Sunny Disposition

I love sunflowers, they look cheerful even on a gray day. Okay, I know it's going to be a long time until they are blooming here, but I love them year round.

Created some time ago, this tiny 3 x 3 inch painting is available in my Etsy shop.

Sharing with Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva and Kristin.

Thinking of Spring

Peony Garden Available on Etsy

Encaustic collage with one of my favorite quotes.... thinking of spring on this cold gray morning. 

Sharing with the artists at Paint Party Friday

Merry Christmas!

Wishing all my friends

a day filled with love and joy. 

Merry Christmas!

I hope you all enjoy your day! We're taking a break this week from HuMp DaY Haiku. However if you have a haiku you wish to share, feel free to post it in the comments. 

Merry Christmas, everyone! 

Tiny bird art

Winter Chickadees

I love Chickadees! This tiny 3 x 4 inch mixed media matted art piece is now available in my Etsy shop.

Annual trek to the Mountain

The rains have returned and will be here for months. I already miss the sun.

I AM grateful for the water for the plants and trees. 

And I am grateful that I have recent memories of a beautiful day "on the mountain" with my husband at Artist Point near Mount Baker. My honey's goal is to go one of the last days before the fall rains hit. Fall rain in Bellingham is snow at Mount Baker, and they close the road up to Artist Point not to reopen until mid-summer when it thaws. We were there the very last nice day. Score! 

We took a short hike toward Chain Lakes... the picture above shows the view above is near the start of the trail. Mount Baker, the Great White Watcher is peeking at us through the trees. Highland blueberries provide the deep red color. 

The colors were spectacular this year! 

This shot was taken along the trail down to Bagley Lake at Austin Pass, looking back up the hill. 

And this is the view from our picnic table at Austin Pass. Nice, don't you think? 

A glorious day to remember on a gray, rainy day like today. 

Shades of Blue and Green

Playing with my beeswax this week... when I finally got a chance in the studio. This piece is on 4 inch x 4 inch canvas board, acrylic painted background with tissue, napkin images and ephemera. Now available in my Etsy shop. 


I've been inspired by shades of blue and green this week, and created a treasury on Etsy by that name to highlight a friends lovely piece from her shop. It's the first item in the treasury. If you have time, take a look. 

Also take a look at what the other Paint Party Friday artists have created this week! 

Peonies!

While I can't seem to grow Peonies in our garden, I can create using their image. This 4x4 piece is new in my Etsy shop, and was just featured in this Etsy treasury by Laurie!  Cool beans!

A bit of other happy-to-me news: I sold the piece I listed earlier this week, which was featured in my weekly HuMp DaY Haiku challenge, and I just sold another small easel. Plus, my Vintage Gypsy ACEO was also included in this new Etsy Treasury.

It's been a good couple of weeks in my Etsy shop! Thank you Universe. And thank YOU for your tolerance of my happy dancing! :)

Three Birds

Creating all over the board this week. A bit of playing with beeswax, tissue, napkins resulted in this Three Birds 4x4 piece. I think it needs more, but we'll see what happens. 

I also made some attempts at decorating tiles, not so successfully, but I'm learning what NOT to do!

As it's Friday, I am linking again with Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva and Kristin. If you have the time, do check out what the other PPF artists have created this week! They are sure to inspire you!

 

I'm also linking to Show and Tell Saturday with Artists in Blogland

HuMp DaY Haiku - Blending

Wine Grape Harvest

Blending with beeswax.

When heated, melded layers

forms a new art piece.

This piece was created during a class I taught last week at ArtforAll in Portland. It was delightful showing others how I create the layers, and how sometimes they work better than we imagine. Everyone had fun and the room smelled heavenly!

While I know similar effects can be achieved digitally, I prefer creating art the old fashioned way with my hands and layers of papers, tissues and beeswax. This piece is now available in my Etsy shop.

I started doing Hump Day Haiku with Carla Sonheim's Silly classes...  and decided as a challenge for myself, I'd continue.  In this process, I have found that creating a haiku (non rhyming poem with 5 - 7 - 5 syllables per line) feeds my soul. I especially like creating them to go with my photos and art. 

Would you like to share a haiku you have written? 

You may include a haiku in the comments, OR you may copy your blog post url (featuring a haiku) and add a link to your blog using Mr. Linky. And consider visiting other contributors blogs to see what they've created and say hello. 

Beeswax Collage

I've been working on class samples for the upcoming ArtForAll 2012 in Portland next week, where I'm teaching two classes. This event is hosted through atcsforall.com, my favorite mail art trading site.

One of my classes shares techniques with beeswax, tissue and paper napkins, showing the different effects you can achieve by how they are layered. I love how everything blends together when the beeswax is added. 

Here are a few of the 4x4 pieces I've created:

I'm linking up my "painting with papers" images to Paint Party Friday, where a variety of fabulous artists share their work each week. Thank you Eva and Kristin for hosting! 

Playing with beeswax

Playing in an All Types of Art a-thon on atcsforall.com for the next few days. Here are a few of the ATC's I've created.  

 

These are all beeswax collage cards using paper napkins, inks, book pages, sheet music or stamped script, postage stamp, vintage trading stamp, and text.