IT'S AN GORGEOUS SPRING DAY IN APRIL,2020...

I left this blog of mine abrubtly... 

I had 2 knee replacements and

am back on the mend.

 I was so thrilled to be able to 

collect plants and flowers outdoors.

Bringing them in to make prints.

 I used heaps of left over

tubes of paint.

 And felt ever so blessed and down right excited,

with how they all turned out.

Someday soon i hope to incorporate many of them into some pieces of art work.

THOSE PERFECT SPRING DAYS...

 Up close:

Flexible spackling, cardboard, cheese cloth, print made deli paper, and acrylics.

 Added dried plant material, and modeling paste through a stencil...

 The pink paper here is; 

printed deli prints from acrylic paint.

 The little pink collage area are

real dried flowers, plants, and deli pieces, with

matte medium over the top.

(kinda looks like hot wax)

The piece in it's 

ENTIRETY.

I promised something finished soon. 

But didn't think I'd ever be done with this.

I have worked on it off and on for almost a year.

It's title is at the top of post for the introduction.

There is also fabric, tissue paper, and things i don't even remember using!

SMILING!!!

INSIDE EACH ONE OF US...

We have 

ONE

granddaughter 

and i was thinking about her  

and the way she tilts her head.

xo

SOUS-CHEF DAYS...(photos can all be enlarged)

 There was this paper bag

floating

around in my studio

for days, maybe weeks.

It wasn't just a brown grocery bag...

 It had texture,

was light weight,

and 

LARGE.

I had to do something with it 

TODAY!

YAY!

(actually, that was yesterday)

 oOH 

GET a load of those gloppy drips...

I LOVE THEM!

 Now 

TODAY...

Someone gave me the sweetest card,

(just because)

i altered it a bit with left over paint.

 On to the old story...

"LEFT OVER PAINT".

I cannot waste.

I took some deli papers, using them as printing papers

and dabbed over the start of these cards.

Voila!

I was actually excited as they lightened up 

and weren't so doggone dark anymore. ;)

 And 

then...

and yet again...

One of those HAPPY ACCIDENTS!

My flower turned into an abstract 

BLUE BUTTERFLY!

(you can bet i'll either be using this IN a painting collage, or will turn it into

it's deserving right...a true framed painting.

 These are some of  the deli papers i used 

to print on top of other paintings.

And YES, I did notice that 

GORGEOUS MORNING LIGHT

coming from our windows!

I promise to show some mixed media pieces

that shall come to fruition, as soon as possible.

For now, you can laugh...

Some of us are SOUS-CHEFS when it comes to some of our work. Certainly not all, but lots.

So when the public asks:

'how long did this take you, how'd you do that, where did you get that, what is that?'

My answer:

Sometimes i just don't know, truly.

As the days roll on, and one is experimenting, and open to 

CHANGE, anything goes...

JUST DO IT,

day in and day out till you figure it out/or not; but 

HAVE FUN IN THE MEANTIME!

A GOOD FRIDAY IN FEBRUARY...

Today's surprise:

where the ink takes me,

or them!

"Rambling Rose"

Mixing FW Inks and Acrylics

A VERY HAPPY SUNDAY IN FEBRUARY...

 Well, it finally happened! I figured out how to retrieve as well as post my photos.

Talk about a happy camper, it makes my world go round.

 These are some painted and collaged papers on old book pages.

So very fun.

The will be used to skew and frame. Or rip up and place gingerly in other art works.

The co-op gallery i work in has accepted my new work with birds.

This particular one, is my very latest.

i experimented acrylics, FW Inks, and Posca pens.

i hope you are as delighted as i am in the outcome!

i love how the 'see through ink' lends a 

new flavor to my work.

Thank you for continuing to watch for a come back or refresher course.

My stats showed many of you!!!

Almost September...

I really really really am going to return here. It will be when I can figure out how to post my photos from my new camera to the same place I always have. FRUSTRATED BEYOND BELIEF I AM. So in the meantime, here is a picture of our only little grandchild, Venna, in her bathing suit and hat. We are happy grandparents.

MISSING IN ACTION...(this art action) far too long in June...

 Oh my goodness,

apology for missing in action.

So much going on this summer.

I hope your time is going well.

Now that I am back...

I am still in the pink (chuckling).

I am almost finished with this piece, 

(frame is drying) 

and then off to the gallery.

happy!

 I am working on 2 of these,

and am much further along and

promise to show you the finish!

 While swimming, playing, and good laughs

at Folsom Lake with my sisters...

these darling little butterflies came and landed off and on all day.

They were pink and blue

and only about an inch

so I couldn't get very good pics.

They were unbelievably beautiful.

 Close up's here and the next ones.

This, of one of the two I showed here in the beginning.

 I am having so much fun with some products,

it's unbelievable!

Using tissue paper, deli papers

and a gelli print pad

(oh my)

When i am finished and show you...

i will gladly let you know the products

and how some processes are done.

Simply leave me a note (i only know english)

and will gladly tell you anything!

It's been a good summer so far!

I DEFINITELY THINK I AM IN THE PINK right now...even though it just never stops raining...

 "flight of my life"

 Attempting the correct color with top 2

 Stitching, up close

HALF OF MAY 2019 gone in a whoosh...

 3 different paintings

overlapped

WIP

\

So in love with

Quinacridone Magenta and Green Gold

together.

I return to them over and over.

SMILING!

Planting these 

when it 

stops

raining 

some 

day...

IT'S SPRING! HAVE YOU BEEN BUSY?...

 This is how

 paint went on

 barrel staves.

 They lend 

themselves 

to such

earthy

delight!

 Using:

Plaster

Paint,

paper and words...

 Leaving spots 

in their natural state 

(yet sealed for preservation)

 A few deep and meaningful words,

thoughts,

like;

'JUST BE'

 Sparse amount of

personal altered photos

Ready to hang, wires on the backs (which are painted solid black)

Some of their words:

'inside the heartbeat of creation'

'simple things you already know'

'daydreaming'

and

'nowhere else matters'