When you least expect it, look what shows up in the mail!!! This award is from Myra, of Simple Inspirations! Myra is the consummate seamstress, an organizational guru, and an office diva! How do I know all these things? Myra and I worked together for a number of years and she was always running rings around just about everyone there with her efficiency,...
"Let your soul _ _ _ _ even if on borrowed wings."
I worked on this zen-word, off and on, for a couple of weeks nearly 2 years ago when grief was tugging me down. At the time, it seemed that my "wings" were too weak to lift me up. Whenever I found inspiration somewhere out on the net I let it lift me up. Sometimes, in order to SOAR, we have need to lean on others' inspiration.
I started to "colorize" it when I rediscovered it this past week and then decided to post it untouched as a free download to anyone who would like to have it! It's my way of paying back (and forward) for all the wonderful inspiration I see and read everyday in the blogosphere. If you click on the image above, it should enlarge enough so that you can print it off and colorize it to your heart's content. If that doesn't work, let me know and I'll post it over on Flickr.
*Please note this is meant for individual use and should not be sold, packaged or used in any commercial way without express written consent of the artist, Laure Ferlita.
Have you ever "misplaced" something and then wondered if it was truly lost because it was nowhere to be found? As in "gone for good?" And it kind of makes you sick at heart to think that, but you've looked everywhere you can think to look, sometimes 4 or 5 times, and it's simply not to be found? Well, happy day, my "misplaced"...
On Saturday, Chris and I met up with friends to attend the Da Vinci exhibit at our local MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry). I can only say I came away even more.......in awe of the man than I was before. A genius, most certainly, as well as innovative, resourceful and incredibly, insatiably curious about EVERYTHING! I found myself wondering if he would understand...
"It's no good, no good!! Abort! Abort!!" I'm sure these words ring a bell if you've watch any type of thriller movie where the reluctant hero has to take the impossible shot, fly through an impossible situation, or otherwise defy all odds, not to mention physics, to save the day. I heard myself muttering something along the same lines today as I was...
.....in the details, that is! Watercolor Sketch 5 x 7 inches I had the opportunity to help a friend out the last few days. This required getting up and out of the house before the sun came up to go to a horse paddock 30 minutes from home. There, down a dirt road, in the middle of nowhere, by the horse paddock, was a...
Warm sand, sunshine, surf rolling in, swaying in the hammock, rocked by a western breeze off the water—sounds like a plan to me! Wonder if I can talk my honey into joining me........ The image above was painted during the recent "Imaginary Visit to the Beach" and we'll be leaving again on Monday, May 24th! Want to come and join the fun? Please...
Watercolor (painted directly with no ink or pencil)in Moleskine, 3.5 x 5.5 inches When things are bugging me intensely on a deeply, personal level, I find it helps to paint something to represent the "bug." This adorable blue teapot had the unfortunate luck of being in my line of sight when I was searching for a "blue object" and so became the holder...
White birdhouse. Take 112! 5 x 7 inchesWatercolor and ink 140 lb. CP Arches Do you ever get hold of an image and you can't leave it alone, nor will it leave you alone?! This is one of those images. We have birdhouses all over our neighborhood. Many of them are ornamental as opposed to functional, but they provide me with great mental exercises...
This little stuffed bunny came to live at my house a few weeks back. His name is Honey and he holds down the books on the shelf above my desk in the office. Must be a very tiring job as he's laying down more than he's sitting up!
This is not quite so crooked in real life. I scanned it crooked. Not on purpose. It's just been a crooked kind of day.
This is in the small Moleskine sketchbook. Watercolor and ink. 3.5 x 5.5 inches.
This is not quite so crooked in real life. I scanned it crooked. Not on purpose. It's just been a crooked kind of day.
This is in the small Moleskine sketchbook. Watercolor and ink. 3.5 x 5.5 inches.
Well, you just never know, do you?! Yesterday was a milestone for me, one that's been coming for a over a year now. I have officially joined the YouTube nation! No, I didn't post a video of Chris trying to get a dead rat away from Andi. Nor did I post a video of him trying to convince Susie to give him a...
By nature, I am a curious person, and I've found some fun "tools" to use in my art along the way. I've also found a lot of duds. This one is a dud....for artists older than the age of 9. If you're younger than 9, you'll think these are pretty cool! I found this Crayola No Spill Watercolor Set during my brief foray...
Had some time to kill this morning, so I decided a good place for killing it would be in Target. I had to get some cat food anyway. Other than the cat food, I didn't "need" anything, so I wandered throughout the store. Dangerous activity. Amazing all the "stuff" you find that you suddenly need, but I digress.... I went through the little...
Well, I had hoped to wow you with my newfound sketching-out-in-public prowess, but it was not to be. In fact, I only sketched out in public once this weekend and that was at a restaurant called Romano's. It's a Greek/Italian joint with a wonderful, friendly atmosphere. The sketch below is of the flower arrangement on the tables. Chris had an gyro and I...