This is a painting I did this summer.

Awesome!!

I created my blog on February 3, 2009 so that I could participate in my daughter's blog  challenges. For the past two years I haven't been able to log on and post and never could figure out the problem.  I recently joined Creative Connections With Jodi Ohl on Facebook.  Her post from yesterday prompted me to visit my blog.  I thought that I would try to log on for the heck of it and here I am writing a post. Now to see if it will publish. 

Neglected

My blog has been so neglected for some time.  I'm hoping to update in a couple of weeks.

Juliette Crane Giveaway

http://www.juliettecrane.com/happy-painting-giveaway-video-sneak-peek/

Check out Tracy Verdugo's Paint Mojo ecourse.  http://artoftracyverdugo.blogspot.com/

Check out Juliette Crane's Serendipity 2 ecourse.  http://www.juliettecrane.com/courses/

Life Book Lessons

My Christmas present this year was the Life Book class on line by Tamara Laporte.  There is a lesson a week, some by Tam and others by different artists.  I haven't been able to do a lesson a week, but here is some of what I have done.

Heart Connections

 Painting Over A Printed Image

Quirky Birds

Expressing You

This is one of my favorite techniques, pulling images from a background.  I can find a lot meaning to me in this one.

Fantasy Cupcakes

I have made fantasy cupcakes for the summer birthdays in my family.  This technique is from an on line class by Tobi Britton.  The cupcakes are plaster of Paris and the frosting is lightweight premium Spackle.
The first one I did was for our granddaughter who turned seven and fancies herself a cheetah.

The next one was for my husband who is a blues fan.

And the next one was for my son in law who is a golfer.

That is an eagle next to his foot.  It is a Zuni carving made from Picasso marble.

It was a little messy at times, but a lot of fun to create these special birthday cupcakes.

Super Moon at Midnight Saturday, June 23, 2-13

Fairy Forest in Diamondville

Heart Cloud

Little Robin Red Breast

 Feed Me!

 Nap Time.

 Dinner Arrives.

 Standing Guard.

 I'm A Big Bird Now.

Following The Leader.

Pink Forest Fairy Cakes

Tobi Britton is teaching  how to make Fairy Cakes at Artful Gathering.
This is a link to her blog.
http://pinkpixieforest.blogspot.com/

My Latest Endeavor

Strathmore Workshop

I signed up for free online workshops from Strathmore. The first workshop is abstract painting.  The second is drawing in May and third is card making in September. These are my painting from the abstract painting workshop.  They are quick and fun.

Week 2

Week 3

Week 1 This started out as an abstract bug and it it just didn't work so I painted over it and looked for an image. I found this face which I  enhanced with colored pencil and then painted around it to make it stand out.  I will try week1's lesson again another time.

Winter Storm

 Wednesday morning it's starting to snow.

 Wednesday evening it's coming down.

 Four little pumpkins sitting on the rail.

 No coffee on the deck tomorrow.

 Thursday morning through the window.

 I looked out the back door and to my surprise there was a a snowy reindeer

wearing a Santa hat looking back at me.  Or was it the trumpet vine coated 

with snow?  I think it was a reindeer!

Mr. Cardinal was up early for breakfast.