Paint Party Friday and 29 Faces in September

Starting to get into the swing if this art everyday thing again :)  Kinda feels good after such a dry spell . 

Today is Face #5

..... so I'm only one day behind which is where I started since it took me forever to make up my mind to do it . 

Another page in my art journal with a painted background. Still stuck on the bee sting story as you can see. Today the bees were not as hostile..but then again I didn't get as close as I normally do either :) I also did another "tint blob"  and drew an imaginary bird creature. This was a little more fun than the giant hairdo. :)

He started out as a swirl of bright colors on white paper. I cut out the shape and glued it to a page in the journal and then went crazy with the white pen. I kinda get the feeling that he's a deep thinker so I added the quote on Happiness. 

So now it's bed time around here so I'll catch ya all later.

Linking to 

http://29faces.blogspot.com.au/p/blog-page_16.html

and 

http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com/

Check out all of the great art :) 

I'm Doing 29 Faces in September ..Well Sort of Maybe...At Least I'm Going to Try # 4

Yesterday definitely wasn't my day.... or at least not one of my better ones . 

Work was a "ZOO" and I swear people took a double dose of "cranky pills" before heading out to shop. 

It was oh so hard not to start slapping on the shock collars and pressing that "ZAP" button full blast :) 

Just a little mental visual I use to cope with stressful customers. 

After arriving home I wondered out to the flower garden where the bees were feeding frantically on the Moon Flowers. They obviously did not enjoy my company because 3 of the little monsters decided to chase me away and leave their stingers in my body :(  Which really surprised me because bees and I usually get along together very well. 

So after all of that frustration the only art I got done was a simple pencil sketch.

Hopefully tonight will be more productive . 

Linking to 

http://29faces.blogspot.com.au/p/blog-page_16.html

  

29 Faces in September Faces #3

Another painting in my Art Journal. 

The background was already there made with left over paints from a previous painting. Just stared at it for a few minutes until a shape began to form and went with it. 

Linking to ....

http://29faces.blogspot.com.au/p/blog-page_16.html 

I'm Doing 29 Faces in September ..Well Sort of Maybe...At Least I'm Going to Try

Face # 2 

Worked on this one last night while setting on the couch half way watching...more listening than anything TV with the Hubs. 

Decided to drag out the colored pencils this time :) I haven't used them in forever and they are perfect for couch art. 

Another page in the art journal and I left room for a quote...but the brain was too fried to think of one at that time. Hopefully some time today I'll come up with one...or maybe not. 

Linking too.....

http://29faces.blogspot.com.au/p/blog-page_16.html

I'm Doing 29 Faces in September ..Well Sort of Maybe...At Least I'm Going to Try

29 Faces in September 2013

I am... I am not...I am... I am not....

This has been going on in my head for weeks now :( 

It hasn't been a very artful year here...

so much going on and busy.... busy... busy....

 with so many things. I just haven't felt the desire to do much art..until lately.

The paints are calling me ...begging to be released from their tubes while little visions dance through my head singing....

"TRY ME....TRY ME" 

So I pulled out my journal and drug my painting supplies out to the deck. The first truly beautiful and pleasant day we've had in a couple of weeks or more. 

No humidity to speak of temps in the upper 70's. 

Perfect " Arting " weather ♥

I decided to so a mixed media page in my journal using one of my "tint purge" blobs I bring home from work. 

I work in a paint department and every morning we have to clear out the tint machines by purging a tiny bit of tints out onto a piece of paper. I've started smashing these drops of tints together between 2 pieces of paper to see what kinds of colorful images it will create. Long story short (well shorter) I used a couple of these blobs by cutting them up and collaging them onto my journal page for the hair. They are not super stable and won't work for permanent art...but it's fun to play with . 

 So here is 

"Finding Balance" .

A little page to help get the creative drive kicked back into gear and my first entry for 

 29 Faces in September 2013

Be sure and check out the other artist doing this challenge. We'll see just how well I keep up .

http://29faces.blogspot.com.au/p/blog-page_16.html

Paint Party Friday

It's Friday and I made it back with out being late :) !!

It's been another busy summer week here. The Granddaughters came to visit for 3 days and we did our best to pack in as much fun as possible! Which always includes art in some way . 

We spent a day in the yard and garden playing , planting and harvesting. Then a day in a state park playing in a spring water fed creek and staying delightfully cool while the temperatures soared . The last we day we  did art and ate all kinds of yummy food :) 

The flowers are looking great right now....afraid a few more days of this intense heat and it may be a totally different story :( 

The girls had so much fun at the stream... here's one of the more shallow spots we played in where they caught tadpoles and put them in temporary little ponds. 

Later we went to deeper pools where they snorkeled and silly Grandma left her camera in the car after lunch. 

We always have art ... it's not a visit with out some sort of art experience. This time we painted. 

All of us chose water scenes.... remembering the  fun from the day before I guess. 

And of course I had to use up the left over paints for more background pages in my journal.  I haven't used my journal much this year..except for  doing background  pages. Once I get on a roll I'll have lots of pages all ready to go :) 

 

Linking once again to 

http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com/

See ya again soon :) 

Paint Party Friday....Late AGAIN

I'm either late or missing for these events this summer.... can you say " busier than anyone really needs to be!" 

I am managing to squeeze in a tad bit of art here and there...

Mostly aprons for co-workers

...a few background pages in one of my art journals....with the help of my favorite kitty :) 

I'm tempted to paint his paws and let him have his own go at it....LOL! 

The yard and garden are still occupying most of my "FREE" time still. The wet summer has made everything looks glorious...including the over abundance of weeds :( It's been very hard to keep up. 

Linking this to 

http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com/

Now off to the Depot for another crazy Saturday Night.