THE LITTLE RED HOUSE...

 This started out as an intuitive painting, again. And it was many things before this came to me. It is so astounding and surprising what comes from our imaginations when we let it flow.

 After applying regular paint and then open acrylics with a palette knife, i picked up a brush, didn't like it, then another and another...hmmmm....

 I went back to the palette knife and then another palette knife, and fell in love and dug in! Richard my husband made a special frame for me out of smashed copper piping...it found it's home surrounding the little neighborhood :))

I feel so blessed to have found this absolute painting passion in my life. And i am so fortunate to have many persons involved with myself and this endeavor. i never knew that one could feel so profound over this gift.

i hope that you too, are exploring your gifts, stepping out of the box OFTEN, and loving life for all it throws us!

wanda xoxo

FIBER ART!!! with a little painting thrown in...

my entry into CLOTH PAPER SCISSORS postcard contest...it had to be at least 50 percent cloth. i loved doing this, i love attempting new excursions. and what better time than the new year!

 the magazine peeps suggested writing them encouraging words on the back of the postcard, not that they need it. i adore this mag!

 i finished a scarf last night after purchasing someone elses, hand spun...getting to my own soon, just need to give them some colors to float in...yummmy!

 i'm not real sure what i am going to turn this into...i have toyed with a pillow top, a funky scarf, or a baby blanket...we'll see if i can stop knitting long enough...i just become obsessed in the winter time to knit up a storm!

...and there are no storms here in northern california yet. not even rain, it's been close to 70 for days and i am NOT COMPLAINING. yes we need snow and rain, but i can't do anything to change that, so...am basking in this spring time weather!

                                                      HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

MUSIC

                                           ...i started out with an intuitive painting using some colors i am in love with together! for the first time in my life i actually wrote them down for reference. then painted with left over paints on some other papers (the norm for me) THE colors are: Golden; pyrrole red, naples yellow hue, green gold and then (sky blue claudine hellmuth)

                                                           ...then a couple of days later, i decided to paint a portrait with the same paints just to see what might come from it...well, i fell in love with the soft easy look, not sure if she is retreating or emerging...no matter...she's simply done and listening and melting into the soft music :))   annnd...i popped her into my etsy a few minutes ago :0

HAPPIEST when sharing...

                                                           HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
                                                                           XOXO
                                                          SOLD! thank YOU, patricia!

OUR STORIES...

Black matte

White matte

i am going to attempt adding some new pieces of my work onto etsy fairly often. but i won't post each and every one on my blog, or that might get a little old. so...for today, this is the one i just added, thought i'd share as it's one of my favorites. SIMPLY STATED: ENJOY, my friends. xo

SO HAPPY TO BE ON VACATION from work...so i can REALLY work...with that brush of mine...

                                                           3 HAPPY MESSES...

                                                       WAITING...

                                                    for my brushes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                             she's wrapped in plastic, in these 2 photos

                                                   she is an 8" X 10" with a mat applied...and went into my ETSY!

Whimsical Winter Hangers!

Little Hangers, i just posted in my ETSY shop...all the measurements and information can be found there! This seemed a good way to get my paint on today...gearing up for some much larger pieces to work on!

                                                                            SOLD!
                                                                      Thank YOU!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

DECK THE HALLS!!!

Whimsical gifts

i turned my acrylics into watercolors again...i am loving it!

...takes very little wateryep...this is our christmas tree...a redwood bough

Christmas brings out the minimalist in me of late...

outside the front door

WELCOME

Merry Christmas One and ALL!!!

XOXO

THE SEA IN DECEMBER...

WIP...i am digging the pink :))

MORE wip and intuitive paintings......a section of a WIP that lit my fire!

Gifts galore...see, i've been busy in my workshop more and more...

These are the hand enbroidered titles for my "sea pillows"...

i shall be incorporating these "lovely titles" sewn onto the pillows with added yarn and fabric...

isn't the "sea lace" fabric sumptuous? these are fabric remnants that someone SWELL gave me!

there are those around me and espECIALLY on our blogs that encourage and entice and inspire...something of which i hope i too am a part of---SHARING and SPARKING our energized creativity back and forth...

this is what all the backs of the pillows look like...They are all about 16" to 20" squares

COLLECTIVE CREATIVE ENERGIES is what we are about at timesWASH CLOTHS GALORE!

captivating the ocean floor...

...and she just about says it all...

THANKFUL FOR ALL THE COLORS IN MY LIFE

annnd...for all you peeps that encourage, inspire and create with one another...

We all benefit from the self-expression of others...

i THANK ALL OF YOU, for sharing with me!

XOXOX