Cutting Out The Colour

One of my favourite parts of making my images is the part where I releash the image from it's paper suuroundings, it's a delicate somewhat time consuming process sometimes but it's meditative too.

It goes much more smoothly when I work on a thin less textured paper which I tend to use for these butterflies because they are so small.  I always get a few colored & cut out before I get them onto their backgrounds.

A Red Mixed Media Head

I am not in my studio fully yet, I'll tell you exactly why very soon XO

But here's a sneak peek at part of a new mixed media lady I am working on.

Taking Care of Studio Stresses

Dealing with printers in my studio is always stressful for me,

because they and I typically don't get along, but another part of the studio days

that I find kinda hairy is the part of cutting images to size for their cradled canvases,

laying them down hoping they stay flat & not bubble up

& sealing them hoping I don't get any (or too much!) rabbit fur mixed in!

I wait until I can tackle several pieces at a time....it usually goes just fine.

These are a couple pieces on my desk this week that I am getting finished up.

After I mount them, I let them sit for a couple days before

I apply several coats of a non-yellowing UV protective polyurethane,

than they dry again for a couple weeks before I apply hangers etc

and after that I am ready to photograph them and than start listing

them and offering them to the world (that's a fun part).

Pug Love

As I've been mentioning very briefly, my 15 year old niece has been living with us for the past

8+ weeks....and well it was her birthday not long ago and she's crazy for pugs so I made her this...

I did it in coloured pencil with a smidgen of micron pen on paper and than all that was put

on an acrylic painted cradled canvas.  It's a tiny 4 x 4" but she really seemed to love it.

Hopes Of Shooting Stars & Magic Gardens

Here is another one that I had to put away for a long siesta that I just pulled back out to tackle again.

I don't know where she'll end up but I think it'll be with shooting stars, maybe in a magical garden!

Leaping Into Gratitude

I've been anxious to show you all this newest image of mine, I am really happy with it's sweetness.

 

 

It's called Leaping Into Gratitude 

 

It's a small 8 x 10" mixed media on a cradled canvas, the original is up for grabs if your interested,



 or art prints will be in the shop soon-ish for all my fellow life loving gracious souls.

Leaping Into Gratitude In Progress

So last week I showed you all the beginnings of this piece...

here is a bit more of my process on this new piece which will be called

"Leaping Into Gratitude"

 

 

When a magazine editor asked me to create a mixed media piece for a possible cover,

I gladly jumped in.  I still don't know if it's been chosen or not, I will assume it hasn't been

but I sure do love how it's turned out and I can't wait to show you next week.



Glitter Bug 18

Hi ya everyone....let's start off this new week with a brand new Glitter Bug.

 

This is #18 in the series.  Interested in the original just shoot me an email.

Glitter Bug 17

Hope you all had a great weekend...

 

 

Let's start off the week with a brand new Glitter Bug.

Glitter Bug 16

Here is another new Glitter Bug...

 It's been so fun seeing this series grow...

 

 

I still have 2 more to show you with 15 more yet to colour & paint

and I totally see myself designing a whole new whack afterwards (Jaks thinks I should anyways).



Glitter Bug 15

A new Glitter Bug

 

 

This guy is #15 in the series.

Jaks's Bugs

Okay so I put the sketching aside long enough to get a few new Glitter Bugs finished up.

I show every single one to Jaks and I get his final approval on each and every one, ha ha...

 

 

Continue to join me here on my dear blog

and we'll show them and lots of other cool work to you.  Be Well All....be well & kind XO.



Glitter Bug 13

A newbie

 

 

Glitter Bug 13.



Glitter Bug 12

And yet another sweet little Glitter Bug (#12)

 

It'll be in my shop soon...interested before than, just send me an email.

Glitter Bug 11

I have a whole new batch of Glitter Bugs to show ya...

here is #11

 

 

Don't you love it? I do...maybe it's more of a moth...I don't know but I like him.

If your interested in the teeny tiny 3 x 3" original just send me an email.

Glitter Bug 10

Hopefully I am on a better track for this week...
we'll see!

 

 

Here's a new Glitter Bug (#10).

He's up for grabs, if your interested just shoot me an email.