Loving Angels Still

A favorite color combination, and I had been thinking of a scruffy tree with an angel. It was a plan 75% complete in my mind. The decorations falling from the star came as I was nearly done with the painting. Also I didn't have a proper looking bird for the work, I was looking at my papers and there it was, seemed just right. There are days things go quite right. Except.....

Fixing a very old angel made from a table leg, I got gorilla glue on my hands. Horrible stuff to get off, an hour of different products and finally. Nail polish remover did the trick

Be Calm and Rest

At least be calm, I feel more clam today, except still doing several things at once. I had to run the vac, I don't want my new cat to get dirty. He is so calm except when I run the vac, he leaves. He is from the shelter, I just walked in one day and said, I will have a slightly used tabby please. He is slightly used as one eye does not open as far as the other, sort of the Rocky look.

I love to paint angels in these colors, so I painted a calm angel, she is painted on a brown paper bag. I also used a book page and parts of a hymnal. There is some stamping also, that crackle look is a stamp. Today I was not so scattered, I put in a background first. If you look carefully you can see a cat looking at the angel.

Too Many Things

I tried to do to much at one time today, shoveling, baking, painting, and reading. Spaced properly and done without a scattered mind would of made for better outcome. The cake is sort of a solid thing, shoveling not done, and painting is Ho Hum. But I don't always have to post things that are just to my standard.

This is a painting done on a page from a book in acrylics. It is a wind swept landscape from an old Paul Bunyan reader. My intent was....just a face nothing else, failed that. If this was a game and I said find 9 things wrong with this picture it would be a success. Still it is going into the journal because, just because. Well because I have a journal of things not so great.

Nursery Rhymes and Memories

Holding my breath as we wait for a winter storm, such a big IF really.

When I look at this painting and mix of paint, papers, napkins, stamps, pencil, it was not intended to remind me of a nursery rhyme, but it does in a way, I always think of a cow that won't cooperate and jump over the moon. Well if one is holding the moon with a big dragon fly perhaps the cow is the wisest of the two. It all started with wanting to paint a woman with a scarf on her head. I have many photos of wearing a scarf like this as a child. I remember getting a new one and picking out the pattern with my mother. She said it had to match my jacket.

Of course even at age 6 I had to have a scarf with many patterns.

Have a day with good memories.

Angel Enhancement

I have to be careful, we could of had angles instead of angels this morning.

This project didn't go well for me, at an art fair I saw very pretty things done by artist, Westy Copeland, they were done on book pages. so beautiful in the simplicity design and I felt so instpired by them. First of all I have trouble with simplicity, I feel funny wearing a plain white shirt.

I found an old childrens book and took a page from it, I designed my angel and saved the parts of the printed page I liked from a brush full of paint. I added snippets of other papers also. It was quite a blah looking piece to me. This morning I scanned it into the computer and adjusted colors, added a scanned piece of fabric behind, cropped, zoomed, resized. and I do believe it is fit for a card. The computer is a good critic, it is like holding the art work to a mirror, the unsuitable parts really show up. A good art repair shop.

Yes, Angels Again

Don't you love her hair? Well maybe you don't, but flower hair is common in my angel world.

We have the Sandhill Cranes come in the spring, their chortles are so welcome and they are so brave to come early. They stand in the bare fields and look for an early breakfast. This crane was in some mail that came one day and I had to use him in some art. His guardian takes care of these early arrivings with some extra food.

Hope your day has some art in it.

A Trio Angels

This time of year we think of angels maybe more than other times. I buy angels, paint them, read about them I enjoy them in various ways. No so much heavenly angels, colorful ones.

This is mixed media, I used an page from an old cross stitch book in the background, after I gessoed the paper, I mix color acrylic with the gesso. I used flowered napkins and painted the angels, used thick sponge stamping also. You see stenciling and and tissue paper that hs been stamped.

These angels brightened my Dec. day a very dark day with thick clouds and a chill for sure.

One time my daughter told me that other mothers were baking cookies when their children came home but.......I was always painting. Being really mature now I can do both at the same time.

So long ago

I have always liked this tiny photo, 2X3 they were so little and so treasured as people didn't take many photos and it took long to send them away plus always the cost of things not really needed.

This is me at age one, and to this day I am really impressed by the size of the cake and the effort into making it. Never again have I had such a birthday cake. I am with my aunt on the Photo,

also mom and dad in this composition.

The background takes on the looks of a storm ravaged landscape, it is early May so that adds to the look.

This was practice yesterday of what I can also do with paintings. one learns things everyday, the bottom border of all those cakes, the repitition.

Oh yes, the down side, some legs never change.

Quilting today I hope and I started an art journal of just pretty stuff.

Garden Girls cont....

I didn't get my second photo posted, I do have to study to figure that out. So here are the girls.

Garden Girls

I did this mixed media art last spring, it was after reading about using napkins in Sharon Tomlinson's presentation in Cloth, Paper, Sicissors. So much fun using the beautiful napkins that are available.

I painted the faces, I never know how they will really look on completion and I knew less then than I do now. I was thinking of the garden club at this time, we have one local. They work hard and the city is pretty from the efforts, but I know for a fact that often it is one or two that work so hard on the needed days. Maybe they take turns and it is an effort of many.

These two girls were quite happy they didn't join. The other thing I see in the work, one of the women looks like a Garden Angel, Judy that I know. Not planned, just happened and she might not think so.

There are hibiscus napkins, stencil work, newspaper, tissue paper, The stamping is on tissue paper as stamps work poorly on rough watercolor paper. I stamp the tissue and then glue in position. I used acrylics on the watercolor paper. There is over painting on parts, I think it is nice to have a vague quality to parts of the work.

This published here in tow parts it is a long painting. I have it in the kitchen.