Happy Birthday Little Miss K!

New Cards in the Etsy Shop - Smile & Peace

Fall 2010 Pantone Colors - Family

Sending happy thoughts and prayers to my dear Gigi, who taught me the importance of family. Our love is with you!! 

Play time with the Fall 2010 Pantone colors.  

give

Don't GIve Up!

Moon and Stars

Remember with Joy

Helvetia Community Church - Oregon

Rest of " New Work" Series

New Work

Can you find the third bird? ")

5x5 mixed media acrylic and paper on canvas.

I lift my eyes up . . .

M. Luther Quote - Recycled Art

Watchful Expectation

Irish Dance Shirt Ideas using Tagxedo

This is the final design. A combo of the two ideas below. 

Love this! 

Borrowed the shape from above, and filled it in using 

inspirational dance quotes in Tagxedo.

Good luck at the Oregon State Feis this weekend Murray School! 

A Creative Weekend!

Playing with different media. Crayon over acrylics.

My weekend project. Background is doodles in acrylic and watercolor on an acrylic base, outlined in Sharpie. We were at the coast and I collected a bunch of driftwood inspired by this post. Love Alisa Burke's creativity. 

Playing around with more backgrounds for future doodles! 

Watercolor on acrylic base, on paper over cardboard.

Bunch of paper pits covered with palette knife applied acrylic.

Joshua 1 . . Be Strong and Courageous!

Midnight Doodles on the Wacom

New Doodle Makes it to the Etsy Shop!

New Irish Dancer . . .

Playing with the Bamboo Tablet - Flowers

My tablet has been sadly abandoned these last few months. Work @ school has been good, but crazy busy. This weekend my daughter came down sick, so we got a lot of @ home time. Did I clean? Maybe a bit. Did I doodle . . . heck ya!    ") Even got a start to a painting done and another project finished up that has been giving me some creative difficulties. I will post these later. It felt SO GOOD to doodle today. Now I have to go finish laundry and try to dream up something for dinner. Doodle on! 

old sketch idea being re-worked . . .

The plan is to re-draw and update her a bit. My three year old gave me the spark of an idea when she was going off on how she likes the Binky Fairy better than the Tooth Fairy. The story ideas are whirling! I think when she discovers that the Tooth Fairy brings cash, she may change her tune a bit. ")

Happy Mother's Day!!

I hope all you Moms have a fantastic day! Ours started at 5:30 am when my smallest shuffled into the room wanting to snuggle. Perfect start to the day! It was followed by honey covered Ego waffles, sausage, coffee and fresh picked roses served in bed. My 8 year old ran the show.  It was hysterical listening to all the clamor in the kitchen. Over my second cup of coffee, my husband found this newspaper article. We were laughing till there were tears. Enjoy!

Everyday is Earth Day . . .

Lots of Birthdays!

Birthday gifts for my gals! 

Front

My Alisa Burke inspired "graffiti art" card for my hubby. 

Inside

It has been a fun and creative week! 

  

Alisa Burke - Graffiti Class!

Oh Boy! As an early birthday present (thank you Kevin!) . .  I got to take a class today with Alisa Burke. I stumbled across her blog and quickly fell in love with her liberating approach to art and beautiful work. I could not believe my luck that she was in our neck of the woods teaching a class!  Alisa is a kick and a blast to create with. 

This is me being a cheesy fan . . . 

It is not everyday that I get to meet an artist, whose work has inspired me to bust through the creative roadblocks that I have surrounded myself with and rethink my own approach to art. I am not just painting out side the box, 

I am ripping it open and painting all over the box! Messy and fun. 

Here are the pieces I created during the class. 

Thank you Alisa!