Summer of Color 3

I can’t believe how long it has been since I posted on here. I knew it had been a while but sheesh. I have been adding a little to my art journals now and again and Ive done a few mixed media canvases but if I’m honest the time I spend on my art needs a little push.

That’s why I got excited when I heard Summer of Color 3 was here. I made plans to participate and then….nothing. Nada. Zip.

It took my seven year old to get me really in the swing of things,so I’m thankful to her. She’s sharing artwork this year too,by the way;

you can find her at Squidmom.

In case you’ve never heard of it Summer of Color is  the brain child of the lovely Kristin over at Twinkle,Twinkle. Every week we will get to pick the colors that will be used the next week. Then we draw or paint or sew or scuplt or really anything, just create something in the selected colors and link it up at Twinkle, Twinkle. Links that are added before Sunday go into a drawing for a very cool prize package.

Now in order to be fair as we are from the same household I’ll never add links from this blog and the Squidmom blog in the same week. I will however, make sure to visit as many of y’all as I can get to and my daughter will as well. (I missed out a lot of details about Summer of Color so please check out the button I have on the sidebar if you are interested in joining or just checking out lots of very cool artwork.)

Whew, now on to my picture for this week. The colors were Green Citron and Turquoise(love that combo) and it made me think of mermaids so this is what I came up with for this week:

I’m hoping to keep my artwork for this year in a mermaid theme but I’ll have to see how it goes.

Thank you for coming by…

There is a nude in this post

Hey,How you doin?(If you read that in a Joey from Friends voice you read it correctly.:) )

Ahem. As someone who isn’t quite as comfty with the whole nudity thing as I probably should be…you know,being a free spirit artist type and all that,it occurs to me that I kinda sprung my nude in progress on you guys without much warning.

I’m sorry.

Unless it didn’t bother you at all and you’re now wondering why on earth I’m going on and on about it. In that case just disregard what you just read.

Or don’t and realize that I’m actually not all that free spirity when it comes right down to it.

I’m actually the tinniest bit square. I don’t even jay walk,people.

I was dared to shop lift gum in high school once and I broke into a sweat,heart palpitations and think I might have knocked over a display as I ran out of the shop gumless.

I didn’t look back so I’m hoping it was a display of some kind and not a person that I barreled into.

The point to all of this is that I’m not comfortable drawing nudes but that I’m a lover of the Winged Victory of Samothrace and this painting is a modern nod to that piece of sculpture.

A nod mind you- I knew that this was going to be an undertaking that would be loosely based on something I love and that I meant it to capture emotion. I didn’t know that it would go dark but there were some worrisome things going on when I was working on it.

It’s nude and not wrapped in diaphanous clothing because I’m not all that skilled at painting clothing yet..especially anything ethereal and barely there. It’s also nude because I wanted to challenge myself past my comfort zone.

I’ve written before that I don’t work on bodies very often, my comfort zone being faces. This was a challenge to myself and I’m glad I did it.

My husband says it look unfinished and I agree with him but I am still putting it aside for now. I kind of like unfinished….

I’m stalling,I know it.

This is my painting as it is at the moment.

I have no idea where to put this painting while I figure out what to do with it next. It’s in my bedroom for the moment because I’ve began using our garage as an art studio but I didn’t really want to keep it in there. I figure the bedroom is probably a better alternative than the living room though so for now there it will stay.

Until my inlaws come over visit next year anyway.

 

 

My Halloween costume this year

Back when I participated in the headdress challenge for Altered Pages I thought I might be a fairy this year for Halloween. The idea stuck with me though I also thought about being a walking sugar skull and for a second a social butterfly.

I came back to a fairy in the end.

But because I also wanted to have a kind of funny costume I went with a different type of fairy than I first thought of.

I dressed up as a Clean fairy. (I thought my hair would be more authentically clean fairyish if I wore it up but my husband begged me to leave it down.Bah, I listen to him sometimes.)

I’m not the most naturally clean person in creation so this was a funny costume for me. (My husband certainly laughed about it anyway.Our family has a long running joke about the clean fairy kind of being a slacker. )I have been trying Habithacker though so I’m getting a little better and now I can actually work on creating stuff without the nagging thoughts of unfinished laundry pestering me.

I’m linking this up over at Natasha May’s Halloween party. It’s going on until November the fourth so I hope you stop by and link up, the more the merrier right?  :)

Happy Halloween

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I’ve been doing some Halloween/Autumn  decorating around the house lately.

The girls and I made sugar skulls out of salt dough to honor the idea of day of the dead and to introduce them to the history behind that. (If you want to you can see the post by clicking here by the way)

I also added to a house sculpture that I had made from an old guide on houseplants. It’s now a haunted house/ hang out for my kid’s Scooby and the gang toys.

You can see how I made another house out of a phone book below.

There’s more to share but I still need to take pictures!

Thanks for coming by

 

I’ve been doing stuff

Not necessarily a lot of art stuff, but you know, stuff.

We’ve had a scare with my dad’s health  recently-and it seems to have put my art making in a serious funk. It’s pretty much put everything into a serious funk,actually.

We’re praying a lot, we have to keep it in God’s hands.

I know this and everything but it’s still hard. 

I’m the youngest of six,my dad is 82 years old. 

He’s an artist as I’ve said here before and a Huge inspiration to me. 

It will be okay. 

I believe this. 

I have used most of the month and used it to making party decorations for my nephew’s baby girl who just turned one.

The theme was Hello Kitty and I think I did okay. It wasn’t an exact replica of her but that actually made me feel better.

Like I was drawing/painting my version of Hello Kitty.

(Have you seen Shepherd  Farley’s OBEY version by the way? Love it…decided it didn’t really say one year old party though..:) 

Today however I decided to go ahead and try painting something. I actually stopped doing laundry because I felt like I had to paint that moment. 

both the painting and the laundry is in progress

It’s still a work in progress but just starting this really made me remember what I love art most for….therapy. I felt a lot better as I worked on this, possibly better than I had all month. 

So,I’m going to keep praying and keep painting and try not to let myself shut down. 

I function much better when there is some kind of creating in my daily life.

 

29 faces and a bottle of rum

I have no idea why I added the rum bit..possibly because I had hoped to incorporate Captain Sparrow into my book somehow but never did somehow.

Or possibly because I’m deranged from drawing seven faces today.

Most likely I’m deranged already or I wouldn’t have tried drawing that many faces in one day.

 

I don’t know it’s a chicken and the egg situation. Or something.

I’m also very,very sorry for photo bombing you by the way.

The intent to post daily or every other day was there but never came to fruition

And as I’ve said there were days where no faces were drawn because I was otherwise occupied.

I am happy that I finally got all my faces done.

I am kinda horrible at finishing what I start. Maybe I’m turning over a new leaf?

I hope.

(Not all of the journal pages are completed to satisfaction but the faces are there.

And in this case I think the face is the thing.

I also have some blog hopping to do now.

Thank you for coming by.