in a book from the Harvard Library dated 1911 stating she was a stage actress around 1908.
I think she is embracing the time she had on stage :)
(45 layers!)
I took a few days off from the physical art journal… but tonight felt inspired to try something different…
I purchased a bunch of trading cards on ebay years ago and they just turned up while digging for something completely unrelated. The cards are pictures of turn-of-the-century British actors and actresses… This piece is inspired by a picture I have of “Miss Dorothy Dix”. I couldn’t find anything about her online… but it’s possible she was married to a British Actor named Jameson Thomas. Jameson was fed up with British Film Industry and moved to Hollywood. He lived in Sierra Madre… which is just minutes from Pasadena. Small world :)
This piece has over 30 photoshop layers. I had to make myself stop :) I would love to print it and add more dimension with glitter and other fun sparkly things… I’m thinking a set of greeting cards… hmmmm? :)
It’s 67 degrees and windy here tonight… we have the windows open to enjoy the clean, cool breeze. I love this kind of weather! Halloween is just around the corner!
Bow to the very large cupcake topper… one single hydrangea bloom… (are they edible? I can’t remember)
And the little people desperately trying to climb mount cupcake, an afterthought… I think they should be animated. The obsessive little cupcake people.
I relate to you little obsessive cupcake people. And I’m here to tell you… it’s okay, obsess.
Stan Kong would be pleased ;) (A few of you remember him from PCC &/or Art Center)
I first did a few studies of the flowers in pencil from looking directly at the arrangement. Then I took a picture (below) and worked off the picture. It wasn’t that it was terribly hard, it was just time consuming. It was nice to have a challenge.
My new rule here is if a “hurricane” is coming, I’m going to get a bouquet of flowers, and possibly draw them :) 1 down… hopefully no more to go ;)
The other thing I was trying to do was pick only 3 colors to work with and mix them to make other colors. It sort of worked… but it takes some planning.
I may just hang this in my kitchen :)
As I do more art journaling, I have been spending more time on each page… I feel that doing a page a day has loosened up my wrist and the anxiety of creating. It’s like starting an exercise regiment, actually… the first 2 weeks are hard then it starts getting a bit easier :) oooh, I hope this becomes a habit :)
