FIRST SATURDAY IN NOVEMBER...

 From my box

of 

words...

 Drying in our window...

 How I love

LAYERING.

And then

LAYERING

some more.

Until it all gets 

JUST RIGHT.

With:

burlap, cheese cloth, dyed fabrics and

VUNDERFUL

acrylics and textures.

This quote I love!

It is so profound

and

meaningful for we women.

HAPPY WEEKENDER EVERYONE

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN...

 Like this backdrop?

hahaha

I sure don't...

 Drying under a window

in the sunshine...

There is a lot of texture,

I say!

Painted deli paper (from left over paints)

Dyed cloth leaves

Cheese cloth

Painted papers (when using my left over paints)

Various fabrics and papers

Acrylic paint

This is a little taste

of 

Autumn

on the 

ole'

homestead.

It has been warm and long

with sunshine,

till today, when it turned a little bit cold!

ONE MORE MONDAY IN OCTOBER...

 Wanda,

what did you accomplish yesterday?

 well...

 I

painted over finished paintings,

because 

they 

just didn't

have that 

"it" factor

for me!

 And

then I did some

"prep" work.

"no, not for meals" (smile)…

ALL

for future art work.

Was it boring?

Heavens no!

I was using left over paint,

listening to music,

having a "devil may care"

attitude,

and 

stirring up my

CREATIVE juices

for

TODAY.

As soon as I post this...

I AM ON IT!

Have a marvelous day everyone! 

OCTOBER is already almost half over...

 I started an

owl series

 a 

couple of days ago...

("start living to change")

 I just haven't

done hardly any series...

 But..

it was so much fun!

And I had to

let the ink dry

in 

between each one.

 Next will be

the need to

purchase 

mat's and frames

without driving the price up.

Then

hopefully,

as I continue

desperately,

and frustratingly,

to figure out the doggone

comment settings...

so that I might hear from you.

It isn't working right now.

I hope you

ALL

have a beautiful weekend.

Our prayers right now

include those in

the hurricane area.

XO

P.S.
I like to give credit whenever possible.
I took an Tracy Verdugo class
that started all of this.
I think it was called "wonky owls".
So I am sure there is a resemblance,
yet I have been practicing for quite some
time and am trying to go far and away
from her likeness.
And I am starting to exaggerating their ears,
which I think,
brings more personality to each.
Impossible maybe to do so completely.
The inks have the same colors.
And it's not the easiest to completely
alter an owl...
ALTHOUGH...as I continue, who knows.
I was just thinking about a little flowered hat on one of them.
And thought the "art curator" looks like
he's wearing
a 
dapper scarf! (enter smile)

IT'S OCTOBER NOW, in 2018...

 Where in the world did I go?

Who knows?

Not me (smile)

All over the place I tell ya'!

I have been working on this one 

off and on all day with so

many

interruptions...

called 

LIFE!

nOTHING

STANDS STILL...

well maybe rocks, smile.

I put a photo transfer of 

pink dragon fly wings

in the left hand top corner.

I will show you

when 

completed.

 I stopped to

weave 

some papers

today...

 I was flying

too

high

and needed 

something to bring

me back down to earth...

These little weavings helped!

 I showed you this earlier

and I really thought it was finished!

Well..

umm..

I got ahold of it again and changed 

some lips

and added some more touches.

This is finished now

and hanging on the wall.

It's one of those pieces

that I just may keep...

we'll see as time floats by!

WELCOME OCTOBER

"PLAY IS THE only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold" by Joseph Chilton Pearce

 Did you 

play

today?

If not...

you better do that

tomorrow

for 

sure!

This in my journal today

xo

SUNDAY IN SEPTEMBER...wip

 I was so excited this morning when I started her...

and exuberant all the day long!

 All the different 

ideas came so easily

at first...

 She is not quite finished...

I couldn't figure out why

the finishing touches were coming so hard...

WELL...

I had to stop and make dinner for the family!

When I got back to her...

Let's just say I ran out of oomph

but I am still 

HAPPY

about her!

I will show you when I'm finished.

I needed these photos

to help me in the morning...

Have a WONDERFUL WORK WEEK EVERYONE! 

DRYING IN MY WINDOW AND drying in my journal on a warm August day...

 Trying out some glazes

and then the colors

I use turn out different!

 and I love painting over black

 Painting over black

paper from an old

album I found at the

Goodwill.

Back from a little vacation

and so ready to paint

LARGER!

GOOD things coming on a Saturday in August...

 When I just don't know where to take the layers...

These things happen...

And i'm lucky in love.

Each 'being' has a word on her chest...

MUSICAL HEARING

LOVE

MY BEST.

SMILES FOR YOU ALL,,,

it's time now!

WHERE HAVE YOU VISITED? WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? It's August now...

 I found a board...

 that I could paint...

 and pile on the collage...

 and tried out old and wonderful
techniques
that I've always loved...

Making my way
through some
traveling days...

and that board 

fit 

perfectly

right into a perfect

frame.

Does this happen often?

NEVER,

until now!

TRAVELING DAYS...

AUGUST & getting prepared for a new show...

 "SEA SHOWS"

 dyed & painted cheese cloth

printed fabric

deli paper

modeling paste

acrylics

 "it's all in how you look at it"

various fibers

modeling paste

own torn paintings

acrylics

FIRST TUESDAY in July...

 With such gratitude I tell you...

this sold on Sunday, before the 
Auburn Art Walk evening. 

Her title is,

"KEEP YOUR CHILDREN'S SPARKLE"

She's painted on the face of a wooden

cupboard drawer.

FACES on the last Wednesday in June, 2018...

 Practicing

on making

my faces 

 organic

or 

different

or loose...

Trying to make changes!

This little speedy ditty

is on a torn paper bag.

Trying to get a handle on

how to make more changes...

VITAL FORCES finished on a Sunday...

 The colors are more muted than this.

I just can't get the right lighting.

But love how it turned out.

Closer view.

MATERIALS:

yarn, painted deli-paper, own writing, fabric leaves,

and acrylics.