Friday's Blessings

Awoke to this!!!!!

...as i reached the bottom of the stairs, i saw this and thought...i am going to fix that little face of hers...it's just too dark.

then i did and i was glad and she was brighter and happier!!!

then, la la la, on my way to work...

wait...is that a twister up there...will we be swooped up, car and all?...

nope...just an enormous expanse of BEAUTIFUL sky... i wonder how many people noticed this as we drove by?...

arriving home, turned around and ...snapped a shot...

as the sun went down...

Very GRATEFUL woman!!!

Treasured Joys and those Perfect Moments

This again, was one of those struggles, (background) but i love sharing that it's never the end and that if we keep at it, whether that's to paint over it, and over it, kicking it under the bed, getting out oils, pastels...oh woe is me...what is going to work???...well...some THINGS finally DID work...and now she moves on to another painting...oh wait...the little bird needs one little highlight on her eyeball....heh heh...and then there's the one...."WHEN to leave it alone....oooohhh!

HAPPY MONDAY TO YA' ALL!!!!

You can enlarge all of these TWICE!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO EVERYONE!

CAMARADERIE

Well, this painting WAS a work in progress, (as i search for their words) but as i was posting the pictures and poses, i was thinking of how blessed we women are to have one another. i treasure my relationships and profoundness of my women friends, here and in the flesh. how lucky we are to be able to let our emotions out and be understood by so many others...how we help one another to figure out the hard and important stuff...how we can just 'GET' one another without words sometimes...how loving and loved we can be...so lucky we are! (i always have to NOT leave out feelings and truth that goes along with this)..i am grateful to also have a husband that HEARS me as my women friends do! :)

sooo...i came up with just one word to add at the top of the painting...

"CAMARADERIE"

I LOVE that word...it evokes such a special meaning to me as i hope it will for others!!!

thinking about where to shop for their clothes...hmmm...or should they make their own?

THEY finally put their clothes on!...and they are searching for their story or words, still...

Learning More Wonderful Techniques!!!

i am taking julie prichard's and chris cozens, "texture town" class. and it is so yummy, fun, hard, and worth all the patient labor. julie's classes are so wonderful, i ALWAYS come away with such wonder! her classes are so affordable and stay up forever for one to refer back to. this texture class for instance is much more than that, it's also about color use in the "aged" look and about layering and layering and layering some more with paint, paint, paint! you can find julie on http://thelandoflostluggage/!!

you can go in for a closer view on all pictures.

These are a few sampler panels that i'll keep for reference...i NEVER do that, i always turn my class paintings into whatever, and then i can't remember what i did, soo...this time i was a good student and know it will pay off.

the true colors are right in between these two photos, below...

it's pouring down rain and that is where i catch my best lighting, especially with something like this with all the layers

it reads: "silence is in whispers"
on the woman's chest

SOLD

MUSIC IN MY HEART AND SOUL

Holy Moly, now i know the meaning of giving birth to a painting, make that two! After showing these a while back (forever) as work in progress...they were almost a scourge to me.

they have been turned against 3 different walls, then turned back around, they were touched up and re-touched in eensy increments...i screamed, no they are wrong, this is wrong, that is wrong...well then richard made me beautiful frames and painted them...and then they were okay and then...yesterday i looked at the music sheets and all the subtle colors and then woke up this morning completely in love...crazy huh?!

I'm going this week to the gallery to exchange paintings, so there will be new and fresh faces litterally and then as i looked at these 2 this morning, i thought...if they don't sell i'd love them on our walls and they make me think of my sister and i, with so much depth and history to tell...Crazy huh?!

17 1/2" X 32"

Acrylics, painted torn paper, torn sheet music, ink, stencils, tears, laughter, screams, delight....yeah, you get the picture!!!

she reads:

"enter the dimension of music...and FLY unfettered!"she reads:

"moving toward uncertainty...she emerged with music!"

Tangled Sky and Alice's Time!

Okay, carolyn, if you want to know how i did this, and if you want words, then you'll have to come over and see and i'll tell you.

and you'll get to see beth's work up close and personal, and you won't believe how wondrous her work is!

This one is "ask alice about the time"...the answer is a play on the painting!!!

Enjoy!! the joy of serious humor!!! 8" X 8" X 2" thick

Per, my usual...i did this completely backwards...i wanted to show beth's work before mine!!

Here is what i won from beth at: http://tangledskystudio.blogspot.com/! you can go in for a closer view on all the photos...along with this, beth surprised me with 2 cards she created as well, including instructions on how to care for encaustic paintings. i told her i could not part with her cards, and am going to make frames for them and make a little grouping on my wall with her work. Her work is incredible, so subtle, with little found nuances as your explore each piece. and they will speak to you...truly the pictures are just pictures compared to her work in reality. i am so GRATEFUL! and on top of it all, there is my favorite...HUMOR!!!

it was difficult to get a photo that would show beth's work as it should be, but because of the my abilities and her encaustics, i couldn't get a good shot...honestly!

a happy accident, i thought was really cool...beth's painting in front of mine...which of course does not do her work justice!!! beth's are the very coolest in person!

Those Get Together's!!!!

There's paint, there's fabric, there's words, there is some handmade paper fabric and...

MAGIC

sometimes in the ART of being with one another!!!!

They speak for Themselves...more to come!

To ALL Those Who Support Me and I YOU...XOXO

...as one looks to the comments...there they are...this is after i posted this and am now editing...here are some of my soul sisters!!! i love this! i love you guys!

Country Life!!!

Now, they have eaten down our strawberries, blackberries...they just love our rosebuds...and then there's the prettiest flowers we have....annnd, groundcover, so that the weeds are taking over soooooo....

after breakfast you HAVE to hit the road!!

and the very GALL, this is right out the front door and porch!

i know i know...mama and her BAMBI'S are sooo cute!

oh! and their bellies are full of all our tomato's but for the "2" i snatched up in time!!

no no, not our strawberries!

you better keep running!and wanda is OVER THE MOON i just won a little encaustic painting from beth over at:

http://tangledskystudio.blogspot.com just in case you've never seen her work!!! xoxoxo

The Three Faces of Eve

Wellllll......this is her 3rd face, about the 5th mouth...annnd...i am not excited about her....but, i thought i should show how some things just don't turn out to meet your expectations, and that one might struggle away to try and make it better, but only better, not best...and that's OKAY, lesson learned more than once and will again, soooo glean what one can and get MOVIN' on, eh?

on another humorous note...her first face looked like a vampire, her second looked like an old shriveled up, prunish type lady that i would never like to meet and now....

annnnd...especially for you, miss carolyn...she has a fabric collar and the strip on the side is dyed paper towel with another strip of fabric over that...look familiar? look closer...annnd i keep thinking of rae every time i want to change her lips...'cause it's an expression rae has often...like she has a secret...where are you rae rae, are you coming in october with lea? xoxoxox

AAACCCK! where has she been...maybe busy...until this morning's sky woke them up and filled their room...i thought the hillside was on fire, richard

said, maybe the sky is raining fireballs...well maybe wanda better jump out of bed, find her camera and shoot...and she did...took in the breathtaking sight...silently...oh so silently...

Happy Labor Day to all...i hope everybody gets to stay home from work and "un-labors"!

imagine that...from a witch to a princess...someone ordered a princess for her friend, and here she is...this is far too much fun..i gotta get back to the drawing board...la la la

she's wearing a lovely dress made of rayon, cotton trim on her bodice, and rayon "foo foo" for the bodice...you can go in for a closer look for both pictures.

Bewitching Friends!!!

SOLD

i just finished another witch...a friend is giving it to her friend, who collects wizard of oz treats...this truly was delightful to create with those words in mind...hee hee hee...