{a tiny little painting}...

Finally had sometime to do a little painting.  And considering I am painting

entire rooms in my house this really is tiny.

This is the original painting and below

 is another after being altered in PSE.

I'm experimenting a bit with a different style in hair.   She's a little 5X6. 

 I have a large canvas and I'm thinking

perhaps I could do a really large painting

as I am feeling a bit more convenient in my painting abilities.

And seeing how I got the canvas at the Goodwill and learning that

you just keep painting over and over, layer after layer  until you get something you like.

What do I have to lose?

 

Until later.  Thanks for stopping by.

{give it a go}...

A Sundance catalog painting by artist Rebecca Puig, inspired my painting.

I really found the painting unique so I thought "just give it a go and try

it yourself".

She's titled expressing thanks.

My painting is a personal reflection of me . 

 And when I display it in my home it speaks directly

to, or perhaps is speaking to me from my soul. 

Jeanne Carbonetti said "that when we create from the unity of

body, mind, and spirit, we are one with our muse, and our work

is always original, and always powerful".

I think she's correct.

the inspiration

{continuing pages for Christmas Art jOURNaL}...

A few page options for my Christmas Journal.

I've included a couple of magazine pictures I have been saving to use in the journal

along with a couple of altered photos.

 

 The page below includes more personal Christmas items.  Along with one

of the same magazine photos.

I plan to use one of these 1st two photo layouts as the first page in the journal. Then beginning with page 2 I will

begin the family photo pages interspersed with all sorts of non tradition page sizes and items.

 

The 2 photos below are from the box I packed these ornaments in last year.

 I'm not sure which of these photos I perfer.

But I think they will be on the inside back cover.

Before I can assemble the pages I will need to decide what will be on the outside back cover and page 2.  I have begun the first of the family photos from 1972.  But haven't any idea about the back cover yet.

But enough time has been spent on this for now.

 

I didn't get enough takers for my photo challenge to do a post.  But if Eden still wants to send hers I will post it.  Thanks Eden, maybe next time more will join it.  I think maybe you have to have hundreds of viewers for a challege to work.

{from photograph to faux painting and challenge}...

I set out to create a piece of art in red and yellows.  Not colors I usually work with.

Using only PSE, and a bit of luck with my layering I came up with this.

I am really pleased with the results.



Once I created the photo I attached it to a 3" wide styoform block that I had prepared with a

plaster texture.  This allows it to sit on a table or hang on a wall.  It's now at the Raven Cafe

Collage Show.



Below is the original photo from moguefile.com  

I don't have all of the layers available to show as I work with so many combinations

it's difficult to remember which one's I keep. 

But after doing a bit of cropping, and a hue/saturation to tone down the colors

I tried a Gaussian blur, which I often try, but rarely keep as the results seem to just create an out of focus photo.  And not in a pleasing way.  But this time it looked really great and showed real promise.  I then add a greenish yellow layer a couple of times and grunged it up a bit with some brushes.

 

It's just amazing how this nice photo can become so much more.

If you took a dozen people, even a hundred people they would all come up with just as many

other amazing results.

 

Which suggests.

 Why not offer a challenge.  Is anyone game?  What can you do with this photo?

Here' the link to the original photo.  http://morguefile.com/archive/display/690489

As these photos are free to use I don't think this is a problem.

 

If you leave a comment to let me know you'd like to participate I'll know who to wait for

and collect everyone's

photo for a later post.

 

Just email me your photo and I will post all the results here.

My email is at the top right column.

 

No rules.  Just do your own thing.

 

I hope you will join in.

{last hurrah for summer flowers}...

" they" say Summertime is coming to it's  official end this weekend.

But our temps are still well into the 80's  (which is a very summertime heat) and yes the wild sunflowers are in full bloom.  But I'm not quite ready to bring in the yellow sunflowers.

 Yet.

So after bring in some fresh cut Echinacea flowers.  I shot a few photos of the old dried

Echinaceas.  Then spent too much time playing with them in PSE.  But I enjoyed every moment

of it.  I haven't been in PSE much this summer so it was time well enjoyed.

 

There are sooooo many choices in photo editing and I always wonder why I am so attracted to

whatever it is I see in them that is so beautiful to me.  Why this combination of layers?   Rather than another?   So when I came across the following quote from Carl Jung.  I knew I was not alone in my wondering.  And that there must be something to it.

 

Trust that which gives you meaning

 and accept it as your guide. ~ Carl Jung

 

Now if I just knew where is was guiding me!

 



{Raven Art Show}...

I'm excited to let all of you locals know that I will have several pieces of art

at the Raven Cafe.

I'm with a great group of Collage Artists

that will have our art displayed until Oct 7.

The Raven is a really fun cafe in downtown Prescott.

Opening reception is this Thursday, August 30th from 5-7 pm.

I may not be able to get there until 5:30.  So I hope you'll wait around for me

I love to see you.



{What ifing}...



I wanted to have a more translucent look to painting on fabric then

just painting on fabric would normal have.  Which of course dying would do just

beautifully.  But I don't want to purchase a whole new inventory of supplies that require mixing and measuring and storing.  As well as matching certain dyes to certain kinds of fabrics and on and on.  Not to mention the expense of yet another media.

Hence, the what ifing.

So I sat down with a limited palette of paint (2 colors) and supplies, grabbed a piece of

fabric that was laying on the desk, add water and just laid down the paint in some basic shapes.

I wish my camera would capture the colors accurately.   The golds you see are actually

shades of  much prettier yellows.   Anyway...

The hand of the fabric is quite acceptable for these small pieces.

I added the white "flowers" with the paint straight out of the bottle which of course

really effects the hand but it's a limited amount.

These pieces came out well enough that I will continue experimenting  with thinner paints and larger pieces of fabric.

In the meantime I will have ready to go pieces for as yet unnamed projects.

{Echinacea and Contemplation}...

Echinaceas are growing everywhere.  And I had the perfect little vase waiting for them.

Then of course the camera had to come out and the next thing I knew PSE was opening ~ just to see

what I might come up with.

All the while contemplating the question from yesterday experience?

That if in a moment of absolute clarity, when you suddenly realize that your life was designed with perfect care for your well being. Then if even this one tiny moment of your life was perfect

would that not mean that the whole of your life has been perfect?

And if this is True for me then would it not be True for everyone?