this week

a quick week here...

I finished my spread in the sisterhood sketchbook for September. Autumn is my favorite season, I love the colors, the feel of the air, the cooler breezes, wearing sweaters, etc etc  so I wrote a few of those things on my artwork of a lady falling in to a field of goldenrod. The sun is a long slanting warm september sun. I also love that september; with school starting, always seems like a chance to start over, get organized, get things right!

The second page is where we write about what we painted and I also did a quick color wheel from my college interior design class where we learned the word "shibui". It's the colors of nature, and you make it by adding 1 part of the color opposite on the color wheel.  (Thank you  to my professor, Mr. Nye 20 years ago.)

I also got some of those little circles made into pendants but only got one photographed for my etsy shop.

I won th alpacateam challenge again so this week people are using this item in the treasuires... so much fun!!!

And I'm part of the etsy ugly cute team on etsy and a fellow team member had the great idea to use other team members art items for inspiration for her  plush stuffed fleece creatures. You can see her shop here...
http://www.etsy.com/shop/kathrynmuse?ref=seller_info
here's my art she used for inspiration...

and here's her plush guy....

                                                  Isn't he just the cutest? I love him!

You can check out her shop for more art inspired plushies!!!!

And one last thing... Does any one else love cemetaries or is it just me? My co-workers think I'm crazy to go for walks in cemetaries. But it's as close to getting out in nature that you can get in town, there's definately a feeling of peace there, a hushed reverence like a church I suppose, either from the old trees or from the spirits. And the old stones are so pretty, so my photos a day are from the cemetary this week...

steps to nowhere...

See ya next week!

This week...

Wow, this week went fast, I missed what's on your workdesk wednesday and lots more challenges but there's no time to do them all... I have been named Wizard of whimsey for last weeks mushroom and frog! another Yippee!

I have finally finished Hedgy the hedgehog...

and some tags to go with him...He's in love with a prickly pear...

 I have also gotten a little further with the palette I've been talking about for the last few weeks...

I've had a really hard time mentally switching from watercolor to acrylic. The order you do things is so reversed... I normally think from light washes to dark washes then adding shadow,  and I normally plan ahead to leave white highlights before even starting. Since acrylics are opaque I should be taking advantage of that by painting on top of other colors but I can't seem to think that way. and blending as I go is not coming natural to me either... all whining aside I'm moving along anyway.

Thanks for stopping by and please check out paint party friday, crafty friday, creative friday, fiber art friday and whimsical wednesday!

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/

The rest of this week..

I got so much done this week I started this post on wednesday, and here's what I got done since or got photographed since (helps I had a snow day off on wednesday too!)...

Didn't hide a hope rock this week but made this little watercolor bookmark for LilleDiane  who's just had surgery and could use some hope. If I can get her to give me her address I'll mail it right out to her...
http://www.woodstocklily.com/

I made these little pen and marker gift tags using "tweet", my needlefelted friend as a model. They're for sale on my etsy shop for 2 for $1.50. My co-workers are buying 'em up right now!

Here's tweet and Miss Petunis'a twins, flim and flam, and in green is their crazy Uncle Ned. They're very tiny, but here's the whole family! For sale in my daughter's shop:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/barefootbananas

And here's some pics of my yard from our snow day... before we played in it and messed it up!

And last is the painting I finished last week...

Thanks for stopping by!

This week

This week I made some more needlefelted stuff.... and broke the needle!

And I finished a painting or two...

And made some custom order pendants for a co-worker...

And made the treasury at the top of my page for the nonteamchallenge 23.
You can go to their blog to see the rules here:
http://treasurychallengenonteam.blogspot.com/2011/03/nonteam-treasury-challenge-23.html
Anyone can join, and making treasuries is so creative,,, you get to play with themes and color and possibly get picked to be feautured the next week!

This week's stuff

This week I made a painting for the challenge at Inpiration Avenue, which was pink and black. So this lady ISN'T falling ...she'sjust enjoying the Storm Moon in march with the wind whipping up her pink hair ribbon!

And of course I had to do some nedlefelting... here's my little bunnies...

For more inspiration go to

http://inspiration-avenue-team.blogspot.com/2011/03/black-white-and-pink-is-this-weeks.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Finspiration-avenue+%28Inspiration+Avenue+-+blog%29   and
http://naturalsuburbia.blogspot.com/2011/03/creative-friday.html  and
http://www.wonderwhyalpacafarm.blogspot.com/ and
http://ourjourneytoasimplerlife.blogspot.com/