"WORD TOWN"

a play on words...leaving negativity behind!!

"Miz Katie"

She had the best imagination...

she made everyone laugh...

when she left town,

everyone called her,

"MIZ KATIE"

Sweet sweet springtime!

I've noticed others mentioning how hard it is to keep up one's blog during this springtime season...and i must concur...so...the sun REALLY did come out today and here are a few spring time delights for all of us.

happy spring to all!!!

we know there is a nest in this house, but the blue birds

and the swallows are still fighting over it!

i think the swallows may win, as one little lady stayed inside all day one day while the rain never let up!

good drive by shooting on the california roadside such showoff's those tom's

yummy...look at all this long fresh grass!!!

Whimsical Collage Painting!!!

Following up with monoprints from Michelle Wards Crusade...

i printed and then cut up all the pieces from the monoprints...

throwing in a few random ones for good measure...

after painting technique i exposed some of the collage pieces...

"just walk on by" is hand written over the paint...

her wings say, "didn't always hang together"

Blue birds and Spring!!

...he called her the Queen of Preening!!

oh honey...please can we buy this yellow house..

it's the prettiest one in the area, so far?!

honey, do you think i can pull this off...

am i lookin' like a weather vane???

http://michelleward.typepad.com ~ go take a look...very Fun!

...a few transfers from the first day monoprints...

onto watercolor cards and paint!

...while in this "transfer" mode, i just had to try out one

of my "ta da" paintings, transferring it onto a watercolor card..

"ta da"!!

this one was what was left from the first transfer,

so i just had to use it again...it's a card!

...so...day "3" from the first monoprints, showing text on some of them.

these are going to make some great card, tags and collage pieces.

Such continued fun!

MUCHAS MUCHAS GRACIAS, MICHELLE!

Pulling more Prints! See Michelle"s blog address on previous post...

today, i also printed some script on the flowers from yesterday...they

turned out so pretty.

this has been a blast, michelle...again i thank you for the jumpstart, the possibilities are just endless!!

it's not over yet for me, i'll say!!!

and jane, i know you are going to do some GORGEOUS colors and "pieces"!

got the brayer out and continued from yesterday...the colors used here were, titan buff and pyrrole red...so fun!

i used cobalt teal and van dyke brown, and then some white gesso on some of them

the colors i used here are: cobalt teal, van dyke brown and light portrait pink

emelie...funny that you should mention, printing out the prints...

changing their colors...HERE THEY ARE!

and then i did make a collage out of them, after i cut all of them out...

i'll put up pics soon on that part!!! i just love how great minds think alike...xo

Michelle Ward's Crusade # 39..Pulling Prints

...ooh...want to have some quick fun???

go here-http://michelleward.typepad.com

you can find out what her next crusade idea is till may 1st!

last night i cut out a few flower shapes from some tyvek...

then...

i thought i'd try to get my brain going this fine saturday, so

i jumped in with only the very first stimulus michelle suggested,

simple monoprints...then took a snooze, so i didn't get any further

for today!

but...this was such fun, and she was right...it starts you thinking

in all directions...i now have a start for some cute bookmarks and such!

and...i plan to stamp some printed words on some of them...i did already

cut some up for collage..and then...and then...you get the idea!!!

She emerged like a flower, passing all the ladybugs!!!

~You can enlarge all the photos, twice~

collaged a background...then painted her face and neck...

made some fabric paper for her dress

chose, cut, ripped and sewed on her garden dress

(from the fabric paper)

i painted some dried fern leaves for her hair...

sewed some pretty flowers so she'd have a garden,

to pass through...

she emerged...

finished, without her "words"!