This week...

Hello, for all you fiberarts friday followers...I didn't finish the hedgehog but I made a mushroom and frog instead...

I also didn't finish the palette, this will take some time as I cannot work on it at home so I only had about an hour this week to work at it... here's it is so far...

I was going to get rid of the last lady but decided to keep her... Good thing I have a lot of time for this one!
Now off to work, and later to check out paint party friday at the link on right, whimsical wednesday(which I missed so far) at the link on the right and crafty fridays at the home sweet farm link on the right and creative fridays at natiral suburbia and fiberart fridays @
http://wonderwhyalpacafarm.blogspot.com/2011/04/fiber-arts-friday-tangled-web-i-weave.html! Have a good weekend everybody!

What's on your workdesk wednesday...

I'm afraid there's a sad story behind what I'm working on this week. I'm finishing up this project for the family of this cute little girl, She passed away while having a seizure at 10 yrs old. The family now does fundraisers to raise money to send a child with special needs to a summer camp, and they asked me to make some magnets and pendants with the image I painted of her from a photo...

I was worried I wouldn't get her image right but they were happy with the way the first batch turned out, and the first fundraiser went well, I hear.  So.... sorry for the sad post... maybe it will make someone out there go hug their daughter or son while they can...

Illustration Friday... bottled

I missed the last 2 week's IF and I almost missed this one but here it is...

I'd started it almost a year ago, almost, never finished and probably wouldn't have but for this challenge... It's bottled fireflies, bottled summer, bottled moonlight!

sunday sketches

Here's some quick sketches of birds I did to practice for the palette I'm working on that I posted friday.

My ladies needed some birds around them as they fall.... Visit here for more sketches...
http://bluechairdiary.blogspot.com/

what I've started this week...

I 've got 2 unfinished projects to show you today... I've been flitting from project to project instead of concentrating on one but now, this one, the BIG palette, I will need to concentrate on. I've commited to doing a palette for the Hammondsport Event where local artist's all paint a palette (provided to us by Somer's art gallery), and they are displayed all summer near local business sponsers. There's a map printed of where to find them all and who painted them so it's exposure for the artists and good for business. At the end of their tourist season, they have an auction. It's my first time being invited to participate and I'm nervous  for many reasons, One of which is switching to acrylics from watercolors, they're so different. I've only started to sketch it in and I don't know if you can see the sketches very well with the shadows... I spent alot of time on one girl, (it's going to be falling ladies of course), and now I don't like her position or placement so I may erase her...

Also here's a needlefelted hedgehog I started ... doesn't look like a hedgehog yet but It will...(I hope).

 I've started a few other projects I can't show you as they're at work, where I'm headed off too soon, but I do have a finished treasury above, I like making them as a way to procrastinate and play with color and themes...
This is my theme: "dreaming of the life I was meant to lead"...
living in Italy on biscotti and sweets, surrounded by beautiful items and dressed as pretty as you please, lounging in the tub with time to journal, read and dream... ohhhh, bliss!

and for all the paint party friday people... here's a finished painting from last week....

It's a little blurry, sorry . Thanks for stopping by...
And don't forget to stop by creative fridays here;http://naturalsuburbia.blogspot.com/
and paint party friday on the link at the right
and crafty fridays at their link on the right
and fiber art fridays here: http://wonderwhyalpacafarm.blogspot.com/

Sisterhood of the traveling sketchbooks

This is what's on my workdesk today... The sisterhood is a group of 13 women  and we've all purchased sketchbooks and are going to mail them around the globe each month, after we've each painted a spread  in one of the sketchbboks. We've just been working out the details and finally got started. As there's 13 of us... the first spread painted is in our own sketchbook as a way of introducing ourselves , then after that our painting will each be based on the month we're in.... our feeling about May for example...and at the end of 13 months we'll get our own book back, full of great stuff! My first spread is of 2 women, both "me", exept I really don't look like this ... one on a bad day , the other on a much better day. That's just the way it goes.

I still have to decorate the cover but I've got a few weeks before we have to mail it out so I'm all set. I plan to get the other sisters blogs posted up on my sidebar soon so you can all check out everyone else's sketchbooks as they progress too. So exciting!

And I have another big project I started last night ,,, I should have photos of that by friday!
Oh and I almost forgot... go here:
http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/2011/04/whats-on-your-workdesk-wednesday-96.html
 to see more workdesks! It's fun to "snoop" if you have time...

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.