The Artistic Mother

Yesterday I joined Trudy Callan's Artistic Mother's Art Group! Looking forward to participating and learning to find a little bit more balance between being a mom and being a creative person! I usually just alternate days!! It is based on "The Artistic Mother" by Shona Cole. Her blog is fantastic also!! Click on the Artistic Mother button on the right to view Trudy's blog and check out the other mom's participating!

Pears & Such

I finished my pear painting today. I am thinking that the angels may have to take the backseat for a while. I guess that is the beauty of challenging yourself to something. Changing your mind is always an option!! I think I may be entering a fruit phase now or may wake up with a new idea tomorrow. Today I plan on setting up a still life for my next painting and shoot my photos. I already have my canvas prepared, so I may get to start painting tomorrow. After I take my son to take his driving test. Eek! May need to paint to handle the stress of him being out on the road alone in the near future!

I have been busy despite my lack of posting!! I really spent a lot

of time getting to know other blogger's during Lisa's One World,

One Heart event! I was blessed enough to win a few things from very talented artists and the first of my prizes arrived last week!

Lovely earrings from Colleen, and today, a too cool, handmade sketchbook arrived from Gail in Australia.

Also, I was the lucky winner of a tile from Aimee from a giveaway she had a couple of weeks ago! I am a big fan of hers, so that was pretty exciting! Trying to decide what to do with it has been pretty fun! I have a few ideas and will get busy over the next couple of days. I will post a picture when that is completed!

As far as art goes, it's been more about learning from failure than success lately! I have painted over several canvases... and spent quite a few hours knitting.

Angel #5

A little bit of fun over Christmas lead to these angels. I think the background is a little busy and competes with the rest of the imagery. Definitely a learning experience! I find the blue angel a little more to my liking as far as the overall feel, but I don't like her face as much.

“No other artist sees the world exactly as you do or feels what you feel—that story is yours alone to tell, when you become vulnerable enough to paint what’s inside of you, that other dimension starts to come through in your work.” -

Nancy Guzik

Being vulnerable, such a difficult concept for me in life and in

art. It is one of my goals for 2010. My other goals? Doing art every day, reducing my fabric and yarn stash (one way or another), getting rid of clutter EVERYWHERE and beginning an art

journal!

Moleskin Giveaway

I should have more angel pictures to post tomorrow or Tuesday, but I wanted to let you know about the giveaway on Cecilia's blog. You have until midnight to enter her moleskin giveaway and check out her blog!

It's been a while since I have worked in pastel,

and this one really took a long time. I reworked it several times and finished or not, I am ready to move on.