Memories To Go

Two piece collage. An old photo of my aunts friend taken way back. I do not know the date, probably in the early forties. It is a copy of the photo. My aunt is in the picture also but I took her out. I love looking at old photographs. I'm a pack rat. I squirreled away a lot of our old family pictures and love to use them in my collages. It's soldered and connected with jump rings. Ready to hang on the wall.

Wallpaper Design

I wanted to play around with action painting again. The last time I did one I felt I wasted a lot of paint on the roller. This is the left over paint rolled onto a piece of watercolor paper. From there I decided to play around with layers of color, stamps and doodles. I like wallpaper that is a series of stripes. There is some possibility here.

Gerbera Daisy

Well spring has finally arrived. My niece gave me this beautiful potted daisy for Easter. So of course I had to take some shots. I took this photo with my new macro lens. And I am proud to say it is all natural. I did not have to touch it up with photoshop or picture manager. I just love the color of the background. I don't know where that color came from.

Follow Your Heart

I did this one on Friday. It was a play day for me. This is a reoccurring theme with me. I have been wanting to do another collage piece for a while and this is where my heart has led me. Those are old buttons stitched on with red embroidery floss. The red x's are red embroidery floss also. I used a red gel pen to color in her hat , heart and collar. I had to take a photo instead of scan because of the button. I really need a lot of practice with my macro lens. I also need help in photoshop. I bought photoshop elements a few days ago and not sure if I like it or not.

Kitchen Theme "Chef" " Bread & Butter" "Cookie Jar"

Here is my Kitchen theme entry for IMT this week. We did the same theme at a group trade at MADATC. I had a lot of fun doing these. Hope everyone enjoyed doing this theme as much as I did.

Poppies On Action Painting

This was a big leap for me. This is why I am entering Poppies in the IMT Challenge this week. I usually try all kinds of techniques and never do anything with them. The background here is the action painting prompt I did last week for IMT. I wanted to use it as a background for a painting or collage. I really did not know what to do with it. Normally I over think things and then either nothing happens or I don't like what I spent so much time thinking about. So to me the leap was taking the next step quickly and without over thinking it.

Popppies On Action Painting

This is the action painting I did for IMT the other day. It is screaming orange flowers at me. So I've decided to do poppies. This is the next step taken. Hopefully I'll finish it tomorrow and post the end result then.

Action Painting

Here is my entry for IMT action painting. I have been wanting to try this for a while. I took out my tub of acrylic paints, canvas, paint brushes, rollers, water bottle, tissue paper, and went outside. The first layer of colors are the yellows and light browns and a dab of off white. I splattered and squirted in all directions, then I took the brayer and lightly rolled in one direction. The next layer is the blues, greens and reds. I tore tissue paper and smooched it over the entire canvas. Then rolled over this layer very very lightly because the brayer wanted to grab the tissue paper. I let this dry and then splattered more red to give another dimension. All in all I like the way it turned out. I like the tissue paper effect. It was a lot of fun and will probably use this technique in more of my backgrounds. At this point I'm not sure what else I well do to it, but I know it is not finished. I want to add more elements. I will figure that out as I go.

Japanese Theme

Drama

Boy it has been crazy lately. Too much drama going on. I'm not too interested in the next challenge at IMT. It is optical illusions. I don't want to spend time on a subject that my heart is not into. I'm doing more at MADatc. It is a fun group and all, but I need to focus. I really wanted to take the online class with Paulette Insall but missed it. Now I'll have to wait untill who knows when.
I have numerous unfinished projects that need attention. My sisters and I need to clear out my moms house by the end of February. We moved her into an assisted living home a few months ago. Now we need to sell her house to pay for the new living arrangements. I do not think we will make it. Plus there is no way we will be able to have any contracts written up by then. I just hope the people who want to buy it will understand.
There is drama going on at MADatc which I think is silly but I'm new, so I have nothing to say about it.
My friend is mad and upset with me. I'm very tired of it. Everything has to be about her. She has to be the center of attention but does not realize it. She is also very controlling. I think I'm just going to let this one slide. I'm not going to get involved. I will let it go a few weeks and see if she is still mad then. I really hate drama. People get too offended about the silliest things. Life is too short. But I find myself constantly dealing with unhappy people. And it is usually the same ones.
Now that I got this downer out of my system maybe I can get some work done. I want to post something fun and silly to lighten it up. My dog Max always makes me laugh. He does not try to be funny. He is just a funny looking dog. He is part lab and part basset. Get a little giggle from this silly dog Max.