Seeing Beyond the Clouds

It was sheer perfection finishing this piece as it stormed outside. I'm loving the optimism of the pair with their balloon. Unconcerned with the huge gray mass above and seeing beyond the clouds.

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7 Day Challenge - Day 6

I took a blissful few days off from painting while my brother and his lovely family were in town. So wonderful!!! I wasn't driven to add any color today, just black and white and a bit of journaling. This has been quite a process piece for me.

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7 Day Challenge - Day 5

Today I added some color to the background which I allowed to drip downward. I'm rather liking the juxtaposition of what seems like a stormy sky and the playful characters below. Perhaps they sense the colorful sky beyond the clouds.

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7 Day Challenge - Day 4

Journaling is one of my favorite things to do as part of my art. Today I added just three chaotic circles to my painting and then I painted the edges of the canvas black and journaled on them. So blissfully cathartic! This piece brings up a lot of parent child relationship thoughts.

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7 Day Challenge - Day 2

After doing some journaling and mark making, I felt like it was calling out to have a couple of whimsical friends. I wonder if they think it's a storm overhead.

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7 Day Challenge - Day 1

Today I found myself waiting for two different paintings to finish drying so I could continue working on them, but I really wanted to keep painting...so I decided to start a new challenge. This time only 7 days. I love to use smallish canvases as palettes when I'm painting. They're kind of an artistic history of many pieces of art I've created. I pulled one out today and started adding elements to it. So much fun!

This one is 8"x8". If at any point in my 7 day process you'd like to purchase it "as is" please let me know.

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Floral Palette

I've always heard the saying "watching paint dry" in reference to slow, s-l-o-w things. I hadn't really thought about it until today when I painted over a canvas my mom had gotten a while back when she'd intended to do the very same thing. I painted it several hours ago and it's still not dry enough to allow me to start sketching my next project. And let me assure you, watching it has not sped it up one little bit. Guess it's like the whole "a watched pot never comes to a boil" thing. Eesh! But not one to just sit around I took advantage of the time and worked on my secret commissioned piece and completed this little floral piece.

I absolutely love using small canvases as paint palettes! The most wonderful backgrounds with tons of texture are formed and it's so much fun creating something with them. With this one I used india ink to draw a flower on top of the lovely colorful background.

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"Floral Palette"

And it doesn't need to be hung, it can just sit pretty
on its own. Here it is on my kitchen window sill...
a little spring on this rainy fall day.

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Celebrate!

Today my little guy tucked our cat, Tommy, into bed. You know, head on pillow, covers pulled up to his chin. And that cat fell right asleep and stayed asleep for several hours. Further proof that our cats are utterly and completely spoiled rotten. Perhaps this is why they consistently bring us dead rats. Feline gratitude is a very odd disgusting thing.


I love using small canvases as palettes. After I've used them for a while I think they make the most wonderful backgrounds for my paintings. Here's one I created today.

"Celebrate!"

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Dancing with the Stars - Part 2

It's so much fun painting a super loose painting like this. Going for pure whimsy is a delight! After starting my day with a full face collision with a newly formed spider web, I finished working on this. After I apologized to the spider, of course. Sweet little thing had clearly spent hours creating what I managed to destroy in a fraction of a second.

Here's the completed painting and a couple more steps I took before it was finished.

"Dancing with the Stars"

I added more stars and some color accents on top
of the yellow. I think they look like comets now.

I thought it needed some red here and there to balance it.

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Dancing with the Stars - Part 1

I have this thing about wasting my art supplies. I can't stand to let it happen. When I cut watercolor paper down and have scraps left over, I hold on to all of them and make little gift tags or bookmarks. When I'm using acrylics I use a canvas as my palette. After a canvas palette is completely covered I use it as a background for a new piece. I think they make the most wonderful starting point for new art. 

This is the palette I used from my painting "Fourth of July" so you'll see the colors I used for it.

Here's the palette canvas I started with for today's painting.

I added a couple of figures, some stars, and other white elements.

I added black lines over the figures and added yellow accents.

I'm excited to finish this one tomorrow. I've had a day full of professional development for my wonderful teaching gig (I teach three and four year olds with disabilities). And the funny thing is, since I was thinking about school again after a bit of a break, I dreamt last night that I showed up to the training in something I'd never leave the house in. Oy.... And, yes, I dressed with care this morning to make sure it didn't turn into a reality.

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Rainbow Palette

What happens when my brother and his beautiful family visit? Well, among the many, many other wonderful things I now have a refrigerator full of the most spectacular kiddo art. And the cherry on top is that my niece and I share the love of the same palette. I think we should have a show together sometime!

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And a tiny portion of the lovely work now on my fridge.