Just Playing!!! Journal Page and New Picasa3! Ahhhhhhh!!!!

Original

1960

Blured Edges

Cinemascope

Cross Process

Duo-tone

HDR-ish

Heat Map

Holga-ish

Lomo-ish

Neon

Polorize

Vignette

Hallelujah!!!!

I was going to buy Photoshop Elements because I wanted to do some fancy photography and manipulate some photos.

I don't need to because I just uploaded the new Picasa 3 and it has all this fun stuff!!!

It can wait!

I am so excited!!!

Don't forget to visit everyone at Paint Party Friday!!

Thank you Eva and Kristin for hosting!

And I hope everyone at Artfest is having a great time!!!

I just couldn't make this year!

I am going to a conference to see Brene Brown and Geneen Roth in April in NYC.

So excited about that!

Yeah!!!

I could only swing one of them.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

I LEFT A TEAR IN THE OCEAN

I left a tear in the ocean

We have a family condo at Ocean City MD.  The reason we have that condo is because my sister in law Darylanne wanted it.  Steve's dad could never resist Darylanne.  I was not so keen on the beach.  I wanted a place in the mountains on a lake.  She won.  That was ok.  I remember the day that we went to see it for the first time.  It was beyond my wildest dreams. I could not believe we were getting this penthouse condo smack dab on the ocean. With private porches on both sides of the ocean and bay.   I would have been happy with a trailer 5 miles away from the ocean. I couldn't believe it.

We have had that condo for 18 years now.

Tragically twelve years ago Darylanne died of a rare form of pancreatic cancer when she was 42.  She requested that her ashes be scattered in the ocean in front of the condo.

We carried out her wishes.

So every time I go to the beach the first thing I do when I get out of the car is run to the beach and look out at that vast ocean and I say hello. I tell her how much I miss her. And I was so grateful that I had her as my sister in law. She was my friend.

I leave a tear in the ocean.

So Lulu sayssss "That's enough of that!!"

Let's go to the parade and have some fun!!!

How can I resist those eyes!!

OC MD St Patrick Day Parade!!

Love  all the floats

Every parade has to have a man with a funny hat on a 3 wheeler with a camel on the back. Right??

And leprechauns

Green everywhere!!

Children on floats!

Loved this ladies enthusiasm.

Old Fire Engines

Raven Fans

Salty Pirate Girls

Beads Everywhere.

Steve did manage to snag me some beads.

Kids in cars.

More Fire Engines.

Fishing!

I want this old Police Car!!!

Awesomeness!!!

The dog need to see over the people.

Dahhhhh....

This is a really cool dude!!!

Who is this handsome Greek god!!

Be still my heart!!!

He still gets me.... in every way.

Life goes on.....

Live every day like it is your last.

Don't forget to visit everyone at Paint Party Friday!

 

Revisiting an Old Painting and Great News!!!

November 2010 I had the pleasure of taking a Flora Bowley Class.

We started on 2 paintings and I never completed a painting. So I decided to revisit it.

I struggle with this kind of painting. I believe it is less of an illustrative or narrative style of painting. (If that makes any sense). I tend to want to show you how I feel or tell you instead of letting the painting do the talking. I think both Jesse Reno and Flora Bowley have the same style of painting, except Jesse is more manly man paintings and Flora's paintings are beautiful in a feminine way.  Love them both!

This is what the painting looked like after my workshop. Did not like it at all.

But I never give up!!!! Oh no I don't!

Continued working

This is what I have so far. Not completed yet, but I will revisit again.

I do this often. Set it aside. If nothing is coming to me and then come back when I see something. Keep on going.

Also I have some really great news!  I was just told that I will have 3 of my pieces exhibited at the Goggleworks - Center for the Arts - Vanity Fare an offering of Art, Fashion, and Creativity jured by Lyn Godley and Pam Ptak. What an honor!! May 4th to June 3rd. Yay!!!!

And then to top it off I am going to the beach this weekend!!!! Ocean City MD for the St Patrick's Day parade with my fabulous husband!  Oh how grateful I feel right now.

I am so grateful!!!

Watching sunsets on the bay and.....

And sunrises on the beach..(to tell you the truth I don't see many sunrises. Steve wakes me up I look out the window and say "That's nice sweetie" and lay my head back down and fall to sleep, What can I say not a morning person)

Please visit the wonderful artists at Paint Party Friday hosted by the fantastic Eva and Kristin!!

Have a great week everyone!!!

May Joy reach you were ever you are!

 

DARE - Happy Women's Day!!!

Dare to be great

Dare to be bold

Dare to challenge

Dare to take a leap

Dare to be the person you were meant to be

Dare to do something that no one has ever done

Dare to reveal yourself fully

Dare to ruffle some feathers

Dare to TRY

Dare to tell your story

Dare to Love

The future belongs to one's that DARE.

HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY!!!

Dare to go to Paint Party Friday and take a look at the other artists work.

FOREVER AND EVER

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

~ Jimmy Carter ~

I started to do a step by step progression of this painting but I got so into it that I forgot and just stopped taking pictures. I used all kinds of good stuff on this one, including molding paste.  One of these days I am going to have to do a video. Nelly bought me a new video camera for Christmas.
So I think she is telling me something.

Everyone please visit Paint Party Friday and check out all the talented artist.
Thanks Kristin and Eva!!
And everyone have a wonderful week!!!
xxxooo

Inner Stillness

All true Artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

~Eckhart Tolle~

Rise Above

Sometimes change is hard for me. Although I know that it is necessary if we are to grow. I find myself fighting it. Even though I know it is inevitable. I don’t know why because I know I always get through it. It is exactly where and who I am supposed to be at that time. I will welcome the next change in my life. I am learning. Always learning. Even if it is painful it always seems to come out all right in the end. Therefore……..

I will rise above and live to my fullest potential.

I wanted to speak to the people last week that left comments. I was so overwhelmed with gratitude. It made me cry in a good way. I can not begin to tell you what it meant to me. For the people that spoke about their loved ones with Alzheimers. I am feeling your pain and I am thinking of you. You are strong and you will be ok. It is tough I know. The most important thing is this “ They may not be able to remember you but you remember them” Do not forget them. Keep them close.


Please everyone go and visit the people at Paint Party Friday. I am so sorry for not getting around to enough people last week. I love to see everyone’s creative endeavors. Everyone is so inspiring!

New Mixed Media Painting

" When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation and people want to be near you"

I love this quote it is from the book "Much to do about Loving" by Jack Murnighan and Maura Kelly.  I saw the quote in the O Magazine. I just loved it. I am going to make a big painting with this quote on it and hang it on my kitchen wall so I can read it every morning before I leave the house to remind me.

So true.

And now some of the process

Steve cuts wood for me and it is primed.

Pick out the colors. I tend to gravitate to these colors. Red, Green and Cream

Throw some paint on the wood.  Add some paper and texture.

Make my own stencils

Make more textures

Paint the face and the first signs of flowers

Figuring out what flowers and where I want to place them. I cut out many different flowers. Not all of them made it.

More paper flowers and more painting.

Finished

 I hope everyone has a wonderful week!!!

If you have time go and visit all the artist at Paint Party Friday!