Jan 19, 2013 | Art & Design, Photography projects
I’m working on props for another light table live art piece. I need to make some birds that I can move across the light table to pick up seeds. I saw this photo in my friend Tonya’s Instagram feed, and it immediately inspired my tissue paper black birds!...
Jan 13, 2013 | Art & Design
The live chalk art was created by adding people’s names to the two side panels, which are 4′ x 4′. The names were collected as people walked by. These panels took 6 hours to finish and were done during weekend services at Preston Trail Community...
Jan 10, 2013 | Art & Design
I will be doing a live chalk drawing at church this Sunday for a series called Kingdom Come. The name of the message this week is Names. Last night, I decided to play with my hard pastel sticks and the names of the disciples. (Yes, I’m aware that there are 13...
Jan 5, 2013 | Art & Design, Photography projects
My car is in the shop, spending many days away to get its oil well (it’s way past leak) fixed. I decided to get a little exercise and walk to work yesterday. There’s not much exciting stuff to look at during a 3 mile walk in suburbia, but I always find a...
Jan 4, 2013 | Art & Design, Photography projects
Here’s a radical example of what you can do. This tree took about 15 minutes to create. These photos were all edited (played with) in different iPhone photo editing apps. Most of these apps are free, or very low cost. Go download and play! ...
Jan 3, 2013 | Art & Design
Is it real, or is it Memorex… I mean digital? I’ve been into the iPad painting and art. There are so many great apps to play with! Our family gift this year was a box of Prismacolor pencils, and I wasted no time getting those out to play with. The tree...
Jan 2, 2013 | Art & Design
Yes, we “colored” dinner. We used several colors of food coloring, some liquid, some paste. Each color was prepared in a separate bowl. This wasn’t my first time doing this. Many years ago, a friend of mine was trying to install a car stereo. I...
Jan 1, 2013 | Art & Design, Photography projects
I had a photo idea. I asked my friend to take a photo of me against a concrete wall. Well, I was asking for the impossible. It was almost dark out and very cold too. Not that the cold had anything to do with it, but it was a motivating factor to get the heck...
Dec 31, 2012 | Art & Design |
My kids and I went to see the Posters of Paris: Toulouse Lautrec exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art. (I admit, it was my second time to see it) At the end of the exhibit, they have an interactive station where you can create your own poster. My first one was done...
Dec 30, 2012 | Art & Design, Photography projects, Stop motion
This was a photograph I made in art class about 8 years ago. This was taken with my Nikon 6006 film camera and processed in a darkroom at the school. The print is on matte paper, so the paper takes oil paint and colored pencil easily. This dumpster was...
Dec 29, 2012 | Art & Design, Scanograms & Photograms
This is a digital mixed media painting. The entire image was created with digital media, starting with a scanogram of vintage objects, and ending with a photo editing program. Step #1: Scanogram If you’re not familiar with a scanogram, it’s basically a...
May 28, 2009 | Marketing & Branding
I’ll be leading a breakout session this year at ministryCOM.org, September 10th and 11th. Would you like some great ways to do marketing and media in your church on a small budget? Take a look at ministryCOM! There are lots of great breakout groups to enhance...
May 21, 2009 | Marketing & Branding |
Last night I went to dinner at one of my favorite local restaurants, Andrea’s. The owner, who has referred to me as ‘the bad economy lady’, said a lot of people have been asking about BADecono.me. So what is BADecono.me, you ask? It was our Easter...
May 17, 2009 | Graphic design |
Laura Hairston, a most talented singer is releasing her first CD entitled BIGGER THAN YOURSELF. Upcoming CD Release… 6:00 PM, May 31, 2009 @ Preston Trail Community Church, Frisco, TX All proceeds go to the kids of Casa Hogar Elim Orphanage. I had...
Mar 10, 2009 | Graphic design, Marketing & Branding
Our church building was originally a computer chip manufacturing facility, which gives us a nice industrial decor, but very limited parking. In our efforts to get a lot of people in for Easter, we asked our regular attenders to come on Saturday night. Our most cool...
Sep 9, 2008 | Marketing & Branding
The most simple answer is that you have to be more creative. Anyone with a large budget can throw money at a marketing campaign. Now, I’m not saying that anyone that has a lot of money to spend is doing it unwisely. What I am saying, is that you have to be a...
Oct 1, 2007 | Artistic insanity, Just for fun |
This wall is my favorite wall. It’s painted a nice Florida shade of pink. It’s a wall in my art room and it’s painted pink because I could paint it pink. I don’t have anyone to tell me I can’t paint it pink. It’s a random wall, full...
