Planning my Christmas cards

My friend Kim gave me a great idea for my Christmas cards this year. I'm still working out the details,,,, but I finally came up with my idea. These are the original paintings.

Balloon... Illustration Friday

This is a piece I created several months ago, but I still love it!

O brave new world

I am creating another submission to "Pocketful" magazine. I use my Moleskin to create ideas for a draft before I send in the final illustration.

"O brave new world is not only about exploring new lands, but also exploring new parts of ourselves. It takes strength and courage to cross over familiar boundaries, but it takes the bravest of us to follow through. There are no boundaries and rules are meant to be broken."

Moleskine cover

I have been working in my moleskin. I added my ceramic button (I made in cermics class) to the front. I always finish my covers last, or at least when my moleskine is almost filled up. I'm not sure why I do it that way. I guess I need to be happy with the inside before I make the outside. As I write this, that is the way life is too. You have to be happy on the inside so you can be happy on the outside. Probably poorly stated but you get what I mean!

Surely

Now that my ceramics class is over I have a little more time for my favorite love...painting. I have also had time to work in my moleskine.

I found out that usps has square boxes that I can use to ship my ceramic pieces in, so I will be offering a few for sale when I have the boxes to mail them in. Thank you to everyone who has asked me about my new ceramic pieces.

"Pretend" Illustration Friday

"Pretend"
"She pretended she was a princess with a room full of kittens"
8 x 10, canvas, acrylic

available

...and some more....

From the kiln...

Here are some of my latest pieces. I found that there are some brighter colors that will fire to a cone 10. I only had a few days of my class left so I was only able to buy "real orange" and use it on my last pieces. I so want to continue pottery. It's in my soul.

If only...

"We only have the present,,, if only we could remember our past".

Hope

Here is "Hope", created on 8 x 10 inch gallery wrapped canvas. Available in my shop. I created her right after Obama won the Presidential election!