Moving In

This is just a quick update to inform you that I am in Pittsburgh!  I got back from my two week training in New Orleans yesterday, and so today and tomorrow I will be settling in and figuring out how this city works before I start at the office on Wednesday.  At some point I will try to write more about New Orleans and put up some pictures maybe (I'm awful at remembering to take pictures so I hardly have any, oops) and also give a little information about my AmeriCorps position with Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh.  Right now I'm just excited to be finally almost moved in.

Road Test: Passed

Today, August 11th 2010, I, Kira Yeversky, took and passed my road test.  I am now a licensed driver, according to New York State.  Hooray!

More tiny wordless stories

I actually drew these before the other series, way back in the fall.  I don't know how to get my scanner to not destroy the image quality, but it did.  In other words, they look SO much better in real life.

(These are all 2.5"x3.5", by the way.  I used pencil, colored pencil, crayon, and a little bit of pen.)

Tiny Wordless Stories

These are some tiny drawings I made this past school year.  They are all 2.5 x 3.5 inches, which is the size of ATCs and ACEOs (artist trading cards/artist cards, editions, and originals)  There's a whole community of people who trade them, apparently, but I just liked working with the small format.  Unfortunately, my scanner does not like scanning the small format, so the quality has been compromised.

I think I will leave you with these for now, but be prepared for another series (in color, but with worse scan quality) later.

Doing Something Different

Okay, so up until now this blog has been dedicated to whatever random thing pops into my head.  This will probably still happen a lot, but I'm going to try to focus in on my creative exploits, possibly culinary exploits as well (since gluten-free cooking is kind of like an art form).  Basically I want to emulate my good friend Jihan, whose blog The Moldy Cannoli is always making me want to be crafty and then post about it on the internet.  So we'll see how this goes.

So!  To start, we have some dinosaurs.  I have been making them over the last few months whenever inspiration strikes (or, recently, when someone offers to pay me for one)  The little ones are the original design, and I am still perfecting the larger pattern.  The small ones are made of felt and are entirely hand-sewn, the bigger ones are made of fleece with some felt details.  Although the jumbo dinosaurs are machine-sewn, they have hand-embroidered spots on their backs, and the eyes are appliqued by hand too.

Ralph (left) and Waldo (right) are about 16" tall.  And fun to squeeze!

The circle of dino-friends...I have made more, they just aren't in this picture.

Close up!  This is Phinneas.

This is Enrique, who I made for my friend Linnea.  Note the spots!

Anyway, I hope you have enjoyed my dinosaur friends...I have sold a few to friends and am hoping to make an Etsy site to sell them from, but we'll have to see if I get bored or overwhelmed trying to do that.  Oh, and there are more photos of them up on my Flickr site, if you want to have a look.