One Iris Plus Three

While we're talking about the lovely Iris...here is another from today, in the style of Warhol obviously, but I think in way that is more calming, that could just be me though.
Anyhow, this is also for sale on Redbubble

The Butterfly

Digitally altered art, original photo, which is shown above was of a bouquet of flowers I received for Mother’s Day.

Quote is by Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun, a French lyric poet, who died in 1807.

"The Butterfly" is available for sale in a variety of sizes (from laminated prints to posters) on my REDBUBBLE site

Rosebud

Rosebud is a 11x16 acrylic painting on stretched canvas and to date is my most ambitious painting. I usually do abstracts but wanted to try something more realistic this time. I enjoyed the process so much I will definitely be trying it again soon.
I apologize for the quality of the photo, even taken outside it just won't come out great, maybe because of the black background?

Illustrated Haiku #2

I have been working on the Haiku for this for several days but couldn't get it to feel right. This morning I went outside to commune with Nature for a bit and while sitting there watching the bees on the clover the words just flowed right into my mind. So I rushed in and began this. 7 hours later here is the completed piece!
First I painted the background using acrylics on a 9x12" gallery wrapped (staples in the back) canvas,,which means the painting goes all along the sides too, so no frame is needed, most of the sides are blue, but the flower stems also continue on the bottom side.
Next I picked flowers for my field and sewed them to the canvas with buttons for
the centers. This took quite some time, finding the right flowers and buttons, deciding on placement and the sewing.
Then I painted on the leaves and stems.
Then very lightly in pencil I wrote the Haiku and then traced it twice with a
very fine Sharpie. Even though I made sure all the words were right, I was convinced I had
spelled one wrong and wrecked the whole thing..LOL
Next I made the bee and ladybug from felt and sewed them on.
Last signed and dated it.
I am VERY happy with this piece!
as usual clicking on photo will give you a larger view and I appreciate all comments!
If you like this, you can now have it made into a mouse pad, tshirt, or card by visiting my store at Zazzle, all it takes is a click HERE!

It's a start :-)

One of my things to do this year is to begin crocheting , and maybe knitting again. During Christmas I found an old magazine with several afghans in it and fell in love with the patchwork one, which is what made me decide to begin this past time again.
Shown here is what I have done so far, I need 43 more of the squares , although I will say 44 cause that red one didn't come out right.
Also need 32 more flowers to embellish the 16 of these squares with.
Then I will move on to checkerboard blocks, and then stripes. The remaining solid blocks will have cross stitch and applique on them for embellishing.
Can you picture it yet?
The picture isn't showing the true colors, well, the red, yellow, bright blue and pink are right but the blocks that look like a navy are actually a rich purple.
I have found this to be a very relaxing, stress busting thing to do at night while watching tv..or should I say listening to it..lol although I have noticed that I can now look up occasionally and s crochet at the same time.
Funny story..
The other night I was on the chaise under a quilt working on a block, when the phone rang and scared the heck out of me...turns out the reason it scared me was because I was SLEEPING and had been for almost TWO HOURS. I was still holding the hook and block in one hand and the
strand of yarn across my fingers in the other..LOL

fabrics for new project

Quite a few folks have been asking me how I make the abstract pieces I have posted lately. Since I want to make a 4 part seasonal series, I decided to share a little look at the process I go through.

The first one I am doing is spring. I sat down and wrote down what comes to mind when I think spring..right off the bat the obvious things came to mind, flowers, new grass and leaves, birds, butterflies,birds led to robin's eggs, flowers led to rain, rain led to mud.

So in the picture below you will find the fabrics I pulled to represent Spring.

In the next post, you will see how I begin, it is different every time, and I am not even sure how I will do this one, although I have cut out ovals for the eggs from a nice blue and some very free form floral shapes, as well as 2 Irises.

I also know that all 4 pieces of this series are going to be 12"..

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One of the challenge groups I belong to had a theme this month of nature, so I decided to do something a bit different and paint my scene on dyed fabric. I used acrylic paints.

Flor Del Fuego

My newest passion..I love this new outlet for my creativity. It takes a lot less time than quilting that's for sure! And a lot less money too! All I need is pictures (of which I have THOUSANDS!!) a couple of photo programs and voila! I took an ordinary picture of a bunch of small flowers, cut, resized, used several editing options and here is the new product, a beautiful red flower! Wouldn't this look great on a white wall?