She Who Doodles

Summer has finally ended, Fall is here.  Most of the leaves are down, but still haven't had frost on the pumpkin. I decided not to do any holiday sales this year, finished my last sale early in October.  I just don't do that well this time of year with all the holiday sales and bazaars.  So after loading everything back into the house and trying to find a place for some things I just hated to pack away I finally hung some of my original work.   I have a few older work on my walls but hadn't hung a lot of the newer work.  I had a lot of my earlier mixed media work on my walls but none of my recycled art or original doodles.  A pretty diverse mix of work.  I do get bored doing the same thing all the time.  Always like trying something new.  At least now everything isn't packed away in bins for Spring sales.  I really hate packing my framed originals around with me, so this is nice to find a place for them.  Update fro...

Since I haven't been in the need of creating product for sales or art fairs I've been playing around with other forms of art.  There's always new doodles,  but a little mixed media has been fun for a change.  I always enjoy working with Asian themed pieces.   Some coins and chopsticks.   Layers of paper from a book I picked up at the thrift stores free bin.  Then finished with the Chinese character for Happiness.  Yesterday was so nice I sat outside and finished my doodle in green pen.  I'm always looking for something different to doodle on.  This time it's a bangle bracelet.  And Sunday,  what a beautiful day for a drive in the country.  We headed south east of Portland out near Estacada.  What a view,  Mount Hood is always picturesque but Sunday it was in it's prime.   Friday evening was First Friday Art Walk and another beautiful day to be out.  The show at Gallery 360 here in...

One more sale this weekend and I'm done for this year.  Time to think about some projects I want to do not just items to sell.  My daughter has this big large empty wall in her living room so I thought I'd tackle a painting.  Not my usual art form.  Especially this size.  Since the canvas I bought is 30" x 40" the largest I've ever tackled.  So I painted, I cut and paste, painted some more.  Then started the process again,  more cutting and pasting.  Procrastinating is what it's called.  I'm having a hard time tackling the red poppies.  There will be no going back once I put the red paint on the canvas. Finally, the poppies start to appear, then more grass, maybe some more poppies now that I got the hang of it.  That wasn't so bad after all.     But it needs some final detail.  A butterfly,  and a little Happiness character.  Ready to hang.     ...

I've been wanting to doodle a shoji screen but thought maybe I better start with a smaller one first.  So I bought three 8 x 24 inch wrapped canvas and connected them with fabric so they would bend. My next step was to cover the canvas in layers of torn paper.  I chose light, natural colors because my plan is to doodle on top of the paper.  I added a few pieces do corrugated card board, tulle, fabric strips and some cool handmade papers with lots of fiber mixed in. Next step, the doodle.  This is as far as I got today.  I think the size is a little intimidating, so don't want to rush it. A friend gave me some 6 inch square tiles to experiment with.  Here's the first on, again I started with a couple pieces of handmade paper then doodled.  Since the tiles were all pre drilled to add a hanger I will either use ribbon or maybe some copper wire.  I'll post a finished picture when it's finished. Another project in the works is the small tea tr...