Another week flew by cutely and quickly

I usually have big plans for an elaborate post but then before I know it Friday is here and I haven’t created it..... same thing each week. But I always have so much art I have created that there is always plenty to show.  This time I am picking from my cuter stuff.....

Lately when doodling I intentionally tried to make the characters that I usually create younger and cuter. My goal was to go with bigger heads, smaller bodies, chubbier arms and legs. It is something to continue to work on but I think I like them better this way.... but there’s a cute house and a cute guinea pig thrown in for good measure....

Have a cute weekend!!!!!!!

Missing the river

I can’t get down to the water with all the snow we’ve had so I am missing the river lately. Instead I have been enjoying painting river rocks! The first two pieces shown are 6x8 and have already sold but the third is larger and will be listed on my Etsy shop soon. 

They are pretty much painted exclusively with hand crafted watercolors. It is so easy to paint a rock when you are using colors ground from rocks!!!! Not by me, of course, but by redwood willow and by rivervalewatercolors. I normally get bored with subject matter easily but I think I could paint rocks forever.

My messy art desk and yellow.

Here is a glimpse of my desk and some of the yellow dot paintings I have called insomnia circles as I see them when I can’t sleep at night. I imagine a whole series of them, I am thinking I may make them into an art book. Not to print or anything, just a handmade book, because I paint them in the front and back of the paper...

This is what I see lately, but I also imagine a series of white on white art, so those may show up someday as well....

I really can’t explain why yellow polkadots.... it is just what appears. But I do love yellow. 

And the song: 

Yellow by Coldplay

“Look at the stars 
Look how they shine for you 
And everything you do 
Yeah they were all yellow”

My daughter, Jess couldn’t say yellow when she was young, so she called her yellow blanket her “lello” .

This piece is called ‘yellow planet’

I looked up the symbolic meaning of yellow in the internet and got this.....”Yellow, the color of sunshine, hope, and happiness, stands for freshness, happiness, positivity, clarity, energy, optimism, enlightenment, remembrance, intellect, honor, loyalty, and joy”


This piece is called ‘hope floats”

According to dreammoods.com: “If the dream is a pleasant one, then the color yellow is symbolic of intellect, energy, agility, happiness, harmony, and wisdom. On the other hand, if the dream is an unpleasant one, then the color represents deceit, disgrace, betrayal, cowardice and sickness.”

But then I am deliriously awake and not dreaming......

According to 

this site yellow does the following: 

• Makes it easier to take decisions and think clearly
• Stimulates the nervous system
• Sharpens memory and concentration
• Encourages communication

I don’t know about any of it,.....

I just like yellow!