a work in progress

This is a new adventure for me. I'm really having fun with seeing where it takes me. I've had this paper mache body form sitting in my studio for about 2 years. I have another assemblage type thing that I'm working on as well and I actually pulled it out to see if I could make it work with that when this idea struck me. So I cut it in 2 and attached each side to a 12x12 gallery wrapped canvas and have gone from there. I think they make a fairly large enough statement themselves so I'm not planning on adding alot of color to them, but will add some to give them a bit more dimension and depth. Lots of fun textures going on though, torn pages, tissue paper and cheese clothe. I can't wait to see where these end up.

Free hand painting

Free hand is so not my thing!! I just really feel that I'm not very good at it. However on occasion it just calls for it and if it's simple enough I can usual do a fair job of it. I've no clue where this idea even came from, it just did. Not sure if you can tell but the gold paint has oodles of texture to it!! I'm not really sure how this piece should hang, I guess it would be all up to whom ever buys it.

The Good Ol Days

This is done on a 12x12 gallery wrapped canvas. I love the look of old houses and this one is no exception. Lots of texture in this one too. I did something kinda fun with this, I painted it yellow, then added the blue on the bottom. Once the blue was dry I got out my sandpaper to bring back out some of the yellow, great depth and character.

Beaded Poured Paint

Some more fun with poured paint. I loved this one cause I used the air brush paints and added some gel medium to it. It's super textured and brightly colored. There's a few other closer up pics on my Etsy shop if you'd like to see them, click the link on the right hand side of the page.

Faces of Kellie

Don't know if you recall, but some time ago I started a scrapbook of Kellie, my oldest daughter. In my day of silence in memory of all the lost children who were never given a chance to have a voice, I am celebrating my children. I need to finish this up so I can start with my next projects of my other children. I started this so long ago that I think I need to add some more recent pics to it.

Hold your children close and count them as blessings.

A fun Challenge!!!

Come on Artists, lets "Support" the cause!!! There is a non-profit organization called Bra's for the Cause. They do an annual auction fundraiser of decorated bras. There is no cost to submit one, heck they'll even send you a free bra if you ask them too. I thought this would be a seriously fun project to do.

They just concluded the 2009 auction, so that would give us about a year to complete one. I'd love it if some of you artist joined me on this and shared your completed bra masterpieces here for everyone to see.

Etsy

I've added a few things to my Etsy shop, most of them have been posted on this website, so if there was something you saw that tickled your fancy, head on over and pick it up!

charms

These are 2 charms I made for a friend of mine. I really wanted to keep them for myself though LOL

pandemonium

Nothing like playing with some poured paint when you're feeling stressed or bored. This is done on an 8x11 canvas board and most of the paints are air brush paints. They are so much fun!!! Super vibrant colors and very fluid so they move well for this kind of thing. Probably won't ever do anything with this, who knows, maybe I'll frame it and hang it in my studio :)

Etsy

If you've never visted Etsy, you should! It's an awesome marketplace to buy only handmade items. Support artists from all over the world! I've even opened a shop, you can check out A Note From The Queen, too :)

Artist Postcard

Thought it might be fun to have a Artist Postcard that just tells a little bit about me and also has my information on it. Besides, it gave me something to do today LOL

Fairy Dreams

Finished this piece a bit ago, just hadn't gotten around to taking pics. It's on a 20x20 canvas, lots of texture, and way fun colors! Collage image is from Lisa's Altered Art.

It's for sale too, if you're interested, shoot me an email. 100% of the profits will go to my church, Lakeland Community Church.

Finished

Wish there was a better way to photograph this. I'm so pleased with this whole thing that I'd really like to take it back home with me LOL

Domino Pendants

Haven't done these in ages, but had a box of domino's sitting here so I figured I'd give them a whirl again.

For church

I'm putting these 3 pieces up at my church. The door piece I did last year, but because of the space I'm putting it in, I felt it needed something bigger. So I made 2 companion pieces to it. I think it works, cept I'd love to find a small key hole to add to the one w/ the hinges, I'll keep my eyes peeled and if you know where I can find one, holler :)

This is just a close up of the keys so that you can see the words and such on the keys. Thanks Tim Holtz for making kewl art stuff!

Ink Blot bkgrds

Was having issues tonight while i was in the studio, nothing wanted to work right, so I cut some loose canvas up and made some fun paint bkgrds. Think I might just cut these up and frame them as is, not sure yet though. We'll see what happens when I start cutting.

Spring-y and so not my usual thing!

Ok just so everyone doesn't think I've fallen off the face of the earth and that I haven't been doing anything I'm going to share some canvas's that are in progress, starting with this one.

Used lots of stencils in this one, not sure where I'm going with it, but I forced myself to use happy springy pastel type colors. Who knows, maybe it'll look NOTHING like this when I'm done, but for now I'm just looking at it waiting for inspiration to strike!

Music Makes Me Happy

Music is a very important part of my life, and the life of my family. You can't ever walk into our house if there are people home and not hear music coming from at least 1 place in the house. I've done this one using pages from a hymnal and lots of texture on the right side using thick gel medium. I actually traced the treble clef and then painted that, but the other notes are free handed, not too bad if I do say so myself, especially since that's not usually my strong suit. It's still not done, but a work in progress.

song of the cross

I picked up and old Lutheran Hymnal at Goodwill a while back and although it's hard to tell from the glare, this cross is all done w/ torn pages from that hymnal. At the bottom, which is slightly obscured by the easel, is verses from a song about the Crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Again this is still a work in progress, just doesn't feel finished to me.

Everything intertwines with every thing else.

I'm taking a class at my church and it's all about finding out who I am, what I value and what are my gifts and talents and personality traits. In doing this, we were asked to write a creed, as I wrote it I found that everything in my creed connected and intertwined with each other. Love is important to me, and so is family, and I love my family, connection, community and fellowship are important to me, and these all connect, as does love also connect to these things. There were other things on my creed (which I will be posting on my spiritual blog, if you care to see it) that intertwined as well. In talking w/ my pastor about all this, this image came into my head to do this canvas. It USED to be called "circles" , but I screwed that one up and gessoed over it and started over. It is a large canvas, 24x48 and I don't know if it's done yet or not, may have to just sit on this one for a bit and see what happens.

Fun w/ alcohol inks

This is an ATC I did w/ the new Brights AI's, such fun!!!

swaps

Just a couple swaps I did.

Missing You

Oh my goodness am I missing my studio time!!! Things are starting to slow down a bit and I can actually see a light at the end of the tunnel!! I have so many ideas swimming around in my brain that I just cannot wait to get down on canvas!!! I do have a few swaps that I am sorely behind on, I do have some of them done, just have to get them scanned. I also have several canvas's in process just not anything ready to be posted. Hopefully something soon!!!

24x48 almost done

Ok this is really turning out kewl!!!! I don't think it's done yet, I need to tweek some of the circles but I think I'm close.

Zendala

I was browsing the Internet trying to find a site that would show my daughter what zentangles were. Came across a site that had what's called Zendala's, which is basically the same thing, just round. My daughter is very talented but said she couldn't do one of these. So I thought if I showed her I could do one, no matter how pathetic it looks LOL that maybe she'd give it a try. We found a you tube video showing someone doing one of these, it's basically a doodle, anyone can doodle.