My Self Portrait!

After experimenting with painting Beyonce, I decided

to take a huge leap and paint myself. I asked my daughter

to find a photograph I could paint. She selected a photo

from last year, one she had taken. Here it is, in green tones:

I printed out the photograph on regular printer paper.

Glued it to paper, and then PAINTED over my face!!!

Here is the finished product!!

Expressive Portrait!

Tried a new process today. Find a magazine photograph you like.
Scan it. Change it up. I chose sepia tones. Print it out. Glue it on
to a piece of art paper. Then paint the dark spots and the light spots,
and connect as you will. Here's my rendering!!!

Painting Shutterboxes and Decorations

My daughter came up with this color scheme for the shutterboxes I found at an antiques shop. I'll use the shutterboxes to display my prints (which I'll be assembling with backing, mats and clear bags this week). The folding fence will be at the entry way to my booth!

I finished painting this watercolor

yesterday.

It had been languishing half-finished

for over a year!!!

A blue door in a Greek neighborhood.
I think I could live there part-time!
OK, in my dreams, and if I won the lottery, but yes, I'd like to stay in that neighborhood!

Finally, my Business Card!

I have worked and worked on this business card. I had hoped I'd be able to incorporate my own calligraphy into the business card itself, but the lettering just wasn't as clear as I thought the lettering would need to be.  Now, on to designing and sewing the table covers!

    

Some very different work for me...

These art pieces are a stretch out of my comfort zone. I am not sure I like them, but I'm am glad I'm trying to do this sort of work.

And these below are an evolution of a process...I wish it were easier to post these photos sequentially.

Getting Ready!

I am trying to think of everything for the art booth. I keep on checking off items on the TO DO list, but the list keeps getting longer!

• Order clear bags, mats, backing for prints - http://www.clearbags.com - CHECK!
• Folding tables - CHECK!
• Printer Order #1 - CHECK!
• Cloth to make covers for folding tables - CHECK!

  

  Bought these sheets from Goodwill!

• Sew covers for folding tables - _____
• Printer Order #2 - CHECK!
• Finish a few acrylic paintings - CHECK!
• Finish another fashion collage - _____
• Assemble prints and mats in bags - _____
• Create a Banner for the booth - ____
• Create Business Cards - _____
• Create Pricing List for Calligraphy work, packaged prints, Collages - _____
• Create Calligraphy and Collage work sheet commission request - _____
• Panels for booth to hang artwork - CHECK (found trellises!)
• Order bags for purchases - http://www.papermart.com - CHECK!
• Printer Order #3 - CHECK!
• Create Business Logo Stamp - _____
• Order Stamp, business cards, business stickers for bags  - _____
• Sew eye bags for rest or post yoga exercise - lavendar and flax seeds - _____
• Finish or redo these watercolors - _____   [Turkish bath woman, Orange and Blue Fairy, Mermaid, Street Scene in France, and the Blue Door street scene in Greece, Goat about to eat]
• Place final Printer Order by Thursday! - _____

A Special Shout Out to My Artsy Helpful Daughter

I don't think I'd be ready for my first art booth on 28 April if it weren't for my lovely daughter!
I had thought at one point that I would use propanels or grid panels to hang up my art. Then I realized it was going to cost a few hundred dollars AND the panels wouldn't meet my criteria of being as lightweight as I wanted, or as 'eye catching' in the display as I hoped. So darling daughter and I traipsed off to Lowe's to look for shutters, wooden ones I discovered would be too expensive, and I'd have to order them. They wouldn't have the used look I hoped for, either. Thought I'd need to look at a salvage place and asked folks for a place here in Tallahassee. On the way out of Lowe's dear daughter suggested looking in the Garden Center. Brilliant daughter found trellises that will be perfect!

Artsy daughter then discovered something sweet to adorn the entryway to my booth! She painted them a lovely blue! And she didn't stop there, she offered to paint the window aka shutter boxes I found at an antique store last month. Look at the lovely colors!  The window boxes will hold the assembled prints in bags that she and I will work on next week...

Finishing a Watercolor or two

I have tended in the past to stop a watercolor painting
because I wasn't sure I'd be able to complete it well.
Today I stepped up and completed three watercolors.
I have the before photos somewhere, not sure where.
What matters is the finished product, right?!
Here they are:




Dolphin swiming near Ocean Floor

Seahorse and Woman



Burro and Woman next to Sea
I love the jewel tones in her dress
and the burro makes me smile

and last, a monochromatic painting of a rocky seaside and a lighthouse....

Now the next thing I need to do is take these to

the printer so I can make some copies to sell

at my first booth on April 28th.

Maybe I'll manage to frame these, too, in time.

That would add pizzazz to my display,

wouldn't it?!