MY FEATURED ARTIST

Another Favorite Artist and long time Art Friend has nominated me for the "BRILLANTE WEBLOG" award. I am honored Roc and the surprise is on you, because I had already picked you to be my FEATURED ARTIST. Roc and I have been trading art for a few years now. She is an amazing artist and her work just keeps on being imaginative and original. These three ATC's have always been on my workspace and not in my album, they keep me company when I am working and when I drift off to that other place I go. So....check out her blog, she is doing the most amazing POSTCARDS and I can tell she is enjoying working on the larger canvas. Check out her art here http://www.whatsuproc.blogspot.com/

I need to nominate 7 other blogs and leave links to them so I will give it some thought and post them at another time as I am out of time. Peace

My Little Stardust Rose

This canvas was inspired by my new friend Viola....her work is so Lacey and lovely. The canvas is 12 x 12 the little girl is from a photo I found on my antiquing adventure. Check out her blog and I am sure you will be inspired by her work too. http://saray-viola.blogspot.com/ I would love to hear from you...what do you think of her work? I will be featuring some of my favorite Artist/friends here on my blog. It will be a surprise who I pick, random even for me, as I find so many talented Artist thru my Internet connections. This is my second feature the first one was the three mermaid ATC's I bought on E-bay. You will get to see them again soon as I have created a frame to keep them safe and dust free.... Have an Inspiring Day........

4 x 4 Chunky Book Page & Lime Fire

Helicopter Base

It is still very smokey here and looks like most of these fires won't be out until the rains come. I took a few photos yesterday of the fire camp. They are all on my flickr site. So far no sign of the Marines.

http://flickr.com/ more photos.

I had fun making 4 x 4's yesterday. Her hat says enjoy the journey on metal tag. Happy Monday! Art On! Also played with my lighting again..I think I am getting something setup however I may have to invest in some more equipment...ugg

Royal Family

This was a little difficult to photograph. It is a mixed media collage that is 9" X 12" on a stretched canvas. Even with a mat finish the lights still glare somewhat. I got out two big clip on lights with the new "Day light" energy saving lights. They are bright. I have a little more work to do with my lighting. I would like to get something set up so I don't have to shuffle everything every time I want to photograph my work but with limited space that may be a trick..One artist had a closet set up and her photographs were great and some really small jewelry, without any glare. Anyway that is my present challenge. If anyone has any suggestions I am open for information. Have a deep breath, relaxing Sunday!!

Bee's Wax Experiment

Well this is my little GOOF....I still love her but wish I didn't put that bee's wax on it..tho I had fun playing it sorta melted my embossing powder that was rubber stamped on the back ground. It took away some of the bright gold look. I started out just putting it on the wings to see the affect. You know how that goes....I used my little iron to smooth it away, so I added more wax and ironed it smooth. This went on and on just on the faerie, anyway it doesn't look too bad but not real happy with it either. Have to try new things....always. ART-ON!! Experiment!!

fUN fUN fUN

Well I just had so much fun yesterday....I got some bees wax and was fooling around with it. Haven't read any how to's.. or anything just jumped in with both feet....I do that often. Well the end result was not good. I pretty much wrecked two arches that I had made...boo hoo. I guess I will have to get some instructions. Anyway I switched to embossing powder and this is the Arch that I came up with...

GOTHIC ARCH Buttercup

OMg these are so fun.....Little BUTTERCUP is her name. Simple collage. Background paper was sent to me with a trade and I couldn't wait to use it. I have done a few more and will upload them over the next few days.

They are sending in the Marines Sunday about 550 should arrive and set up at our county fair grounds. The fires are still going but they are making great progress and no structures lost at this time, even in the Wildwood area that they evacuated a few days ago. We actually had a little blue sky yesterday and this morning..after almost two weeks without sunshine or blue sky.

Rush Rush Rush

This mixed media collage is 8" X 10". It was made with the old photo I found on my antique n thriftin trip. I enlarged the original to 5 x 7. It was really fun.

HAVE A CREATIVE DAY.