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

It's been many years since I dug out my encaustic waxes to play but lately I've been hearing them call my name.  It was a rainy day yesterday and I decided it was the perfect time to play. These are all done with encaustic wax blocks and an encaustic iron.  I've had mine for years, but I went searching the internet and found this distributor here in the United States.  http://www.encausticart.us/main.sc I don't have but about a dozen colors and some of the blocks are getting small, so I know I'll be putting together an order soon! These are done on Encaustic Card  and then sealed with and Encaustic Sealer both of which are available on their website, along with the iron I used. Sorry I didn't take any step-out pictures.  I was having so much fun I forgot until I was all finished playing.  OOPS!! I call this one Stormy Sea ahhhh....the joys of owning a cat.  I see I managed to get a cat hair in it.  Sigh... ...

Taking it back 10 Years My Handsome Fella with the Wild Hair.   Stacey - 9 Years Old

Throwback Thursday Tori - 2003 7 Years Old

Mariah 2002

1958 - Roswell, New Mexico Madelyn, Ivy and Anna

In the Heat of the Summer Had a go at acrylic finger painting today in my Art Journal today. I used the Week 14 Prompt for the Journal 52 Project  - Rain or Shine - which was to create a page about weather or your favorite season. It also meets the Week 7 prompt for The Documented Life Project which was to draw a shape and repeat it multiple times. I call this one "In the Heat of the Summer" I've had a whitish page that's just been sitting in my art journal.  I say whitish because it was a page gone wrong that I covered up with gesso.  The original color was a green Silks glaze and it wasn't quite dry when I covered it in gesso, so it tinted the gesso just a tinge of green.  I had taken different size bottle caps and twisted a bunch of circles in the wet gesso and had left it to dry. I've looked at it several time and wondered what I was going to do with it and so when I sat down at my desk today and opened my journal to that page, I decided I...

Grow Where You are Planted Took some time to doodle and play in my Mixed Media Journal. I doodled with Montana Paint Pens and colored with Inktense Blocks and Twinkling H2Os. ...and here is a couple of pages I did last week.  I had fun sling watered down acrylic paints!

Colorado 2006 Family Vacation 2006  I think my hair must have been freshly permed because I still looked like a poodle!!

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!!!