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.

hello

Hopefully you all at Paint Party Friday and Haiku my Heart can forgive me my long absence from posting. I would like to say I used the time to get organized and refreshed and create a ton of art.... but life just doesn't work out so easily. I did get a lot of art done so I do have a lot to show, but I will just post it in bits and pieces so as not to overwhelm...

These pieces were drawn/painted on bits of pottery collected by THEJETTY on the shores of Maine and I purchased them from her shop on etsy.

I normally am inspired by feathers, rocks and flowers, but that week I had been inspired by my recent etsy purchase. I am imagining the life of the bits and pieces i received in the mail, each piece wrapped up in tissue.... To sit and wonder about the 9 lives these items have had already... Someone, somewhere, years ago mixed the clay they were made from. Someone else molded the pots from the clay on a potters wheel, leaning in to push and pull it just so. Then the were used for years in a home, holding all sorts of mixes of breads or cookies, and the may even have traded hands once more before that waiting to be purchased at the market. How they ended up traveling miles away, broken and washed up on the shore, tumbled by the ocean, is a whole other daydream. Then they were found, collected by small hands, packaged up and shipped in the mail miles away again to me, where I  painted on them, made a small nest for them with needlefelting, and listed them in my shop to hopefully move onto even another life....

I will have them in my shop tomorrow and more to come very soon if anyone is interested.

I also showed you a picture of this little guy a few days ago... he is Kodah... right when I was trying to simplify my life... he was at the Walmart parking lot being sold out of a truck. I just went to hold him without planning to buy a dog, as I really didn't need another dog or anything else to take care of right now, but he really, almost literally spoke to me and said "you need me... I need you" so I listened and brought him home. He is the best dog ever and I am not really even a dog lover... I always favored cats more, till now!

Jumping Puppy Love

He just can't control himself

Gotta bounce then sleep

I had planned to show a sketch I did of Kodah and yet I can't find the photo of it or the sketch... so much for organization... it'll have to wait for later... so anyway, have a good week everyone! it's good to be back!

Hello out there, sorry for being so absent for so long. I am starting to dip my toe back in to blogging and i thought i would start with a quick photo of one of the things i have busy with lately..... Meet Kodah, a 10 week old miniature husky...

Hello out there, sorry for being so absent for so long. I am starting to dip my toe back in to blogging and i thought i would start with a quick photo of one of the things i have busy with lately..... Meet Kodah, a 10 week old miniature husky..., a photo by lelloavengers on Flickr.

See you soon

I just wanted to let anyone interested know that i will be taking an internet break for a few months. I am putting the esty shop on vacation as well.... All is well but hopefully this will allow time to relax and restock and rejuvenate.....
Take care,
-Andrea

Happy valentines day

photo.JPG, a photo by lelloavengers on Flickr.

Only a day late...

Peek at my sketchbook
New beginnings, old redo's
A gift from my son

I don't know how it got to be friday again so soon....

I did finish some art this week even though it flew by... In goldenrod, amber, or honey...
Whatever you like to call this color.

I really love this one particular zentangle, Mooka, that i used around the edges...but i alter it a bit from the official way of doing it. I think it was created by Maria, the founder of zentangles, who called it her "go to tangle".  It is named after Alphonse Mucha, who's art i have always loved. It looks so like art nouveau when you use a lot of it. I was staring at my mandala wall at work, as i tend to do too often, drifting off into a vegetative state now and then.... And i realized i put this tangle into almost half my mandalas. I can almost not  help myself from using it.

 Ideas ideas ideas, floating around my head just like circles on my wall.

 Then i used the same color and tangle again for hair....

A woman that i work with said they remind her of the spirograph toy she had as a kid, and i had been thinking the same thing myself days before. If i still had one, drawing the basic mandala shape would be so much easier.. I loved my Spirograph. I also loved kaleidoscopes of all kinds, i still do. So I guess my art hasn't changed so very much after all these years.

Lips shut, Eyes open,

possibly appearing still

Duende unexpressed

should lips part slightly

pandoras box is opened

light and bees pour forth

I explained last weekend about joining the Artful Readers Club... and here's the first book I read.

it's the only one on my list that is written for young adults. We have a table at work, called our lawn sale table, where people bring in what they don't want and we buy each other's junk, cheap. so i picked this up one day and bought it for 50 cents because i liked the sketches they used to illustrate it, plus I always love a book about time travel, even if it's for kids. The sketches are meant to be from the journals of the manor's previous owner, and i have always loved this style of art. And who doesn't love sneaking a peek at someone else's sketchbook?

So I did like the book, it is was it is supposed to be, an  adventure book for young adults. It was a fun quick read, and it leads up to what will be a series of time travel adventures for a brother and sister and their friend. There's secrets codes, hidden passageways and of course there's an evil villainess, we don't see much of her yet but will in the next book I am sure. If i had time i might keep reading them but probably not as i have soooo many other books i want to read.

so that was the "review" and here's the art inspired by the book. Well more inspired by the art in the book.  I tried to keep my mandalas mixed with falling ladies loose and airy like a botanical, i left the pencil lines like a journal sketch, i felt a bit art nouveauish like i promised last week... and i am happy with the result...

Other people's thoughts

safely hidden in journals

a peek at their soul

so thanks for stopping by, hello to all at Paint party friday, haiku my heart and my new group, the artful readers club!