BOO!!!

 BOO

Tomorrow is October

Here is my first witch

of the season...

 

 

 

 

 

 I finally let July fade into the past...

 

 

 

 

 

 We are picking up this SISTER, COOKIE,

from the airport tomorrow night,

then whisking her off to Dinner out.

 

 

 

 

 

 I have 100 nieces and great nieces.

Well probably not quite that many...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 This is one niece and 2 great nieces,

one year..

LOVE THEM ALL TO PIECES!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 GOLD has been dropping from the sky lately...

Such BEAUTIFUL sunsets we are blessed with!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I have 2 classes going and company for this entire month and now more.

We love that...

but I

HAVE TO SNEAK OFF

and drop ink now and then

hee hee hee...

 

 

 

 

 

So Special yesterday...

we celebrated

Nama's 88th birthday,

and by her side is Mary, 71

and then there is Aunt Avis, 100!

 

I tell ya', she is a smilin' jack,

gets so tickled over the smallest of things (always been that way)

and her smile lights up the entire earth!

 

Getting ready to

CELEBRATE

A NEW

MONTH.

 

HAPPY OCTOBER FRIENDS!



PRACTICE...

 while practicing today a

HUMMING BIRD

showed up ;)

 

 

 

 

 LOOK

in the middle of the photo...

 

 

 

 

 we had never seen a

RAINBOW

from an airplane!

 

 

 

 

 such wondrous terrain

from the air!

 

 

 

 

 GORGEOUS

 

 

 

HAPPY WEEK END!!!

CLASS TIME...

 TRACY VERDUGO'S newest online class...

I won a free spot...

yes I did, squealing gleefully.

BEFORE class started,

I sent for the supplies I needed,

and FW Daler~Roney Acrylic Artist Inks were on the list...

 

WHEN they arrived in our mail...

I just went right to town experimenting with them...

OH MY GOODNESS...

they are so GORGEOUSLY INTENSE in color...they are amazing...

give them a go, my artist friends, if you haven't already!

This piece is with mainly layers of the luscious inks with a little acrylic dabbed in!

INSIDE the right flower reads;
"RELEASE YOUR WORRY"

 

 

 

 

 We will be starting week 3 this Tuesday.

i am still in week one.

Trying out and experimenting with the lesson on

Scratch-Foam Boards from Dick Blick (very inexpensive)

We were instructed to do a large one with MONO PRINTING (which i adore)

 

 

 

 

 i chose my giant dragon fly wings for my print.

For some reason they turned out so dimensional, i was ecstatic and need to ask Tracy "why" so that i might do some more in a similar fashion!

 

 

 

 

 Last night i cut down my gigantic (left over) paint paper that i tape to a double closet door.

i will be using pieces and parts in my collage paintings and am really excited about that too;)

 

 

 

 

 i only moved on to making some smaller stamps for my personal paintings...

 

 

 

 

 starting out SIMPLISTIC rather than elaborate (per usual) and then graduate to more complex ones as time goes on. This was a very fun project.

 

 

 

 

 On a very sad note...the morning skies look

TREMENDOUSLY...

 

 

 

 

STUNNING during these many fires in California (we are safe)

reminding all of us around here how lucky we are to (once again) have our homes intact.

i cannot watch the news anymore of late, seeing people break down while explaining what they and their families have lost...

simply...

PRAYING...

PRAYING HARD. 

 

 

HAVE A WONDERFUL CREATIVE WEEK MY FRIENDS \

XOXO

It's been too long...

 

 

I've been so busy...

Painting and Life

 

all wonderful!

 

 GREAT NEWS.

 

I got my act together,

portfolio of work for sale and sold work.

Took them and 5 paintings to put before a jury...

to get a spot in HIGH HAND GALLERY.

(you can look it up, California, it's a nursery with a café and much more)

 

 

it's such a HAPPY, INVENTIVE, CREATIVE,

spot in a little town called Loomis.

I was accepted and put on a wait list,

with an invitation only to show and demonstrate some techniques.

yes I am smiling, happy, grateful and YIPPEE KY A!

;)

 

one small

HAPPY

painting

 side view

 Barrel Stave Hanger

 a GIFT

for a

SPECIAL

FRIEND

 Barrel Stave Hanging

 

 her skirt

 her words...

Folsom Lake

during our drought

remains

so

BEAUTIFUL!

it appears we live in Utah...

Folsom Lake

during this drought...

Leaving you with one

Beautiful

SUNRISE

 

;)