Monday, June 26, 2017

I'VE BEEN DYEING TO GO OUTSIDE, but didn't want to melt...

 Eight days of a heat wave...




 Had left us 
lethargic...




 Until today,
I hadn't 
lifted a paint brush...




 or even had the energy to 
ponder
wander
saunter...




 Until today!
Dyed some fabric leaves
to use in some mixed media paintings.
YES, I am sure you've seen leaves this color on trees everywhere, all over the world!




 Here are some of them,
INSTA~DRYING 
in the 
FRESH
COOL (YES COOL)
AIR!

AHHHHHH




 PURPOSEFUL...




 and 
HAPPY ACCIDENTS...




Using up left over paints...
LUSCIOUS
colors
LUSCIOUS
day!!!

Saturday, June 24, 2017

SUMMMMMER TIMMMME...AND THE COTTON IS HIGH...WE'RE HAVIN' A HEAT WAVE...SO I LIKE THE NIGHTS...late late nights...

 I started this whole piece a long time ago!
"imported cigars 1858"
(great old stuff)




 It could have been a year ago?




 It's been hanging on a wall in my studio
so that I might figure how to finish it...hmmm




 There is so much to it..,




 Labor intensive...
and then...




 It magically came to fruition!!! (not)

This was after finding a beautiful old book binding, the perfect color, and an old antique ad, and added some more white writing. I wish you could see it for real... smiling, I am.




 Just a happy little fool around piece with ink,
my own mask and pens.
We all need a little magic in our lives.




 Remember those beauties I changed with photo ops?
The African lilies?




 They don't bloom very long ...




 But when they do...




 They turn themselves...




 And everything nearby into such beauty!!!




 Just like what a 
FAIRY GARDEN
must look like!
MAGICAL and CHEERY!




 a FUN little ditty...





And something that I shan't  save...
I was fooling around, experimenting using inks of two colors
only.
While referring to a mag photo, so this doesn't even look like something that came from me, ha! It did, but if you showed me a year later, I truly wouldn't know this!

Hope you are having a wonderful summer!