Zen Butterfly

My mother has for the art of Zen-tangles.  This woman had put out some of the most detailed work I have seen since she used to cross-stitch. These have make some gorgeous cards.  Nice job mom!

Wendy's Table

Saw this bland little table in the thrift store for $5.00 and thought with a little "arting up" it would make a great little 'thank you' gift for some work she did for me. The top of the table was about 8"x8" triangle and the legs stood about 2 1/2 feet off the floor.  
 


With a little collage and shiny black paint, I was able to reform this plain little table to a fun art piece...enjoy it sister!

Rainbow Balloons

Photoshop has been my new love for the past couple of months...wow, that is just TONS of stuff you can do with photographs.  This is just one of the things I have been working on.  More to come....   ;o)

Mom's Chair

It's been a long summer! Lots of things have been going on like vacations, resting and having tons of fun! So one day I was feeling very creative and decided to start working on Mom's chair. This is a chair that she found somewhere many years ago and painted it an adorable yellow and sponge painted white on top. After many years out in the weather it needed a little help. Mom asked if I would collage it. Sure, why not! I had just finished a table for my sister. I do believe that Karen O'Brien has created a monster in me...I just love to collage! Nothing is safe in my house. Someday my partner will come home and I will have collaged everything including the TV!

With lots of love, paper, glue and paint the process begins. My favorite papers to use are maps, book pages, music and a coloring book page (this makes for interesting marks). Layers after layers are put on the chair. Karen taught us NOT to fall in love with any one section because before you know it...it's changed. I love to watch it transform from one look to the next after each layer. Add a coat of transparent paint to the end and watch it change again.

Use what you've got around you...

Mom recently took an online class "Art of Silliness 3" by Carla Sonhiem
One of the assigments of the day was to make a face with what you have around you. This is what she came up with...too cute!! The paper under the face is a background I was using to paint on. The eyes are candles, nose is a nut, eyebrows and mouths are a peice of old cording...clever, mom, simply clever!!

Dogs Eat...Cats Dine

Thanks to Teesha Moore and YouTube, I got a chance to do something different in my journal. This was a blast! We started with a border around the edge of the journal page, added some cut-outs from a magazine and started a funny picture. Added some fancy eyes, whiskers, pail of fish, wavy lines and fun pen strokes....and there you go, a great page! Thanks Teesha for the inspiration and trying something new.

Grunge Meets Karen

Hello fellow journal people! Today was an awesome day for creativity! Mom and I went to another class with Karen O'Brien! Once again it was fabulous. We had been asking Karen to help us with the pages of our journals. She taught us how to create background pages....well, that's great, but what do we do with them now?? Today was just a small spattering of what we could do! With an image, glue, paint, tore paper and a few markers I came up with this little doll of a gal. Not sure what to name her yet, but it will come to me.

The left side of the spread is a grunge technique that we learned from a video we watched from Comfortable Shoes Studio. Leslie has some great videos on You Tube if you get a chance to see them.