Back from mini-vacation

We had a fantastic time! Nothing like the woods to get my creative juices flowing. Living in the desert, I tend to forget creeks can have water in them... I've gotten use to dry creeks & washes! I sat on the porch early in the morning seeing the sun dappled woods & listening the the creek running & the birds. I filled page after page in my art journal. So many new ideas. I took alot of pictures too. I love my husband's digital camera! The pictures are so much better than my camera. I either have to confiscate it or buy myself one!

As soon as I got back, I pretty much ran into the studio to work on a few things. The Art in a Carton was on my mind too. Ideas for pieces that can fit in that carton! I came up with too. If I don't write ideas in my journal I forget what it was, sometimes that's good & sometimes not. So I force myself to write it down. It would be nice if I could draw, unfortunately I draw sickly looking stick people! Not so good!

Last night I made a few clay buttons - they came out kind of cute. Now I just need to perfect it some more. Plus after reading some back issues of Somerset magazines, I saw a technique using Ultra thick embossing powder. You just make a copy of a photo on regular copy paper & layer that over a printed paper. Use embossing ink over the picture & a layer of UTEE & melt with a heat gun. After several layers the printed paper shows through the photo! It looks awesome! I'll have to take pictures of it & post them. Plus I'll be making more of those!

I'm going to bite the bullet & organize my studio. I was looking good but I had to pull everything out & pile it here & there when I tiled the floor. So now it's just a big old mess! I can't find anything. When I have to keep stopping to find things ( and make a bigger mess in the process), I get frustrated. So today is the day!

Finally

I finally added the Copper Sun that my studio was named after! I also added a link to Art in a carton - haven't done the logo yet. Being involved in that has got my moving on getting my blog moving along. We've both been working so much, we decided to take a couple of days & go up north to the woods to relax. I know I'll find some great found objects while I'm there. Nothing I love better than finding "junk". Well, maybe getting a new flamingo item. The flamingo fetish started when my husband said he didn't want me to put 2 plastic flamingos at my pond... I now have all things flamingo including a small Christmas tree with flamingo ornaments! I even have a beutiful string of flamingo lights in my studio. He doesn't ever say no anymore!

I have lots of art projects going on. I just move from one to the other as feelings move me. And their never complete till I have them out & look at them on & off for awhile. I love to "experiment" with different supplies. If it works for 1 thing why not another? If it works I keep it, if it doesn't, I turn it into something else. If I could do anything I wanted in life, it would be to not "go to work" and stay home in my studio & create all day. That would make me very, very happy! Not that I'm not happy now. I'll add some pictures of art pieces soon.

Art in a carton

I was so excited when I received an email from Susan ( artangel) that they still had openings for Art in a Carton! You fill a 1/2 or 1 litre carton with art pieces & art supplies - mail 1 carton to the person mailing you one , 1 to the first persons name on the list & 1 to whom ever you want that will particpate. What a cool idea! I checked out some of the wonderful artists involved. It will be such a treat to receive those cartons. Plus I love mail that doesn't involve bills! I will be adding a link to the site soon.