If you would like to continue following me, I’m posting more regularly now. Instead of trying to make the blog following a specific topic, it will be more just whatever I want to post about. Lately that’s been a lot of bike riding adventures, routes around ames, gardening, and home fixing up.

I’m just about finished with the manuscript for my first book, so I’ll be posting more drawings starting in September. I plan on coupling my bike rides with drawing tours too – so definitely a lot more sketch book work going on.

Thanks for following me here on Krostudio.com, I hope you will visit me at my new blog home on Kristinmroach.com!

See you soon!

Kristin

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We are definitely making this wall look a whole lot uglier before we make it beautiful. Wow. There are all sorts of mineral deposits everywhere that have started bubbling up the previous 6 layers of paint. Then the wall seams were really crap, so we had to pull those out, re-insulate, trim, and caulk. Yikes. So off it goes and patch it up is how we go. It’s adding about an extra day to the work, but that’s okay, I figured in extra time for those sorts of things.

So many people came out today from all over town. We had couples, college students, a city councilmen and his family (his wife is in our fiber group), local business owners, and community members. It ended up being a total of 17 people who came out and worked and a total of 22 who stopped by and said “hi” or asked “what are you doing?”

Jason and I stopped into jimmy johns for lunch and they were all talking about it. Something like “what are they doing over there?” “painting a mural I think” “that will be a good thing, it will help make this area look a lot better, brighten things up” “unless it sucks” “yeah, hopefully it doesn’t look like crap”. Well, let me tell you, I also don’t want it to look like crap either.

Jason had the great idea to set up a camera and take time laps photos of the whole project. Then he’s going to compile it into a short time laps film for ames c.art. How awesome is that?! I’m so excited about it. I flipped through today’s images and they turned out really well.

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Ha! #90, that seems like some kind of fancy landmark – because it is! My first box if finally full!

Kristin

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I’m the Creative Director of a community mural project here in Ames and what started out as a “easy project”, is now a massive project involving 8 organizations, the Public Arts Commission, and loads of volunteers. We collected tons of community feedback on what they want the mural to look like and I compiled them into one unified design. I’m pretty impressed with how it turned out…. after about 70 hours of work on just the design (research, source photos, drawing, etc etc etc).

Check that craziness out. That will soon be this:

We are going to start scraping and prepping the wall on Friday and then painting hopefully by Monday.

I have an amazing team of people working to make this project a success. I could have never done it on my own. Crystal Tice is definitely the chief Wrangler, Melissa Tedone has amazing work grant writing and making sure everyone and their mother knows about this project, Christina S. has listened for most likely more than her fair share of hours to all the ups and downs of this project as well as support and news spreading and planning, Dan Brown has done miracles getting all of our supplies donated so I don’t front all the money for this thing, and me, well, I’m coordinating, designing, and corralling all the volunteers to get it up on the actual wall.

We are now accepting donations for the project via check (make out to Ames Collaborative Art) or paypal (click here). Send any donations to 2321 N. Loop #102 Ames, IA 50010. You can read more about the project on AmesCart.org.

I have to say that starting out my year drawing every day sure made me feel a million times more confident in myself to draw this beast out. And that project has changed a bit too. I’ve decided it would be disingenuous to say I kept drawing every day, but I think that tells a story in and of itself. I’m going to just start numbering them and see how many I get by the end of this year. I think it will more honestly illustrate the adventure of my life.

Like this last month, not nearly as much drawing — because I got really sick, was designing a mural/coordinating a mural/putting out an issue of clm/birthdays/stress and some other fun things I can’t tell you about until they are a sure deal. Oh yeah, and writing a book too!

Drawing posts will be resuming soon, I’m looking forward into getting back into my drawing groove.

Kristin

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Playing catch up again I’ve been drawing, just not posting. The mural is in full swing now and it’s taking up tons of time, but I love it.

I also started my cello lessons, so that’s taking a little time each day (15-20 minutes a day + one 1/2 hour lesson a week).

More on mural stuff soon!
Kristin

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Ha! Completely caught up on posting my daily drawings. It will go back to one to two a day now. That feels good to have them all scanned in and on flickr and here on the blog.

Can you believe it? Day 73? And I thought I would just be doing this for a month. It’s turned into something so much more than that. I’m really enjoying it. It’s not just improving my skills, but it’s keeping me in my sketchbook more overall. In fact, I’ll be doing some drawing this afternoon… granted it’s for my book, but still, should be fun. And I feel more confident about it since I’ve got 73 days of drawing under my belt.

I made a little box to hold my drawings and it’s getting pretty close to being full. I think it’s about time to make another one. Well, in 17 days. I think 3 months worth in each box is a good amount.

Have a great weekend!

Kristin Roach

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