for PPF

i made it for PPF this week...hurray......i played with paint to make these papers today......i am nursing a cold and am very uncomfortable....ugh.....

i do want to wish everyone a great new year....can you believe it is a new year already.......

Happy Holiday

had to share these pictures of my grand daughters, Annie Kate and Piper Jane...... aren't they cute...

painting fabric

i was looking through a "somerset workshop" book, autumn 2009, and rediscovered a crown that alisa burke made. (among many other things )...... i am going to make the crown for my grand daughter.... excited to do it....the only trouble is, i might have to make 2....one for a 8yr. old and one for her sister who is almost 2yrs. old......anyway, here is some of the fabric i have painted to use for the crown......

Dare to Dream

this is done in an altered book.....i find i like to work in it because i can make "boo boo's" and not stress too much about it.....although taking a picture of my work is stressful because i do not have any light at night....but you get the idea of what it looks like....it was fun......done with "pitt pastels" mostly......i do like working with chalk.....

Quick sketch

with a quick watercolour wash........

WIP for PPF

again not much to show but i did do this today for "paint party friday".....a work in progress...

Manon's free class

I did one of Manon's girls in the journal that made the other day......her girls are sooo fun ...the journal pages were already colored so the drawing was quick....i might just do another...

journal entry again

i had just enough time to finish this in a" journal /altered book" that i started many moons ago....now i am going to sit with "heat" on my back and practice some lettering for lori's class in letter lab .

journal page

i actually finished something today that i started this morning......a journal entry.....now, i am not much good at keeping a journal....never was......... but i do like to draw faces hoping one day to improve......so i draw faces in journals....this one is not perfect....the nose is to long and etc. but i like it for some reason... i played with my rub-ons , stamps, stabilo pencils and acrylic paint and more...... i had fun...and i am so happy i can say it is finished.....but i really need to do something about taking better pictures indoors....

another thing i am doing is ripping out pages from magazines for Sharon's class.... go check it out ...it is going to be a blast......

just playing......

not much going on in my studio these days......i did make a couple of "no glue, no sew" journals that i can play in .......i have soooo much paper that i decided to do something with it today.....i used watercolour paper, 140lb, and put together 2 journals (9x8) in no time........and then i just slapped some watercolour on the pages of one of them....now it is ready for what ever.....and i used up some paper....yipppeee....

fall color (again)

i can't stop taking fall photos of our ginkgo tree.....the red building, also in the picture, is my studio...it is down a path from our home.....

the other photo is the "color between 2 oaks"....they are sitting down the stairs, right off of our porch......

Piper Jane

decided she wanted a tu-tu on her head also.......had to share......

cardboard book

i made in katie's class...... not great pictures.......

Fall Color

i don't have any new art to show.....but i think mother nature did a fantastic job.....this is the view from my front porch looking down my drive......breathtaking.....

another exercise

for Katie's class....... magazine rubbings.....i collaged some rubbings and then drew on them with a stabillo pencil and then added color ......

yes, another

this time i think i loosened up with the paint a little more...

and yet another

yes, another for katie's class..... and there will be more.... ;-) until i loosen up some more..

another

another "katie's class" face on phone book page..... i painted a tad looser this time...maybe the next will be even more loose....

painted

one of my katie phone book sketches, painted..... my faces all look alike....i need to try to paint loose and not blend so much....hard for me to do.....well, i have a few more sketches to practice with...