share the joy and my last 2 faces!

On the left is Darla's friend Pammy.... She loves fuji apple pear lifewaterand drinks at least 2 a day. she also checks her horoscope daily along with her biorhythm chart on the internet. She's a health food nut and doesn't ever litter. She's recycles and worries about the environment and global warming. She's adopted a whale on line and a donated to over 10 charities. Her worst habit is she eats a whopper every day for lunch, but so far her cholesterol is fine. She's tried to quit but her car seems to be programmed to drive there.

Then there's Clarisse, she has 4 cats; Chandler, Joey, Dick Chaney and October.... She also has 23 cans of artichoke hearts in her pantry and she would be hard pressed to explain why if you put her on the spot.

So sorry the 29 days are over, but as all the ladies of my 29 faces are members of the Secret Skirt Society, which i never got around to telling you about... I may have more stories about them later...


For Share the Joy, I wanted to share how much I am enjoying painting mandalas. There are so many millions of ways to decide to color them in let along how to draw them, and there's no difficult trying to make it look like your subject while you draw, it's all so esasy. Then you get to the watercolor part and it's just peaceful and beautiful to watch the watercolors flow onto good watercolor paper, I will someday try to make a video of painting them as it's just as fun to watch as it is to do it, well for me at least....

oh and for paint and palette I am showing my totally messy watercolors I use to paint with, looks horrible as I mix right in with the paints most days then have to go wash it out later.

And as I  have posted "almost" every day this month i will take a break and not post tomorow and link this one up with paint party friday, so go check them out as well, always so much inspiration there!

Day 23 and 24

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This is Lettie, she's Tuesday Blue's Grandma, and she's supportiong Chrissy and Tuesday by herself ever since her husband passed away 5 years ago. He choked while having dinner with another woman who didn't know CPR. Lettie's very good at CPR. She works in the business office of the local hospital, but wasn't there when they brought her husband in, even though it was too late to save him. He was eatting steak, and she hasn't touched a piece of steak since.

She WAS there when Tuesday was born though, and got to hear her first cry. She let out one big yell and then quited down and looked around at her surroundings. Lettie knew right away that Tuesday will be gifted, she felt it deep inside her, she just doesn't know how yet so she buys her every musical instrument she can, searching for what it will be. It will be as a healer though, and Tuesday will never be able to hold a note on any of those instruments!

Next is Dex, Lettie's neighbor. He loves Tuesday and all babies and comes over to visit and help Lettie make her peas and carrots. He's a big help entertaining Tuesday but he's angry today because his Mom won't let him go to Letties so early. She feels Lettie needs time alone in the morning but the truth is she could use Dex's help. Chrissy still sleeps in and Lettie doesn't want to wake her up and deal with her morning crabbiness. Mornings used to be so peaceful and a whiney 17 year old is no help in entertaining Tueday and getting her dressed. She waits until she's almost ready to head out the door before getting Chrissy up and giving her her list of "to do's" for the day.

Still catching up

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This is Chrissy, she's 17 and a teen mom. She's still sort of surprised when she looks at her daughter that this is her life. The dad moved to california with the girl who played clarinet in the band two weeks after Tuesday Blue was born. chrissy's now working at the pizza parlor, and working on her GED from home.

Tuesday Blue is the sweetest little baby girl, starting to walk already and loving her soft baby doll's silk skirt, dragging it everywhere..

Catching up

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These girls are having a day of fun at the lake... They both love the buffalo fries there at the concession stand and they are about to build sand mermaids on the beach. One is a swimmer and one is not. One loves cute cuddly pets, one does not.

Diva and doodles, and links to all sorts of places...

Here's face 17 for 29 faces ....Izzy Plum
She's an attorney and she's the DIVA of the court room. She carries a pistol on weekends and she has a huge belly laugh that has gotten her into trouble more than a few times. She is not afraid of the dark but she is afraid of squirrels.

I'm submitting this to InspirationAvenue as their theme is Divas this week.

And here's a few doodles in my Book of Days where i've been trying to write things that make me happy, small pleasures, things I'm thankful for ... if I end up writing something negative I cover over it,.... some things I was thankful for this week...

chocolate covered strawberries
red lobster crab legs
a quiet evening
sweet walter red
not having to testify
and zentangles...

This last one was for a challenge to add the four diamonds logo to your zentangle over at this site. Go and read her story about this fundraiser...
I zentangled till I ran out of pens,

And I did some blind contour drawings from Carla sonheim's book, Cameron at paint myself pretty is working through the book and inviting us all to join so here's my blind contour drawings. This is hard not to look at your page or your hand, and only at your subject.... but fun anyway...

 then here is the mandala I made last week, I didn't finish one this week...

Happy paint party friday

and BE HAPPY!

Lady in blue

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My first for 29 faces that is not an ACEO, it's in the Natasha's sketchbook for the Commy project, and will be mailed out today hopefully. I like how she turned out, she's blue, literally, but not sad, thoughtful but not depressed, bogged down in worry but not always, still thinking about what she has to be thankful for!

Day 15 and IF

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This is Preet, her parents started that nickname as a baby and can't even remember why, but it stuck. She's mean and judgmental, but she can sing soft and sweet. She's one of the popular girls and she hasn't learned to give up the drama yet.

Day 13 and 14

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Caught up and close up...

Andrea,
fate smiled and destiny laughed as she came to her cradle, know this child will be able, laughed as her body she lifted, know this child will be gifted with love and patience and with faith, she'll make her way.... Oh wait, that's a song....
So anyway... She loves necco wafers, magic, dappled woods, sparkly things, rock cairns and norah jones on rainy days.

The second is a special boy who the gods and goddesses watched over, a shaman, a wounded healer, sent here to be the king of kings, destined for amazements!

day11 and 12 even though it's Day13

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Sorry i'm late but here's 2 more....
Cindy Lee, her grandaddy on her papa's side still makes moonshine and she's developed a taste for it. Her grandma on her mother's side is a wise woman from France. She has taught Cindy all about the healing herbs she loves.
Then there is Steph Chadwick, she is sneaky and catfooted, she wears costumes all the time for no reason at all, usually cat ears or devils horns! She's an artist, and if you look close at her paintings you'll see she hides a painted turtle in each and every one.

Day 10 PLUS

My face for 29 faces...sorry about the shadows...

Ella Cinders....
She was adopted out after her parents died when she was 3  years old, and just this year she located her sister who was 2 years older than her and had been adopted by a different family. They now spend every minute together and have discovered they both hate icecream and they both would rather knit than just about anything else.



And here's my first ever entry to the divas challenge... at her zentangle site! with the tangle; Sanibelle that I put in with my haiku.
I so love all PritiLisa's and Kim Mailhot's Haiku for Recuerdo mi corazon that I wanted to try one too.
Lots of inspirational stuff to be seen over there!
And since it worked out well that Inspiration Avenue is having the wonderful theme of the return of the light, here comes the sun or imbloc, however you want to look at it, that I wanted to enter their challenge too! so... here it is...

It's cold inside me

I want to be somewhere warm

Red sun on my face



Plus here's 2 zentangle birds from my book. And...
I also finished another mandala but forgot to bring it home to photograph it.
and I've been working in the sketchbook I just received for the Commy project...

and I just thought I might share this... so many of you commented after last fridays post about how much time I must have and since I REALLY don't, I  thought I'd share how I manage to find time for art. Since those of you who stop by often know I have 4 kids... 3 older (but only one of the 3 is off to college right now) and the youngest is 9 and autistic. I also work full time and am the last to get home in the evening, usually after dark... at least during this time of the year. Any....way........I just said all THAT to show I have to be creative finding time for ART.

I guess the main thing is that I did away with any extra stuff like spending time getting ready in the morning, it now takes me 15 minutes to shower, comb hair and dress, so that after getting my youngest around in the morning and sending him on the bus I have 20 minutes to myself! Yeah. So I spend it either making a blog post or sometimes I even find a guided meditaion of the ipad and do that.

Then at  work I get breaks and a 1 hr. lunch. Not that I'm totally antisocial but I'd rather spend them going for a half hour walk then painting, than going out to lunch with someone. At least most days that is. So even on my breaks I pull out art to do. That's the main reason I like sketching, or now, zentangles and even the watercolors. Because those, you can start with no preparation time, just pull it out, do it, then in 15 minutes put it away, no messy clean up or anything. I'd love to have time to do a big painting with a space to do it but  it's just not in my life right now, no time for a palette and mixing colors most days. Maybe once in awhile on weekends I might get lucky and have time for something more complicated, but not usually.

Then as my son likes me to sit with him while he's pacing nearby or watching TV in the evenings, I sit with him but I really don't watch TV anymore (well except 'Dual Survival' when they have a new episode or, 'the walking dead".... I know some of you are thinking "seriously?" but my family talked me into watching that and the characters suck you in even if you hate zombies and blood!). Anyway, as I've seen 'WAAB, the grizzly king' , and 'one mans's wilderness', and 'walking with dinosaurs' at least 100 times each I either sketch near him or watch all those art videos I mentioned on my ipad. 

Well that's about it. off to work. Happy paint party friday!

Day 9

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This is Li Su Goldwater.... She's a yoga and meditation coach. As she lives in a home with 6 sisters there's always sooooo much noise she has needed to learn to be still amidst chaos.

Day 8

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Gweneth is smart, sincere but often lonely.... She lives with her aunt and uncle off the grid. She helps Gram in the garden and with canning and baking breads. She's known to be a bit jumpy, but the breads she bakes have a reputation for calming the souls of those who eat them.

Day7

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Kenny is a large warrior woman. She's fiercely proud and wears ribbons in her dreads. She's on the "wild women bowling team" and nobody messes with her! She has 3 little boys, ages 3,4, and 6. They love to call her crazy mommy!

Day 6

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Maeve Moon

She loves Ravens, blackbirds, and magpies. She reads 3 books a week, her favorite is Probable Future by Alice Hoffman. Maeve wears striped tights every friday....

Day 5

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Faeries gladeye, named because she's always so pleased with all she sees! The best gatherer in her clan. She loves raspberries and almonds!

This is Gwenny. She's only 5'1" but seems taller. Everyone thinks she's younger than she really is, she's very quiet and hardly ever talks in crowds. She can beat anyone around in hearts  and euchre.

day 2

I've decided I'll do all 29 faces in ACEO size. They're quick and fun....this is Zendara.
She loves pickles and riding horses and hugging trees!

creative everyday

The theme for this month at creative everyday is small, I've ben absent from my blog for a week or so so I thought I'd check out their theme to get me going again. (I was feeling a bit overwhelmed  for a few days!) here's some "small" art I made just awhile back... they're ACEO or artist trading cards, 2.5 x3.5".
I haven't put them on my etsy yet as Ive been trying to fix a few things there, but will soon. I have a few other BIG projects going that I'll post about soon.