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.<
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.
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.
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.
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:
Here is my entry for Illustration Friday - Electricity-I immediately thought of Static.....hope you can tell ....
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...
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
This is a piece I did a couple of weeks ago with paint and chalk. I was playing around in the studio and thought of how much I like Spring and here it is.
To be honest I was not going to do this challenge. I thought what would I do as the term "Medical" really is an unusual topic. My mother gave me a really old medical journal that her mother had given her, really a reference guide. Way back they were more concerned about posture, etc being a good woman,exercises as a way to relieve cramps etc. They did not dwell on the reality of death. A whole chapter devoted to how to care for a new infant. So here is my collage to the term Medical.
I wanted to do a art piece for Inspire me Thursday as well as Earth Day, so here is my Hope. Made from a peice of found wood in a thrift store...and the message is there is Hope for the world.
The object of this challenge was to create a tag without using stamps. I found an old manila tag laying around, and used stamp ink,,,as a paint and painted the background. I then used a punch to cut out the decorations, a transparency and drew the flower in the middle. Plain but I like it.
Here is me praying for those lazy crazy days of summer to come soon. This is my entry for theme Thursday.
I heard this song on the radio, and some of the lyrics are "her face is a map of the world" and I loved it. I thought it would make a great art journal page and here it is...hope you all like it
Well i decided to work in my art journal tonight. I have been dreaming of late in colour is that weird or does everyone dream in colour. Now I have been having the same dream over and over again, I think that means something, maybe I should consult a dream book. Anyway hope you all had a great weekend and here to a great Monday.
I decided to combine Inspiration Thursday and Illustration Friday as one today and it works. A girls gotta save time when she can. For Inspiration Thursday, it was envelopes (mail art) now I could have gone the traditional route with lots of stuff all over the envelope etc. But immediately I thought of mail and a carrier pigeon, now thats how my mind works. For Illustration Friday it is FAIL. Now note who the letter is to, so you know she is going to fail to deliver the goods, because who knows where this guy is at any given time. So hope you like the two, if not lets try again next week.
When I made this I envisoned that it would be a flyer on a pole in Paris adverstising French Fashion Week.
did this for Illustration Friday, when I saw it was the word Save, I immediately thought of this song, and it has been in my head since then.....help
Alright this was my attempt at stemcils, I like it. The results will get better with more practice with the tool. and maybe getting spray paint which I am going to get tommorow. Stay tuned for more stencils much better than these (these need alot of help)
Well here it is Sunday night, I have had a busy weekend, with very little time for art but that will change. These flowers are from my 3 friends I have had for about 35 years. I got them Friday as that was the day of my offical last day of work, though I have not worked since December. I am retired....and I feel a great weight has been lifted off me.
Not only have I retired by my 19 year old daughter finally took driving lessons and got her liscence, along with a car that she bought herself. My life will be changed no more driving her..... I feel like a new woman. Dont ask me why she wanted so long to drive, probably because I did it all for her, both she and I have our independance now......So I was going to cut some stencils out with my burning tool. But thought better of it as I did not want to wake hubby up with the smoke alarm going off and give him a heart attack. Our smoke detetcor goes off with the iron smoke. Well its late better go, going to creat tommorow so come on back and see some art...
Loved doing this one, the elephant is black and grey...I thought of India and the colours and they also use alot of orange, black and pink. Hope you enjoy it.
I was thinking about what song to use for this and was going to use by John Lennon "Give Peace a Chance". But I was listening to Jan Arden in the car and she did a remake of Peace Train by Cat Stevens and I loved it.
