Artists playroom

photo.JPG, a photo by lelloavengers on Flickr.

The challenge this week was to create something for christmas, i had started this last week and finished it today,( it had been almost done). I have so many ideas after laying around watching art videos on the ipad since the surgery. If i could just recover enough to sit up for very long there are sooo many pages i want to make, sewing, quilting, canvases... All just waiting to come to be...
I am feeling better though, and i appreciate all the kind comments, and the help naming my daughters puppy... She may have decided on starburst, but not 100% yet. There will be more puppy photos to show soon, as she is a sweet dog and sooo tiny. ( i keep calling her kitty). See you tomorow for another aedm post.

Small magic in a white feather

Here's the video I made for you and tried to post last week....there's a few spots I'd like to fix but it's done so I'm leaving it as is, it's a learning experience, this movie making.....

 

 

If we own a place,

Does it own us in return?

Our stardust remains.

My deep thought for the moment.....

So this week, i drove over the bridge, and looked over to "my spot" on the river, and i started wondering why i feel as if it now belongs to me, and if it does belong to me will there be anything left of me there when i am gone? Does a part of us linger in a spot we have spent time at? I love an old home that's been lived in , old books well worn, old loved dolls,and i am drawn to the cemetaries.... is it the remnant of other lives left behind?

 

Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance, yet are experienced as occurring together in a meaningful manner. The concept of synchronicity was first described in this terminology by Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychologist, in the 1920s.

 

Contrast of hard rock

against white lace, old and soft...

Synchronicity.

 

I am linking to Haiku my heart, Artists Play room as my word was lace, and Paint party friday. Have a great week everyone!

more rocks

Since I have been spending my time at the river and have been playing with rocks, I decided to  paint some of them. First I sketched some ideas in my sketchbook...
the first rocks are painted in guache and watercolor, and the patterns are put on in highlighter pen and black sharpie....

The next ones are painted in payne's gray watercolor, and the details are painted with white guache and a liner pen...

 then I started on the rocks. I am really enjoying this so there will be more....

River rocks in piles.

My head is swirling with rocks.

A new obsession.

Happy paint party friday and haiku my heart, and artists play room!

Friday already, time flies so fast.... my computer is fixed so you get to see lots of photos from our week at the cabin! we've gone to the same spot for 5 years now.

We spotted 77 of these guys on our early morning hike! and herer's my haiku...

Seventy seven

little orange salamanders

in the morning dew

 It's become tradition I make a sand mermaid...

Below is the pond we hiked to, I just realized I don't even have a photo of the lake! I take so many every year I guesss I figured I didn't need any more.

And here's some pages in my sketchbook...

And here's a heart sketch for AyalaArt in red and white for Artists PlayRoom and the zentangle for IamtheDiva...

And some mosters for Butterfly effect...

Happy paint party friday!

My life lately....

It has been a week (or two) of ups and downs, highs and lows, scratches and smiles, and bad news that turned into good. It was the last week of school and we have recently found out my son will start a new school in the fall that will be a better place for him to be. That felt bad at first as it's a long trip for him but turned out to be good news!
It was a hot summer solstice, too hot to do anything but sit and sweat. I spent a 93 degree lunch hour sitting near the river sketching, but at least it seemed 10 degrees cooler next to the water.

 and one day on the top of the world sketching...

My daughter saved two out of three baby ducklings literally from the claws and teeth of my killer cat, she and my parents tried to feed them so they could live long enough to set them free in a pond or somewhere. We have no rescue center nearby to take wild animals to, and sadly they didn't make it through their second night.

Cute, fuzzy and yet

survival of the fittest

is still very sad

We go to a state park for vacation very soon, and I am looking forward to canoeing, swimming, hiking to the ponds and sketching while my husband fishes, eatting barbecue and probably ranch chicken wings. I can't wait!
This week I created a mandala for the summer of color, inspired by the baseball nut, black raspberry cone...

I am also linking to the artists playroom for their theme of monochromatic art as this is all shades of raspberry, and to paint party friday. And...Here's my zentangle for iamthediva's challenge using the tangle called Cadent...

See you all soon! Thanks for stopping by!

it's friday already!

this week has gone so fast...
I almost forgot about doing this post I was so caught up in checking out all the treasuries on etsy with my mini canvas! they are all sooo beautiful and interestingIt's going to be sooo hard to pick one on sunday!
anyway...


here's the inspiration.....this is maybe the eaglet but it's stomach is whitish too so not sure but it's right where the daddy eagle always sat a little ways away from the nest...

and the sketch...

and more inspiration at Mcdonalds....

and more sketches...

watching the birds soar

waiting for the perfect shot

I always miss it

Linking to artists playroom for their drawing theme

butterfly effect for their bird theme

and haiku my heart

all together now

OK, so for those of you from paint party friday or somewhere else that may not have heard about Amy's all together now.... We are each having a giveaway and bragging about ourselves a bit.

I'm finding that not as easy as it sounds....

So here's a few things about me,(which is part of the deal)

I'm married to my highschool sweetheart, in love since I was 12. Yeah. really! He's a good man and a good cook. We have 4 kids, the older girls are back home right now but will be gone back to college in the fall. They and my older son in highschool help us out incredibly with our youngest son who is 9 and autistic. He's a sweetheart who can be unpredictable to say the least. He's a loving little man who has no impulse control. And since he's mostly nonverbal he gets frustrated. All our worlds center around him.
But I guess that's not really bragging about me...

I am year and a half away from 50. Wow, that sounds old! I work full time trying to collect child support from people who don't want to pay child support. It can make you cynical and I REALLY am not a cynical person by nature. I am a look on the bright side, glass half full kind of person.

Here's a short story to tell you who I am...

At my job recently they had a health fair,and they had free 10 minute massages and free reiki treatments. I had never been to a reiki practioner before but I love all kinds of new stuff and things unusual or hippy like or alternative therapies, or whatever you may want to call this, so I watched a few people getting this done and they (who were totally skeptical to start with) left feeling better, relaxed. So I tried it, They had a shift change before my turn so I ended up with a different man doing this. He talked the whole time where as the other man had been silent. He told me he could tell I could read minds. (!) He told me I should stop reading the paper because he could tell I hold all the negative thoughts in my body. (I don't read the paper for that reason as I just can't handle any more bad news). He said I need to learn how to release all the negative energy I'm holding. I was right there with him ... buying what he had to say... until....

I mentioned my autistic son when he asked where I was getting all my stress, and he replied....
You're son must be an alien from a planet where they have no need for speech because they communicate in other ways, such as music or something. So you need to find how he communicates.

He lost me right there.... So here's some advice .... if you barely know someone, don't tell them their son must be an alien They might be affended.
So anyway, I haven't bragged yet... here goes...
I have confidence in my art, I may not be the best but it's the one thing I am confident in. I feel like I could paint or draw anything if given the time.

OK,  not much of a brag but it's all I can come up with right now! On the right day I'm sure I could be full of myself but not today...The ladies in my art throw their arms wide and sing "I am wonderful" but some days I have trouble with that!
Here's some sketches from my latest obsession: I am addicted to carrying my sketchbook every day and putting art in it. Quick art that will remind me how things looked, felt and smelled. Not perfect art just art to remind me of my life....

I love walking in cemetaries

A haiku for you of some of my favorite things...

for more favorite things ...check out Artist's Play Room this week..

Potions and lotions

things in pretty packages

hot tea,  green drinks, books

almost forgot today's face for 29 faces

and of course I have to show my latest mandala...

And here's the giveaway... just leave a comment for a chance to win!

Come back monday for a pic of the FIRST SECRET Dream Skirt! if you missed it here's the story on why YOU NEED a Secret Dream Skirt! I'm giving away badges! Every monday I am planning a tutorial or video about a project a member of the SDSSociety made in their get-togethers or about a skirt or about something related! This monday I showed a sketch and story about the founding member...  it'll be fun! See you!

Day 4. Face 4

Technically there's 2 faces here but we just won't worry about that. This is my latest mandala inspired by the prompt for the Artist's Play Room, which was light and dark. I always seem to paint light and colorful so I thought I needed to show a little dark.  I have just recently discovered how much I like Payne's gray so I did this whole Mandala in Payne's gray. I think it's going to be addicting for me. It's still not dark and forboding or anything but for me this is definately a switch.

 And since there's faces in it I'm counting it for Face 4 of the 29 Faces challenge at Ayala Art. If you haven't been following me you can go there to see everyone that has joined in and we're trying to do a face a day for 29 of the days this month!

 And since I needed to throw just a few more blogs into this, there's a Haiku for Haiku my heart! and I am also linking to Paint Party Friday of course!!! Happy Friday Everyone!

Emptiness in gray

There for all to see in gray

Nothing in my hands





lines and colors and words, oh my

I've got a video for you this week of making this latest mandala.

It's a bit shaky  in certain sections as I handheld the camera while I was painting. Totally need a tripod I guess. But it's a first try so don't judge it too harshly! It's alittle over 5 minutes I think so just GO WATCH IT!!!! I really enjoyed making the videos, almost as much as painting so let me know what you think, and hopefully I'll get better as I go and I've started the next video already...

full of rich color

paint flows and blends together

dancing pen lines move

and......
One more Rainbow mandala,
and a sip of sangria to go.....

See you soon!

I'm linking to Paint party friday here

I'm also linking to haiku my heart here

and Butterfly effect for their flower theme here ( can you see the tiny white flowers I added, just a touch but my next mandalas is ALL Flowers!)

and don't forget to visit the artist's play room this week too with their rainbow theme, here.