The ILIKEITTOOTOO Garage Scavenging Mission- DAY ONE

So, i finally started to go through all of my stuff in the garage. And like i've said before, i'm a hoarder and i hate throwing things away if there's even the slightest chance that i could find a use for it in the future. Here are some things i dug up while sorting through a few boxes:

1. I lovelovelove magazines and hate to throw them away. A while back i decided that they were taking up too much space, so i went through a few boxes and cut out every illustration or picture that i liked or thought was interesting- whether it was because of style, certain color combinations, clothing, and so forth. The really tiny clippings ended up in an expanding document holder, while full-sized pages were put into a large sketchbook. Here are a few selections:



After going through magazine after magazine, you get to pick up on an artists style, and i found myself drawn to work by a lot of the same people. One of my all time favorites is the one on the top right, by Saiman Chow. The image on the bottom right is stuff i cut out from girly catalogs and magazines because i was bored one day, and i ended up painting white over anything skin-colored so they wouldn't look so "hey, i've just been cut out of a magazine". Hey, i said i was bored...

2. Here are two silkscreened fabrics from one of my 2D Design classes back in 2001. The first is a mirror image of my face which i then cut out of freezer paper and then screened onto a large white bedsheet.



The other fabric was made using a design carved out of a stamp. I carved the stamp, printed tons of little images, cut and pasted them into a pattern onto a larger sheet of paper, xeroxed it, and that was used as my artwork for exposure.

3. Two really large and rather gloomy paintings of a boy and a girl. Everyone who sees these harbors such a distaste for them, but i've somehow convinced myself that they're not that bad. I'm thinking of ripping them out of the frames they came in and putting them into simpler, brighter ones, while painting and using the old ones to make bulletin/chalk/magnet boards.



4. Stationary featuring mean and disgruntled little girls. I love these! They look so mad that it makes me laugh. These were just a few of the stationary sets that i picked up while on a familly trip to the Philippines a few years ago.



5. As soon as i started thrift shopping, which was 13 years ago (!!!), i would raid thrift stores for old books and magazines. The top image is of some knitting and crochet booklets that i purchased just for the color combinations that were used, the artwork, and the kitschy model poses. I don't knit or crochet, so these are merely for inspiration. Golden Hands was a craft magazine from the 60's and 70's that had tons of different projects for every type of needlework. Again, i kept these around for the color combinations and because they also covered a lot of sewing basics.



Some other stuff i went through today included lots of unused and partially used notebooks, sketchbooks, journals, paper samples from a paper show, tons of old notes from my friends back in high school, letters from pen pals, and these:



Little, heartfelt, and handwritten cards from two of my best friends (Stephanie & Marni) right before i moved here to Pennsylvania. I was 9 at the time and in the middle of 4th grade. On an awesome note, Stephanie and i found eachother on Myspace!