OH, THE COLORS on the first days of June, 2018...

 Magazine pages stacked

up to show you...

These are some of the ones 

I used yesterday to 

intentionally

daub paint

off of other paintings.

 While getting organized

for a new showing

in July...

I ran across this one painting that I really

never liked.

So...

I painted over it and am so excited as to how it appears now!

 This is a close up of the one above.

Trying to show you the wonderful textures

that appeared.

And

the colors peeking through now!

 Here is the next one I painted over

and am in love with the colors!

 There are 3 altogether,

over paintings.

These have left me open for 

WONDERS!

Using more of my left over paint.

Smooshing and putting them on top of one another.

Such fun!

 Then I found an huge 

charcoal paper.

And went to town on it while I had to take a phone call.

It's not like i'll ever run out of collaging

papers, EVAH!

But now I have new fresh ones and will probably weed out some oldies.

This is a constant

'doing'.

We just never know what tomorrow will bring.

And I will try to remember to show you 

the transformations...

HAPPY WEEKEND EVERYONE

FUN FOR THIS DAY in May...

I was thinking...

for a little kid's room...

but

this could be for anyone!

HAPPY DAY

SPARKLE

YOUR GREATNESS

LAST FUN FRIDAY in May, 2018 ~ experimenting...

 Something a little different

for my style...

Very difficult to photograph.

8"x10" canvas

acrylics, hand dyed fabric, yarn, photo transfers

"Be courageous and shine. Show yourself in all your greatness"

HELLO AGAIN, in May of 2018...

 I went away for awhile...

It was to repair and heal.

And today,

back at the drawing board...

This piece has been on the back burner...

then bam...

It came to fruition!

 This is a close up of the left hand

top corner.

Dyed cheese cloth over some gray paint.

the words up close.

Title:

"What if you...

write the songs etc."

I hope everyone is having a very fine weekend.

And I am thanking you right now for continuing to follow my work and life as I looked at my stats, thinking...they would be a zero.

HAPPY SATURDAY

8"x10" wrapped canvas

FIRST SUNDAY IN MARCH...

1/4 of a new piece

almost finished...
Acrylic paint, seed pods, torn page from an old diary, modeling paste through a stencil, ink, and of course the feather I found!

LAST DAY IN FEBRUARY 2018...

 Remember when I showed you this?

And it wasn't quite finished...

 It earned a title...

"THE DANCE BEGINS"

 The strip of blue is dyed ribbon with marks painted later.

Old music sheet

 Here you can see dyed embroidered fabric and torn art papers

 inks

acrylics

book end

torn fabric

This newer series has been so difficult to finish.

But almost all my different avenues are hard to finish.

So, when it comes to fruition...

You can only imagine!

My eyes are aging...

In the light of day..a truer color

A SNOWY BLOWY MONDAY...

 8"x10"

Canvas wrapped frame

 This one and the following

are all

close up shots.

These are more to the true color of

the finished piece.

 While walking some property,

a few years back,

in Santa Catalina, Panama,

We ran across this gate!

'PEACE OF MIND'

Of course I had to take a photo!

 I used acrylics

pencil

photos

stencils

rub ons

And this was

a very

different and fun piece to create!

SLEEPLESS NIGHT IN FEBRUARY...

 It's been crazy around here like a circus.

And in our world, such sadness..

ergo...sending this is winded wings...

LOVE.

 And I really am, simply going with the flow of hardship,

figuring out the lessons...

 WE have been stopped in our tracks with

emergencies of late...

making us appreciate so much more,

what's right in front of us...

This was one morning last week 

when the sky tried really hard to be PINK!

VALENTINE'S DAY HAS COME AND GONE...then there's this...

 Back at it...

This is for our new granddaughter's room.

There's a little story written right on the canvas.

It goes something like;

Venna went on a Safari one day. She went running into the bush while the grownups yelled, Venna, come back. And she did come running back excitedly...yelling, 'I saw a pink elephant and she had a pink umbrella!!!' the end

 and this one..

on a cardboard box for  

little Venna's room!

My trip was wonderful!

HISTORY ON A SATURDAY...

 I thought i'd share a fun little Saturday today.

I found this on e-bay months ago.

I purchased this journal for a song you might say!

 It is a man's payment record of 

music sheets he sold...

 From the years of

1930-1951

 It would be so interesting to know about this

music man and his life from this time in history.

 His printing certainly is quite ledgible.

 I had already started tearing it apart

I know, gasp!

months ago to put in some art pieces.

 Hopefully, then, the work I finish will 

be appreciated in some other century.

 This is part of the front cover.

 When I caught sight of it's raggedy edges and "oldness", I thought that I should take photos of how it looked at one time.

February that feels like spring time...

 FINISHED!

 She is on an old map camping substrate.

Torn papers, photos, words and paint.

 And then...

 All the little,

night critters that traipse around

while we are sleeping...

LAST DAY OF JANUARY, 2018...

 I am working on finishing "her"

today.

Then hopefully I will have time to post!

 This morning's capture.

So much better in person of course.

I just have a very plain

ordinary 

camera.

And then...

what a surprise this take was!

Almost looks like a 

lit from below

jack-o-lantern.