Funky Art Queen

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?

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...

This is a simple whiskey bottle reincarnated as a vase. I painted it first with gesso so it would hold the acrylic paint. Then I painted it with a golden yellow, orange-red and some gold. After it dried, I stamped it with some heart images and embossedthe stamped areas with a copper colored and a green colored embossing powder. Later, I created a little wire doo-dad for the neck of the bottle. You can barely see that here. I spent forever at Michaels today trying to find the perfect silk flowers to add to this creation. I'm proud of it. I put it on my dining room table.

I received this little vintage lunch pail from a friend of mine and I just had to do something with it. I painted it with the Lumiere Paints and stamped it. I covered it with canvas on both sides painted with the same. I wanted it to have a bit of a cloth feel to it and it does on the front and back anyway. Then I added these little polymere clay figures I made a few weeks ago with some new molds I bought. So it became the Sun, Moon and Stars lunch pail. I used to wear a cologne called Sun Moon and Stars I believe. Oh, it smelled so good. It was in a beautiful blue bottle with a gold top. I need to hunt for that on ebay! But wouldn't that be a cute gift for someone who is into astrology and all that? Or someone who is into dreams?

New Pic for today. Lesley

mis pequeños pájaros That means "My Little Birds" in Spanish. I had to find that on an English to Spanish translator on the web. I am still working on my Mexican Folk Art Series. I have been looking at a lot of Latin, Hispanic Culture art. Seems like there is a lot of Relgious type things with crosses, Our Lady of Guadalupe, etc. Here is my most recent work. I sold the last two on ebay and I was excited about that. One lady who bought a piece was named "Sharon Stone". I thought that was funny. What if it really was Sharon Stone-the movie star!? Oh, I have arrived! Heehee This was created with my ever so used Prisma Color pencils and water soluable oil pastels (back ground). I did this on watercolor paper (140lb) which I like much better than the smooth paper I used last week for this type of art. I am a busy lady. Here are the other things I am working on. I have several purses and one case in progress. I have decided to make a quilt called "Women of the World...

Altered Train Cases Today, I finally finished one train case and the other is well on the way to being completed. The first one, was done for a lady that ordered it. She likes vintage and victorian. She gave me some information about her favorite colors too. So, this is what I came up with for her. I hope she likes it. I am going to call her later and either email her these pics or make an appointment for her to come and pick it up some time next week. I like for it to cure for about 2 weeks before it is used. I put some fresh lavendar inside the case to help eliminate that musty smell that comes with these vintage cases. The second case, not quite done...is a case I did for my Aunt Wanda. She wanted one sort of like one I made for my mother for Christmas. She wanted pictures of all her grandkids on this. I hope she likes pink. I am thinking about putting some black checks around the edges to give it some spunk. I am also considering giving it a wash with a pearl white to give it a bi...