Ocean Mist - A return to art

This journey of child and art has been a long one. The past year was one of great struggle and turmoil as my family had to walk through the beginnings of Epilepsy with our then not quite two year old daughter. It has been very hard to keep up with the art life with many hospitalizations and constant monitoring, medicine changes, and just trying to keep up with everyday life. This past month I have been making an attempt at getting back to my love and joy of art. This first abstract is probably just the release of trying to recapture the peace and tranquility of the ocean those many years that I went to be by its shore. "Ocean Mist" Acrylic 10X10 was just a pure release of energy and process to get back into the space of doing art again. A process of trying to get my mind centered and to calm my soul in order to create again. I hope everyone enjoys this return to art with my new painting.

Tree of Life Acrylic

This is the Tree of Life Acrylic that I completed recently; it is also another 16X20 format. This painting was in process for over a year before I finished deciding what I wanted to do with it to complete it. I like the idea of the creative with the spiritual again with the fire gates behind it guarding the tree and the fresh new tree in front for the actual tree of life.

Purple and Teal Centering Acrylic

I made this acrylic that is 16X20 for a commission for a worker at 711 who found out I was an artist and requested one of my centering acrylic's in Purple and Teal. I like doing these a lot as they are very calming like making a mandala.I got a computer again, so I can finally get posts back on this website. Going to try to keep up with it as life is a bit crazy right not preparing for a new baby girl.

Anxious Birthday Cake

So, this was my second project for my Sculpting Class this Semester. We had to pick a feeling word and an object word out of a hat this time to do an Abstraction of the object that was picked. I got Anxious Birthday Cake; my therapist likes this one the best. Most everyone that I have shown this to really likes it. I had a sheet of steel to work with, so with this project, I learned how to use a plasma cutter, metal power tools, die caster, and a welder. I have a second steel project that was a Kinetic Project which means it had to mechanically move. By the end of that project, I have become a pretty good welder. I would have never thought that I would be doing these things in my life, but boy has Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8-11am been a lot of fun and a lot of learning. Note: The Birthday Cake looked more like a space rocket, so I added acrylic paint mixed with molding paste to give the appearance of frosting dripping off the cake.

Splash of Primaries, Monday, March 8, 2010

Whenever I am trying to get myself back into art, I like to play around with color. I did this this weekend as I was playing around. Doing Forty 4X6s for Christmas cards this year really burned me out of art. So I am trying to get back into the groove.

Collage Abstract, Sunday, January 3, 2010

This is the second Collage that I did like the one yesterday. I had so many pieces of stuff that I decided to do two. Fun Playing!!!

Spray Paint Abstract, Saturday, January 2, 2010

This is an Collage that I did several weeks ago after doing a ton of watercolor 4X6s for Christmas cards. I just wanted to play. It was a fun Collage Abstract. I spray painted the watercolor paper and then put it on the black paper.

Spring Flowers, Friday, August 7, 2009

To honor my dad who is recovering right now and hopefully he can come see this. I have returned to the life of blogging. I have got to do something to get back into art. This is what I have been working on for the last few months. It is a full watercolor sheet 22X30. It is off of another half sheet one that I did of Falling Leaves that was similar. I am not going to blog everyday, but now that God has graciously given me a computer. I guess I could do some blogging. I miss it anyway.

Green Pouring, Sunday, November 9, 2008

Another watercolor pouring. Watercolor 4X6

Gold and Purple Pouring, Saturday, November 8, 2008

A while back I was doing a lot of watercolor pouring pictures and teaching people how to do them. I decided to isolate some of the ones I liked and and use them for my journal and card pictures. Watercolor 4X6