It's All About The WHIMSY!

Watercolors

 

More "creativity in flight" work! 

Watercolor exercise with wet and dry layering...

Practice, practice, practice.....very fond of wet layering but must practice dry layering.  As we know watercolors sometimes have a mind all their own!

Sketching

 

A few sketches I've completed for "Creativity in Flight",

an online class offered by Gina Armfield.  You can get details here:

 http://www.sweetsistergina.typepad.com/

 

 

Great fun and learning lots of new watercolor tricks!

Just a pretty picture

I've been working to complete unfinished projects sitting in the studio. We all have them, right?

I bet you do too...

be honest now...

These canvases were started over a year ago, Artfest project not quite finished.  My own photographs incorporated into a painting.  Well now they are done.  

It's such a nice feeling.

Now on to the three large canvases began in "Bloom True",

Flora Bowleys on line class; put on hold because of foot surgery.

It's going to be a very colorful day!

 

Sea treasures

Finally...FINALLY...back in the studio and able to play with all my toys post surgery.

daniel smith PrimaTec watercolors

 

 I bought a foam floor mat to ease the foot pressure so I can stand for extended periods of time on the hard cement floor...however Miss Maggie has decided that it is her new studio bed....

We will have to discuss this....

I suspect she will win.

It's Spring!

Yes I have been away for a while....recovering from surgery has presented it's challenges.  I am a patient person by nature but 8 weeks of inactivity has stretched on and on... but enough of that!

 

A lovely patch of tulips blooming in the yard!  And finally my foot has healed enough that I can be out and about.  Thankfully!!

 

 

I found this cutie at my favorite garden nursery-The Farmers Daughter.  He reminds me so much of the artwork of Charles Van Sandwyk.  I suppose I should put him in the garden but I think he will stay indoors where I can see him everyday.

 

 

 

Spring has sprung in my NME journal too!

 

 

 

Binx enjoying the afternoon sun in an interesting spot...now this is a still life!

Reasons to Celebrate!

This may not look very dramatic but today is my first day in "real" pants!  Enough bandage reduction so I can fit my foot through the leg of my favorite jeans!   It's the little things in life, right?  Tomorrow the stitches will be removed and I will perhaps move into another fancy shoe.

 

Signs

of

spring

are

popping

up all over!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keeping busy with my trusty journaling bag and hand and trying my best to be patient through this healing process...

Each day is a step ahead...and I will put my best foot forward.

working small...

I love his color palette!

Channeling Chagall in my

No More Excuses~Under The Influence journal.

 

The view from here

Confinement continues, busy hands are making this much easier...I do not sit well, at all...

NME~Under the Influence~Chagall

I am jumping way ahead in the month but will be glad of it once I am free to move about.  There will be much housework to do!

Homage to CS Lewis~in my BIG journal...

one day at a time. 

Keeping busy, a list of sorts...

Due to the need for foot surgery to correct a bad bunion (all the joys of advancing age)...I am grounded for a few weeks.  Unfortunately I cannot use the stairs to my studio so my Flora Bowley class canvases will just have to be patient.  

I miss them..do you think they miss me?

But there are things I can do while couch bound:

1. 2012 NME journaling each morning.

 

 

2. Working in my "NME under the influence" journal..

 

This month Marc Chagall, last month Louise Nevelson.

Loving this class!

 

3. Surf the web and discover an artist whose work I LOVE!

Joseph Broghammer- fabulous!!

4. Spend some cuddle time with the menagerie.

5.  Next on my list~ I think the creation of a collage of all the beautiful shoes I'd like to wear once this boot is off!

More Playtime with Paint!

Another painting day with Flora Bowley

in her "Bloom True" on line class.  

 

Three canvases in various stages of layering...I admit I am jumping ahead in the class.  I had the pleasure of doing a workshop with Flora last fall so the process is fresh in my mind.  I am really enjoying this class and working in my own studio provides so much more time to pause and reflect as well as an infinite supply of resources.  And I have a deadline looming.  Surgery this friday will keep me out of the studio for a few weeks....no standing for hours playing.

 

 

Paint, paint, more paint...bubble wrap, great for mark making..

 

 A happy accident with drips!  I am learning.

Adding imagery in detail.

I hope you find time to play today.