Dancers

2 more cut paper compositions. Expressions of my love for dance. In the first one, I've used one of my floral pastel paintings. 30 minutes to 2006! Thanks to everyone for sharing their art & soul...and for all the wonderful comments. As for resolutions: As I start a new phase in my life, empty nesting in New York with my husband, I plan to take advantage of all that New York has to offer while continuing to practice, learn and refine my fine art. Another biggie: to GET OUT and mingle; exchange ideas; make new friends and try to stay healthy so I can paint ’til I drop many many years from now. Now I gotta go get the champagne ready. See y’all next year!

Illustration Friday "Flavor"

Erika and Nelly enjoying flavors of the day in Myrtle Beach a few years ago.

More Fun with Cut Paper

Good ol' paper and scissors like making snowflakes in grade school art class. I like to experiment with different folds...ie. I accordian folded with the folds converging on a point to cut the figures dancing in a circle. The decorative background was created using a french fold and diagonal fold combination. Nothing is drawn, it's just me, the paper, the scissors and Photoshop...and in this case, Planes, Trains and Automobiles on the TV.

Christmas Eve

Allie, Nelly and Erika waitin' for Santa baby.

Illustration Friday "Holiday"

I created this image with cut paper pieces (below), scanned into photoshop, colorized, multiplied and arranged. Happy Holidays everyone, everywhere!

Blind Contour Friday

"The Kids" trimming the tree (finally!). Actually, I BCdrew the kids separately and added them to the BCtree drawing...so it's 2 bc drawings for the price of one! Merry Christmas y'all.

Christmas Card

I made a card this afternoon for friends who have a summer home in Hilton Head. This is their Hilton Head house around which I created a snowy Christmas eve.

When EDMs Collide

This composition was inspired by Detlef Jumpertz's "Fish drawing" and C.J. Zeke Miller's "Stop and Shoot the Cadillacs" EDM posts.

EDM challenge "Holiday"

We don't even have our tree yet!

Why I can't sleep at night:

Experiment

I drew this while lying down.

Allie

Watercolor sketch of my daughter, Allison, on a summer day. Off season, I know, but I'm not finished with anything wintery yet. OK, not started yet, either.

Pretending Not to Notice

Illustration Friday

Imagine standing at the top of the world

Blind Contour Friday

This is a thrown ceramic, painted and spot glazed vase I bought at an art fair years ago. It's decorated with 3 funky women in bikinis. Enjoy.

bubby looking for drugs

I hadn't realized that there was a "draw an animal" challenge between the ceramic and medicine cabinet challenges. This was my first attempt at the medicine cabinet...which was interrupted by you-know-who, as I often am. After seeing the draw an animal challenge...I just had to throw this one up...as is. OK..I rearranged a few things in the cabinet, too...for aesthetic reasons...for the final drawing.

EDM challenge

a peek inside the medicine cabinet. it's not pretty.

Merry Christmas

from Wally, Nelly and Nancy..

Surprise!

I found this in the trash. Evil looking, isn't it???

Blind Contour Friday

Fox News Alert: SouthWest Airlines plane skids off runway at Midway Airport in Chicago. wellll...YOU try and do a blind contour drawing from a TV program!

Droplet

Found this pastel sketch in a tracing pad under the bed.

There’s no fun like snow fun

sketchy guy

This guy just popped into my head...so I drew him. Kind of different for me. I think maybe I'll create a family for him.

Blind Contour Fridee

The coat tree...full of wonderful memories of winters past.

Blue

Not.

Newport Livingroom

This is a bad (blurry) scan of a pastel painting I did of the living room in our Newport, KY house...while sitting on the couch. The nice thing about doing a painting of your livingroom is you can leave out all the clutter; shoes, papers, clothes, empty glasses, books and magazines, laundry, dustballs, things the cat dragged in, etc. I mean, if that's what YOUR livingroom looks like. The end.