HEAVENLY DAY!!!

 ...not quite finished...her words are going right in the "V" between her neck and wing...

 

 

 

 

 a close up of her head, the same is on the little extended angel coming up from her large wing

(hand dyed cheese cloth, i colored many moons ago...that JUST RIGHT FINISH)

 

 

 

 

 the WEE angel...but POWERul i say!

 

 

 

 the wisp of an angel tucked in between the large angel's wing and back :))

 

 

 

 

 ...so glad that MY SISTER showed up in the finished product! i have a lot of blood sisters, but i GOTTA' LOTTA SOUL SISTERS out there i LOVE!

 

 

 

 

 SPECIAL WORDS to place near her neck!

 

 

 

 

 

and this ain't the half of the mess around here...

don't ya' just love it when the papers and gauze and tea bags get stuck in with the paint...

 

ACCCK!!!

i need

some mighty clean up help over here!

 

HOPE ALL MY FRIENDS ARE HAVING AN OKAY DAY, especially after SANDY did her devastation...



 

MUCH LOVE AND PRAYERS ARE GOING OUT FOR ALLLL OF YOU BRAVE SOULS!

XOXOXO

ALL on ONE canvas!!!

 i started with this one...the sourdough baguette, love the humor...

 

 

 

 

 in showing you some textures up as close as possible with my trusty little camera.

the ORANGY BLUE here is a copy of some sewn paper and fabric...loved how it turned out so realistic, yet not...

 

 

 

then some more UP CLOSE and personals...

 

 

 

 

 

 i used some modeling paste here, with a stencil

 

 

 

 

 a few stamps, i used as well, MY SISTER, the flower

 

 

 

 

 this is how it is now...it will probably not look ANY thing like this when finished

it is 24" X 36" X 2"  no frame needed, gallery wrapped

 

 

 

 

 on to the texture stamps i made and showed you in the last post.

this is the only thing that i have to show for now...i just HAD to see what they might look like. i am anxious to use them in some real paintings and i WILL be making more!!!!

 

 

 

 

  this one, wasn't so fabulous, but will do some more exploring with it...the stamp itself could be used in a collage :)) ha, who knows!

 

 

 

 

 and now ending with some more expensive paint palettes :)

i love the ones i can just toss when finished, but...

i also love the glass (gram's old roaster front)

 

 

 

 

 and then an extreme fav...the glass front of a picture frame...they are so easy to either scrape clean with a razor blade or sit in water for a bit and voila!

 

 

 

 



and last but not least for your pure enjoyment of the season...

this is 2 years ago in november at my sister cookies house in

Seal Beach California...one can hear the waves from her house...lucky she is and lucky we are to share in this! talk about a perfect lullaby to make one sleep like a log!

 

 

 

 

HAPPY SEASONAL CHANGES TO ALL!

XOXOXO

AUTUMN DAYS AGAIN!

 miz katie friend, do you like her lollipop flowers?

 

 

 

 do you like her marbles, katie?

 

 

 

 ...or what she states?

 

 

 

 ...i'm betting on the ears! but one never knows when it's you at the wheel!

 

 

 

 one of my expensive paint palettes, a salad container lid :))

 

 

 

 i even made some funky texture stamps today...not good photography though, ha

 

 

 

 i cut out some bubble wrap for some hand made stamps as well... when i get time, i'll show ya' all what their magic can do...hmm, we shall see!

 

 

 

and a real live, truly, stupendous, chilly autumn day...our crepe myrtles are still in bloom as it's been so summer "like" forever!

 

 

HAPPY TRAILS FOR ALL as we plug along on our journey's! XOXO



DELIGHTED SENSES DAY...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I HOPE YOU HEAR the MUSIC!!!

IMAGINATION!!!

 Layers and layers...many layers...

 sooooo many layers before this point...

 "WITH HER HEART CENTERED, SHE BEGAN TO LEAVE HER CHECKERED PAST BEHIND" :))



this wonderful cup was a gift from 2 of my 3 sisters, cookie and candy...

i wake to greet this everyday!

 

 

 

A HAPPY FRIDAY TO ALL!!!

XOXO

JOURNAL journey JOURNAL :)

 in the drs. office waiting room, i found myself painting in my journal, thanks to ALISA BURKE turning me on to portable watercolor brushes, heh heh heh!

 

 

 

 ...and yet, another happy mistake. i am going to leave this funny little guy, just the way he is on my WIP! he leaves me chuckling every time i glance over, thinking...how will i finish this piece :)

 

 

 

 winter time will be rollin' around here, sooner or later, and then THIS is the first dyed wool i am going to spin up!!! woo hoo, it's going to be colorful. and i see that fall and winter are going to be full of colors in the FASHION WORLD, so hoping this will be a fun and cheery scarflette!!!

 

 

 

in my summer journal...

 

we now own some property in SANTA CATALINA, PANAMA. we are beginning to build our new home away from home.

so, here is the first coconut we planted this summer!!! we are so excited!

 

it's been hectic around here, but good. no time to visit you and your marvelous blogs...but soon i know there will be more time.

 

 

HAPPY WEEKEND TO EVERYONE!

XOXO

FRIENDSHIPS!

 as the sun sinks slowly in the west...it's been hot and humid lately, but today is crisp and cool...

 

 

 

 so many projects, going on, trying to finish before winter sets in...

 

 

 

 

 leaving behind, my sisters "3" only to meet again next year...oh, such a lonnng time to be withOUT them! xo

 

 

 

 

 my next automobile...EASY RIDER!

 

 

 

 

THIS YEARS ARTWALK: i'll be taking my work off these walls in 2 weeks. Last year my mom was dieing and i invited no one to this event, i was so heartbroken...

This year, i know mom was right there with me, as i met and greeted some of the most wonderful people on earth...this reception was the icing on the cake for the artist AND human in me! the feedback i received went right to the center of my SOUL!

 

 

 

 

...AND THERE is this little piece that sold late one night...someone traveling through Auburn, California purchased her. i had tears in my eyes and and a swelled up heart over this one! i painted her 3 years ago when i first started this painting journey and she spoke for me... she reads:

"THE WORDS WERE OUT, HER VOICE WAS BECOMING STRONGER".

PEople have asked me many times, if i get attached to my work and then do i have a difficult time parting with them? not usually, i say, and not this one...it tickled me pink that someone was touched by this as i put her ever so lightly down on paper, with the softest of brush strokes, wanda has ever used along with no extraneous riff raff (even though i dig textures and riff raff:) she was special to me and now it will be that for someone else.

i betcha a LOT of YOU, get that!

 

 

 

Have a Happy Friday and wondrous weekend, ALL!

XOXO

"FIND A LITTLE MAGIC IN EVERY DAY"

a WONDERFUL weekend is ahead for EVERYone!

XOXO