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Bellyday Wednesday 6/16/10

Introducing “Bellyday Wednesday”! I’ll be sharing my favorite belly dance performances found on Youtube. I’m trying to find ways to keep this blog active. One way to do that is to share my passion for belly dance with all of you!

First performance is from the Belly Twins Neena & Veena. Their workout video, Bellydance Fitness for Beginners, is what got me interested in belly dance.This particular performance is from their Beyond Basic Dance instructional video. They’re movements are so delicate, graceful and not big or showy. Enjoy!

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Experiments in Linoleum

Fun with printmaking! Revisiting my linoleum block to play around with color & texture. I wanted to create a gradient using red and yellow. However, the red is so strong it overpowered the yellow.

Below is the first result. As you can see, I didn’t put enough paint on the block. Plus, the paper I used is for watercolors. Unfortunately, I don’t have any decent printmaking paper. Anyway, I quite like the resulting texture. Delicious.

Next, I decided to try this thick, handmade paper and it didn’t take the paint very well.

Even though neither of these came out the way I wanted them to, I still like the result — mostly because of the textures.

Have you been experimenting with art, writing, or something else? Are you enjoying it?

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New: Self Portrait

I’ve always liked linoleum block prints but I haven’t created one since high school — about seven years. Whoa!

A couple years ago I bought a 4×6 Speedball linoleum block to play with but totally forgot about it. Well, just a couple days ago I found it and decided to take a stab at it. Two (not very serious) injuries later, here’s the result:

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daily365: Days 102-108 Mushroom House

For the whole week of April 12th to 18th, I dedicated my daily365 time to pixel art. I’m not quite sure if I want to finish this but I enjoyed working on this nonetheless. I was inspired by this Mushroom house cookie jar.

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The Daily Challenge is On – Again

After receiving encouraging comments from my previous blog post, I’ve decided to continue participating in daily365 even though I’ve missed many days — okay, one whole month! In this post, I just wanted to showcase stuff I’ve done recently:

For day 73, I continued working on the logo for my husband’s ceramic business. He sat down with me whilst I worked on this so I had a lot of input from him. I may tweak it some more but he asks not to make any major changes. If you’re interested, you can see the sketch and grayscale version.

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