by leslieakf | Jan 18, 2016 | Image making
One day last summer I had to kill a lot of time in a windowless waiting room, and I was restless and bored out of my mind. I can read on a plane for 6 hours without looking up, but this was a long stressful day spent in a really dull and uninspiring space. Then I remembered reading somewhere about boredom being good for creativity. Maybe it was here. So I decided to try and channel my boredom into something creative using the tools at hand, which naturally, was my iPhone
I took a bunch of abstract photos of cropped sections of magazine pages, and then ran the photos through the Waterlogue app. Waterlogue makes your image look like a pretty great watercolor. Here were the results:
by leslieakf | Dec 30, 2015 | Painting
In September 2014, my family and I traveled to Newfoundland, the homeland of my father’s side of the family. It was a fantastic trip. We went out to a gannet reserve at Cape St. Mary’s, on a particularly windy day. My brother is a birder, so he was on a quest to see the gannet rookery, and it was quite a marvelous place.
This is from a photo that I took on the walk out. The actual painting is 18″ x 24″ and the photo is not really doing it justice. I gave the painting to my brother for Christmas, though there’s not a bird in sight. (They are all down at the rookery.)
by leslieakf | Nov 4, 2015 | Clipping file
I was going through an old file today and discovered this gem, courtesy of House & Garden, June 1997. It’s just quite possibly the greatest room in the world (minus the animal hides).
I searched for more photos of the Walter Seligman residence, but could only find this one, from the Library of Congress:
More research is required to determine if this house still exists.
by leslieakf | Oct 21, 2015 | Collage
While I was taking a collage class over the summer and was struggling with a really overcomplicated collage that was just not ever going to come together, one of the other women in the class passed my table and pointed to the scraps left over from whatever I’d been working on. “That’s cool,” she said. So I glued them down.
It could be cropped a couple of different ways. But it just goes to show you that less is often more.
by leslieakf | Oct 12, 2015 | Watercolor
I worked out in my back yard a few weeks ago, and just whipped out a ton of stuff, following one idea after another. I always end up doing patterns, as a former textile design student. Out of that pile of stuff, these were the two pieces that I liked the best (below).
