I went through a decidedly 'curly' phase during that time - everything I was doing was, well, curly - I was working almost exclusively in pen/ink - and everything, no matter how simple or elaborate, possessed many curls.
I wanted to take the time to say that I really appreciate this blog hop! I love the challenge of a weekly assignment - somewhere I read that limits create larger freedom by eliminating needless, distracting options - this is something I strive for in my life & which I find plenty of in Creative Tuesdays. Almost more than other blog hops it seems to instill biographical/memoirish moments which are satisfying to me at least LOL!
Speaking of 'curls', I've been a bit of a TV bunny lately (online anyhow) because I've been 'stuck' doing a lot of admin/computery-type stuff - I can only focus with noise in the background - so, I wanted to share something I bizarrely ran into yesterday as I was working on a facebook page (please visit my page!!! please like!! it's here)
the show was Toddlers & Tiaras. Plenty of curls to be found there!!!!! (roll eyes)
At one pt in my life I would have boycotted this sort of show - I mean, gee whiz - here's the almost misogynistic objectification of women and early indoctrination into outdated gender roles - not to mention other icky icky stuff. Fundamentally, I find NOTHING GOOD about this show, or really, about the people who buy into the lifestyle (one woman comments with no sense of irony "after all, I had kids so I could put them into pageants") - but, eliminating critical distance ... it doesn't seem so bad... just children wanting to look pretty. Pretty silly, though, no matter how you slice it. It did get me through a particularly boring stretch of image uploading, so it did its job anyhow.
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11 comments:
wow, love your curly piece Alicia, it's fabulous!
My daughter loves Honey Booboo, an addictive freak show according to the newspaper, and I think I agree!
I was just thinking how Creative Tuesdays is a nice small co-op, almost cozy! I like that too.
A fabulous curly piece! He reminds me of the wizard in the wishing booth in the Tom Hanks movie Big. :)
Oh your masked gentlement is very mysterious. Fun to revisit previous works!
Very mysterious..I think Betsy got it right... I remember that from Big.
So much detail...nice.
The detail is amazing! Well done!
perfect for the theme. it reminds me of a painting of a face that was made entirely of fruits - can't remember the name of the piece but the name had a similar look.
have a great day.
Well, Alicia, I can;t speak to the show b/c I don;t have a TV but yes, def curly here! Lol. Liked your comments on CT too. TY!!
Oh, and i also don't have FB so sorry there too. i did check it out though but don;t really get FB that much since I don;t use it. :)
outstanding drawing. The curls are so intricately designed, came out really well. Love the write up, the structure is a good thing for creativity, I found that odd at first, but understood pretty soon there after. My mother watches all those type of shows, I just find it kind of off putting the way the mothers force their little girls into pageants and the like. But I guess for those kids that really enjoy it, probably a lot of fun. Just some parents can really take things overboard, guess it's like that with any passion a parent has. Great post. Thanks
Love your curly take for this week. Very intricate and clever.
intresting piece!
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