Saturday, May 23, 2026

watching paint dry and fabric grow

 

welcome to my (2 ) week creativity round up... might be picture heavy, it's full of drawings, paintings, supplies, and improv sewing in orange scraps! 

Let's go! above is a sketchbook painting one morning. Instead of a neurographic abstract I drew a bottle then random lines crossing. Paint with windsor newton watercolor pens and water brush

this tine Ill start with fabric scraps... lots of hand embroidery/stitching on works in progress. 

remember the three teensy tiny collages I showed last time? I slow stitched each, then joined them into this  and I enjoyed each step especially the hand stitching click on image to enlarge photo


at the start of may I turned really little scraps into this 15" X 19" work (on Right) and may join it to last month's piece , for now It's a flimsy.... 





the strip project on the upper left here started in Zen Stitch workshop, tiny strip to tiny strip then hand stitching

love the texture and when it's folded up it's about 5" by 7" with a folded over closure
but now I need to shorten the legs of my new jeans... 
that is no fun
orange even made it's way into my mixed media workshop lesson
paint pastels on paper

one lesson using stamps inspired a lot more use of them in different ways...



just my own sketchbook morning page.... stamps, then a quick sketch of a woman
she looks as over it as I feel now. The triangle strip became a sort of bush there
I tried another stamp using this inkpad



free form rose

morning pages using caron d'ache crayons and posca pens for dots


another morning page, painting in diagonal diamonds and using the same stamps



playing with the windsor newton watercolor pens and water 

the pigment flows if pushed with the brush. I see kind of a cat on the left

more morning experiments with color... Pretty Mess


this time while the page was very wet I tried lifting color with a dry stamp 

Mama! put down that brush and let's go for a walk!

now that's my next face to paint

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Thursday, May 21, 2026

I Like thursday # 505 rain, little girls sandals and a poodle is almost 2 yo

 

welcome to this week's list of likes starting with a sky shot... 

I just love clouds and this week, we had blessed rain. No not a torrent, a gentle 10 drops, then stop, then a bit of drizzle, then stop, repeat. 


love the clouds when they announce rain is a'comin'


It was enough to make the ground damp. Our across the street neighbor bought 40 bags of soil, spread it across the front of his property, and we stopped on our walk to chat about it. The husband was holding Alfie's leash so when the neighbor said, "Oh don't eat that!" I looked back at Alfie chewing up something

then the neighbor said, it's some manure mixed in

Oy, wish he'd said that when we approached! 




Alfie here... I passed my 3 month "gotcha!" mark this weekend and now I am free to be me! I love it here, I love my pawrents, I love getting a little bowl of veggies with my dinner kibble, I love a bedtime cookie, I especially love being with Mama all over the house! 
(I could do without the constant barking dogs all around our house) 
( I heard thunder, and it scared me so much I hid) 
Mama: he's not going to like fireworks neighbors shoot off way too long and often here either
check out this front yard display, even I'm smirking
geese 'N golfers

mama noticed with her artist's eyes, a face on this meter



I like Sheila Connolly the author and am now into this series on audio books
good story and great reader   (a woman moves to MA and starts seeing her forebearers forming a mystery of why??) 

Still painting a lot, even bought the full classes because it was my birthday...

this was from my imagination

LOVE bright bold colors!!

a couple videos

I have watched so many airmen directing take offs this week, I hum topgun in my sleep
these are different...
every day miracles

I want to know this guy...
father daughter dance duo

funny  but true  



conversation starter this week


As a young child did you ever wear plastic sandals bonus if you also had on ankle socks 

well, I had to share this photo of the "high heels" I used to use for dress up around age 5

I wore then, always with ankle socks too, no pics of me but they were a clear version of these
my ankle socks were cotton. After they were washed they shrunk and it was torture to squeeze them on

my barbie had these: 

please visit these folk to see what they liked plus whether they word sandals and socks as girls








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Thursday, May 14, 2026

I Like Thursday # 504 halter tops art random stuff and a poodle

 

welcome to this week's list of likes, always something to discover isn't there ? 

Alfie loves our walks around the hood, even though it's unbearably hot already in May

 still enjoying the free art lessons, finished the Zen stitch and want to continue with mixed media so may have to purchase them this time

 this was done on my own to test some Windsor-Newton watercolor markers... more on Sat post

I like seeing my sketchbook fill up! I love these markers so much

reading the last museum mystery on ebook and will move on to Connolly's other novels next



video's if they won't play link is under them

now that's a trick!!d

https://youtube.com/shorts/JbQWuQLwT80?si=O9njf11SDrM9f6MB


why am I in love with this video???? (lots of Top Gun ? in the past? )

https://youtube.com/shorts/9Q10YW3NDNY?si=R5y1W7ESiYl2ydEJ

I watched at least 40 short videos... yep, obsessed now

and finally this, did I tell you I used to study tap dance  and was in several productions? 

https://youtube.com/shorts/UHt0nsKkw0w?si=V4mluJOlrrUcTs0-

never this good but I love tap still and despite back injury I can still do a time step!

Conversation starter this week
did you wear (have stories) mini skirts? fishnet hose? halter tops?



yes to all! 
(do not forget I was a dancer in a lot of performances and costumes as well) 
Fishnets.... I wanted to be agent 99 on Getsmart or AnneMarie on ThatGirl


on my 13th birthday party, I wore fishnet hose, a mini skirt, and a newsboy cap to top it all off, along with white lipstick, to go to a matinee with girlfriends. Those hose dug into my fleshy preteen thighs and caused a rash from walking and sitting in them! 


still
I thought I looked good
Now, halter tops look good on me, and I wore them but worried at not being able to wear a bra...shy... I made most of my clothes my freshman year of college and made lots of pretty halter top sundresses. 


since a lot of girls wore grungy jeans, I got a fair amount of attention on campus. I still LOVE a dress, and a halter dress. Just right for my shoulder shape. 
even made a jumpsuit like this but in dark purple

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Saturday, May 9, 2026

watching paint dry plus watching fabric art growing

 

My creative time was split this week between paint/drawing   and fabric work

tools of the trade sit out by the computer all the time

Making Zen workshop online was fun, 8 lessons a day in slow making, and I watched most lessons but really  about 4 of them. As for sewing, the color of the month is orange so I used orange in paints too

this was just from youtube... a lesson using water color. Draw with a paint loaded brush around a circle, then use that to stamp all over your paper. 
Paint where the circles overlap (many colors of ink for me) then doodle over the small sections
I love it
One of the mixed media lessons had us paint then stitch over that...mine came out like a tidal scene to me... using zig metallic silver and gold markers first

then pan inks and finally brown embroidery threads thru the paper remind me of bird feet in wet sand
I hope to try this technique again on heavier paper


I start each lesson by drawing the instructor's pace and painting it 

I love capturing the unique faces it's a lesson in observation. 





a face made with collage plus pencil, ink, paint


sometimes I paint on watercolor paper and tape into the sketchbook, other times right onto sketchbook
this time I painted from life instead of following the lesson 





For Rainbow scrap challenge's color of the month, orange, I tested different paint and ink colors

using up leftover gouache right onto the paper  plus instructor's image

one of the Zen stitch instructors had us using smallest scraps to make very tiny vignettes...


I haven't stitched yet, but also will add buttons/lace/beads sequins and then.... 


small scraps sewn into segments to be connected with scrappy strips...

each little scrap work together to make a fascinating vignette
I see art in my daily walks, built by nature, and that said, my snoopervisor who is VERY helpful would like me to put on my walking shoes and let's go!

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