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More Cat and Bird art

Here is a picture I drew a while back and finally decided to color it this long weekend. I colored everything in with my prisma pencils and used the water soluble oil pastels for the blue/night back ground. Then, if you look closely, you can see that I stamped a design on the entire piece-kind of a swirly thing with gold stamp and embossing. It's kinda whimsical don't you think? It kinda looks like the cat is suspended in the air. Perhaps I should have created some type of horizon?

Busy Hands-Busy Mind

Boy, I have my creative juices flowing again. Seems like I had a dry spell. I have a long weekend so my creative mind is going 90 miles an hour. I made an altered dress form this weekend. I was inspired by an article in the Cloth Paper and Scissors magazine. Here it is-or rather, here is my version: I don't know if I'm going to keep it for myself or try and present it for sale at Reneas Art Show this fall. I did a little painting on a wooden box piece. I took apart the wooden box and used the container part for this piece. I was really inspired by an artist I found on the internet. Her faces of women are so beautiful. Here is a link to her stuff. http://www.flickr.com/photos/birdandflower/ But, this is what I created today. My faces need work!!! I feel like they are getting worse instead of better. I get in to much of a hurry. I am looking forward to another day off from work to explore some other art projects. I should work on the quilt I have started. I am calling it "Wo