08/17/2015

Moved my rv for the second time in two months :-( sooooo, not many posts to blog!

So here we go.  Since my last post I have been kind of all over the map with my art.  Everything from beadwork to drawing.  

Here i just picked up an ink pen with no plan and let my mind and hand just wander.  Look what happened. 

 I call this  ZIA doodle "Flo". Probably because nothing about moving just flo's, it is always jagged and difficult for me.

Then I painted over my only canvas.  This is for a background to draw on.  

Kind of like how I did this one with watercolor...My friend kraftymax asked me for a "bright" sugar skull.  She loved him!

Then I did this in my sketch book.

I love green and blue together.  

I did this while also painting the canvas background and another background in watercolor.  In the process I accidently transferred pink paint from my hand onto the paper...thus the pink ribbon.

Then a little bookmark and I even burned the edges.  First time I ever did that.  

I clearly have a thing going for this "flowy" design.

Then I tried ballpoint pen on top of the acrylic paint on canvas.  Who knew there were glitter ink pens lol?

I am not really sure how I feel about this one.  He is kind of on hold while I think of what it needs next.

Then I started a pineneedle basket with whatever supplies I could gather.  My usual supplies were not with me and it was my absolute worst basket ever...

Done with cross stitch linen and the tiniest, most brittle pine needles ever.  I didn't even put my mark on it.  

But my friends daughter wanted it so I gave it to her , other wise I would have cut it up and re-used the wood center.

Now I have my basket supplies and am working on a little 5 in. Oval basket.   Ahhhh a comfort zone.  Much better.  

 So for now that is it.

No farmers market right now, but I do have my application in for the Jacksonville Fl Riverside Arts Market!  

Wish me luck and don't forget to find me on instagram and facebook under Earth Baskets or Pandulaarts Creations!

04/25/2015

Things have been kind of hectic… Still… But I do have a few pictures to share with you. I have been working on my drawing, especially since my other arts gave me tendinitis in my left hand. So here are a few pictures of what I've been up to.

I thought I was doing pretty well with this one, but things went horribly wrong. Keep looking further down.

His eyes are beyond weird and I can't figure out what to do to fix him. Clearly skulls are not my strong suit. But of course this is only the fourth or fifth one I've ever drawn.

But I learned a lot, and practices what it's all about.

Then I warped my inkle loom AND I FINALLY got the baltic threading correct!!!  The purple thread is hand dyed and hand spun by one of my Ravelry buddies.  Mailed to me a few years ago in a swap.  I made her a hand woven backstrap.

This warp will be for little pouch bags.

Then a friend cut me a few more boards out of my Juniper stump.  Aren't they wonderful!!!

Then a tiny drawing...too small for my liking.  Not sure how to complete it.  Maybe a car charm?

Then I drew this and HATED IT!!!  Soooooo I sanded it off.

The wood will be reused eventually.  

Then I tookmy first art instructional class. Acrylic painting.  Clearly I need a whole lot more practice. Although I will admit that I had more control of my brushes and paint than I ever thought that I would. You might remember this flower though from this drawing I did a few months ago…my first charcoal piece.

I don't know how many of you are familiar with the fact that I love dragons.  But I do so I bought a little book on drawing dragons, I've done a few before but it's been a very very long time. And this is what I got.

I was looking at this tutorial…so sorry for the sideways picture.

And here is the one that I drew.  It was the first time I had drawn on paper in quite some time and I did him very quickly. He was meant to be more skatchy than most of my art.  My art is usually tight I was trying to loosen up, he still ended up tight. But I do like it a lot.

He is an Amphitere dragon.

Then I moved onto a Phoenix.  He is on a piece of scrap lumber (think re-claimed) that a neighbor gave me. 

I have not picked up a color pencil in months and months and months. I cannot even tell you how long it has been. But I really like using colored pencils on the lumber and I think he's turning out beautifully so far.

And that girls and boys brings us to the present day and time. For now I'm going back to my color pencils.

I hope you guys stay tuned to see how things turn out with the Phoenix. 

Don't forget you can find me at the farmers market in Saint Augustine at the amphitheater on most Saturdays. Right now I am only doing every other Saturday and there is no market today and on the May 2nd, it will be closed also due to Flagler College graduation ceremonies. 

But I will be there the following weekend and every other weekend from there on. It may even be that I go back to every single weekend. So stay tuned same bat time same bat channel.