'Goodies' for Friday

Here's a cute little craft invented by my kindergartner son. These are sure to make anyone lucky enough to receive one smile!

He calls these little drawings, 'goodies'. First, draw lots of pictures, cut some and paste to larger paper... use 'fancy scissors', (ziz zag, wavy, etc) if you have them. Make sure you use lots of colors - markers or crayons are good. Fold up carefully into a smallish size and hand-deliver to a very special someone. Upon presenting, my son suggests saying: 'Here's a little goody just for you!' Happy Friday :)

A Masked Butterfly!

Here's a super sweet butterfly I made out of felted wool for my daughter. (she loves 'em and even has a butterfly backpack) The pattern is from a great company called 'Wee Wonderfuls'. They have a website and even an etsy shop... worth checking out! I rarely use patterns but with 3-D stuff, I need a little help :) The eyes look better with tiny buttons but she rips them off... so this masked, winged soul has dark blue stitched eyes. Thinking a Christmas tree would look great with lots of these butterflies!!

More Telephone Ladies at Luncheon

India ink on Arches Cover paper. I want to add some funky sofa or busy, old-timey wallpaper. Wish time travel was possible... I'd love to visit other eras to experience it first-hand.

Cordelia

Meet Cordelia - or Delia- she's Alasdair's sidekick. (he's from a previous post... that I don't have time to link right now!) Anyway, I was thinking about incorporating them into some Halloween cards. Maybe. First, I've gotta have a plan :) Hope you have an exceptional Friday. The sun is glowing through the leaves here today... blue skies all around. That pre-autumn warmth is on!

Woodcuts Inspired by Apple Pie...

Here's an apple pie made for our labor day festivities... mostly, I made it for my mom since she loves my pie! (this is very flattering because she's a very good cook and I have probably made 4 pies in my life :) Anyway, after peeling all those apples I got to thinking about autumn inspired woodcuts. I came up with these 2 doodles that are being carved. Planning on making cards to put in my etsy shop and in a few local galleries.

PS. Needle felted wool purses coming soon to the etsy shop!

Telephone Ladies

I have been doing several drawings from some old photographs of a group of women who were telephone operators. They may turn into paintings... but with the thick brush tip pen I used, I thought it best to keep their faces blank for now. Gave me an idea to do a series of work based on gossip and how it can seem harmless but turn into something more...
Have a great holiday weekend and soak up as much summer and sunshine you possibly can!! :)

Enclosed Garden

Finally squeezed some paint out of the tubes today and started what I've been thinking of all summer. Feels pretty good... there's a lot of emotion in the act of abstracts. I've been painting more of them over the last 8 months or so. Not sure if I like 'em or not! What have you been making lately?