H. Buchholz - Portrait of an Artist

sketch for painting??

2012-01-06T16:20:00.002-06:00

Still can't decide... painting?

Homeschool Art Week: Wassily Kandinsky

2011-12-16T16:14:00.002-06:00

Everything starts from a dot- Wassily Kandinsky

Homeschool Art Week: Chuck Close

2011-12-15T12:49:00.001-06:00

STAIRS (so far)

2011-12-14T13:11:00.003-06:00

I can't decide to let well enough alone OR if paint splats are needed....?

Homeschool Art Week: Friedensreich Hundertwasser

2011-12-13T15:43:00.001-06:00

What's NOT for dinner.

2011-06-06T14:31:00.001-05:00

I actually LIKE mac n chee in a box.... some folk around here won't eat the mac made with "cheese flavored foot powder". huh.

still wrecking the journal

2011-06-05T12:10:00.001-05:00

Three years later and I am still wrecking my "Wreck this Journal"...destructive but, really slow.

watercolor pencils

2011-06-03T14:22:00.000-05:00

In the works

2011-02-17T10:05:00.002-06:00

A few sketches for a painting idea....

Random

2011-02-13T17:27:00.003-06:00

Went to this site :http://andrewbosley.com/the-brainstormer.html
for the random brainstormer and made this:

2011-02-08T12:36:00.000-06:00

T-shirt weekend

2010-10-17T21:33:00.003-05:00

Made 2 stencils out of sheets of acetate and used screen printing ink to make this outta this:

Sit Down

2010-10-15T10:22:00.001-05:00

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau

Explore

2010-10-13T21:51:00.003-05:00

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time. - T.S. Eliot

more&more&more...

2010-06-13T15:10:00.005-05:00

LAST BATCH OF PRINTS FOR THE WEEKEND. MY ARM IS REALLY SORE! I NEED TO START LOOKING FOR AN INEXPENSIVE PRESS.

Prints

2010-06-12T17:52:00.004-05:00

Doing a bunch of linoleum block carving and pulling prints this weekend!

Modeling Clay

2010-06-11T16:08:00.007-05:00

The girl child's creations:

The boy's creations:

2010-06-10T13:29:00.000-05:00

the wall

2010-04-13T22:19:00.001-05:00

NEW HOBBY!

2010-03-22T21:49:00.003-05:00

As if I need ANOTHER hobby! But, I am a sucka for anything art or anything craft-esque! This is the scarf I made for my Mama for her Birthday!

postcards from paradise!

2010-03-01T14:03:00.001-06:00

Tougher Knees!

2010-02-28T18:52:00.003-06:00

An endless quest to keep daughter's knees hole-less. Last week, I ironed a patch on before school and it came off while playing "cats" before her ride even came!
This week, re-ironed the patches as best I could and attached them all around the 'seams' with fabric paint....

2010-01-18T21:38:00.002-06:00

wooden purse...soon.

2009-11-08T15:38:00.001-06:00

PANTS!

2009-10-12T20:39:00.007-05:00

These were slightly too short and had a hole in one knee... and were boring.

Knee problem solved for now! Look beads~ oooooH!

Insert name here:

TA DA!

Lino Printing

2009-09-13T15:48:00.011-05:00

Decided to do a lino print this weekend and got a little busy! I wanted to do something Autumn like and for some reason I thought of a crow or blackbird as being Fall -ish, maybe the Halloween thing. This is the first (and only so far) print of the bird... not sure if I need to do a little more carving or not. The image is about 8x8.

For this one I used an image from one of my paintings of Dan's shoes, 4x6 or postcard size...
I've always warmed the linoleum in the oven a little (175-200 degrees max) to make it easier to carve but, on this one, I accidentally put them in a 350 degree oven! The linoleum bubbled and even when completely cool, it peeled a little (not to mention it smelled NASTY). It turned out pretty decent considering...

The trees I just drew the image right onto the linoleum and started carving... was having a ard time wrapping my head around the negative image/ mirror image thing on this one. I think it would have been cool to do opposite of this and print with white on black. Printed 5 of these, postcard size.

And last, I had a leftover scrap that was perfect ATC size (2 1/2 x 3 1/2) so... waste not want not, right?
Quidam is both everyone and no one, somebody, one unknown.

So Damn Cool

2009-09-12T14:36:00.003-05:00

Street artist who leaves TINY installations around London.

http://little-people.blogspot.com/

2009-09-01T22:28:00.000-05:00

SAVE THE DATE!

2009-06-15T15:28:00.003-05:00

ART SHOW OPENING!!!

Holly Buchholz
July 7, 2009
6-8 pm
Gladstone Community Center
Gladstone, MO. 64118

light refreshments and a cash bar available!

The show will run for 6 weeks, if you can't make the opening!

I AM BUSY!

2009-03-24T15:26:00.004-05:00

wet paint

2009-03-17T21:11:00.001-05:00

Wondering if this looks ANY different from the last posts....

tomato progression (so far)

2009-03-10T15:04:00.002-05:00

Finished?

2009-02-11T09:36:00.003-06:00

I'm thinking this one is done....?

Season of gift making!

2008-12-05T19:20:00.005-06:00

Last year was the first time ever that I did not hand-make my Christmas cards and I know several who were dissapointed. So this year, I went back to making them myself... I carved some stamps out of rubber and used them on these nice patterned cards that I found on sale at the craft store! These are a small sample....If you're on my list, they won't be a surprise except maybe WHICH one you get!

A mess...

2008-12-03T09:47:00.002-06:00

2008-12-01T14:29:00.000-06:00

a new painting....

2008-11-13T15:23:00.002-06:00

Remember the Dead...

2008-11-07T12:29:00.003-06:00

CARVE...

2008-10-23T12:00:00.002-05:00

Carved out a little time to play...

Nervous...

2008-10-22T13:00:00.002-05:00

For Inspire me Thursday...
What will my fortune be......

Is is it "excitement and intrigue follow you wherever you go!"

Or "sorry you are not a winner."

At least it comes with dessert!

HELLO!!

2008-09-08T12:40:00.001-05:00

Been a while...

Designed and made this t-shirt over the weekend.

Cruddy picture but, you get the idea.

Plaster

2008-07-25T10:51:00.002-05:00

My daughter and I are making these into charms for her backpack! School starts soon!

Celebrate...

2008-07-04T12:24:00.001-05:00

Andy

2008-06-01T15:13:00.004-05:00

First image was made by burnishing transparency film onto colored canvas with acrylic gel medium.

Second image is spray painted from a stencil I cut out of cardboard.

Coloring

2008-05-20T10:10:00.005-05:00

If you are a perfectionist or overly self critical of your works, if you want to write, keep a journal, scrapbook, collage or do art...if you are like me and wouldn't dream of dog-earing even your cheapest novels, if you are like me and get the "terror of the blank canvas"....I would highly suggest that you run right out and buy Keri Smith's "book" called "wreck this journal". And make a vow to follow all directions, no matter how insane they sound (make the vow BEFORE you peek).

I've been having too much fun with this.

MY DOOR!

2008-05-08T10:59:00.007-05:00

I asked my father-in-law to create a piece of stained glass for my front door and he made THREE!! I chose this first one to put in the door and the other two I am going to mount on the wall right inside the entryway! I love them!!
Here is the view from the outside:

The view from the inside, in daylight:

These are the other two:

Art collaboration video!

2008-04-09T10:04:00.001-05:00

My 100th post! whoo hoo
For those from IMT...there is a peace sign in there.

take action

2008-02-26T11:18:00.000-06:00

Unfinished Faces

2008-02-12T09:29:00.000-06:00

and yet another one...

2008-02-07T11:26:00.000-06:00

OUT of the comfort zone...

2008-01-20T22:23:00.000-06:00

Computer as an art material, I'm not even comfortable with the terminology. Computer art? I'm extremely comfortable with the computer but, have never gotten the hang of using it as a tool in the creation of art. I barely had the hang of paint shop pro 6, (and saying barely is really generous of me, I'm talking about knowing how to size my images and adjust my poorly lit photos... )when I got PSP 11 and I gots NO idea...whenever I try to do something that I think should be really simple, I usually end up frazzled, hours later, having exhausted every foul cuss word in my vocab, without the results I wanted!
This is from a painting I did a while back. I bravely opened the PSP 11 and played around with the image until I all was cussed out and I thought this looked pretty cool...
I have no idea how people make such amazing images using the computer, especially using ONLY the computer, am I missing something?

Welcome to the comfort zone

2008-01-14T13:36:00.000-06:00

I like painting things that turn out just as I've planned, no "happy accidents". It's comforting to sit and think "that would be a cool painting" and then do it, knowing it will turn out the way I wanted it to. Many years and hours and broken pencils lead me here. And I know there is still a long way to go, things to learn, techniques to master, so that my art will grow as my style or imagination grows or takes a different turn. But, I've been at the beginning and it's very frustrating to have the vision without the skill. It takes time and it is worth it if you love it.
If this is a bad thing for an artist, then I am surprised there are so many courses and workshops, college programs and lectures, how-to's and instructional books out there. Isn't this what we want? To work hard to achieve the skill needed to execute a project in the style we want? What's wrong with the comfort zone? It's so rare we get to be in it. I savor it when I can.

Tribute to 2007

2008-01-02T11:51:00.000-06:00

Just for Fun.

2007-12-28T15:49:00.000-06:00

Carved some shapes out of speedball rubber pad...stamped/printed whatever onto some blank greeting cards...

And now I can play...

Gratitude and Giving Thanks!

2007-11-21T10:06:00.001-06:00

Giving thanks for my awesome family, our health, good friends and a bunch of leftovers? Mmmm.

I'm also very happy to see the Inspire me Thursday(http://www.inspiremethursday.com/) site back up and running 'cause I think it's really cool, and there are a ton of really talented people who participate whose work I would have never seen otherwise, and last but not least, it really does INSPIRE ME!

Hope you all have a nice, filling (they don't call it stuffin' fer nuthin) Thanksgiving!

Fun with Windows Movie Maker...

2007-11-10T15:04:00.000-06:00

This is one of the paintings from the pear series... It's called "The Menace" and it is 12x12 Acrylic on canvas.

Happy Halloween!

2007-10-31T10:55:00.000-05:00

Some Pumpkin fun!
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/timages/page/pumpkin_sim.html

And our pumpkins!

Same hat ... new medium

2007-10-16T10:09:00.001-05:00

This is my hat for "Inspire Me Thursday". It is charcoal on bristol.
Below WAS my hat for "Inspire me Thursday" in colored pencil on a purplish paper...it was to be my entry before it became embellished with a streak of slobber and several purple scribbles....I left an unsecured purple pencil lying around, and the drawing in reach of tiny chubby hands...serves me right! The damage barely shows up in the photo but, I know it is there!
I think I like the charcoal one better anyway!

The Birds

2007-10-11T10:36:00.000-05:00

SQUARE.

2007-09-25T14:16:00.000-05:00

The theme for "Inspire Me Thursday" this week is "square"...coincidentally, squares are all around me. The vast majority of my recent paintings, for the past couple of years, have all been square. Most of them 12x12. I really love this size and I am definitely not done with it yet. The three "squares" above are three thick frames in my dining room that normally hold three of these paintings but, I took them out last weekend to wire them up for an upcoming art fest and the sad empty frames were just sitting there. The theme this week inspired me to temporarily dec these out... even if it's just a little while, it was looking pretty sad. So, I used some scraps from some artworks that my husband, daughter and I have been working on this week (and some of my daughters plastic animals). I wonder how long until she notices and if I have to give 'em back?

I also just realized that you don't have to really wait until THURSDAY to post for IMT! I still wonder how alot of people seem to get their homework done so early!!!

My new favorite thing!

2007-09-21T14:55:00.000-05:00

http://www.knittaplease.com/KNITTA_PLEASE.html
I can only hope to have my car antenna tagged someday!

ATC

2007-09-19T10:06:00.000-05:00

I've seen some really gorgeous and extremely elaborate ATC's but, for me, one of the biggest appeals to ATC's is that no matter how hectic life becomes, I can always commit to a 2.5x3.5 inch artwork...
There! Done! Whew! (pat myself on the back) I created something this week!
Here is my non-elaborate contribution to "Inspire Me Thursday"!

Inspire me again...

2007-09-12T14:17:00.001-05:00

Not sure if this is done or not...

Inspire me Thursday!

2007-09-05T11:20:00.001-05:00

Let's try this....?

2007-08-29T10:40:00.000-05:00

17 years...

2007-08-15T13:51:00.001-05:00

More carving blocks!

2007-08-14T15:38:00.000-05:00

I am using acrylic paint instead of stamping ink here... just to be able to play around with some colors.

These are all 'stamped', printed, what-have-you onto postcard sized scraps of various papers, soon to be mailed as friendly greetings!

I see how this can be so addictive because the combinations and possibilites are truely endless here....

The store at which I purchased these is currently out...and I was told that there are three on order. She's gonna need to order more than THREE!

who thinks this stuff up?

2007-08-09T21:18:00.000-05:00

I love it, it is called the scribbler and it's just like all the doodling you do on your phonebook but, it be AUTO-MATIC, baby!
http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/
Go there now and have a good time!

My new favorite thing!

2007-08-08T09:54:00.000-05:00

I came across a rubber carving block that I bought when we lived in Nevada...I had bought it, it promptly broke in 1/2 ,( of course I didn't toss it) ...Anyway, I ran into it again and carved it up with my lino-cut tools! OH! It cuts, as they say, "LIKE BUDDA"! I was so easy, smooth! I am hooked... I have already bought and carved another couple of pieces!

They are made by speedball (http://www.speedballart.com/) And I bought them at Michaels. here is the direct link to the product (http://www.michaels.com/art/online/displayProductPage?productNum=fa0410)

Big D

2007-08-01T09:08:00.000-05:00

Still needs some work... I figure I'll hear about this one, huh?

Sidewalk chalk again...

2007-07-30T10:55:00.001-05:00

Mina and I decided to make a zoo on the driveway Saturday morning...this is the only animal we got done before we were called in for breakfast...

It rained Saturday night.

And.... another.

2007-07-27T10:08:00.001-05:00

This is pretty theraputic...seeing a bit of progress makes me feel as if I am being more productive than I actually am.
I added a new art link the the right... check it out.

Slap another layer on that sucka...

2007-07-24T14:49:00.000-05:00

darker, darker, blah, blah, blah

While I am waiting....

2007-07-20T09:23:00.001-05:00

Started a new painting... actually, this is one of three canvases on which I had put a few marks on already... a couple little washes etc... and had set aside. Now, I am out of surfaces and patiently awaiting an order from Pearl paint. Good time to do some "finish what you started" stuffs.

And now...the other one.

2007-07-18T10:26:00.000-05:00

And Red....

2007-07-11T14:48:00.001-05:00

grey....

2007-07-05T10:32:00.000-05:00

lighter, brighter....

2007-07-02T10:32:00.000-05:00

Better weather today.

It's raining here today.....

2007-06-28T10:28:00.000-05:00

Ah, Sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun; Seeking after that sweet golden clime, Where the traveller's journal done; Where the youth pined away with desire, And the pale virgin shrouded in snow, Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my Sunflower wishes to go!

- William Blake, The Sunflower

Recycled Art

2007-06-18T09:49:00.000-05:00

feeling blue...?

2007-05-22T11:37:00.000-05:00

I got it all...

2007-05-08T13:22:00.000-05:00

Well, I got some stuff... but, now at least it is connected.

Website, (updated yesterday), blog(this one) and myspace are now all...as one.

Fun with...

2007-04-10T10:10:00.000-05:00

collage

Go & tell it to the trees, yeah.

2007-04-06T15:07:00.000-05:00

Yeah, the trees, those useless trees produce the air that i am breathing....

for the boy's (room)

2007-04-04T12:33:00.000-05:00

Starting a new painting...

and it goes like this: la la la

Next....

2007-03-28T13:29:00.000-05:00

Hand torn rags soaked in tea... wrapped this way and that... for the mummy whose tomb will most likely end up in a plastic storage bin with the Polly Pockets under my daughter's bed.

Eternal Life....

2007-03-27T14:24:00.000-05:00

This, yet to be named chunk o plaster, will be given the gift of eternal life by my daughter.... almost as cool as the gift of "make your own MUMMY" from Uncle Mike!

I love....

2007-03-20T10:52:00.000-05:00

How cool is Chuck?
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/218/popup/index.php?cl=2118501
(an interview with Chuck Close on Charlie Rose)

Getting there.

2007-02-08T10:31:00.000-06:00

Slowly, getting there...

Begin...

2007-02-07T09:19:00.000-06:00

Not sure that I like the blue backgrounds as well as I liked the purple... ? I am going to finish this one with blue to add to the one below but, it may be the last blue for a while....

Don't think I won't cut you!

2007-02-06T09:44:00.000-06:00

12 x 12

Acrylic

The baby is sleeping!

2007-02-05T10:18:00.000-06:00

It's nap time ... time to paint!

I missed a month!

2007-02-01T10:38:00.000-06:00

Happy new year!

Fa la la la la la la la LA!

2006-12-19T09:51:00.000-06:00

Oops

2006-12-01T14:06:00.000-06:00

I'm without the particular color of blue that I've used in all the other pear paintings to mix the green. It was a super-crappy cheap-o tube from a little set that I bought for my daughter to play around with and I just really liked the blue and tried it out. Somewhere between here and Nevada, I've lost, tossed or used it up... now what to do?

Pine Cones

2006-11-21T10:59:00.000-06:00

CHRISTMAS CARDS!

2006-11-16T10:30:00.000-06:00

If any of you are thinking about ordering Chrismas cards, now is the time! I've already got a couple orders in the works and I am a little slow-going this year with the whole, you know, screaming baby thing going on!

CORRECTION!
The link to the Canstruction slideshow in the post below is NOT the 2006 winners but, just a sample of some past 'canstructions' (see comment on last post). Sorry, me type too hasty! If you take the link and look at the 2003 winners, there is a supa-cool portait of THE KING!

It's CANTASTIC!!

2006-11-15T13:35:00.000-06:00

http://www.canstruction.org/slideshow.html
I love this! This is the link to the slide show of the 2006 winners of "Canstruction"... which is a design competition, whose sculptures are made entirely out of canned food that is donated to local food banks! Brilliant!

Swivel

2006-11-14T10:20:00.000-06:00

Not producing much lately... why?

2006-10-19T10:07:00.000-05:00

Dr. says it's called "colic" ...
Damn