graveyard

The tree is the spot where we have the graveyard. Now it has an art installation around it.

bathroom wall

The inside of the shower/tub area was just way too boring. This is what I did with it yesterday!!

wood wind chimes

Indoor windchimes! I used some more of the wood slats from the falling apart coffee table that resides outside and as soon as the middle completely falls apart I am going to mosaic an insert. But this is about the wind chimes that hang in the cave. They measure 25 inches across and the cross bars are bamboo from our creekbed. Tied with colored hemp and the wood slats are covered with paper on one side and the paint scraps that I peeled up from my work table on the other. I like the sound they make when the window is open and a breeze comes in.........

newest carving

Here is my newest carving. I have showed you step by step how it is stamped. First there is a blank piece of rubber that I inked with yellow ink and stamped on white paper. The piece of rubber is on the right.

Then I inked up the checker board piece of carved rubber with lime colored ink and stamped that over the yellow stamped paper. The checker board stamp is on the right.

Then the carving of the houses is inked up with black ink and stamped over the green and yellow.

Then each house stamp is inked up with blue and pink ink each and over stamped.

The finished stamping is on the left!

landscape

First of all please keep in mind that I am not a watercolorist and this is my first attempt at a landscape. I went out into our field and took pictures of the beautifully green hills surrounding us, printed some of them out and chose one of them to paint. This is the view from our field to the south.

Collage Vase series complete

I have no control at all over the order these pictures come up. So very frustrating when I want them in a certain order and they do whatever they want. I give up. So the first pictures is the close up of the flowers of the repousse vase and flowers. Picture number 5 & 6 show the other pictures of this vase.

Paper collaged vase on red rosin paper, painted with acrylic paint and the base is tissue paper. The flowers were drawn with a white paint pen.

Paper collaged vase and collaged flowers on red rosin paper with acrylic painted background and various handmade papers on the bottom.

close up of the above one

So this is the one that should have been first. It is a repousse vase and flowers on red rosin paper. The background is painted with acrylic paint and the bottom is handmade paper. I then went in with a piece of embossed wall paper and silver paint and stamped over the background to give it a silver image.

Close up of vase.