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.

IT'S JANUARY IN 2018...

 In November of 2017,

I started this...

 Maybe it was even earlier than that.

I try not to keep track. I just found a pic

on my photo op's of it in that month?

 There is paint of course,

 cheese cloth, cardboard, own painted papers,

own repurposed art work, ink writings, and

 dried flowers, torn fabric.

 This is the title,

tucked in quietly 

within the painting.

 The true colors

I cannot capture, even in daylight.

My new little love,

our granddaughter,

Venna Sloane.

How could we not possibly adore this

little pixie!

xoxo

 The true colors are in between this one and the one above Jenna.

SISTERS and NIECES February mountain trip...

 Front cover 

of my art journal.

That I will take on my trip.

Everyone will write or draw on the 

following pages.

And then photographs will be added in later.

 This deli-paper,

painted page...

Collage and paint page...

 are some of the finished,

 and prepped pages,

 INSIDE

our journal of memories,

and silliness,

and love...

Never

to be

forgotten

and passed

down through the 

FAMILY

and possibly 

the 

ages!

HAPPY SUNDAY

EVERYONE