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in the garden.  I have been working in our garden.. and look at the wonderful garden bed my sweet husband built for the backyard.  It is amazing!  I have planted carrots, okra and more.  Now just add water and lots of sweet sunshine.

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Marley monkey napping.  Now that is true art.

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in the studio.  Having FUN doing some new art using a new technique.  I am planning much much more.

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Keeping the funky in the garden.  Just always makes me smile.

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I was delighted to be commissioned to do the art for our local Strawberry Days t-shirts.

I will have my booth selling my own designs on kitchen towels, etc and lots of my original art.

Looking forward to the FUN.

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A local public bench in downtown painted by me and and idea has been launched for more

art benches.  Such a lovely bright and colorful way to art up the town.

I have been remiss in blogging but not remiss in my art.  Lots keeping me busy... and art is still a big part of my daily life.  LIFE IS GOOD.  

ta for now

My husband is a car nut.   His cars is to him, as my art is to me.  The beauty of this, is we let each other be what we want to be.  Cars in the driveway, I lose count sometimes.  Some actually are driveable, others

are "projects".  Come into my studio, and I have plenty of my own "projects" parked around my studio.

So we are a good match.. we get it.

So when I saw this picture, I thought THERE WE ARE!!!!  We could incorporate a little of his car parts into

yard art.. and serve as a mailbox receptacle to boot.  The best of both worlds!!!!

I have been working fast and furiously with my books.  Bookkeeping isn't something I love doing.

I avoid it and now I am paying the price!  Catching up..  my brain is now properly fried.  Tedious.  I so appreciate anyone who does this for a living.  Because it rattles my brain after too many hours.  

So closing down the studio for the day, spruce up the house a bit, get dinner in the works and ease into the evening.  Tomorrow is MONDAY and I have a heavy duty week ahead.  Getting ready for a show in early March and doing a lot of new products in addition to the kitchen towels.  

But must show this cool picture to Dan.  Plus it has rock work to boot.  Another passion of his.

How can he possibly resist!?

ta now..

NEW ART

This was a new fun art for me.   Such great FUN!!!

I started out with a multi wash of color.

I love watercolor so working on this wood using very wet acrylics

is as much fun for me as doing watercolors.

After this dried,

I started adding some wispy plant designs.. again with a wet brush dipped in

watered down acrylics, but with enough color to show up.

Drying time again.  Sometimes I speed this up with my heat gun.

Next I stamped some designs with paint.. for added elements.

And then took an old plastic dollie and used it as a stencil to spray paint over.

This really gives a nice lacy garden feel.

Next came the blackbird and the branch.  And lastly,

the collaged dictionary pages for the poppies.

Lastly the berries.. which I loved.

Now my artistic juices are flowing,

and I want to do MORE!

ta for now

SUMMER GLIMPSES

BLISS

my girls are here for a couple of wonderful weeks...

such a blessing...

YELLOW SQUASH SOON!

can hardley wait for the yummies...

SHERBERT COLORS

Dahlias... so beautiful.

FUNKY OLD CAR WINDOW WITH FLOWERS

These petunias are such a fun color.

I spotted some orange mango colored petunias in

someone's hanging pots..

must find the source for those!

GARDEN ART

Love the vines filling in the window frame.

TIGER LILLIES

always make me smile.

Summer is 1/2 over and I am promising myself to take time to smell the flowers before they are gone.

I would love to live somewhere where I could have a garden year round.  So I must relish everyday of summer's bounty.  We have had lots of lovely rain and the garden is just singing!

Art is LIFE.

I am living my ART this summer.

xoxox