Just for Fun.

Carved some shapes out of speedball rubber pad...stamped/printed whatever onto some blank greeting cards...



And now I can play...

Gratitude and Giving Thanks!

Giving thanks for my awesome family, our health, good friends and a bunch of leftovers? Mmmm.

I'm also very happy to see the Inspire me Thursday(http://www.inspiremethursday.com/) site back up and running 'cause I think it's really cool, and there are a ton of really talented people who participate whose work I would have never seen otherwise, and last but not least, it really does INSPIRE ME!

Hope you all have a nice, filling (they don't call it stuffin' fer nuthin) Thanksgiving!

Fun with Windows Movie Maker...

This is one of the paintings from the pear series... It's called "The Menace" and it is 12x12 Acrylic on canvas.

Happy Halloween!

Some Pumpkin fun!
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/timages/page/pumpkin_sim.html


And our pumpkins!

Same hat ... new medium

This is my hat for "Inspire Me Thursday". It is charcoal on bristol.
Below WAS my hat for "Inspire me Thursday" in colored pencil on a purplish paper...it was to be my entry before it became embellished with a streak of slobber and several purple scribbles....I left an unsecured purple pencil lying around, and the drawing in reach of tiny chubby hands...serves me right! The damage barely shows up in the photo but, I know it is there!
I think I like the charcoal one better anyway!

The Birds

SQUARE.

The theme for "Inspire Me Thursday" this week is "square"...coincidentally, squares are all around me. The vast majority of my recent paintings, for the past couple of years, have all been square. Most of them 12x12. I really love this size and I am definitely not done with it yet. The three "squares" above are three thick frames in my dining room that normally hold three of these paintings but, I took them out last weekend to wire them up for an upcoming art fest and the sad empty frames were just sitting there. The theme this week inspired me to temporarily dec these out... even if it's just a little while, it was looking pretty sad. So, I used some scraps from some artworks that my husband, daughter and I have been working on this week (and some of my daughters plastic animals). I wonder how long until she notices and if I have to give 'em back?

I also just realized that you don't have to really wait until THURSDAY to post for IMT! I still wonder how alot of people seem to get their homework done so early!!!

My new favorite thing!

http://www.knittaplease.com/KNITTA_PLEASE.html
I can only hope to have my car antenna tagged someday!

ATC

I've seen some really gorgeous and extremely elaborate ATC's but, for me, one of the biggest appeals to ATC's is that no matter how hectic life becomes, I can always commit to a 2.5x3.5 inch artwork...
There! Done! Whew! (pat myself on the back) I created something this week!
Here is my non-elaborate contribution to "Inspire Me Thursday"!

Inspire me again...

Not sure if this is done or not...