rainmaker

one of the first things that i did last week was make a graffiti wall flag for the creek...

first i cut the winged skeleton stencil... boy do i love it!!


a 'before' pic...


i put a little paint on the copper this time...


sigh...


in my journal i've been painting and gluing. i got stuck on this page but finally just finished her and moved on... my favorite thing is her eyebrows!


this is the back of the page with the christmas cactus on it. the backs of the brads were here, so i stuck a piece of muslin on them, and then glued on a bunch of stuff and painted with acrylics.


muslin on part of the page here, and a piece of string that was laying on the table. the house and walkway are twinkling H2Os.


i've been reading 'confident color', by nita leland, which has me thinking about color and mixing new colors A LOT. here i was mixing twinkling H2Os... nita's got me thinking about color in a new way.


more muslin, misc. glued down stuff, and paint... i was still working on the right page when i took this pic. most pages in this journal are 5" x 7", but some (like the one on the right) are 3" x 7".


if you click on this you can see how tasty the surface is...


muslin plus other fabric scraps... heh, and my new stencil.


another narrow page.


a tag...


i also worked a lot in my travel journal even though i'm not traveling. it's almost three years old and i'm itchin' to start a new one. a bigger one. this one's about 3" x 5". it's on the book of lenore tawney's postcards, which i highly recommend.

i did some 10 minute collages (thanks, robyn) in it. here are a couple of them...






and some contour drawings (a bone here)... i found this owl feather and it improves my painting immensely.


and more pages on muslin... the hand stamp is a teesha moore stamp.


i love every step of working with the muslin.


amelia takes at least three dirt baths a day...


and finally, the orange lily along the creek bloomed last week. every year one lily with three blooms.


this is miraculous to me...

XO