Giveaway!

Hello all, here are some photos from my week, and just a bit about what I have been doing....
I am immersed in Downton Abbey, i am watching marathons of it to see all the 3 seasons and i love it!
NovaKodah is growing fast, up to 14 pounds, the vet thinks he's not all miniature husky, but maybe some chow too. Who knows, but it really doesn't matter... he's just soooo cute!

I am planning on putting these custom rocks on my etsy... once I get a little nest made of needlefelting or a pouch sewn up. These are my words of the year, for last year, this year and next year. They sit on my desk at work in this little hummingbird nest I found...

I am listening to Of monsters and men, love them too...
I have been playing with all my little bits and pieces of beach pottery, and scheming and planning....

Small bits and pieces

each a tiny dream maker

time machines or more

And..... I have been offered a giveaway by Craftsy... just click on this..... link .......to enter and then leave a comment here that you would like a chance for a free art class ...
I am also trying an art class through them and I will let you know all about it soon...

I am also going camping soon... I can't wait. We go the same place every year to make it easier for my son, but we all love it there too!

If you want to see my latest mandala click on this pic..

See you in a few weeks!

Lime green and purple

I couldn't help but do another mandala this week, it's the most calming thing to paint for me... no rules really, no expected outcome, just experimenting... it's just hard to know when to quit...

 

 And  I doodled a girl in my sketchbook as well...

 

 

 

And here's tiny turtle to say hello...I was going to sketch him but never got to it because after putting the mandala up on the wall and staring at it ... I realized it needed more payne's gray (even though I am trying to stay away from black lines... my mandalas are more lighter and looser than last year, I still couldn't resist, it just didn't look done) and I hadn't actually done the bit of orange evenly...

 So here's the final mandala with more added bits and more contrast...

Oh and I did measure... it's 14x17"

 

 

Happy Summer of Color week 3!

pendants

One of the things I have been working on I the last few months is pendants. I hand draw the abstract images and put them in a brass or silver base with a glass piece over the front. These were fun and sort of addicting... I wanted to make more but decided to stop after about 15. I only have a few photographed so far.....

Even though they're abstract, I still think they were inspired by nature....

I had missed my spot...

I returned to the river,

timed with the eagles.

I have a new camera with a good zoom,  but unfortunately I haven't been able to get a good shot of the eagles or the ospreys yet this year with it.... hopefully soon!

Happy Paint Party Friday and Haiku My Heart

(They are available in my etsy shop if anyone is interested.)

ps: you might have missed this post earlier for my latest mandala...click on image to see post

 

orange and hot pink

This week at summer of color the colors are orange and hot pink... I didn't think I would have any shoes or outfits to match this week, not that that was a requirement but I got so many comments on my shoes last week that I thought I'd try to pull an outfit together, which is actually even harder when you don't like to photograph yourself.....camera shy and all....
so here's a necklace I made up last night...
I have had the beads since highschool (over 30 years ago), I bought them in a bead store in Pittsford, NY and may have made them into a necklace at one time or another but they were just sitting in my stash now, I have a huge messy collection of unorganized beads and findings. I would love to get them organized, it would easier to create but it's so far down on the to-do list it will probably never happen. Besides, you can create beauty out of chaos...

This mandala is much bigger than my usual 8x10 ones.... more like 11x16 I think or even bigger actually... I am almost late for work or I would measure...
see you next week!

citron and turquoise

The Summer of Color is here again...

and I  just don't have many words this morning...

it's rainy,

I am tired,

my adorable cute new puppy is yipping for attention,

I am headed off to a dreary day.....

 

 

oh wait...

I need to take my own advice...

and....

CHIN UP BUTTERCUP!

white on white

I love white on white, and decided to stay with white gel pen on these white bits of ocean glass....I think they would look good in a little white tea cup on  someone's desk or in bird's nest or a little bowl crafted by tiny hands of paper clay....

This last one is drawn on a pottery shard, it's about 2 inches across.
They're listed in my etsy shop if anyone is interested.