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6/12/2012

The Colors of Winter

I think one of the prompts for this weeks ICADS was "colors of winter." I must confess I cheated just a bit here. I had rencently completer a monstrous collage that took me several years to finish and it was titled WINTER. This is what it looks like.

This was originally made with many layers of acrylic paint, waxed paper, original photography,torn paper, made foam stamps, a couple of magazine images, altered and reworked. It's about poster sized. For the ICAD I took a portion of this larger work and made it smaller to fit on an index card. I just couldn't resist seeing how it would look on a smaller canvas. It now looks like this.

Ok. It still looks poster sized because I uploaded it large when I should have done so small and now blogger does not seem to want to let me upload any more images for now so you will need to imagine it index card size . Thanks for all your wonderful comments. I feel very supported. Thanks for stopping by and please do come again.

6/11/2012

Blue Art

It's a new week for ICADS and there are a lot of different prompts if you want to follow them. I tend to be a rebel at times so I don't always do that. One of the prompts was for making blue art, so I looked at the scraps on my table and with some effort managed to come up with nearly blue or shades of blue for this ICAD. I love blues and tend to use a lot of it in my art. This daily challenge gets my juices flowing, allows me to share my little piece of art,see what others have done and encourages me to show up here. It's really quite fun. If I can create some art on an index card a day, if nothing else, it quenches my thirst. Usually.... for now..Ok. I'm not telling you the truth. I always want to do more. Baby steps. Remember? Small increments of time because there is life to be lived as well. Here's my take on today.

What colors do you find yourself using more frequently? Please visit again.

6/10/2012

June Jones

I went to a memorial service yesterday for one of the kindest people I've known. June Jones was a good friend, to me, and many others. Personally, she was there for me and my children in many ways when we were dealing with my husband's illness and eventual death. And years after that she was a confidant, an advisor, a sounding board when I had some tough times being a single parent, a widow at 43. She was a good, thoughtful, kind hearted person who was always looking out for other people, always making sure people got fed, remembering their birthdays, always getting stuff done. I feel grateful to have known her and will always remember her kindness. When my daughter and I arrived at the church yesterday, we were greeted with a person who handed us a bright butterfly sticker. How wonderful! How June. And it was just as sweet to find this on the bulletin.

Here are yesterday's and today's ICADs.

I was playing in the studio yesterday morning. I don't know if it's done yet but I like the beginning.

Wishing you a peaceful day.

6/08/2012

I'm Sorry

I found a post card I should have mailed a

few weeks ago to Kalenina in Russia buried in my art studio. Oops! This is what I mailed her. And today's ICAD is here.

And lastly, yesterday's post title came from something that popped into my head.Rubber buggy baby bumpers said ten times really fast really tripped you up. It always ended up with rubby bubby or rubby buggy bagy bunkers or somee variation. I remember my grandfather saying it to us when we were children. Tongue twister, a- tripping -over- words- peeling- with- laughter- kind- of- grandfatherly- thing. It stuck. Thanks for stopping by. It's the weekend. Yay! Time for playing.

6/07/2012

Rubber Buggy Baby Bumpers. Say that 10 times really fast.

I've been playing around with tags I bought from the office supply store. I've also been playing with stencils, particularly Julie Fie Fan Balzers stencils. I kind of went crazy with these things one afternoon and couldn't seem to stop. I think they can be used in lots of ways. Here's just a few of what I did.