Wednesday Walk
This week's Wednesday walk takes me along a winding mountain trail under the cooling canopy of lush woods!
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2023-05-24 21:46:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Rachael Padilla posts
Tuesday Update!
Happy Tuesday! I hope your week is off to a great start! Here's what's going on with me this week.
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2023-05-23 19:31:55 +0000 UTC View PostSelfie in three parts
A haiku:
Modern world problem:
Live-streaming makes me nervous.
Do it anyway!
I’m live-streaming on YouTube tonight beginning at 8 Pm Eastern time. I’ll be painting the Everready 9 Lives cat! A lovely logo that I remember from household batteries when I was a kid.
I’m working through the ...
2023-05-22 23:32:32 +0000 UTC View PostBehind the Scenes: Cow Vest
Join me for a behind the scenes look at how and why I created the cow vest. It's udderly ridiculous!
https://vimeo.com/828822469/c10259c9d4
2023-05-21 21:04:48 +0000 UTC View PostSelfie in Three Parts
A haiku:
Hum of the machine
I see to create a vest
Udderly silly.
It was a good day for a sewing project. As the heat and humidity increases going into summer, I’ll need some vests for easy breezy walks!
2023-05-20 22:33:53 +0000 UTC View PostWeird At My School
Any excuse for a REMIX! Not all of my projects are finished works. Some are tests and studies for a future application. I try to share the stuff that comes out well and the stuff that isn't quite there yet. I was trying for a specific look and didn't quite nail it here, HOWEVER, the look that I achieved on a...
2023-05-20 22:26:05 +0000 UTC View PostBehind the Scenes: Creating Today's Gesture Drawing
I was so glad that my new pads of paper showed up a day early! I have definitely missed the larger scale gesture drawings. I'm very satisfied with the fact that this line drawing took just under 2 minutes to complete.
Selfie in Three Parts
A haiku:
Backyard wild kingdom
Squirrels, robins, chipmunks all flee
When I step outside.
I’m happy to report that my pads of paper showed up a day earlier than expected! I’m back to drawing full sized gesture drawings.
2023-05-19 21:17:56 +0000 UTC View PostIn Motion
An art movie on the study of motion! Moments frozen in time are my favorite subjects for the creation of art. Here, a collection of moments in slow motion, sometimes overlayed with corresponding motions, and set to music. I am eternally inspired by the human form, how it moves, and how it looks in action. This is a behind the...
2023-05-18 23:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostSelfie in Three Parts
A haiku:
Flexing my muscle
I prefer to flex my vote
A gesture of strength.
My sketches have been tiny of late because I ran out of large sheets of paper. I’ve ordered new tablets of newsprint, which will be here on Saturday. Many thanks to you for supporting a living artist! I...
2023-05-18 22:22:22 +0000 UTC View PostWednesday Walk
My Wednesday walk was greeted by full-blown summer heat and humidity. As I walked I felt a sense of nostalgia as if I'd run into a long lost friend. which in some sense is true because I haven't felt weather like this since last year! I was grateful to have my hair up and off of my neck and a shirt that allowed the breeze to ...
2023-05-18 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostSelfie in Three Parts
A haiku:
The rain falls gently
A frog croaks in the distance
Singing happy praise.
It was in fact still gently raining when I got into garland pose (also referred to as squat pose, malasana in sanskrit) for today's instant pic. It was the froggiest pose I could think of, and I wanted to sit a moment in...
2023-05-17 21:09:10 +0000 UTC View PostTuesday Update!
Here's what's new this week. By the way, I plan on livestreaming on YouTube next week, too. 8PM Eastern Time.
I hope that your week is off to a great start!
https://vimeo.com/827442709/b829ea62f9
2023-05-17 00:05:51 +0000 UTC View PostLove Gun
A short movie.
Because sometimes, I just have to be silly in the hot sun of the backyard.
Because sometimes, I have to highlight the humor of a rock song from 1977.
Because sometimes, I need to be the star of my own rock video!
Selfie in Three Parts
A haiku:
Sunlight bleached backyard
Shadows darkest in contrast
Under old oak trees.
2023-05-14 20:05:59 +0000 UTC View PostA classic from the vaults!
I've been moving some files from one storage device to another, and I came across this little movie that I made a while back. It was just another summer day like many others, but I do remember having fun walking down the path as if the whole world was mine. I honestly don't think that this one has been posted befo...
2023-05-14 18:38:06 +0000 UTC View PostSelfie in three parts
A haiku:
Dreamt of pirouettes
As a kid, I’d spin for hours.
I tried it again.
Happy Friday! For today’s selfie in three parts, I present a sketch of my imagined approximation of a pirouette. It’s true that as I kid I’d spin for hours. I briefly took ballet lessons where I learned the secret to...
2023-05-12 20:28:59 +0000 UTC View PostWednesday Walk
Today I went to one my very favorite places for a walk. It's a path that cuts right through a swampy area that is full of life. When I come here I can imagine that I'm in any number of tropical and exotic places. There are birds and frogs making noises just out of sight. Sometimes a lizard or snake hur...
2023-05-10 23:59:09 +0000 UTC View PostSelfie in Three Parts
Big blue skies above
Cool green grass beneath my feet
I stand in between.
2023-05-10 21:44:36 +0000 UTC View PostTuesday Update
Happy Tuesday! I'm off to a great start this week. I hope you are, too!
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2023-05-09 21:52:42 +0000 UTC View PostSelfie in Three Parts
Today’s haiku:
Vines on everything
Honeysuckle scented air
May in full effect.
I so enjoy observing nature! May has brought so much green and growth.
For today’s gesture drawing, I mixed it up a bit with a line drawing. The idea being to never lift the drawing tool from the pape...
2023-05-08 22:10:35 +0000 UTC View PostSpinning
A revisit of the full circle skirt. Since I first filmed this, I've acquired a lot of new skills. So I thought I'd give it another go.
Accompanying the dance in celebration of the movement of a circle skirt, is music that reminds me of traditional Hispanic music of Northern New Mexico.
2023-05-06 22:44:50 +0000 UTC View PostSelfie in Three Parts
A haiku:
Sticky sweet warm breeze
Air is thick and heavy
It will likely rain.
A bit more focus on the basic shape of my hand in today’s sketch. Plus, the buns in my hair were fun!
2023-05-06 21:30:38 +0000 UTC View PostCreating a Drawing
Behind the scenes: creating today's gesture drawing.
2023-05-06 04:32:34 +0000 UTC View PostSelfie in Three Parts
A haiku:
"The back of my hand"
Is implicitly knowing
But I can't draw it.
I came up against an artistic limitation today as I drew this drawing. The point of the gesture drawings has been to work quickly, but I feel as if I had spent more time on drawing my hand it would have undoubtedly turned o...
2023-05-05 21:26:33 +0000 UTC View PostSelfie in Three Parts
A haiku;
Warming rays of sun
Touch my pale skin make me glow
Paint me like summer.
2023-05-04 20:13:32 +0000 UTC View PostSelfie in 3 parts
A haiku:
Heart beating in ears
Creating length through myself
I stand on my head
2023-05-03 23:53:26 +0000 UTC View PostWednesday Walk
A beautiful walk down a winding trail into a meadow!
This video was completely edited on my phone! I still don’t have internet, so I’m adapting to doing things in new ways. Which includes a few misfires in using the apps.Normally, I will transfer footage into the computer and edit on an editing program, render, and...
2023-05-03 20:15:33 +0000 UTC View PostTuesday Update 5.2.23
I hope you’re having a great week so far! Here’s what’s going on with me.
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2023-05-02 19:45:07 +0000 UTC View Post1/3 of my selfie routine
I didn't have time today fir a gestural drawing or a haiku. I did take the moment required for a instax photo. I hope that your week is off to a great start and that any problems that arise in your life are easily dealt with.
