Sunday Morning Poses

JOURNAL PAGES - I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER WHAT MOTIVATED THESE BUT THAT IS OK

THESE ARTISTS ARE FANTASTIC

Jereme Crow

Sheldon Harvey

Eric Luplow

Jennifer Cavan

Jesse Reno

COMMISSION WIP ~ A FAMILY PORTRAIT !! FUN !!!

YOU DIDN'T EVEN MISS ME !!!!

PINO THE DONKEY

Recently I watched a video by Jane DesRosier
as she was carving a stamp......hhhhhmmmmm
I thought to myself
I could do that

Enter, stage right,

PINO THE DONKEY

Have any of you ever wandered over
to Katherine Dunn's Blog?
She is a wonderful artist and I'm
particularly smitten with her donkey
PINO !!

So I went on over to her blog, brought
up a picture of PINO, and
WA LA !!!!

I CARVED THIS !

This was so much fun.

I didn't waste a single moment
I got out my pen and
sent Pino a little note,
I sure hope he likes
the card with his image
on it.
It will surely cause
a stir in the barnyard.

AND THEN....................

The other day you saw my list of angst....
there was "crackle chaos" and
"goo" and
"scraping"

It was all about this painting that eventually
turned out really great and
this photo does it absolutely no
justice at all, and
the good news is I think I may
already have it sold........

AS ABOVE ~ SO BELOW
MIXED MEDIA
12 X 24 CRADLED BIRCH
$400

TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES - I'M IN THE STUDIO TODAY !

THINGS JUST KEEP ON KEEPIN ON

Busy

Hot

Garden

Art

Day Job

More Day Job

Fresh Tomatoes

Looking at all YOUR blogs....

9:52 pm....

committed to bed at 10

More Day Job

Crackle Medium Nightmare

Goo

Spackle Knife Scraping

Moving On

More Paint

When To Stop

Feelin UP

Feelin down

More Later

New Mexico Back Roads

WATCHING JESSE RENO PAINT

It is too darned hot to be outside.......

So I started some new backgrounds..........

An Awesome Giveaway

Heads up there kids ~~~~~

Sharon over at Livewire Jewelry has a wonderful giveaway going. Move fast, you'll get there just in time !!!!!!!

Isn't this a beautiful necklace..........hope I win it !

A New Girl In Town

Vintage Tulle, Lace and Buttons

FASCINATION WITH CROWS

I found this video here.....don't know who made it and would give credit if I could, so if you happen to know, let me in on it and I'll post credits but in the meantime I sure like it.......

A SUCCESSFUL SHOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do I look whipped? This was hard work !

BUT............

I SOLD EIGHT PAINTINGS !!!!

THIS WAS MY FIRST SHOW EVER SO
I'M PLEASED WITH THE OUTCOME.

THE QUEEN OF EVERYTHING

SHINE !!!!

SHINE
12 X 24
MIXED MEDIA ON BIRCH
click image to enlarge

I've got a lot of stuff going on here,
but then life and nature is
like that.

LIFE DOESN'T GET BETTER THAN THIS

My son Dallas and my grand daughter Iris.

What a wonderful weekend.

TOTAL STUDIO CHAOS

those crackers are critical
to the creative process

see that tube of green
tulip paint?
I'm thinking that stuff
has some fun possibilities....
have you ever used it?
Actually I'm not so
excited about the green
but I had to buy the
whole pack to get the
white. I bet some place
like Hobby Lobby sells
individual tubes but I was
at Wal-Mart and didn't
want to drive down the hill
to the other stores....
so back on the topic, have
you used the tulip stuff?

Oh wait, that wasn't the topic,
was it?
The topic is my
messy studio !!!!

pizza boxes are great for storing flat paper
I went to the pizza place and they
gave me some unused boxes. they
thought I was nuts but since
I also buy pizza so they like me....
BTW, those pizza boxes
are empty.
I'm easily distracted, I guess.

See that Holga camera?
Someday I'm gonna give
it a whirl.

these drawers started out as a cool
place to keep small things
organized, now there is so much
miscellaneous stuff in them,
well I guess better there than
on the floor, right?

I don't even know what is down there
could be anything,
wait,
I think that is where I've been
keeping my rusty altoid tins
I've been looking everywhere
for those !!!!

Total Chaos

The space where I'm sitting is the only
clear area in the whole room.

It is a teeny tiny room,
yet I manage to cram so much
in here that many times I have to turn
sideways to get out the door.

I know, you're saying I need a bigger studio.
You are right.

NEW MIXED MEDIA

Meet "Martine"
Isn't she lovely?

Check out her lovely silk skirt
and vintage lace shawl.

Audrey the "studio assistant"
helped pick out her skirt fabric.

Saturday ~ my second stop.
Sandy of vintage button fame
invited me over to her place for
a viewing and selection of silk
ties. Of course I thought
of skirts for the girls.

There weren't 100,
or 200,
but more like
2,000.

Imagine my amazement!

Of course I asked Sandy if
she has a will......ha!

First the glass graveyard and
then this! How much better can
life get?????

ADVENTURE ~ OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So yesterday morning, Saturday, a day I usually sleep in. I got out of bed
early, pulled on my sturdy shoes, grabbed my rake and bag.....

Off to pick up my new friend Leau Phillips who is going to give me a tour
of Albuquerque's best kept secret "The Glass Graveyard".

Make a couple of left turns, go past the caboose, look for the big tree and
hang a hard right between the two salvage yards......and you're there.

Doesn't look like much at first.

But then................OMG

Even my husband who went with us got into it. I saw him off in the distance
dropping items into his bag. Later I mentioned to him how surprised I was
that he had stuff in his bag and he then admitted to me that this was his second
bag and that he'd already been back to the car to unload !!!!

Who'd a thought?????

Michael DeMeng......you don't know what you're missing !!!!!

And that's not all.........check back later to see what I picked up after I
left the Glass Graveyard !!!!! It is equally amazing.

NOW THIS IS SO COOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday afternoon......watching the clock.

Can hardly wait to get outta here !!!

Ready for some cool art?

GO HERE !!!!!!!!!!!!