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<3 Kara
20 November, 2012
18 November, 2012
Sunday Surprise: Baby Theavy Sketch
Good afternoon y'all!
My husband and I are on our reading date again at Local Coffee, so I figured I should do a quick post while I have the chance!
Today's Sunday Surprise will feature a sketch I did while in drawing class back at Pacific Lutheran University. In that class we had a sketch book that we had to draw in with pen everyday; each page should look like we spent at least 20 minutes on it. The point was to keep your drawing skills flowing and by using pen, you have to be intentional about every stroke. If you messed up, you would just have to work with it.
This one is a sketch of my cousin Soktheavy. She's a bit older now, but this was her in 2010!
What do you think about this exercise of drawing in ink? It sure does have a risk element in it, but it forces you to commit to every stroke. I hope you like this sketch for Sunday Surprise!
Have a swell Sunday, and see you later!
<3 Kara
My husband and I are on our reading date again at Local Coffee, so I figured I should do a quick post while I have the chance!
Today's Sunday Surprise will feature a sketch I did while in drawing class back at Pacific Lutheran University. In that class we had a sketch book that we had to draw in with pen everyday; each page should look like we spent at least 20 minutes on it. The point was to keep your drawing skills flowing and by using pen, you have to be intentional about every stroke. If you messed up, you would just have to work with it.
This one is a sketch of my cousin Soktheavy. She's a bit older now, but this was her in 2010!
What do you think about this exercise of drawing in ink? It sure does have a risk element in it, but it forces you to commit to every stroke. I hope you like this sketch for Sunday Surprise!
Have a swell Sunday, and see you later!
<3 Kara
13 November, 2012
Tutorial Tuesday: Making a Draw-string Baggie!
Good evening everyone!Today' tutorial is a brief walk through of how to make a draw-string baggie! I just learned it in my sewing class today (it's the 2nd class, so I'm not very advanced). It's super cute and easy to make, even if you don't have a sewing machine.
I didn't feel comfortable recording video during class, so I don't have any video footage to show you. So I will just have to talk you through what we did, with the help of some pictures.
On the left is the finished product. You will need a rectangle piece of fabric (long side twice the length of the short side, so a 1:2 ratio), solid color or patterned, it's really up to you. In class we were provided with white fabric and choice of ribbon (I chose green of course!).
If you use a patterned piece of fabric then you won't have to sew decorative stitches across like mine. For white or solid color fabric, and if you have a sewing machine with a variety of stitches, definitely sew some decorative stitches on.
With rectangle piece of fabric, draw a line 3.5 inches from the top of the short side. For horizontal stitching, we marked 3 more lines, below that line, each 1.5 inches down. The markings were made with markers that could easily be wiped off with a damp cloth. There are other markers that fade over time.Then sew the decorative stitches along those lines. You can see some of my decorative stitches on the left.From this point, you can leave your edges raw, or you can sew some zigzag stitching along the edges to keep them from fraying. I sewed zigzags along all 4 sides of my rectangle piece.
Then fold your rectangle up in half, wrong side out. Sew the two sides down with a straight stitch, leaving the top open.
Next, still with the wrong side out, fold the top opening down to meet the 3.5" line you drew (and/or sewed a decorative stitch). Pin and sew along that edge, then sew another round half an inch away from that towards the opening. This will create the path for your ribbon (observe image on the right).Turn your bag right side out now, and observe the sides where the stitching is. Between the two lines you made earlier, rip that bit of seam on each side using a seam ripper. This will create one opening on each side for your to slide your ribbon through.
Cut two pieces of ribbon of the same length, and the length should be about 5-6 inches longer than the width of your baggie. If you don't have one of those special sewing gadgets to snake the ribbon through the hole, you can use either a bobby pin (tie the ribbon on the folded part of the pin and use the other end to snake it through) or a long safety pin (pin down one end, close the pin and snake it through). For the first piece of ribbon, snake it in and out one end, so you make one full circle and come out the same place you came in (observe image on left). Then tie a knot to keep it from slipping out. Next, do the same for the second piece of ribbon but enter and exit from the other hole you created.
That's it! Your baggie is done! If you made it small,it can be a cute little coin bag, travel make-up bag or anything else you can think of. If you make it bigger, there are even more possibilities on the uses!
If you decide to make one, please do share! Until next time!
<3 Kara
12 November, 2012
Sunday Surprise: Making Sundaes!`
Happy Veterans day everyone!
I married a veteran, have a couple in my family and know plenty of them personally, so I'd like to say thank you to all our veterans and troops for working to keep us safe!
On another note, I missed Sunday Surprise yesterday. My computer has not been very nice to me, so I haven't been able to do much. But today I was able to edit this video that was meant for yesterday. So, enjoy your Sundae Surprise!
<3 Kara
I married a veteran, have a couple in my family and know plenty of them personally, so I'd like to say thank you to all our veterans and troops for working to keep us safe!
On another note, I missed Sunday Surprise yesterday. My computer has not been very nice to me, so I haven't been able to do much. But today I was able to edit this video that was meant for yesterday. So, enjoy your Sundae Surprise!
<3 Kara
09 November, 2012
Factual Friday: Art Trivia!
Good evening everyone!
I hope your weekend is off to a good start! Mine is a bit of both, I suppose. My husband and I saw Wreck It Ralph today and it was amazing. I highly recommend it, whether or not you are a kid. So fun! So I'd say that was a good start. But my computer has been acting up all week and tonight is no exception. Bummer. I try to do the best I can with it, but I hope I can get it fixed soon. The silver lining for this is that it'll be a weekend of projects and reading, since my computer isn't too much of a distraction (by computer I mean Facebook and League of Legends).
So anyway! Let's get to the point shall we? For Factual Friday, I have decided to share with you all some art trivia via funtrivia.com. Below is a sample from that website (verbatim). For more, visit funtrivia.com and expand your mind!
I hope you learned one or two things for this. Who knows when art facts will come in handy? The holidays are coming up, so there will be plenty of dinners in the name of Thanksgiving and Christmas, and Kwanza, and Hanuka, and so on for you to use some of this information! Perhaps you would like to share this with people, and hit that like button or share the link.
Have fun and stay creative.
<3 Kara
I hope your weekend is off to a good start! Mine is a bit of both, I suppose. My husband and I saw Wreck It Ralph today and it was amazing. I highly recommend it, whether or not you are a kid. So fun! So I'd say that was a good start. But my computer has been acting up all week and tonight is no exception. Bummer. I try to do the best I can with it, but I hope I can get it fixed soon. The silver lining for this is that it'll be a weekend of projects and reading, since my computer isn't too much of a distraction (by computer I mean Facebook and League of Legends).
So anyway! Let's get to the point shall we? For Factual Friday, I have decided to share with you all some art trivia via funtrivia.com. Below is a sample from that website (verbatim). For more, visit funtrivia.com and expand your mind!
Have fun and stay creative.
<3 Kara
06 November, 2012
Tutorial Tuesday: Vote!
Good evening everyone and happy Election Day!
I had a tutorial planned for today but my computer is under the weather and is not working :( that with my busy schedule today means there's not art tutorial for today, and I apologize.
So now that you guys understand why there is not true Tutorial Tuesday on Be Lured today, I shall do a tutorial of another nature. This tutorial is to honor Election Day. It's simple, and this is what you have to do: vote. I hope that you all exercised your right to vote today if you are eligible, as I have. Those who haven't voted, and are eligible to vote, there is very little room for them to be upset if the results did not turn out the way they wanted.
The image on the left is from Khmerican, an "online platform that encourages public engagement, discussion and connection of Khmer communities across the US and abroad" (Khmerican.com, 2012). We were encouraged to show our patriotism for Khmer-America in voting by sharing this image. I am so happy to see such engagement from our Khmer community and so I am displaying this logo on my site proudly.
Check out all these Khmericans who are proudly saying "I'm Khmer-American and I voted!" by clicking here http://vote2012.khmer-i-can.com.
So about my computer (not to change the topic abruptly or anything) I think I have a virus or something. I keep getting a booting errors, as in my computer cannot start, every other time I try to start my computer. And when I do manage to start, I am not able to run any programs, nor can I view documents. I can, fortunately, copy and paste files! So I have been backing up my documents, images and videos all day. I actually had to go purchase a new external hard drive because I didn't have sufficient storage space. Ooops! So hopefully I finish backing everything up tonight so that tomorrow I can try to figure out what's wrong and fix it without chances of destroying my files, mainly my images! I take so many photographs to document our lives, and a couple photo shoots for other people, so losing that would be quite devastating, since that has happened before to both my and my husband. But as of now, things are on track.
Take care everyone!
<3 Kara
So now that you guys understand why there is not true Tutorial Tuesday on Be Lured today, I shall do a tutorial of another nature. This tutorial is to honor Election Day. It's simple, and this is what you have to do: vote. I hope that you all exercised your right to vote today if you are eligible, as I have. Those who haven't voted, and are eligible to vote, there is very little room for them to be upset if the results did not turn out the way they wanted.
The image on the left is from Khmerican, an "online platform that encourages public engagement, discussion and connection of Khmer communities across the US and abroad" (Khmerican.com, 2012). We were encouraged to show our patriotism for Khmer-America in voting by sharing this image. I am so happy to see such engagement from our Khmer community and so I am displaying this logo on my site proudly.
Check out all these Khmericans who are proudly saying "I'm Khmer-American and I voted!" by clicking here http://vote2012.khmer-i-can.com.
So about my computer (not to change the topic abruptly or anything) I think I have a virus or something. I keep getting a booting errors, as in my computer cannot start, every other time I try to start my computer. And when I do manage to start, I am not able to run any programs, nor can I view documents. I can, fortunately, copy and paste files! So I have been backing up my documents, images and videos all day. I actually had to go purchase a new external hard drive because I didn't have sufficient storage space. Ooops! So hopefully I finish backing everything up tonight so that tomorrow I can try to figure out what's wrong and fix it without chances of destroying my files, mainly my images! I take so many photographs to document our lives, and a couple photo shoots for other people, so losing that would be quite devastating, since that has happened before to both my and my husband. But as of now, things are on track.
Take care everyone!
<3 Kara
04 November, 2012
Sunday Surprise: Speed painting of Ruby
Good evening y'all!
It's Sunday night, so I have a bit of time to do a quick Sunday Surprise. However, this isn't that big of a surprise to some of you because I uploaded this video a couple days ago and couldn't resist sharing before today's post! hehe
But anyway, the surprise is a speed painting video of me painting Ruby from Once Upon a Time. I did this in preparation for a Tutorial Tuesday. Enjoy!
The song in this video is called "Bind Me to the Brinks" by Sublunary, who is a friend of mine. Please show him some love and check out his site: http://sublunary.bandcamp.com. The song is available on his website for a "you name it" price, and I encourage you to at least give it a chance :)
Share and like if you please! Until next time,
<3 Kara
It's Sunday night, so I have a bit of time to do a quick Sunday Surprise. However, this isn't that big of a surprise to some of you because I uploaded this video a couple days ago and couldn't resist sharing before today's post! hehe
But anyway, the surprise is a speed painting video of me painting Ruby from Once Upon a Time. I did this in preparation for a Tutorial Tuesday. Enjoy!
The song in this video is called "Bind Me to the Brinks" by Sublunary, who is a friend of mine. Please show him some love and check out his site: http://sublunary.bandcamp.com. The song is available on his website for a "you name it" price, and I encourage you to at least give it a chance :)
Share and like if you please! Until next time,
<3 Kara
01 November, 2012
Factual Friday: Be Healthy!
Good morning Lured Ones,
I hope your week went well and that your weekend is off to a great start! I'd say my week has been pretty dang good, with a lot of fitness, great discussions, painting time and of course Halloween. With things going so well, I've been in such a good mood that I can see it in my work. I prepare for a painting faster, get through a painting with more enthusiasm, and I don't stress out about the little things as much. This kind of positive outlook has encouraged me to write quickly on the importance of good physical, mental and emotional health in painting (and anything else really).
In addition to this, I'd like to share a contemporary artist that I recently found. His oil paintings are fantastic and I'm loving his color composition as well as style. Check it out!
Although P90X is rough at times, my body and my art work is thanking me. I have so much more energy in my days to be more productive in everything. And today I read an article from a contemporary artist that I admire on the importance of a healthy lifestyle. He mentioned that letting his fitness slide had affected his back, which eventually affected his work because he couldn't sit all day painting without pain in the lumbar region. So after getting fit again, he saw the change. You can read more about it by clicking here. I encourage you to visit his site (http://dgoilpaintingtechniques.com) and also look at his work. He is a fantastic artist. And he is also a PLU alumnus. What a small world right?
In addition to my physical health, I feel that emotionally and mentally I am in a good place. This is not to say that I wasn't before, it's just that I feel so enthused and excited for my days recently. A friend introduced me to the book "Finding the Hero in Your Husband" by Julianna Slattery and I've been reading it with an open mind and open heart. It has opened my eyes to many things and has given me kind of a refreshed outlook on how to build my home even stronger. That tid-bit and discussing it with my friend in more detail today, a sort of book discussion on a few chapters, has gotten me so motivated to be better.
Now I know that this isn't the most novel thing in the world, but it is important. So there it is, my thought for this week's Factual Friday.
See you on Sunday Surprise (I think you're gonna like the surprise).
<3 Kara
I hope your week went well and that your weekend is off to a great start! I'd say my week has been pretty dang good, with a lot of fitness, great discussions, painting time and of course Halloween. With things going so well, I've been in such a good mood that I can see it in my work. I prepare for a painting faster, get through a painting with more enthusiasm, and I don't stress out about the little things as much. This kind of positive outlook has encouraged me to write quickly on the importance of good physical, mental and emotional health in painting (and anything else really).
In addition to this, I'd like to share a contemporary artist that I recently found. His oil paintings are fantastic and I'm loving his color composition as well as style. Check it out!
"Braids" by David Gray, dgoilpaintingtechniques.com
Although P90X is rough at times, my body and my art work is thanking me. I have so much more energy in my days to be more productive in everything. And today I read an article from a contemporary artist that I admire on the importance of a healthy lifestyle. He mentioned that letting his fitness slide had affected his back, which eventually affected his work because he couldn't sit all day painting without pain in the lumbar region. So after getting fit again, he saw the change. You can read more about it by clicking here. I encourage you to visit his site (http://dgoilpaintingtechniques.com) and also look at his work. He is a fantastic artist. And he is also a PLU alumnus. What a small world right?
In addition to my physical health, I feel that emotionally and mentally I am in a good place. This is not to say that I wasn't before, it's just that I feel so enthused and excited for my days recently. A friend introduced me to the book "Finding the Hero in Your Husband" by Julianna Slattery and I've been reading it with an open mind and open heart. It has opened my eyes to many things and has given me kind of a refreshed outlook on how to build my home even stronger. That tid-bit and discussing it with my friend in more detail today, a sort of book discussion on a few chapters, has gotten me so motivated to be better.
Now I know that this isn't the most novel thing in the world, but it is important. So there it is, my thought for this week's Factual Friday.
See you on Sunday Surprise (I think you're gonna like the surprise).
<3 Kara
Awesome Art Related Halloween Costume
Hey everyone!
Just wanted to share with you an awesome Halloween costume that Kelly Eddington (an artist I blogged about previously) did with her husband. It's Picasso's painting "Head of a Woman" by Picasso. Check it out and click here!
<3 Kara
Just wanted to share with you an awesome Halloween costume that Kelly Eddington (an artist I blogged about previously) did with her husband. It's Picasso's painting "Head of a Woman" by Picasso. Check it out and click here!
<3 Kara
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