EVERY DAY we have CHOICES...

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 Little yellow finches in our Flowering Plum Tree

 

 

 

NOVEMBER 2015

XOXO

TAKING CHANCES...

 Most of you know me well enough, TO KNOW that i wasn't fishing for Anything!!!

on my last post ;)

AND

THANK YOU

Lisa DiNunzio

Sharon Tomlinson

and

Anita (castles and crowns)

I LOVED

and

APPRECIATED

your words

TREMENDOUSLY.

 and here's what I came up with...

1. maybe i'll just post once a month

2. I really want a free website with my work AND BLOG on it

(but have to find help for that)
3. yes Sharon...it is a good way of keeping a journal and easier!

4. I just read on another artist's blog, a comment someone wrote;

(this is what prompted my post)

she said; "my 5 yr old can paint like you do"

I gasped...I have never had a nasty comment like this (whew)

and the artist's retort;

"then maybe you should sell your 5 yr old's art work and when he gets a blog, please give me his address"

sooo...

I posted on Face Book about this and

I said;

"maybe some people find it easy to jump off a cliff, take major chances, and bare their very soul for the public, I dunno' do you"

 

pretty much word for word...

DWELLING ON THE POSITIVE

over here.

 

and

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR FEEDBACK LADIES!

XOXOXO

BE WELL...BE HAPPY...

 

I am thinking...have been thinking for a long while to stop blogging.

There are so many other avenues now and it's beginning to seem like this does not bring the delight it used to bring...we'll see...

 as I was painting this the other night just before the sun went down...
this happened...
I had to run outside then and take photos of the sundown,
the INCREDIBLE sundowns!
I finished her in the morning and
SHE is at the bottom of this post ;)
her words read;
"GRATITUDE LIST
no distractions"

IRONIC and HUMOROUS









 

this is a piece I have been slaving over...

 

 

 

 



1

 

 

18" X 24" X 2"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

I am combining the 2 classes I've been trying to take,

in between family fun, company, and company and

whew...just when we thought we were alone again...

more company (not that we don't love it/them)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

we were so sad to have Cookie leave, but we all had a WONDERFUL

time with her,

ALONE, and together...that's our

HUGE LOVING FAMILY!

 

 

 

 

 

 



A FRIEND of OURS gave us a ton of bird seed,

this sock filled with thistle seed

and some bird feeders!

As if we don't have enough birds around here, NATURALLY...

in the spring time it sounds like a

BIRD SANCTUARY...

a crack up and wonderful the

CACOPHONY at it's best!!!

 

 

 



and then there are the SUNSETS

OVER AND OVER

that I just can't stop from photographing

they are magnificent and I have to

SHARE.

They need no other words...

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I so miss all the discussions and sharing that blogging used to bring...

not that I don't have some loyal lookers...I love you and your words always!

I am guilty myself, if that's what you call it for not perusing other's...

so as I say...we shall see, sometimes things are just meant to be.

 

I hope this finds everyone well and creating!

xoxo



BOO!!!

 BOO

Tomorrow is October

Here is my first witch

of the season...

 

 

 

 

 

 I finally let July fade into the past...

 

 

 

 

 

 We are picking up this SISTER, COOKIE,

from the airport tomorrow night,

then whisking her off to Dinner out.

 

 

 

 

 

 I have 100 nieces and great nieces.

Well probably not quite that many...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 This is one niece and 2 great nieces,

one year..

LOVE THEM ALL TO PIECES!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 GOLD has been dropping from the sky lately...

Such BEAUTIFUL sunsets we are blessed with!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I have 2 classes going and company for this entire month and now more.

We love that...

but I

HAVE TO SNEAK OFF

and drop ink now and then

hee hee hee...

 

 

 

 

 

So Special yesterday...

we celebrated

Nama's 88th birthday,

and by her side is Mary, 71

and then there is Aunt Avis, 100!

 

I tell ya', she is a smilin' jack,

gets so tickled over the smallest of things (always been that way)

and her smile lights up the entire earth!

 

Getting ready to

CELEBRATE

A NEW

MONTH.

 

HAPPY OCTOBER FRIENDS!



PRACTICE...

 while practicing today a

HUMMING BIRD

showed up ;)

 

 

 

 

 LOOK

in the middle of the photo...

 

 

 

 

 we had never seen a

RAINBOW

from an airplane!

 

 

 

 

 such wondrous terrain

from the air!

 

 

 

 

 GORGEOUS

 

 

 

HAPPY WEEK END!!!

CLASS TIME...

 TRACY VERDUGO'S newest online class...

I won a free spot...

yes I did, squealing gleefully.

BEFORE class started,

I sent for the supplies I needed,

and FW Daler~Roney Acrylic Artist Inks were on the list...

 

WHEN they arrived in our mail...

I just went right to town experimenting with them...

OH MY GOODNESS...

they are so GORGEOUSLY INTENSE in color...they are amazing...

give them a go, my artist friends, if you haven't already!

This piece is with mainly layers of the luscious inks with a little acrylic dabbed in!

INSIDE the right flower reads;
"RELEASE YOUR WORRY"

 

 

 

 

 We will be starting week 3 this Tuesday.

i am still in week one.

Trying out and experimenting with the lesson on

Scratch-Foam Boards from Dick Blick (very inexpensive)

We were instructed to do a large one with MONO PRINTING (which i adore)

 

 

 

 

 i chose my giant dragon fly wings for my print.

For some reason they turned out so dimensional, i was ecstatic and need to ask Tracy "why" so that i might do some more in a similar fashion!

 

 

 

 

 Last night i cut down my gigantic (left over) paint paper that i tape to a double closet door.

i will be using pieces and parts in my collage paintings and am really excited about that too;)

 

 

 

 

 i only moved on to making some smaller stamps for my personal paintings...

 

 

 

 

 starting out SIMPLISTIC rather than elaborate (per usual) and then graduate to more complex ones as time goes on. This was a very fun project.

 

 

 

 

 On a very sad note...the morning skies look

TREMENDOUSLY...

 

 

 

 

STUNNING during these many fires in California (we are safe)

reminding all of us around here how lucky we are to (once again) have our homes intact.

i cannot watch the news anymore of late, seeing people break down while explaining what they and their families have lost...

simply...

PRAYING...

PRAYING HARD. 

 

 

HAVE A WONDERFUL CREATIVE WEEK MY FRIENDS \

XOXO

It's been too long...

 

 

I've been so busy...

Painting and Life

 

all wonderful!

 

 GREAT NEWS.

 

I got my act together,

portfolio of work for sale and sold work.

Took them and 5 paintings to put before a jury...

to get a spot in HIGH HAND GALLERY.

(you can look it up, California, it's a nursery with a café and much more)

 

 

it's such a HAPPY, INVENTIVE, CREATIVE,

spot in a little town called Loomis.

I was accepted and put on a wait list,

with an invitation only to show and demonstrate some techniques.

yes I am smiling, happy, grateful and YIPPEE KY A!

;)

 

one small

HAPPY

painting

 side view

 Barrel Stave Hanger

 a GIFT

for a

SPECIAL

FRIEND

 Barrel Stave Hanging

 

 her skirt

 her words...

Folsom Lake

during our drought

remains

so

BEAUTIFUL!

it appears we live in Utah...

Folsom Lake

during this drought...

Leaving you with one

Beautiful

SUNRISE

 

;)