Sunday, February 23, 2014

One of the new series won an award!

Yay!  Its wonderful when you try something new and then put it out there for everyone to see and they like it!  You never know… so its nice confirmation.  One of these new blind contour pieces won the Award of Excellence at the Art from the Heart show.   I named it "Interface II".  Its the one that I posted on February 7 (below).

Now we are packing up to go to Florida for awhile.  I've been getting the house ready for my house sitters and packing and planning the itinerary.  Ready for some warmer weather, the gypsy blood is stirring!

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

"Better a Creative Mess…"

"… than tidy idleness." (author unknown)

I've always loved the fact that this is how my mom felt while I was growing up.  We had many creative messes and you always learn something from them  (and it's fun).

So what better way to spend a cold grey sleety day than inside one's studio with bunches of colorful tissue paper torn up and glued onto canvas?  About the only way to top it is what Michael is doing:  baking bread and making French onion soup!   Eat well and create.  Good motto.



p.s.  I'm ready to head to Florida!



Friday, February 7, 2014

Update on first contour...

I worked some more on the first of these blind contours that I posted.  Now its looking better to me.  think I'll enter a couple in the Art From the Heart show here in Carteret County, at the Morehead City Plaza (next to Lowe's foods) opening February 15… stop in and take a look and let me know what you think of this new series.




Saturday, February 1, 2014

Drawing with your eyes closed

…here's another in my latest series of contour paintings.  See the post below for a description…