I'm back

I'm back after a year of not posting a single word. It has been a difficult year of personal challenges and frustration but I'm back and ready to move ahead. I recently hung 4 works of art at a local cafe gallery on Thursday. I found that I work best under pressure - feet to fire and I'm there. Here's a sampling of what I had to offer. "Naughty But Nice" is 8 X 20 X 2 canvas. I used collage, acrylic paints, glitter, rubber stamps and bees wax. I posted more photographs for a more detailed look.

Works-in-Progress

I'm posting a few works in progress from a class I'm taking with Suzi Blu called the Goddess and the Poet. It's been great fun.

Finally Done!

I' finally finished my petite doll! I took a Suzi Blu workshop in April - it took me some time to finish because of a lack of inspiration and a whole list of other issues such as indecisiveness and fear of screwing up but, it's done! What a relief it is to complete something that has been haunting me for such a long time. I'm pretty satisfied with it - of course there are things I would do different but I'm happy with it and that pleases me.

This is Summer Angel. I think I'll make a series of four- Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring.

Tag Book From Tag Swap

I received the tag book from the tag swap last week, or was it the week before, and didn't have time to take photographs of it until a day or two ago. It's quite a lovely thing with ribbons and lace and uniquely individual tags from members of Nancey's Art Dolls.

Originally Nancey wanted 20 women to participate but we ended up with 16 and from the 16 who signed up for the swap only 11 women came through with tags. Nancey compiled the tags and fabricated the covers from sewn together fabric and brick-a-brack. I love the final product and can think of a million and one uses and themes. Have a look!

Artist Trading Cards

I'm in love! Who would ever imagine a 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch surface would be so perfect. I've been creating little mixed media paintings with Cherrios card board boxes (I've been using the boxes for my tags as well). I use black gesso and white gesso - glue down collage images and paint on them. Most of my little paintings are of the angelic sort as well as real life people (my daughter) and cats (our pets). These are some of my very first artist trading cards - I've already traded 3 of them with other women.
I have several others that I'll photograph and share. Till then Cheers!

Tagalishous!

I've been wanting to do this for some time now but have been scatterbrained and busy. But here I am and here I go.

I'm here for a couple of reasons and the biggest one is a need to create an outlet that will allow me to talk and show my arty bits and pieces. I'm also here because of one person and she is Suzi Blu. I followed Suzi Blu from YouTube where she posted videos of herself creating art along with inspirational messages like, "you are worthy". I followed her quirky videos for a while before joining her ning site - since then I've joined other art sites on ning and have found a huge well of inspiration.

To clarify it's not like I haven't been creating art ever it's more like gaining ones confidence to take it seriously and continuing to do what I love to do. It's like being granted permission to have a flight of fancy and in doing so somehow you end up loving yourself more for it - which makes me love the world more.

I made a series of 16 tags for an art swap on Nancy's Art Dolls. I call them "real life dolls".