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Difficult Times

17 Friday Feb 2012

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Challenges can be overcome, if you keep your eye on the prize. What’s the prize, you ask? For me it’s the joy of knowing that I’ve done all that I could to meet every day head on. Was I always able to do this? NO! Thankfully, when I was young some wonderful positive people came into my life and showed me that you can get through difficult times. Trust me I’ve had more than my share of hard times. But, I choose not to dwell on them.

The apostle Paul wrote a letter to his friends in Phillipa. This verse is only one of many that I hold onto when I am going through hard times.

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
Philippians 3:13 (NIV)

In response to Day 10, of 21 days of watercolour journaling.

Step away from the brush!

16 Thursday Feb 2012

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Ok, so I got a kick out of the assignment for day 9. The first thing that struck me with the title “Step Away From the Paint Brush” was that if you didn’t there would be blood shed. Now, I know Donna didn’t mean it that way, but I though it would be humorous to step away from the brush in a comical way.

At first I though well, maybe I will do a decorative page. So I made myself a lino cut stamp of a swirl. I messed with a couple of pages, and it just was not coming together, that is until I had fun with it.

What I used: Pippette, Candle, feather, toothpick, and hand made lino block stamp.

My Perfect Saturday!

11 Saturday Feb 2012

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Donna posed a question for us for day 5 of the 21 day journal challenge. What would be my perfect Saturday? Well that’s a no brainer for me. Don my hat, grab my paints and head out to commune with nature and capture the country side.

I really wanted to depict my plein air painting, I was just trying to think of how to manage it. Then it hit me! My hat has become part of me, so much so that it’s almost a joke. Like I can’t paint without my lucky hat. I got the hat at the San Diego Zoo when I was out visiting my Aunt Janet, and my Cousin Julie. I keep adding things to it. First it was the feathers from my first trip to the Michigan Renaissance Festival. I love my feathers! Then people started giving me pins, so I keep adding them to the hat as well. I just wish the pins had longer shanks most of them won’t stay on. :(

So, my favorite thing to do on a Saturday would be to go Plein Air painting. But, not alone I have to have all the gang, or at least one friend along with me.

Inspire, Dance, Truth

10 Friday Feb 2012

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Day four of the Creativity Matters 21 day journal project. I’m really enjoying this. My goal in taking up this challenge, was to get into the habit of working every day. Mind you I have a table set up in the living room with all my painting stuff on it, and hubby is NOT impressed. I need a lottery win so I can build a studio!

Imagination, Fire Fae

09 Thursday Feb 2012

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I’ve been working on a 21 day watercolour journal project, with the gentle prodding of a lovely lady named Donna. She runs a site named “Creativity Matters.” This image is the project for the third day in the series. We were to choose a word, or a quote that inspired us, and cut it out of a magazine. Well magazines are in short supply in my house, but I did find an image that inspired me.

Imagination, what would we do if we could not imagine? Dreaming of good things to come, forgetting bad things. Reshaping our world in our dreams is in my mind is the pursuit of happiness. Things can not make you happy. No one can make you happy, It is a choice. I choose to be happy. I choose to imagine fantastic worlds where the word impossible does not exist. Fantasy and faeries have always been dear to my heart. This is my little fire fae, dreaming away in the light of the moon. I hope you like her.

Via Flickr:
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Our Love

27 Friday Jan 2012

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Our Love, originally uploaded by photographerpainterprintmaker.

I didn’t get out to my friend’s studio on January 27th. Hubby was practicing the song “Our Love is Here to Stay.” He usually drives me nuts when he practices because he repeats and repeats the song till it’s all I can hear in my head. So, I doodled it in a valentine so I would not grow to hate the song. He really is a great singer though. Have a listen here!  He has over 1000 songs recorded on this site.

34th World Wide Sketch Crawl

21 Saturday Jan 2012

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Well, winter put a bit of a damper on my painting until today, that is. I signed up our Plein Air group to participate in the 34th World Wide Sketch Crawl. I’ve been wanting to get out and do some snow scenes. Finally the weather co-operated!  I was the only one of the Windsor & Essex County Plein Air Society to make it out to sketch today.  We were all to meet at the Tim Horton’s on Walker Road, by the Chrysler plant. But, it seems life threw the rest a curve ball.  No worries, I’m sure they will make it out to the next event.  If they don’t well I will definitely be sketching, even if I have to do it from the shelter of my van.

You would think living in Canada would guarantee snow. Well, trust me it doesn’t, especially when you live in the most southern point in the country.  But today it was cold as heck. However, I did have my van to keep me warm while I painted the coach house at Willestead Manor, in Windsor, On. Canada. The thermometer in the van read 17°F or -8.33333333°C (to infinity and beyond). I do so like Fahrenheit so much better then Celsius. 17°F sounds so much warmer then -8.3333 °C (to infinity and beyond) ever will. I digress…

Even the van could not totally keep the cold away from my toes forever. So, I warmed up with a Tim Horton’s black coffee, and also celebrated what would have been my Dad’s 100th birthday.  He was here in spirit. How do I know? He saved the last Oooey gooey good Boston Creme Doughnut for me, that’s why!  You see, Boston Cream was his favorite. Sorry, the doughnut didn’t make it into the photo.

Now for a wee bit of a clarification on the image above. No, the roof is not falling off the Northern addition to the coach house. I think by the time I got to that side of the painting my brain was frozen. Also, (lame excuse for bad drawing number two) sitting in a van is not conducive to backing away from your work to check your progress. I usually stand when I paint, so this really sucketh rotten eggs. But, I show my mistakes as well as my successes, because I’m masochistic that way. Now, now please don’t tell me how wonderful this is. I know, when it sucks, K! Why is it you never notice these goof ups until AFTER you take the photo? Blarg! Oh.. I still had fun, and I will go out and do better next time!

Tea with Teddy

20 Friday Jan 2012

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Every week three of us get together for a visit at my friends studio. This was my sketch from January 20, 2011. Margret’s dog decided my lap was where she belonged. You can see Angel’s and my reflection in the middle of the teapot.

Artspeak Holiday Show & Sale 2011

10 Saturday Dec 2011

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Artspeak Holiday Show & Sale 2011, a set on Flickr.

Our local arts council opened their doors to their annual member’s Christmas Show and Sale. Each artist was allowed to hang 5 pieces that had not been shown in previous members show. Seeing that I’ve been a very busy beaver this summer it was no problem at all to find 5 pieces. These works were all created at special events from the summer. The trip we made up north to Wilberforce, Ontario. Our group was invited to two events at the John R. Park Homestead, and two of these pieces are from that event.

Read more about this event here.