Muse Talk: Winter has arrived!!!!

Winter has arrived in Dayton, Ohio....it is cold and we have had lots of snow today....so....I decided to work on a swap I signed up for on the Diva list.
The winter wonderland swap....make 20 5 x 7 banners in white with a hint of blue were the instructions. I used stiff white felt...stamped with tinted gesso, then added fringe and shiney yarn, snow flake and used my cuttle bug to cut out snowflakes from prism tags I had on hand, then glued some white beads. they are ready to go to the hostess...and then I will be getting back 20 different banners from 19 other artists....aren't you jealous? hehehehe

Biting the bullet

OK, I am now doing something I said I would never do and that is create my own blog. What to do? I keep an art journal, and have done so for years but this will be a bit different. I must keep this "clean" and nice and not rant and rave if I am upset...or maybe I can but in a nice way...smile. Please be patient with me as I get the hang of how to organize this space to be easy to navigate and fun and useful. Please feel free to have me add your blogs to my list...and to make comments and suggestions...heck, if I don't like your suggestions, I will write about you on a future entry...LOL

A busy past few weeks

The progressive dinner was a total hit. Great food, and company. Next the focus turned to getting some items ready for a juried art show in Kettering. I submitted two items this past Saturday and will keep my fingers crossed that they make it into the show at the end of February. Now a bit about the weather....our nice mild winter has changed course. We are in the second week of single digit temperatures with lows dropping into the sub zeros during the night. Yesterday, I had no water in the laundry room and had to call the repair man. There seems to be a leak from the outside into the house and the frigid air has caused one of the pipes to freeze. Two huge holes into the drywall allowed enough room for a hair dryer to thaw out the pipe. The dry wall will be repaired under warranty along with the leak....once the temperatures warm up enough for the seal to stick. Today we had 5 inches of snow in addition to the frigid cold wind and temperatures.... It is so OHIO.

Aborigine Art Style

I saw half naked people, with paint, and black eyes, sitting around a fire and heard wild animals and the rustling of brush and leaves and felt the smoke and dust as the wind blew.......it was a dream I had had for several nights during the last few weeks and so I set out to search Google on the pc to see if I could come up with the trigger for these dreams. I came across a site for Aborigine Art and felt compelled to look at painting after painting. The simplistic style mixed with earth tone colors or very loud and bright colors and wavey designs caught my eye. Many of these paintings looked like the doodles I do in my art journal to fill up white space, yet, each painting represented a moment the artist had shared with nature.... the titles were simple too. I wanted to try to make my own painting using the same style and Bird in Nest is my first interpretation of this style.