FRIDA LOVE

FRIDA LOVE

I have always been a huge fan of Frida Kahlo. She was well know for her surrealist self portraits and the love story between artist Diego Rivera. (I can never resist a good love story) I adore her.   If you ever get a chance watch the movie with Salma Hayack. Wonderful movie. 

So many of my favorite artists paint Frida portraits.

Some of my favorites are Heather Galler (Soon to buy one of my own),  LuLu Mypinkturtle ( I bought one for myself) and of coarse Danita.  Go and visit them they are some of my fav artists. Love all the colors.

I decided I would paint my own Mixed Media version of Frida.  Thank you Gloria for your inspiration!!!

Come and visit all the artists at Paint Party Friday!!!

ART ON THE AVE and Paint Party Friday!!!

  I am sooooooo excited I will be in my very first show. I will have my own booth and everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just got the word that I have been excepted.  It is such a dream come true for me.   This is the town I grew up in and  I will have my very first show here.  I remember going to this fair and never thinking that I would be good enough to be in this wonderful show.   Just a few years later and my dream has come true.   This was one thing that was on my vision board.  Thank you Louise Gale for your wonderful Dream Inspire Create ecourse  idea for the vision board, I look at it everyday.  Such a great idea.   See it at my prior post here.  Also I have some other good news but I don't want to say anything until it gets a little closer.  Don't want to jinx it!

Now for the Paint Party Friday!!!!!! Yeah!!!!!!!!

Do you remember my Owl Hooty!!!

Well..................

I made her a boyfriend

I think he is Sexy!

I think I am going through my Owl faze.

Awareness

No explanation necessary

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Love is Patient, Love is Kind

Commission for Stellani Coleman

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails"

When I was making this commission for a wedding gift, It was about the time of the Royal Wedding and finding out about our friends marriage being over.

The emotions are both so different.

The hopefulness and happiness of the one and the despair and the anguish of the other.

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New Prints added to my Etsy!!!

I just got this back from my niece Liz so I could scan it  with my new scanner.  Wow how great is that! It is a larger piece so I could not scan it with my old scanner so I took a photo of it and it just didn't look so great.  But what a difference!

She turned out quite nicely.

I added around 5 more images to my shop. And I will be soon adding some postcards.

Here are the ones that I added.   Feel free to visit my Etsy shop.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/shfoust

Everyone have a great week and thanks for stopping by.

You don't realize how much it means to me when you leave a comment.

Thanks for making me feel great!

Joy to all of you!!

Royal Wedding - TaDa!!!!

She is all set to go to the wedding.

I know I know I am a geek!!! I can't help myself. It is part of my Heritage. My maiden name is Lippincott. I am so excited!!! I am actually getting up at 4:00 am to watch the Royal Wedding. I also took a day off. Steve has been teasing me all day. What a poo head.

But anyway, What an exciting time for England.

You can say what you will about it!  There is a little fairy tale aspect in all this. It is most every girls dream to marry a prince.(I know I married mine) Its in all the story books.  

I had to do a Journal Page just for the Royal Wedding. 

Visit everyone at Paint Party Friday. 

JOURNAL LOVE and Paint Party Friday/Sunday Sketches (alittle late for one and early for the other)

I have some mad journal love happening right now.  Love my new journal. I bought it at the Fish Market in Seattle. Made out of Buffalo Skin and a Turquoise button. It already looks like it is 20 years old. 

 Love Love Love it!

I am having so much fun with it. I am not sure what the paper is. I am still working to find the best material to create in it yet. I tried just ink.

This is something I do when I am trying to get something out of my system. I write on top of all the words.  I write in a square. It is really not something that I want anyone to be able to read because it is my crazy stuff in my head.  And it creates this kind of cool scribble.  It gets all my demons out. And then puff the madness is on the paper and out of my head. And I am happy again! Most of the times it works.

When I go to bed I have been grabbing this journal and doing a quick watercolor sketch.  Pens and Watercolor on the side of my bed with all my books.

Can't live without it!

Alittle Watercolor

A little Mixed Media

More Watercolors

Takes 10,000 hours to be a master at anything

~I am putting my 10,000 hours in~

Visit Paint Party Friday (Late) and Sunday Sketches(Early)

Artfest 2011 and Sunday Sketches

Artfest 2011!!! What fun! I have meet and reconnected with a bunch of amazing and talented women!!! What fun we all had learning, laughing!!  Shout out to Shonna (My new adopted daughter, don't forget about your art you are too talented!), Rachel and Will(So glad I got to meet the kids and parents, What a treat) Karen(What an amazing person you are), Nancy(My angel), Nancy(Your cake story made me lose my oxygen for a minute, I laughed so hard I almost fainted!)Linda, Barb, Barbara, Francie (you Zumba queen and thank you so much for my snail mail), Gail (I am so glad we connected).  And so many others that I can't even name!!! 2nd time around was so different!! It felt like home.

 This is the piece I made in Lynne Perella's class.  So many different techniques that I would not usually do.  Really opened up a lot of other avenues for me as an artist.

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This was my most favorite class of Artfest this year!!

Teachers name was Roxanne Padgett.

I loved loved love her!!!

Very personable and generous.

What fun!!

Tracing wheel is a fabulous tool!! Watch out Joanne Fabric's here I come!!

I also did a class with Misty Mawn!! Always love Misty's class. My project was not quite finished.  I will show you when I am satisfied with it.  I just gessoed over the whole face.  So time for a do over!  It was a different technique of using Neocolor II Watersoluble Carandache Crayons(Love Love Love these crayons. I use them all the time)

and gesso.  Not sure about it yet.  I have to keep working with it.

So the best way to show you what happens at Artfest is to show you the art that is made by so many different people

(So for the lack of pictures, I was feeling a bit under the weather and did not take that many pictures this year)

Lana's Wig Class. 

Poor Jesse was very patient with us.  Funny story,  My niece was looking at my blog one day and she saw the picture of Jesse and thought "Why does my Aunt have a picture of Jesse on her blog??? My niece was roomey with Jesse's old girlfriend in college. So she spent alot of time with Jesse and old girlfriend. She had no idea what had happened to him in those years after school.  Small world.  They got to reconnect again on facebook.    So we are trying to take a picture for my niece Keely.  We got a little silly.  The funny thing was we kept on running into Jesse and Lana in Port Townsend.  Really nice people! Such a small world!

Jesse's painting from the Iron Chef challenge.

So many talented artists.

Don't forget to visit Sunday Sketches hosted by Sophia!!!!

I AM PURE SPIRIT

I AM PURE SPIRIT

"Be aware that you are pure consciousness.

You are not lonely or lost or abandoned.

You are one with all life

You are pure spirit"

- Louise Hay-

Artfest here we come!!!!!

I just wanted to let you know that I will not be around for awhile. I should be back by April 13 and be blogging about my trip to Artfest 2011

I will be taking classes with Lynne Perrella, Roxanne Padgett, Misty Mawn.  I am sooooo excited.  I need to get away!!!  I believe this will be such a different experience then the first. I will not be the newbie anymore. I won't be so nervous. I did not know what to expect.  People don't realize that I am very shy in the inside.  And when I say that people laugh!! But it is true! I'm not kidding!  Inside I feel all scared and shy.  So I make up for it with my humor. I know how to make people laugh.  I think I found out early on with my parents the way to get them to notice me was by making them laugh.  Well that is another story best saved for another time......

Life is Good!!!

And don't forget to check out the Art on Paint Party Friday!

Butch Anthony's Alabama Folk Art Compound

I just had to share this! I found this on facebook. I saw this guy on TV one time. And I have thought of him often! This is what I call Gut Art! He feels it with his soul. His home is awesome! Bed springs on his wall as pieces of Art.   He makes junk into art!! LOVE THIS!!