Angela Yoder

She Came Out of the Closet

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Early Century Dos Chicas circa 2007–Little sweet purse made an appearance out in the world today for the first time in god-knows-when. She was warmly receipted.

A custom order came out of the venture! Huzzah! or however you spell it… 🙂

Shoulder purse with Sacred Heart
’cause that Catholic stuff is still in me. 

Close-up
The Hamms will love her Buddha. What am I talking about??

Olympia Loves XVI

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Yet another reason I love this goofy town; Theater. Collaboration. Diva-free zones.

Come see Bunnicula running through October 16. It is super-fun!

Front Row: Amaya Eckel, Andy Gordon, Sam Cori
Second Row: Shelle Riehl, Ted Ryle, Bunnicula, Angela Yoder, Steven Wells
Directed by Pete Kappler

Kindergarten Art

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Inspired by thoughts of Spring I thought I’d share this idea. Sorry the pics aren’t the best. My digital camera is dead so my phone camera is all I have right now. After weeks of heavy winter sub-freezing temps and snow like Olympia hasn’t seen…ever, I think, I remembered this fun activity and made a friend a birthday present. It was one of my all-time favorite art projects in school. Did you do this in kindergarten, too? 😉

Materials needed for making this project:
scissors
sheet of regular or craft paper, any color
wrapping paper with an image you like or
draw one of your own 😉
Mod Podge or Elmer’s Glue
Unsharpened Pencil, Chopstick, or Pen
2 inch x 2 inch tissue paper squares (or other lightweight paper) 

Ability rating: Super Easy. Hey, I made my first masterpiece at age 6! *grin* Here’s how I did it:

My mom sent me a Valentine’s Day gift all wrapped up in pretty paper with hearts and daisys. I cut the squares apart and used a purple daisy as my “base”. I glued it to a piece of journal paper and let it dry.

Then I took a tissue square and put my pen in the center of it. I wrapped the tissue around the pen so it looked like this…

Then I dipped a little glue on the flat bottom of the tissue and placed it on my pattern. I held it in place for a few seconds to help it set, like this…



It’s best to start in the middle and work your way out and around. Place the tissue as close together as you like. You can even change the dimensions of your squares if you want. Some of my squares were cut bigger than others so the surface is uneven, but I kind of liked the look of that. Here’s a photo of the pattern before I started gluing and the finished product….

Pretty, huh? As you can see I took artistic license and used green, orange, and red ’cause I felt like it. I tore out the journal paper that I had glued my pattern on and then cut around the square. I gave it to my friend that way, but you could try using something to hang it up. She really liked it and she’s a kindergarten teacher so this was the perfect gift for her! 

One thing to mention is that your pen, chopstick, or pencil will start to get glue on it since the tissue is so fine. I just rub the glue off with my fingers or a rag. If you happen to do a project inspired from this, share it! Or if you come up with a great display idea, share that too. I would love to hear from you.

 Spring’s a comin’. Hang in there and make something beautiful for someone…everyone you know needs it more now than ever.

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“Pay it Forward 2011: I promise to send something handmade or homemade to the first 5 people who leave a comment here. The item will be of my choosing and I have until Dec 31, 2011 to get it to you. You must in turn post this and send something you make to the first 5 people who comment on your status. The rules are that it must be handmade/homemade by you and sent to your 5 people sometime in 2011”

2010

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I won’t go into the past year and a half. Let’s just say it was a really rough time and I am getting back to work. 🙂 Yay me

I am concentrating on Dos Chicas again and have some fun, new ideas to incubate.

Copyright infringement?

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AP photo 2006 Mannie Garcia\Shepard Fairey

Here’s an article about one artist using a photograph that was taken by another. This is a very good example of how sticky this issue can be: Calif. artist sues AP over image of Obama.

Personally, I feel “do unto others as you would have done to you” was unfortunately overlooked. It would have been wise, and respectful for Fairey to talk to Garcia first about what he wanted to do and seek permission. Credit should have been given to Mannie either way because that is the right thing to do. I honestly feel, more than ever, that we artists need to respect each other’s work. See my earlier post on copyright.


What do you think?

Olympia Loves II

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feb-the smell of rain in the soil
thick mist over crowds of tall pines
when it feels like snow, but not quite
damp dirt, but not quite mud
sun sets a little later everyday
bigfoot is hiding around here
somewhere

Design Book Arrival

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Remember when I told you the good news about a AvA Publishing wanting to include lovely Lorraine in it? Well, I received my copy of PRODUCT DESIGN: IDEA SEARCHING in November, but I just now posted this draft. It is a beautiful, slick-looking book. I am quoted with words of wisdom (ha). This was a really big deal for me.

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