trees

I painted this tree for my mom. She saw an ATC I painted for a friend and asked me to paint her one. Bigger. It's painted with acrylics on corrugated cardboard. It came out a little too blue for me but she likes it. But then being my mom she likes all my artwork. 

18"X25"

 This tree is done with acrylics on corrugated cardboard as well.  It scanned a little darker than it really is. I like it. Guess you can tell I'm a tree hugger lover.

 9"X13"

This owl is something I started a while ago and just got back to. It's still a work in progress. It's just progressing slowly. The owl is done in acrylics and the background is done with water colors. It's painted on loose canvas. I'm not sure why I ever bought canvas sheets to begin with. Journal covers maybe?

9"X12"

And naturally I have to draw a face, with bad hair and one eye. Same as always!

Thanks for looking.

I am so ready for spring! I thought it was here but apparently it was just teasing! 

HAPPY EASTER ATC

HAPPY SPRING! ATC

Easter Bunny Again - on a journal page

Song bird singing in Springtime - journal page

playing with Dylusions - journal page

This is a collage I've been working on for a while. It's done on a piece of  heavy cardboard, 22"X29".  I enjoyed working on it and am starting another one soon. 

willow in the sunset

Thanks for looking.

More October Journal

The prompt for Friday 12th was Lyrics from a song. This isn't usually hard for me, I make a lot of pages with songs in mind but this one just didn't work for me. My first try was a very small solitary man walking at the bottom of a very large page. Nowhere Man? He was certainly nowhere. I ended up doing one of my favorites from Louis Armstrong. "What a Wonderful World"  I'm not really happy with it but ya gotta take the bad with the good. 

Oct 12 Song Lyrics

Mondays prompt was Stripes. At first the page resembled really bad wallpaper but after Owl moved in it was much better and he doesn't seem to mind.

Oct 15 - Stripes

Tuesday 16th was Spiraling. Which is a little on the silly side.

Oct 16 - Spiraling

Wednesday 17th was Rain. I went through several ideas with this one but when I ended up not being able to cover the mess underneath up . . . I painted it a very dark grey and drew on it with a white pencil. I'm actually pretty happy with it. Surprise! That almost 'never' happens!

Oct 17 - Rain

So here I am all caught up again. Until tomorrow!

Journal pages 8 -9 - 10 - 11

The prompt for Monday the 8th was a favorite story or poem from childhood. I really don't remember any that I really liked but I did have a favorite song that my mom sang to me. So I used it as my inspiration. I had my mom write the words down for me and I stuck it in a pocket on the page.

THE CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM CONE

My mama said if I'd be good she'd send me to the store

She said she'd make some gingerbread if I would sweep the floor

She said if I would make the beds and watch the telephone

That she would send me out to get a chocolate ice cream cone

And so she did the things she said, and she made me some gingerbread

Then I went out just me alone and got my chocolate ice cream cone.

While coming home I stubbed my toe upon a big old stone

And need I tell you that I dropped my chocolate ice cream cone

A little puppy came along and took a great big lick

and so I hit that mean ole dog with just a little stick

Then he bit me where I sit down and he chased me all over town

And now I'm lost can;t find my home, all because of a chocolate ice cream cone.

(She sang, I cried 'cause the little girl was lost and begged her to sing it again and again).

The Chocolate Ice Cream Cone

Tuesday the 9th was using things around the house as stamps. Looking for things I discovered that most things in my house are round, except the credit card and the image that the potato bag left. It will make a great background.

household items for stamps

This prompt for Wednesday the 10th was blueberry. The only thing that came to mind was . . . well, blueberries. 

blueberry

Today's prompt was falling leaves. I love trees. I draw a lot of trees. I was going to do the background with some leaf rubbings but all the leaves are crispy from lack of water so that didn't work out. 

The Gnarly Oak

I have been alternately staring at and working on my canvas. Finally, I am finished. At least I think I am. I could be mistaken. I usually am. I'm not quite sure how I feel about it.

I couldn't get a good picture so I hope you can see it okay. I would like some feedback on it so please be honest in what you think. 

19"X20" The Gnarly Oak

I also took a photo of the card I painted for my Mothers 82nd birthday. I think it came out okay. She likes it so that's what counts.

Blotter paper and a spook

I read a lot of blogs by artists of all kinds and it seems that most have that piece of scrap paper they use as a blot for all the excess paint. Then they use them for another project. They all look so good. Mine is always a really crappy looking brown. Do they plan these or just get lucky?

I use a lot of gesso-ed ? cardboard for my painting, and for my blotter paper. I had some ink left over from a card I made my mom, which I forgot to take a picture of. It just isn't in me to throw art supplies away. Gotta use it up then I can throw away what I painted. Weird I know. Here's what I came up with!

Barnyard critters

Going through my stash I found these cutesy barnyard clips from an old calendar. Now I have some cutesy barnyard ATC's. 

This is the picture on my internet page - sort of.

These next two are journal pages. Tried another face. Along with a really bad bird in an un-gilded cage. Bad mojo this past week. Oh well.

pfffttttt

She's only a bird in a gilded cage, a beautiful sight to see

You may think shes happy and free from care

She's not though she seems to be

Tis sad when you think of her wasted life for youth cannot mate with age

And her beauty was sold for an old man's gold

She's a bird in a gilded cage.

I don't know who sang this.I'm not quite that old! I believe it was from the 40's.