Newest Collage Work

A bit of a mess going on here, but what fun!

I have been working my way through a wonderful book entitled "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron. It is a 12 week process that will probably take me longer because I do want to get the most out of it and not have it turn into another time stresser.

I have been finding myself to be less afraid of making messes. After all I am from the 'old school' Commercial Art trained, nothing messy, no ink blots, smudges, etc. This experiment of mine is to give myself the freedom to make a mistake and turn that into art that is pleasing to me.

In the process of printing up my water color and ink paintings, there are a lot of prints that cannot be sold until I get the setting right on the printer. So using the seconds and some vintage papers and ephemera, acrylics, stamps and other found items I had a good old time!

Mixed Media Paintings That Are in the Show at Cornell Street Gallery

I entitled this one "Umbrella Love" for the show but I really wanted to call it
"The Early Promise". That's what I will call it after the show.

"Love is Color Blind"

"I Love You From Afar"

Three new mixed media paintings thatare currently showing at Cornell Street Gallery's "Art and Music Show". The opening is this weekend, February 11th. The musician David Temple will be there for the opening festivities. If you are in the Kinston, NY area it promises to be a lovely evening.
I will have prints posted on my etsy site sometime this week.

Arts and Craft Show Booth

My display booth is different at every show I go to. It has been a work in progress and I like the way it went together at this show the best so far. I do like the look of the swirls on this carpeting, very whimsical and sort of goes with my whole whimsical theme :) Unfortunately the lighting was bad in this part of the room and I only brought one light. (Note to self; buy more clip on lights!) Lisa the show organizer was kind enough to lend me another lamp. The shelf unit on the center table I found at an estate sale and nailed a decoupaged board to the back of it. It worked very well for my new birds and small paintings.

Craft Fair at Spackenkill Last Weekend

My booth is a work in progress.



My new design for crows.



I have been having so much trouble getting pictures out of my Droid. It takes beautiful pictures but I can't seem to get them up loaded correctly to Picasa. I have a grey section on a bunch of photos that I can't figure out how it happened. Anyway these two are ok, I have better ones but I am still working on them. The fair was very nice and it was great to see some past customers. I am getting ready for the Dutchess Arts Council Fair next weekend. More birds and paintings and ornaments and note cards........

Butterfly Prints

This weekend I am working on listing prints of my new butterfly paintings.
The originals will be in a show at the Cornell Street Gallery in Kingston, NY opening on the 8th of October.
I love the colors in this painting! The original is on a vintage ledger book page.

Santa and Snowman Paperclay Dolls

                                                                                  I know....... I know....... we haven't

had Halloween yet.........

But I have these guys made.....

and they are so sweet....

I am going to list them on ETSY this weekend.

New Year New Projects

Hello and Happy Belated New Year! I hope to be posting here more often this year. I was busy during the fall and into the holidays with a few craft fairs and some local stores that I have items in. But what I want to challenge my self with this year is a painting a day. I want to be able to commit to that daily process, document it and hope to see a growth in my abilities. So today I am listing the painting that I did yesterday on etsy. I will probably focus on birds since I just love painting them.
This watercolor and pen and ink painting is done on a page from a vintage ledger book. I am not sure what the paper is made from, but it is lovely paper to work on. I titled it "Snowy Day Bird" since here in the north east we are getting pummeled again!