the Blondie tour...

 

I went medium blonde, yep, my hair wasn't really very dark to start with, but lots of grey were coming thru, first I debated about just going with it, let the grey come

thru and be done with it.  Its not that nice grey that white grey its that dull lifeless

grey that drags you down.  So instead of dyeing my hair my usual natural light brown, I went medium blonde, and you know I like it, hides the grey really well, and I decided it was me.  So now know I dye my hair, by the time I am 80 you will know all

my secrets.
Since blondes have more fun I told the hubster if two 18 year old hunks ring the doorbell just let them in, they are for me
lee


Saturday .....whats new

 

There are a couple of advantages to posting into my 9th year
is that I have a lot of art you probably have never seen.  Because
as bloggers we easily tire of a blog and maybe only come back
to it once and awhile.  So there is more fodder for the blogger
to post that is old.  This is an example of one
, its not that old, it was a booklet I made of angels.  I am
not into the whole angel thing so don't ask me why
I did a whole book on it. But I liked the little booklet
so here is one of the drawings.  Now this one was simple to do,
I did the background in the book first, and then on this
one, I cut out a shape of woman, and did a little spray
paint which blended in with the background, had
an wing stamp , and used a word stamp, and here
she is in all her glory.
Its gloomy today and a little rainy a perfect day to go to the library
and browse there art books, what do you do on gloomy days?

How often do you do it.......

ah ha caught you , I mean how often do you post, or how often do you think you should post.  I have read various articles on you should post every second day,

3 times a week.  Since I have taken the attitude that I am going to post

only when I feel like it, it has taken this invisible  weight off my shoulders.

This weight is only put on by me, and to top it all off I have not

slowed down to much in posting on my blog Ha ha.  Though the summer

for sure everyone slows down in blog land, you gotta enjoy the

weather well its here right.  Today its beautiful out the sun is shining, cloudless sky

I am taking my camera out with me to find some inspiration to reflect in

my journal.  So what are you doing today



A little rant

you all know how I love colour, well here is an example of how much, you need your

sunglasses for this one
I like to take online courses, but I have taken a lot of them, but I have never made
one thing from them.  So I took a bit of a step back and decided that I am going to make one piece of art from each class that I have taken, so stay tuned for that.  But alas I could not resist taking a class from my girl crush Alisha Burke, and one from
Robin Marie Smith.  They are both reasonably priced and lots information that
is new and refreshing.  I see the latest on online classes is to let you have
the class for only so long and charge you a year at a time.  I will not be taking
these classes.  I realize the artist who puts on these classes puts a lot of time
and effort into creating the class, but I want something back for my money. Anways enough of my rant, its back to business talking about trivial day to day things.

lee

I should have known.....

 

after a busy weekend, I have settled back into my routine

do you have a routine?  I found that since I retired

if I don't have routine of some sort I find the day

passes in a blur, my routine is not set in stone

its very flexible, allowing for a lot of down time.

I swim everyday, I do some sort of cleaning,

I walk the dog, I cook, and make art, with

other variables thrown in. 

Like for instance my IPAD not working, and its

not very old, April.  So I am off to

Apple to find out what the _____is the

problem.  Lucky the hubster who is

very organized had the bill safely tucked

away, because I worried all night where

I had put the bill.  He knows me to well.

That's it for today.

 

 

 

 

 

Its all about the days and nights...

 

been a busy couple of days and nights

took the hubster to emergency spent 13 hours there

left the hubster and picked him up this morning

finally got an answer to the pain that has been plaguing him since

he came home from the hospital in February

now we can get on making him feel better

out for lunch and a little shopping with the shopper

home to walk the dog

out to my favourite pen store to purchase 2 new pens

home to make homemade chicken burgers on the BBQ for

dinner

and maybe the hubster and I will watch a movie if we

are not asleep in our chairs

 

whats on your weekend



A little big of this and that

 

a little sketch from my sketchbook, colored with only markers

you can get such pure deep colour from markers.

We have been talking about summer holidays,

but hubster still is not that well, so I don't think

we are going to go to far.  I am going on my

usual trip to Phoenix in October with girls. But

I am in the mood for something more....what are you

doing this summer?



Meet Dita

 

Meet Dita Von Teese , and

yes she is a real person.  I saw this

picture in a magazine and had to draw it.

She actually looked better in the magazine,

and her swimsuit was black,but in the interest of my art
I thought yellow looked much nicer,  and her

boobs did not look deformed.  I need more

practice, on drawing some parts of the anatomy.

But don't you just love that name, now that's

a stripper name, like no other.



Chasing my tail

 

Just to let you know I am afraid of mice, rats,

but I like to draw them.  So I had this drawing in

my sketch book , so I scanned it, and I had the

word today scanned in as well, and all my

backgrounds are scanned in as I do them, and

I put them all together in Photoshop elements, and

this is what came out.  Plenty of space for writing a list

or whatever. 

today we are celebrating Fathers day a day early.

We are going out for lunch , then the

shopper and I are going shopping to needs to

get him a gift. Then its home for a barbeque.
So I better get going, what are you doing today?

jungle love

I am entering this into http://manonpopjes-manonpopjes.blogspot.ca/2014/06/how-to-make-zine-paper-saturdays-link.html  go check it out she has amazing art

I really like this one, and I don't say that very often

about my art.  I think because of the colors in it.

Sent out all the mini zines yesterday and today

finished the one image for Carol and sent it off

finished a sketch book completely that my

daughter bought me in Thailand last year

and wish she had bought two.  The paper

takes any kind of medium and doesn't leak through.

Got to finish one circle journal of my friend

Gayle who lives in the same city as me

and then all my obligations are caught up.

I have been writing them down lately as I

forget what I have to do.   Cant be

my age  can it (lol).

 

lee

 

 

One Image

 

As you all know I belong to facebook group that does trades

I really like it, but sometimes they don't allow International Trades

 

they consider Canada International which is really

laughable, we are there neighbour.  Anyway one of the women

wanted to trade and she was from Germany, so I said I would.

Now the challenge was one image, you send a postcard

and have one image on it.  So I sent mine off and Sandra

sent me her's which was the girl.  I have been having

a terrible time with this one and wishing as I usually

do, I had not said I would do this.  So she has

sent hers back to me, so I have to get something in the mail.

And this is about the 20 th redo of this card.  You cant

see but I put a piece of heavy plastic (I forget what its called)

over the window, I hope you get that its a window.  Now

I am totally rethinking this whole card.  Back to the

worktable.

flawed....

 

the skin on this girl of mine looks like crap

its truly looks better in person

but when it scans, it does some kind of number on it.

But I must say I do have a hard time with skin tones,

I wish there was a perfect combination that you could follow

Reminiscing

 

 

today was all about hanging out with old friends

gabbing, laughing, eating and

reminiscing.  Remembering when, when

we were young and we all worked together.

Had a great time 

The Score.

 

I did this a long time ago, I saw an ad in some magazine

and decided to give it a try, I like the way it

turned out.

 

Every June our neighbour hood of about 500 home has a giant grage sale,

usually out of those 500, about 100 or more homes decides to participate.

I have one garage sale person, who I go to every year, she must work or

own a store, or retails to stores.  Her Stuff is amazing, that's the only

garage sale, I go to.  Now all this stuff is brand new, so heres what  I got

 

an beautiful apron

Lug purse

pasta maker

straw purse

Over the shoulder pink purse

Lug Wallet

tea towels, not the cheap ones either

and other misc. items

all for 30.00 which would easily be over 100.00

now the hubster would say did you really need that

pasta maker, because you have never ever made homemade pasta,

and my answer will be , but now I can if I want to.

lee

 

 

golden oldie friday

 

 

today was all about lunch with a friend

taking the car in for an oil change

walking devil dog

making a bound book

having tuna casserole for dinner

(now that's an oldie but goodie) my

daughter asked me what was tuna casserole

I am sure I made it for her

did you know I got a Fuji instamatic camera for mothers day

I thought I would really like it,

don't rush out and buy one

its just okay the picture quality is not that great

I use it to put stuff into my documented planner

 

I am joining the Summer of Fun

http://www.twinkletwinklelikeastar.blogspot.com.au/

its free and it looks like fun, check it out

okay I need a couple of emails from

Wendy, Peggylynn Cjsrq go to my

profile page and email me your addresses so

I can get you mini zines in the mail

 

ok that's it for today

lee

 

A Contest for you

 

I promise everytime you come to this blog, you will not see flowers.

But truthfully I  draw them all the time.  Because the more you

draw something, the better you get.  Anyway since you all have

been showing me the love, I thought to myself Lee what can

you do.  So here it is, the first 10 people who leave a comment

   you all win my mini zine of my camping

trip, or my Paris Mini zine which I did last year, or who

knows you might just get both.  I want you know I appreciate

each and every one of you who reads this blog, comments or

no comments.

 

lee



The power of the Flower

Wow, thanks for all those lovely comments, I appreciate them all.  I have decided I am going to go for at least another year,,,,with a little summer break, don't know when

yet.  I didn't join the index card a day for june challenge, because

last year I did every single day, and was wiped clean by the

end of the month,  This month I joined two classes the

first class is sketching and doodling flowers by Alisha

Burke
here is the linkhttp://www.shopalisaburke.com/collections/online-classes/products/flower-power-online-class
if I was going to have a girl crush it would be for her, I love her
art, her style.  The second course is with Robin Marie and the course is called
the Bound Book, looks like a fun class here is the link
http://www.robenmarie.com/
they were both reasonably priced Alisha had a sale for her's 20.00 and Robins is on sale still for $20.00 both of these gals put a lot of effort and time in these
videos and you get more than your moneys worth, and  this is not a paid announcement....

You said you didn't mind knowing what I do every day, so here we go
returning some great shoes that I thought I could make fit me
but still to big
cleaning the house because Mr. Clean aka the husband has been
out of town and I of course have been sitting around drinking
fine wine, and not much elee (lol)
having Taco Salad on the deck with the shopper for
dinner
and in-between time I am going to sit on my deck and
make some art
what are you doing today?

 

Help I need somebody

 

lately I have been noticing a trend away

from the blog and just facebook, twitter or

whatever the new flavour of the month is.

I have been thinking a lot about finally

letting go of this blog, over the years

I have been saying that every now and then,

but kept on going.  But I have less

and less to say on this blog.  I have

read many blogs that have interesting,

thought provoking ideas on them, and

it makes you want to come back to them.

Its not that I don't have interesting or thought

provoking ideas, its just that is not

the kind of blog I wanted this to be when

I first started out. I at first was happy

with two readers (family lol), now I have

grown to 40 readers a day, and that's great.

But really why do you come here, my art,

my thoughts what? I want to make this

blog worthwhile to visit but I am stumped

help.........