Introducing …Flora

Here she is ladies and gentlemen…Flora, the interactive art doll…a heart of gold and a purse containing the key to her

heart!

In our monthly “Mixed Media Collabrative” we built a paper mache doll base on bottles (Flora has a bubbly personality

since her bottle was a mini split of chamagne!) We took them home and altered and dressed them and brought them back to meet the group.

Flora has the top of a mint box attached to her chest which opens to reveal a “heart of gold” with a little magic on the side (tinkerbell charm)

Her hair is wool roving swirled into a bun adorned with pearl pins, antique lace headband and a jaunty green feather. She is dressed in delicate napkins and enhanced with more antique lace pieces.(thanks Carmen!)

Her carrys a fashionably large handbag that is made from another mint tin and glamed up with a coin from Japan.(thanks Susan!)

Sedona Delights

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Two firsts…visiting Sedona and using a new app on my ihpone -Autostich…what a blast! Anxious to see how they look here. Sedona was absolutely stunning, I felt like I was on a movie set with these stunning back drops!

Time Flies

My first found object art piece…on a  past treasure hunt I had acquired the old oval frame and handless clock piece. I stashed them in my craft closet and waited for the right moment. Recently we made fusion paper

in our “Mixed Media Collabrative” monthly group meeting – when I brought theses papers home the wheels began to turn and I started pulling things out and playing. The rose was a thrift store find, the metal butterfly pin from a  museum gift shop and the dried flowers from my mother-in-laws house. This piece really evolved and I have to say I may not be the fastest at producing my art but I am happy with the outcome! I wanted to journal on it but held back (which is typical for me!) but I felt like the piece draws you in and you can form your own thoughts as you look at it rather than me directing you to a specific phrase…hope you will be inspired to give it your own title!

 

Card Project

With graduations lurking in the months ahead I was inspired to make a few cards from a sheet of mixed media art I produced from a Strathmore Workshop. I cut up the sheet and got out some transfers I thought might look good against the flowing backgrounds. Voila – inspiration hit and here they are.

Spring is fluttering in…

I’ve been caught up in travels and anxious to sit back down at my table to do art…but for now I am happy to see such beautiful art in nature all around me…take a peak on a walk in Asheville, NC

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Spring is Here!

At our last monthly meeting, our mixed media colabrative experimented with making fusion paper. I first panted a muslin fabric with water colors then began layering other fabric bits, book paper, napkins and printed tissue paper with a glue/water mix. I made a large sheet and then cut it down into these card size pieces to wish a few friends a Happy Spring!

PS – couldnt resist adding a few embelishments too.:)

 two more.

sewing it together

I experimented with some stains and added from there with stamps and gesso and doodlesa and book text and then(phew!) sewed it all together for some cards! All in all a fun day… enjoying the journey!

Anxious for spring to arrive….

I started looking at last years photos to inspire me that spring is right around the corner…thought I’d share some….

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Working towards Valentines day….

still working from the “Doodles Unleashed” Strathmore Workshop, I cut up a piece to use for Valentines Day Cards….loving the painting then walking away and coming back to make it come alive with the doodles…fun stuff! Now working up my courage to put some words to them….

BLOOM!

Following a workshop from Strathmore I played along with “doodles unleashed” by Traci Bautista. It is a watercolor collage with some stencils mixed in then coming back in with doodles in markers. FUN FUN FUN! Thought I lost it when I did the painting but coming back in with the doodling made it come alive again.