Category Archives: Mixed media

Dec18

Thursdays Time Out For Art…

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Copper on a 6"X6" canvas

Copper on a 6″X6″ canvas

For a long while I was into aging everything in sight.  I love the look of Copper once it has turned to green, and everything I could get my hands on seemed to have a green patina.

Copper & foil on a 6'X6" canvas

Copper & foil on a 6’X6″ canvas

This little painting I gave to my daughter-in-law for Christmas a couple of years ago.  She spends some of her time Running, working out, and practicing Yoga.   The symbol is copper, that I worked so hard to get just the right patina on.  The figure was foil which I painted.  This was truly art from the heart.

Painted Foil & Netting on a 6"X6" Canvas

Painted Foil & Netting on a 6″X6″ Canvas

This little piece I created along with three or four others with the same tribal motif for my daughter, and her husband for the same Christmas.

That Christmas was a Christmas of art!  I don’t usually give away my art,  because the family & friends that may be recipients often have different ideas about their kind of  art, and then feel obligated to hang my pieces somewhere in their homes.  They don’t want to hurt my feelings, I don’t want my feelings to be hurt,  and  if your family can’t support you, who can……

My art sisters however, all love art for the sake of the creative process, and I can count on them to love whatever I create, and share!  Each year at Christmas the five of us draw names, and create something special for whoever’s name I have drawn.  Each month we always have a wonderful Diva day together, but Christmas is particularly special because each of us gets to take home a gift of true love for one another, and the creative process!

I feel truly blessed to have my art sisters, and my art friends.  Their creative energy is amazing!

My creative process has been inspired lately in part by Zebra Designs & Destinations.  I hope you will check out a different kind of art from Zebra, and maybe you to will be inspired.

Dec9

Dusty and bubbles…

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Dusty Bunny

Dusty Bunny

Over Thanksgiving weekend I was able to take a few pictures of Dusty, and Bubbles. They are now the size of a small dog. I’m not talking about a Yorkies or a Chihuahuas, I’m talking a Bichons or a small Cocker Spaniel. These bunnies are big!
What about their ears?

Bubbles 6 months old

Bubbles 6 months old

While their noses are soft and warm, their ears are soft and velvety.  So soft they make you want to curl up with them, and take a nap.  No wonder kids love to have a stuffed bunny to hold on to when they are little!

Now that the  bunnies are bigger, they aren’t so cuddly, but they do stop, and let you scratch behind their ears. When you scratch  their ears,  they close their eyes, and you can almost hear them purr.

Bubbles 6 months old

Bubbles 6 months old

While dusty is about three or four months older, Bubbles is only six months old, and will grow another six to ten months before she is full-grown.  she still isn’t quite as big as dusty though.
I have actually seen Giant Flemish Rabbits that were forty or more pounds. Can you even imagine?

Thank you for hopping by to check Dusty and Bubbles out,  see you soon…..

Dec4

Time Out For Art

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Cheryl & Karen Utley

Cheryl & Karen Utley

I don’t do a lot of photo transfers on canvas, but I thought this one turned out nicely.  It’s a picture of my sister Cheryl, and myself when we were kids.  I don’t remember the original photo, but I always loved this dirt road buryied deep in San Marcos, Ca. and thought the two pictures together told an interesting story.  We are all on a path, and each of us has our own journey to take!

I have always loved this picture!

Todays post was inspired by Zebra Designs, & Destinations, check them out!

Dec2

The Zoo Continues To Grow!

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Megan or "Meg" as she will be called

Megan or “Meg” as she will be called

The evening Sage brought her new pal home she Face Timed me to show me her gecko…….   I sat there stunned as she showed me this enormous terrarium that had been set up in her bedroom, along with not just “Crush, the gecko without a tail” but, a  friend of Crush’s.   Yep, you guessed it.  The man at the reptile store offered them a discount for buying two, so being the thrifty shopper that my daughter is (never resisting a deal), and the fabulous little researcher Sage is,  they bought two geckos. The poor little gecko without a tail needs a friend don’t you think?  That’s what Sage said!

Well,  I can tell you that Sage’s parents are pushovers!

 

Nov28

The Gecko Without A Tail!

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Sage holding Ellsa the albino python.

Sage holding Ellsa the albino python.

While shopping for crickets at a local reptile store near home, my granddaughter Sage wanted to hold some of the animals.  At first her mother said she couldn’t hold the albino python who just happened to be huge!  Next she asked to see a turtle, and her mother told her she would have to ask the man behind the counter.    So Sage walked up to the counter, and asked him if she could hold the Albino Python….Of course she did!  His reply was “sure, why not!”

Sage hasn’t any fear of snakes, and always wants to hold them when she goes into a reptile store.  Usually she asks to hold something like a Green Tree Python, and fortunately they don’t let her.  Her uncles had snakes, spiders, frogs, & anything else boys love growing up.  Our home was most definitely a Zoo in the most vivid sense.  One of her uncles had snakes up to just recently, so Sage had a good taste of big snakes early on.

Green Tree Python...... Not great pets especially for an 8 year old!

Green Tree Python……
Not great pets especially for an 8 year old!

On this day, after holding many animals, Sage finally asked  to hold an Orange Crested Gecko.  This particular gecko was  without a tail for some reason, and to make matters worse….this species of gecko doesn’t grow their tails back once they lose them.  So he will always be… just a gecko without a tail!  All Sage needed to do was hold this tailless gecko, and her little heart melted.  She wanted this little guy in the worst way, and why…..She said he won’t have anyone to love him without a tail.   Mom said she would have to ask her Dad, and told her that it was too close to Christmas to get something like that.

In the several hours before her daddy got home from work, Sage had gone online and researched this particular gecko.  Her list was lengthy, and she did her homework so when her daddy got home she was ready to fight for the little gecko without a tail.

Dad got home, ate dinner, and set down in his chair to relax……and Sage made her move!

“Daddy can I ask you something?”  He looked up at her and nodded while all the time her mother was watching to see how she was going to do this.  “Today mommy, and I went to get crickets at LLL Reptile, and while we were there I got to hold an Orange Crested Gecko.  He didn’t have a tail, and he needs someone to love him.  So I made this list of all the reasons you should let me have him.

  • They only get about 8″ long.
  • They eat crickets, and baby food mixed with food from the reptile store.
  • They are friendly.
  • We can bread him and make money.
  • They jump.
  • He’s a good buy because he will live another 10-15 years, and I’ll be at least 28 then.

What’s a poor dad going to do, I think he was so amazed at all the research Sage did,  withoutthinking….he said, “sure you can have him!”    Now it’s mom’s turn to be amazed!

Crush the little gecko without a tail

Crush the little gecko without a tail

That’s how the family grows to be a Zoo……