Week 22: A Gift for my Little One

Who I guess is not so little.  He turned 7 today.  

So today we had a pirate themed party for him.  I made the kids treasure maps to follow and when they finally got to the treasure there was a dragon waiting for them!  It was so much fun!  I really grabbed some great shots so i thought I would share...

 Snapped this pic of my dog Seamus catching bubbles or just hanging out...I cant remember

I love the last 2 photos!  Very Lord of the Flies meets the Little Rascals.  I especially love the one with the head of the dragon they slayed.

 

And also I found the charger for my camera, so YAHOO!!

I wanted to paint my fella a little something fun and this is was what I came up with.  He original asked me to paint a picture of himself holding up an Iron Sheik action figure and someday I may very well do that, but come on buddy I only have a week!

 

Anyway, I had fun with it And he loved it.  I'm so glad this is not my style.  It's too meticulous and time consuming.  I like scribbles and soft edges...hahaha

Until next week!

Oh and don't forget next Friday is the James St. N. 

ART CRAWL!!

I'm going to be there with my gal pal and you should be to!

Week 21: Having a Little Fun

I have this ugly denim corset that I bought with the notion I could one day do something to spruce it up...'cause it was REALLY ugly.  Well flash forward like 4 years and a trip to the bottom of my closet to retrieve my summer clothes and you have this weeks attempt at creativity.

I don't know that much about what is typically sexy, but I do know what I like...

Latex

paisley Smoking Jackets

  
& corsets

So this is my attempt to make something a little too "Daisy Duke" into something more up my alley.

I really wish I would have taken a before picture, but by the time I remembered I had already gesso'd it...

Anyway...I tried!

Until next week...

Week 20: Jeff's Dad

This week I painted a portrait with acrylic on a wood panel.  The portrait was for an old friend and his new wife as a wedding gift.  Jeff was a great friend of mine in my early twenties.  He was always wicked fun, but over the years lost touch...

Every once in a while he comes back to Hamilton from Germany or Spain or Illinois and I LOVE so much to visit with him and now to have a new friend in his beautiful wife.

It was fun to paint this, because Jeff and Sylvia visited on Saturday so I had to be finished the portrait by Friday.  So this Sunday I haven't painted anything!!  Usually I am feverishly trying to get stuff done because I procrastinated all week.

So today Dave and I took Julian out to try and teach him how to ride a two wheeled bycle.  He doesn't quite have the hang of it yet, but he did mange to get a few sidewalk squares on his own 3 or 4 times.  He was very proud and so are we!

Hope you're having a GREAT long weekend.  Sorry for the crappy quality of photos...even with all my spring cleaning I still can't find my camera charger.

Until next week...

 

Week 19: 33 Weeks Left!!

I haven't stuck to something this long EVER!  I know I've cheated a couple of weeks, but for the most part I've been a pretty good girl!

This week I took part in The Makers' Market

at the James St. North Art Crawl.

I wanted to take pictures, but again I can't find the charger for my good camera and was too ashamed to pull out my crappy one with all the cool people around...hahaha

The most awesome thing I saw was a Canadian artist by the name of Corinne Duchesne

She works on Mylar and her paintings are breath taking and inspiring...you should check out her website!

This week I continued on with my vintage fabric inspired 6x6 inch painted canvases.

I forget who guessed what I'll be doing with them when all is said and done, but for those of you who don't know I will be connecting all panels into one larger quilt piece...it should be pretty neat...I hope

I only finished 2 this week, the third was too frustrating and it's getting too late...

 

 

I'm sorry for the quality of the pictures, it's the best I can do...

I put together some of the panels I've finished so far and I pretty damned pleased with myself.

hope you like it too

 

Until next week...

 

Week 18: Can't Get it Together

This week turned out ok, but I still can't find my camera battery charger.  So I used a camera that I found in the bottom of a junk draw that is 5 mega pixels and had photos on it from 2006/2007.  The picture of this weeks oil pastel drawing on illustration board is not as awesome as I would have liked.  And because we had family over for Mother's Day I didn't have an opportunity to take it outside with the awesomeness of natural light...

I think I need to treat myself to a lovely new camera...a real fancy one with LOTS of bells and whistles!!  My birthday is coming...

So here is this weeks installment along with an awesome picture I found that made me giggle. 

Until next week...

Week 17 : Slacking Off

What?

Everyone does it!  I admit it, I was a huge slacker this week.

My friend gave me these slate tiles and I have been trying to figure out what to do to them.  My idea is to make them into outdoor art that could put in a garden or hung on a fence.  This is my first very WEAK attempt at that.

 I promise next week will be something work viewing!

Until next week...

 

Week 16: It's Still Sunday Somewhere in the World...

This week I was inspired by my friends mother-inlaw's home.  It is so bright and colourful and filled with great pieces of art!  This is me trying to replicate the brightness.

I was working until about 2 minutes ago and when I tried to take a picture of it my camera died... So sorry that there is only one crappy photo and that there isn't a side view, but I might put another shot up tomorrow.

Until next week...which is literally 2 minutes from now!