Friday, August 17, 2012

Argh!

good morning all,

I had planned a different post today... i made a video of clips from playing at the river and making art and it was all slow motion and calm.... but it was not to be for today. It's stuck somewhere in the frustrating virtual world of google, yahoo and you tube. I have wasted too much time trying to find and fix, enter yet another password and post and I give up for today. Instead here's some calm photos and my haiku...










The river soothes me
water flows over my toes
problems disappear




seeya!

Friday, August 10, 2012

So glad it's friday

Around here sleep, or the lack of goes in streaks, my son either sleeps great or sleeps only 4 hours or so a night. This week we got very little sleep... so I am a bit less alert than I could be as I write this... I'll talk less and add more photos to make up for it...




or maybe I will use other people's words... Spadoman had this to say last week, and I loved it...

"I love the rocks and stones. They are the Grandmothers and Grandfathers you know. They have been around for all time and have seen everything that mankind has done. They have all the wisdom we might desire. Hold them in your hand and ask them what you need to, they will answer. They will take your problems and troubles from you and carry them beyond the Star Nation. To have a reverence for the rocks is a good thing."


I love the contrast

of fine delicate white lines

on hard solid rock.


A couple people asked what I was using for paint... well I tried white  acrylic ink with a liner but ended up drawing with a white gel pen. They will need to be sealed but I haven't gotten that far yet.



And .....then I have some photos my mother took of some rocks stacked by Bill Peisher, a friend of ours. I knew he was stacking these in front of his house but whenever I would be by there they had been knocked down by kids. So until my mother took these photos I had no idea how amazing his stacking was...






My mother secretly, well secretly until she recently fessed up, left the crochet rock on his stone.

There will be more to come as I can't stop drawing on rocks...


Thursday, August 9, 2012

share the joy

Every thursday a group of people gather here to share their joy each week....


I just wasn't feeling inspired to do these Everyday matters challenges...Either it was the sketchbook that wouldn't take water... or the subject matter, I don't know. Now that I am back to a new visual journal I am so much happier. I just love being able to add watercolor to my sketches. These first two are Everyday matters challenges ....

 EDM... draw your hand
this EDM was to draw your glasses I think


So now, even though I was in court alot and  I sketched there... at least I am drawing whatever I feel like (which brings me JOY) and adding color !





Come back tomorow... and  I will have a post with  another thing that brings me joy lately.....my rocks...

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Tuesday tea at work

I haven't posted a mandala in awhile so here's my newest one along with some loose tea that I don't remember the name of.... (kimmy at art in red wagon's is taking a tea break but there will probably be some tea links at her post today anyway).....







I had intended to keep this all mustard and green but then i added some shadows to the zentangles with payne's gray and i seem to get carried away with that color and ended up with more of it than I planned. The theme at Inspiration Aveneue is zentangles so of course I will have to link up there...

Friday, August 3, 2012

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!

Thursday, August 2, 2012

sharing the joy

I had a wonderful lunch hour in Hammondsport enjoying the Palette's. I have mentioned them before but for those of you that don't know.... about 50 artists each paint a palette povided by the Chamber of Commerce and they are displayed around the village and the lake all summer in front of businesses. Each one has a letter posted by it. You can make it a day trip, travel around the lake see all the great art and collect the letters. If you get them all and put them together into the secret phrase you can win prizes. At the end of the summer, the Chamber auctions them off and the artist gets half of the sale price. I have only made it to see about ten so far. This is my second year participating. I've already posted it but my palette is the last one shown in this post. Enjoy!







 Sorry about my finger showing....