Crop Art diary

Monday, August 20, 2007

Decided to add single millet seeds at 12, 3, 6 and 9. Makes the clock a wee bit more useable without overwheming the design.

--0.25 hours

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Spray painted the hands. On the edge, I painted with a color that's a little closer to the red millet color. Maybe I should go after the second hand, too? And, do I need to put some kind of mark at 12, 3, 6 and 9? Hmm.

--2 hours

Sunday, August 5, 2007

Well, there's the clock. Wondering if I should paint the hands white. Or yellow. Also wondering if I should do something with the background of the small circle -- it looks dull.

--0.01 hour

Saturday, August 4, 2007

A little amaranth and a couple times around the outside border with red millet. And it's done, except for the clock works, the clean up and the seed legend card. Shoot! I'm nowhere near done!

--2 hours

That's it -- mostly -- for the amaranth.

--1 hour

Amaranth.

--1 hour

Amaranth. I think as I get closer to the Prince character, I need to use smaller seeds, so there's not a shadow-ridge of seed-size transition close to that drawing. The shadow ridge now defines another circle. That goes with the overall design. Right?

--1 hour

Millet.

--1 hour

Friday, August 3, 2007

Millet. I thought I'd be done by today, too. But I took two days off. This weekend, I'll be done for sure!

--1 hour

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Millet.

--1 hour

Monday, July 30, 2007

Millet.

--1 hour

Millet. Today's special: Millet.

--1 hour

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Millet. Millet. Millet

--1 hour

Millet.

--1 hour

Millet.

--1 hour

Saturday, July 28, 2007

'Round and 'round we go.

--1 hour

Millet.

--1 hour

Friday, July 27, 2007

Millet.

--1 hour

Millet.

--2 hours

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Millet.

--1 hour

Done with red millet. On to the just plain old millet. Again, putting the seeds on a curve to add visual interest -- and to disguise any mistakes in lining them up properly.

--1 hour

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Red millet. I thought the patterns of the nubs on the ball would show up better when they were filled in. Now that they are almost done, it turns out they hardly show up at all. Live and learn. Well, I originally planned to do the image in just silhouette -- and that's what it's turned out to be.

--1 hour

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Red millet.

--1 hour

Red millet.

--1 hour

Monday, July 23, 2007

Red millet.

--1 hour

Red millet.

--1 hour

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Red millet.

--3 hours

More red millet.

--1 hour

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Starting to get going on the ball using red millet.

--2 hours

Friday, July 20, 2007

Still fussing with the design. Did paste some seeds for the little guy (named "The Prince" in the Katamari games). His body is birdsfoot trefoil, the light parts are amaranth, his eyes are celosia, his nose and mouth are darker amaranth and the little knob on his antenna is red millet. The ball is also red millet.

--4 hours

Thursday, July 19, 2007

I wanted to do a video game-themed seed art piece this year. The game "We Love Katamari" is family-friendly and the design of the game character lends itself to seeds. That's good enough for me!

The design will be simple. I'm actually building this seed art on top of a clock. (Thank you, Lisa!) I took out the works, primed over the original picture and then painted the new design.

I'll probably paint the clock hands white.

So, there's the design, more or less.

--2 hours