The Penny Experiment in phase 2
Posted on | December 28, 2009 | Comments Off
The Penny Experiment has moved into phase 2. “A penny for your thoughts” books. If you are interested in participating in the penny experiment and didn’t get in on it during phase 1 check out the details for the books and see if you would be interested in helping out.
Remember: “Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Penny Experiment Art
Posted on | December 15, 2009 | 5 Comments
In case you did not see my previous post about the Penny Experiment, I am one of the artists taking part in an awesome project. Artists were to create a piece of art in hopes it can be sold and the money used to buy food for food banks. The people buying the food are couponers using all their skills to get as much food as possible with a limited amount of money. If you are someone who does this already contact the Penny Experiment and donate your couponing skills.
I decided to create a piece about the project at hand. My piece is about people helping people and is titled “In Mankind We Trust.” There were two rules in creating your work… 1. it had to have a real penny in it and 2. it had to include a number between 1 and 100. My number was 17 (Sydney’s birthday 
.) In my piece I included 17 pennies (the real one included), Changed the words In God We Trust into In Mankind We Trust to represent man helping man, changed the word Liberty to Hope, and the letter representing the mint to a heart. 17 is included in the number of pennies and is also represented by the date. I decided to do the same process I did with my Identity through Weight series: Sharpies, tempera, multiple pieces, stenciling, and decoupage.
“In Mankind We Trust”
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Identity through weight
Posted on | December 8, 2009 | Comments Off
I just finished my third class for my Master’s program. As a final project we had to select a big idea to create artworks about. I chose to create art about identity. More specifically I chose to create works based around body image and weight and how people identify others and themselves through those images.
At many points in this process I felt overwhelmed with what I wanted to do. I still had a ton of thoughts in my head when I forced myself to sit down and sketch my final pieces. Because of this I decided to create my works in pieces that I could lay out and rearrange. I made a list of words and images I wanted to have: calorie numbers, overweight, stupid, organic, healthy, a couch, fork and knife, carrots, scales and cupcakes were just some of the things on my list. I started drawing and painting the images I wanted and laying them out in the ways I had them sketched. The more I made the more I saw everything coming together. I started to stencil the words on my background paper and painting a dream like atmosphere. It was at the point that I had my first piece done minus the ultra thin model like figure I intended on placing onto the scale, when I realized the piece seemed complete as is. I decided to make one last change to my ideas. I took out all the figures I wanted to place in my works. That is all except the childlike head popping out over an enormous cupcake. This was for two reasons, 1. you don’t see the body so there is no weight association and 2. this helps show the scale of the cupcake. For all the other pieces intended on having either an extremely thin model like figure, or a terribly obese figure in each piece. I decided that by removing all these figures, I caused the viewer to place themselves into the works (something I had at one point wanted to do with mirrors.) After this last change I felt totally confident and flew through the rest of the works.
I used many media in these works. I drew with sharpies, painted with tempera paint, used oil pastels, stenciled, and decoupaged my pieces into existence. I have never constructed works in pieces before. I have never felt the need to have the ability to rearrange my works. I needed to do this in order to feel comfortable starting, and am so glad I did it this way. Had I have not created in pieces, I would not have come to the realization of how powerful my pieces were minus the figures. Although I have layered works with journal pages and painted on top of them or fabric glued to canvas, I have never truly decoupaged prior to these works. I really enjoyed trying new techniques and am very pleased with the results.
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The Penny Experiment
Posted on | December 2, 2009 | Comments Off
I will be creating a piece for The Penny Experiment. I have the # 17 (Sydney’s birthday ) and will be creating a work of art incorporating a penny and my number. I am very excited about this as all proceeds from the artworks are going to feed the hungry. If you are an artist, this is really a project to get behind. The piece only has to be postcard size so make sure to give it some thought!
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Sydney has grown so much
Posted on | November 2, 2009 | Comments Off
It sounds so cliche to say they grow up so fast, but so true. I feel like I was just pregnant and now she crawls, pulls herself up, crawls up stairs, cruises on the furnitire and will be walking before I know it. What happened to my little jelly bean of a baby?
It is amazing to think this is even the same baby
after her first bath:
last night:
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New look… same site.
Posted on | October 18, 2009 | Comments Off
I have changed the overall look of kellyjanice.com and fixed some technical issues, but the overall site is the same.
Be sure to check back over the next couple weeks as the Art Gallery will be changing and some new art will be added!
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Fair Display
Posted on | October 10, 2009 | Comments Off
The high school art teacher and I set up the Fairfield County Fair school display yesterday. It was so much fun to fill the space with floor to celing works. The lesson I had my students do for display was create a parody painting of Grant Wood’s American Gothic. They created painting where they replaced one of the people in the painting with themselves and the other person with their favorite farm animal. I found this quite appropriate since raising animals for the fair is a very big deal. I was very impressed with what my kids created.
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Sydney!
Posted on | September 9, 2009 | Comments Off
wave and clap from Kelly Biddle on Vimeo.
Sydney can wave and clap now… how cute!
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Help the Cows
Posted on | July 8, 2009 | Comments Off
As my interventionist project for grad school I have taken inspiration from The Yes Men. I “created” the Help the Cows organization whom is in desperate need of your milk! Check it out.
If you like what I have done friend us.
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Father’s Day Art
Posted on | June 21, 2009 | Comments Off
So today is Jimy’s first Father’s Day and I wanted to make it really special for him. Sydney and I made a big sign for him that says happy 1st father’s day with her foot and hand prints all over it and hung it from the mantle, Sydney signed her own card for him (as much as she can holding a marker at 4 months 
), I got him a frame with multiple pictures of Sydney in it and her hand print for his desk at work, we went out to lunch at Longhorn, and I made him this picture…
I based it off of this one
I think all in all father’s day was a success!
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