Coastal cool octopus

Just creating with a girlfriend, playing together in ceramics 

and working with analogous colors to

create a happy dish design with a watercolor effect!

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Fire glass samples to original art

My girlfriend Karen found a salesmen's sample kit of fireplace glass at a local thrift shop and shared it with me not really knowing what she was going to do with it.

It's difficult to explain how my imagination works but she gifted me with whatever colors I wanted and I chose varying shades of blues not certain at the time what I was going to create with the bits of jagged glass bits. 

Here is the finished artwork created with them.

After putting them in a tumbler to soften all the edges

I laid them out from dark to light on a heavy craft paper and gave

 myself margins to work within according to the double matting 

I purchased with a white shadow box frame.

Then meticulously glued each one down with E6000 glue

and let dry overnight before putting the frame together. 

I'm pleased with how it came out and love that it resembles the sea!

Latest sewing project

is a canvas tote with a Ralph Lauren paisley pocket 

and blue cord detailing.

It was one of those wonderful canvas bags 

that comes with the company's logo printed on the front

that my neighbor was giving away.

 I chose to cover the logo with a great big pocket

and a little embellishing.

Perfect for toting your favorite magazines in!

Grateful to have it published in Greencraft Magazine!

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Doodliciousness continues

on a sweet little pitcher

with butterflies and bees, 

in analogous colors with hearts and flowers.

The creative fun continues.

Happy Valentine's day!

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Blue bird of happiness

Creating with a watercolor effect on bisque 

 and inspired by my surroundings...

In the 1908 play by Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck,

the children of a woodcutter are sent to look for the Bluebird 

of happiness aided by the good fairy Berylune.

The children search through out different lands

until they find the bird in its cage.

The moral of the story,

true happiness can be found close to home.

On a creative roll

.I came across several miscellaneous sized scraps of wood

while picking up about the cottage

and as a happy diversion I began gessoing them.

I wasn't really clear as to what I was going to create

or use them for

but it is always good to be prepared

for when the muse arrives.

Maybe it was because there was so much attention

to the size of the 10 foot waves

pounding our local coastline last week,

or because I look out upon it each day

and still I am in awe of its immensity

and how it seems to go on forever.

I began painting ocean scenes

one after another...

with no horizon line or shoreline

just scenes of forever ...

of course I realize acrylic paintings

are not supposed to be matted

or put behind glass

in shadow box frames.

But that is exactly what I chose to do.

Who makes up the rules anyway ?

They would probably be most distressed

to find out that much of the detail on the paintings

was accomplished with a wooden barbecue skewer !