Art In Flight

Sunday, July 05, 2009

BLUE DAYZ IV

"Bones" the dragonfly. I love this guy, he reminds me of a spine or something. Still playing with the "bottle of ink in a pencil", pencil.

I'm looking forward to a few more acrylic paintings. One will be of a pot of flowers. Each flower will represent one of my girls. Peggy, Mom, Gram, Tina, Denise, Minh, Jan, Stacey and Jill. The next one is for Mark and Minh not sure what they want, something green? The last is for Tim and Denise, a land scape.

I'm ssslllloooowwwwllllyyy finishing the mural painting in my bathroom. That project is strictly when the mood strikes.

Oh and all the little things, hand carved stamps, cards, painting the book cases.....whew, to much to mention!

Sunday, June 07, 2009

BLUE DAYZ II

More "Bottle of ink in a pencil" art work. This time I tried to use it softly. More of a sketch than a drawing. I played around with the reflection. I don't have it right but I like the effect and I think I'll try to set something up with a reflection and try to practice it from life. I don't normally draw anything from life. It's all imagination. I should do more "life" work so that I can practice perspective. My imagination goes bananas all the time, way more fun than real life!

Saturday, May 30, 2009

BLUE DAYZ!

The renovations are almost complete. Monday should be the last day, I hope!

I've been playing around with a pencil called, "bottle of ink in a pencil", I love it! Unlike watercolor pencils the "ink" doesn't bleed as much. You have more control over the washes. Above are some drawings I did at Tommy's baseball practice.

The flower on the left hand corner of the note book is a hand carved stamp. I carved 16 stamps for the Art Literacey volunteers. I just traced the stamp with the ink pencil. Below are close ups of some of the little drawings.

Monday, April 20, 2009

HAND PAINTED CANDLE

This candle I painted for my friend Cheryl. She LOVES dragonflies! His wings are sparkled with glitter glue which doesn't show up very well in this picture. I think, I'm going to paint this little guy all over the walls in my kitchen. Ssssshhhhhh, don't tell Paul. We are under construction in the house. New kitchen counters and new wall....well they took out a part of a wall. New bathrooms and new computer area. Whew, lots of chaos. New posts will be few and far between until all is back to normal!

Are you happy Tina? New post! :)

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

RAT MEETS DRAGONFLY

This Painting was done for my BIL at Christmas time. It took about three days to complete. The original painting was this same red background and branch but a raven or crow sitting on the branch. My BIL's girlfriend told me ravens and crows are back luck in her Vietnamese culture so I had to rethink the animals. Mark (BIL) was born the year of the rat and Minh (BIL's girlfriend) loves dragonfly's. Rat Meets Dragonfly was achieved!

I think it turned out okay....a little more "cute" than I would have liked but most of my stuff turns out that way. Not edgy and odd which is what I try for. I guess I need to embrace the cuteness? :)

Painting is 3' X 4' acrylic on canvas

Thursday, March 12, 2009

NECKLACE & EARRINGS

This necklace and matching earrings is one of my favorites. It goes with aqua colors. You can't tell from this picture but there is a lot of green blue glass beads in this piece. My SIL and I spent a whole evening a few nights ago playing with our beads. I have a few in things in my Etsy shop but this isn't really my passion. I really want to get some art work in the shop.

I'm getting a button maker soon, I'll try to do little pieces of art work with those. Also, some cards and paintings. I wonder if I should just focus on one thing for the shop? I've never been very good at that. For awhile I was thinking about doing purses and stuffies. Then ornaments and angel dolls. None of those things go together. Does it matter?

Friday, March 06, 2009

COLLAGE ATC'S

Here is a picture of the altered playing card collage ATC's I tried for another swap bot swap. I don't usually do collage, I really like it, however it's too time consuming for me. I rethink and rethink the design for so long I feel exhausted by the time I'm finished. I would rather draw. I need to stop signing up for swaps that aren't just drawing/painting. I'm going to get in trouble for being late! BUT, it's good to stretch yourself and try something new all the time. MUST NOT AVOID WHAT'S HARD, (I'm telling myself ) and so I better sign up for what looks interesting.

On another note, thank you to Claire http://clairesheartspace.blogspot.com/ for the wonderful Kreative Blog Award! I love your blog and I visit on a regular basis. I've already listed my 7, or rather 8 favorite things in the previous post.

Below are my seven people who deserve this award! Remember to copy the award to your blog , list seven things about you and seven people who deserve this award!