For One Moment - Little Snippets of my Life and Art...

Art Journal Fun Took a little challenge on one of my facebook groups to use a painting by Donna Downey for inspiration.  It involved creating a background and then covering most of it up with black.   THAT was the hardest part...covering up all the pretty colors and paint layers on the back ground. Here is a picture of the completed page. ...and then some of the process. (WARNING - PICTURE LADEN POST!) I started by applying layers of acrylic with an old credit card. Then I started adding more colors using stencils. ...then a bit of stamping. Then I dug out some rub-ons and scattered them on the page. It needed some more pop, so I used the tip of my finger and added some bright red circles. Some doodling and dots and little bees.. (Although the bees don't really show once it's finished.) Decided on circle and flower placement... Then I started adding black paint.  I didn't didn't lik...

Happy 21st Birthday Mariah!!

1995 

Enjoyed playing in my paints yesterday.   Since I had all my Twinks out I thought I'd go ahead and tackle a Doodle Girl challenge posted in one of my facebook groups this past week. Here she is in all her glory! Now I need to find a quote. I guess a quote is not really necessary, but if I find one I like, I will add it later.

I needed to make a birthday card for a co-worker and I knew I wanted to make something with watercolor flowers, so I dug out Twinkling H2Os to play.   With this many H2Os to choose from I didn't know where to start...  ...so I pulled out a butterfly embellishment and used it to pick the color scheme. I've had these for many years as you can tell by the original labels. Yummy, yummy colors!!! I put them in a tray and spritzed them several times with water to soften them up. Working on a heavy watercolor paper, I started laying out the line work and flowers. I started out with a pale gold background, but it was just a bit too pale for my taste so I mixed some colors and added some shading. Once I had all the flowers and vines in place, I started doodling.   Some swirls and dots to fill in the spaces. You can't really see them in the picture, but I also have swirls in white scattered throughout.  ...and the f...

Family Reunion - 1984

Watercolor Play  Just some watercolor play ala  Tracy Weinzapfel style while I waited for my daughter today.  Inktense Blocks, Peerless Watercolors, Staedtler Pigment Liners, white Gelly Roll pen, black Sharpie

Hot Mess Challenge Here's my entry in Sandee Setliff's Hot Mess Challenge .  So FUN!!!

2004 Tori, Mariah and their Oma with Shamu.

What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday Watercolor Play Had some time to play this week, so I dug out my inks and took on  Sandee's Challenge at Frosted Designs    to create a painting using inks and pipettes by Ranger . No brushes involved! Free and Loose!  What a fun little challenge! ...and on Monday night I decided to paint along with Tracy Weinzapfel and Mixed Media Monday . My painting didn't follow along in her direction, but I had fun flinging watercolor splatters and  listening to and reading the chatter going on.  Love Monday nights! The stamp is called Cityscape and is by France Papillion for Stampotique . I won this from France a while back and I love the little funky buildings! They have so much personality!

Princess Fishy Face Taking it back 10 years to 2004.

Mariah at 9  (2002)

Believe and You Shall Achieve!

I posted my Throwback Thursday picture to my facebook, but forgot to come back here and post it to my blog.   I got caught up in a couple of hours of tripping down Memory Lane, going through several hard drives of photos.  Such fun memories...recent and not so recent. Anyway here is this weeks spotlight. 2010 Stacey at 15....LOVE this picture!

I know, I know!  I promised MONTHS ago that I would be back to blogging soon...but we've had a lovely summer of sunshine here in Florida and I have enjoying it! I've been trying to keep up with my Throwback Thursday and at least getting a picture up. I plan on going back to edit the posts to add a little history and story to each one as I love the old stories and memories. My art desk has been sitting sadly neglected also...but Winter is moving in and with it longer, darker nights. I'll be inside and back at my desk soon.  No more late evenings enjoying the wonderful Florida sunshine. Well, it's off to work!  Have a great day everyone!

Cousins 2004  Busch Gardens, Tampa

Late Edition - Throwback Thursday. Throwing it WAY back to 1916-1917 Battle Creek, Michigan My grandmother Sarah Schepel LeMay in nursing school before she and my grandfather got married in 1918

Kentucky Fried Chicken - Okinawa, Japan - 1974

1972 16 Years Old Eustis High School Libray ...one of my favorite places to be.

What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday? Work in Progress...