art: March 2008 Archives
This is exciting. A friend of mine at work saw the Excel screencap of the needlepoint I made, and she runs analytics on artofoffice.com, which is a site where (mostly) Mac users flex their Microsoft business application software muscles to create art using Excel, PowerPoint, or Word. She made me submit my template, despite my PC-user status.
So I am now on artofoffice.com, lookie!
I'll be expecting an email from Mark Mothersbaugh (the site's featured artist) any minute!
So I am now on artofoffice.com, lookie!
I'll be expecting an email from Mark Mothersbaugh (the site's featured artist) any minute!
As a young child, my friend Matt wrote and illustrated an amazing fable starring a wolf, a crane, and a dove. It was ingeniously titled "The Wolf, the Crane, and the Dove." To read this riveting tale, go here. Important details to note:
Matt's birthday was in January, and I really struggled to come up with a good idea for a present for him. Anytime that happens, I always revert to what I call my "macaroni necklace tactics," and try to make something. From the heart. So I decided to make him a needlepoint with the catchphrase from his fabled fable.
First, I had to plan, organize, and graph out the gothic-style letters I nabbed from a needlepointing site. Back in my Girl Scout craft jamboree days, I would have used map pencils and graph paper. But I am no longer 1986 Girl Scout Halee. I am 2008 Web Analyst Halee, so I used Excel:
Then over my Christmas break, I diligently needlepointed the yuletide away. When Matt's birthday rolled around, I was done with the needlepoint, but hadn't had time to get it framed. So I threw this piece of fabric at him, and then immediately demanded it back. Note: I am currently angry with myself for not taking pictures to incrementally document the progress and make a time lapse animated gif.
Two months later...I finally got around to having it framed and viola! I was worried that a gray and brown feather didn't really match up with a crane and dove which are typically white. But then again, Matt's crane and dove were bright orange, so screw it!
- The wolf is shirtless, and wearing jeans.
- The artist has gone to painstaking efforts to show that they are not just any jeans, but Lee jeans.
- The moral of this fable is "Three can keep a secret if two are dead," which is pretty damn morbid and awesome for a 4th grader.
Matt's birthday was in January, and I really struggled to come up with a good idea for a present for him. Anytime that happens, I always revert to what I call my "macaroni necklace tactics," and try to make something. From the heart. So I decided to make him a needlepoint with the catchphrase from his fabled fable.
First, I had to plan, organize, and graph out the gothic-style letters I nabbed from a needlepointing site. Back in my Girl Scout craft jamboree days, I would have used map pencils and graph paper. But I am no longer 1986 Girl Scout Halee. I am 2008 Web Analyst Halee, so I used Excel:
Then over my Christmas break, I diligently needlepointed the yuletide away. When Matt's birthday rolled around, I was done with the needlepoint, but hadn't had time to get it framed. So I threw this piece of fabric at him, and then immediately demanded it back. Note: I am currently angry with myself for not taking pictures to incrementally document the progress and make a time lapse animated gif.
Two months later...I finally got around to having it framed and viola! I was worried that a gray and brown feather didn't really match up with a crane and dove which are typically white. But then again, Matt's crane and dove were bright orange, so screw it!
