Inspire me Thursday-Purple and Orange

As soon as I heard the challenge, I immediately thought of the song, Purple People Eater..it's an oldie that for sure. So here he is in all his purple glory.

Then and Now...Mixed Media Monday-Pens and Pencils

This is my version of pens and pencils. I found this to be a hard one, in fact I was not going to participate. I made this one and thought I cant submit that. But after evaluation I decided to. It is meant to be rough looking and not polished. I hope you get that from the art.

We need a little help from you....

I was contaced by Jillian a fellow blogger about helping out her family, by creating a star. Now you ask why would she want you to create a star. I read her email (below) and was intriqued went to her site and read her blog (see sidebar under Jillian will take you to her site). She is teaching her children about the holocaust, and in the process making us remember......that genocide exists and still does today. So I am going to create that star and send it to her, and it will also be for the millions of people who have lost someone they love... So why dont you go over to her site and look at her blog and maybe you to will be inspired to do something good today.

have been coming to your blog for awhile now. I thought I would write
you aquick note to see if you would be interested in helping. I'm doing a
little home school project with my kids. We want to build a small Holocaust memorial in our front yard, so that my kids can remember all the Jews that lost their lives. We are asking people to send us “stars.” Any kind of star, made from
anything you wish. These stars will symbolize the lights that went out due to the
Holocaust.If you are interested in doing this please let me know... I'll email
you ouraddress.
>http://blog-me-til-midnight.blogspot.com/

Inspsire me Thursday - Whimsy

I dont know if you will think my David is whimsy or not, but I got a kick out of doing it.

Illustration FridayWorry

Well you are probably scratching your head and saying what the ....does that have to do with worry. Well my aunt everytime she got worried, went and got out her worry beads and counted them and handled them and she believed it help her worries disappear. Hence my take on worry beads.

The Daily Grind....

I dont really have a daily grind...since I retired I feel like i am on a holiday. I need routine in my life, that is what work does. Now I am trying to build my life without outside working and get a routine. I have not managed it yet, but will. I need to priortize duties that need to be done each day, accomplish those and also have time for me. I have been feeling like everything lately that I have been creating is not up to parr. I am not looking for compliments from anyone. Dont you ever just look at what you are creating and say I am not an artist. Look at what everyone else out there is doing, I feel like mine is very amertursh. So I decided to try something different and make a few ATC and stretch my limits, try different techniques and see how it goes. Here is my first try. I used Rangers Inks and the Blending soloution and make the backdrop used a stamp I have hanging around and black pen. So what do you think...

Theme Thursday....Transportation

I had did this one awhile ago and I thought it fit right in with Theme Thursday....Transportation.

Take Part Tuesday Challenge-Room

I know she looks crooked, that is what happens when I dont use my easel....I decided to put in the words just in case you cant see from the drawing that she is pregnant not just chunky.....Hope you like it.

Tag Your It..Pretty and Feminine

When creating this tag, I used chalk, a mask,paint pink and yellow, the chalk was white, and rubber stamps. I think brown, pink and yellow are feminine and soft colours. I hope you like it.

Mixed Media Monday..Maps

I did this awhile ago so I think it fits perfetly into the Theme of Mixed Media Monday which is maps.

Illustration Friday -Wide/Inspire me Thursday-Crayon

Decided to do both illustraion Friday and Inspiration Thursday together. Okay Wide of course is the Alligator mouth, which is always open wide. I used crayon for the whole drawing and then melted the wax with the little iron that I have. I would like to have painted in Acrylics as I think it would have popped with brighter colours. Hope you like it.

Theme Thursday-Girls

Here is my entry for Theme Thursday - I painted it on Watercolour paper, used acrylics, stamps for leaves, chalks, markers etc. Hope you like it

ArtGirlz Challenge-Travel

This is what I started with a blank envelope. I knew right away I wanted to do Venice The picture is mine taken out of my hotel window.. which happened to be right on the canal.... I wanted it to look like you were looking at a really old postcard , or looking through something and really seeing Venice years ago. My picture was in colour, I then made it black and white, and then lightly coloured in with chalk.... Hope you like..if not maybe next time.<

Take Part Tuesday - Light

When I thought of light - I thought about Light Houses- A few years ago we went down East where they have alot of light houses - and I think we saw everyone.

Mixed Media Monday-Transparencies

I created this tag awhile ago for a tag challenge (which had nothing do with transparencies) so I thought I could use it here...I cut a ronnd hole in the transparencie and created a flower at the back, painted the tag and here it is. Hope it was okay to reuse this one.

Tag Challenge-Black and Gold

Well here is my creation. I used gold foil paper that I had and a bunch of gold rubons on the gold foil. Then cut a small square of black paper (to resemble a blackboard) a drew the dress shape. So that is it hope you like it.

The Green Door-Inspiration Thursday

I was going to take a pass on this week. I did not have any pictures of doors, did not really want to draw one. But I then remembered having some pictures of doors that I had gotten from under the free good section of (Robin Marie) of Paper Bag Studios blog. I love all her photographs. I decided to take the door concept further and that really the door is a metaphor for Life. Then the I cooked up a story in my mind ,that this was left on the door by a woman who tried to explain her lover why she was leaving. I am quite the philosopher (lol). Well I am also a poet (not a great one) but I love poetry all kinds and I write it. Not many of my poems see the light of day, they are usually all stuffed in a folder. But I really thought about how this one fits the door topic. Since you probably cant read it, look below:

The Changeling

I am who I am nothing more
I choose who I am when I walk through the door
I could be the girl that you openly adore
I could be the girl who is a total bore

I change as fast as winter to summer
I can freeze you in a glance or make you melt like butter

You still chase me like a hunter after his prize
I dont want you, cant you see the pain in my eyes

The time for us was to short to brief
Like a bolt of lightning we both felt the heat

This was an affair of twof hearts and minds
We both knoew it was just a matter of time
Life moves more quickly than you and I
We drifted apart and were helpless to understand how and why

Take this memory of me and work it around in your mind
Think of me as a toy who is not quite sound
A part missing and always clanking around

I am known as a changeling
A girl with no hear and no mind
Who loves and leaves them on a whim or a dime

Static Electricity or Fashion Statement You decide

Here is my entry for Illustration Friday - Electricity-I immediately thought of Static.....hope you can tell ....

This might not be your cup of tea. Them Thursday

The theme is Coffee or tea I do not drink coffee, so here is my take on tea. I am not sure if I like the way it turned out. I used crumpled orange tissue paper, white pen, brown paint, coffee holder from Starbucks and an old paper bag. I think it turned out to brown. But here it is anyway...

Illustration Friday - Seeds

I was not going to particapate this week. I really struggled with this, I was thinking another way, went down to the studio to play around and here it is......hope you like it