VACATION is around the corner...

 such a HUGE part of my life...my afterschool kiddos...

 

 

 

 

 one more school year and then i'll retire, but keep my fingers in the pot...

 

 

 

 

 they bring such JOY into my life!

 

 

 

 

 unfinished business ;)

 

 

 

 

 the start of the outside of my new 2013 summer journal...

 

 

 

 

 gearing up with funny funny pages, like a cheez-it box...makes for good painterly pages...it's humid in panama...

 

 

 

 

 painted pages to be covered, all slicked up for anything surprising that comes my way...

 

 

 

 

 even a French bread wrapper to doodle or paint on...lots of inspiration, eh?

 

 

 

 

and thank you Ross Store for my inexpensive, cool hippie, breezy clothes!

 

 

HAPPY WEEK FRIENDO'S!!!

OXOXOX

P.S. I am adding affordable "DOINGS" to my etsy if you'd like to peruse...

SOMETHING DIFFERENT THIS DAY...

 it's been unfinished for over a year...

 

 

 

 

 i'm not really sure, HOW LONG...

 

 

 

 

 I HOPE you like this piece, I do so much, but am still figuring out where to take it...

 

 

 

 

 a few more ideas popped into my mind this morning...

 

 

 

 

so...we shall see...

 

 

if anyone wants to know about the project, just ask and I shall be happy to explain ;)

FINISHED and UNFINISHED ARTWORK!

 I've been working like a Trojan...too bad it's so doggone fun, eh?

 

 

 

 She is painted on a barrel stave, oh surprise!

 

 

 

 She is ready to hang and in my ETSY, on sale today, yes today...

just click on the etsy sign to the right of my postings

 

 

 

 I posted this in the previous post...

 

 

 

 not knowing where it would lead...

 

 

 

 well, it has been a pure delight to work on...

 

 

 

 and taking a very long time for me...

like days...

 

 

 

 but it is SO WORTH it...I always learn more as I stop, step back and peruse, making decisions...

I am finished with her face...and she doesn't look like this photo anymore...

 

 

 

 she has donned one of my favorite techniques...hand made "FABRIC PAPER",

which I tore off my wall, when I saw the colors were perfect and subtle for her garb!

 

 

 

when you peer closely, some little words, even show up...

LOVE when that happens!

 

I plan to tone her down all around tomorrow and then promise to show the end result!

 

 

I hope you all are having a most wonderful weekend, and I am praying for those in Kansas that are holed up waiting for the tornadoes to pass! oxox

SUMMER IS IN FULL SWING HERE!

 you may have seen her before, but she got a face lift...

 ...and I found her words last night late!

 Barrel Stave painting with a copper flower, painted silly...

 her lovely hat is of chiffon and some cheesecloth I dyed last summer...

 

 

 

 Next up...the start of a new mixed media painting, I never ever know how this will end up, not even the colors...just putting on layers and layers.

we had a really busy, hard working fun day involving so many tasks and good laughs.

we spent over an hour at the Auburn Club Car Restaurant in the morning, changing, adding and taking paintings off some walls. Can you imagine being the husband that is helping his wife..."hmm, lets see, over to the right a tad, no, to the left, now down"...he's got patience, I tell you!

 

 these are some of my favorite colors, in case you've never guessed...;)

 

 here's some of nana's rickrack :

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and a lovely little chunk of burlap...

 

 

HAPPY WEEK ENDING!

Mixed Media Barrel Stave

 Yes, another barrel stave painting...

 

 

 

 HONESTLY, so very fun and rewarding...

 

 

 

 her words speak for themselves ;)

she sports an beaded chiffon hat with a feather and a steel flower, it shan't wilt ;)

 

 

 

 I just loved her outside!

 

 

 

the feather in her hat, blows in the wind and she seems so ALIVE!