May 2010 Blog Posts (48)

On Tuesday I finally could pick up my puppy.(see pic) Bought all kinds of toys,a nice pillow to sleep for her,the best dogfood,and so on,I was ready like a real mother that gave birth.

On Friday I had to bring Tib back to the petshop,she was diagnosed with an incurable scab(a microbe)She scratched herself to dead and the vet told me that a dog with this microbe would eventualy lose all his hair en die...Her brother and sisters had it too(contagious)

It was the first dog I ever…

A drawing for every page of Moby Dick!

How cool. What a great Idea. And what great art. I'm envious. I'm astounded. I love it.

I feel so excited and so lucky to have been selected at a new market to display my work. Although they wanted more ( I know...weird, considering my skill level); I selected about 18 pieces (paintings and photographs) to hang. I framed everything. The work is hung and am so excited. The market is set to open next week, but I don't expect it to really get rolling for another week or two afterwards. The market is about two block from the famous Sun Studios in Memphis and is…

As some of you may know not only do I painting full time but I teach art classes from my gallery as well.

Just over a month ago a mother came into my gallery and approached me about teaching her son how to paint..

Her son is 17 and…

I think I got the idea going over Gary's past challenges "self portrait"? Anyway this is what I am going for.. I would like to leave the texture of puzzle pieces on canvas. I have tried spackling, molding paste, and wood putty, but they all leave a suction imprint where the piece was (like if you stick paper on wet paint). I watched a video of a mans technique were uses stamps, dollies, and many other items. He said he uses spackling I thought. Has anyone had any success, do you know what I…

at my other blog..

This painting of mine - painted earlier this year - makes me think of Frank. Frank first showed up in the song Franks's Wild Years on the Tom Waits…

You know how it is when you become interested in something or you are going through something, suddenly it seems to be everywhere in your life? Like you think about having a baby and all of a sudden, everywhere you look preggo women are walking down the street!

Well, art is that way for me. When I was doing hand sculpted art dolls I was into the PreRaphaelites and Realistic art depicting human forms, fine illustrations and the like. I barely gave abstract art a…

I've been making mixed media art dolls going on two years now...but had been making cloth or clay things for years yet never thought until recently to combine the two...also I've been drawing, and painting in acrylics for over twenty years...originally my goal was to make my own line of greeting cards...but that was a passing phase in my life...now I'm in to this mixed media...and not sure I've got this thing down pat...is there a set of…

A local Gallery is having a Iron Artist commpation. It's Like Iron Chef compation. But we have Two hours to make a pice live in frount a ardince. The trick is they will add a mystry elidment at the bigenning. Well anyway

I have been invted to be a contestend.

YA!

Come on over and see what I've been up to. It's a mix of photography, mixed media, beading, fibre art and recycling. Please make sure you check back to the beginning of April to see the start of my beaded, mixed media journal pieces. http://artfuldreamer.blogspot.com/