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"Bee on a Coneflower"

Pen and ink drawing - 2017.

Perfect border for bees, don't you think?

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Zentangle and ball point pens, a combination meant to be.

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pages 10 & 11

RED GINGHAM

Enjoy the little things in life 

for one day you'll look back 

and realize they were the BIG things.

There are certain fabrics - like gingham - that make me nostalgic. 

The particular color of the gingham helps me to recall specific activities. 

With RED GINGHAM I can remember picnics. Looking back . . .

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Pen and ink drawing. 

I used this drawing in a mixed media painting.

I love this guy!

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Pen and ink sketches from my art journals.

Interested and complicated.

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Pen and ink sketch before the color was added.

This charming drawing was on my 

daughter's wedding invitation, dated 10.21.2017.

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pages 8 & 9:

It's all about the WORK.

Practice doesn't always make perfect, 

but it does make better.

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Pen and ink sketch of my art supplies.

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Pen and ink sketchbook sketch.

 I did add colors from the markers.

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Pen and ink zentangle sketch, along with a zentangle border.

Zentangle is meditation in art.

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Ball point pen sketch from my art journal.

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pages 6 & 7:

The ABC's of artful meditation

This is a zen-like exercise - 

an artful meditation 

- to empty your mind and listen 

- as you fill the page 

with color and shapes.

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As you can see, I really like weaving, 

even my borders are weavings.

Colored Pencil drawing of Primary Cups

A colored pencil study 

- using primary colors - 

always my "Go-To".

Love those bright colors!

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"Heart with Buckle"

Ball point pen drawing. Weaving with jewelry and ribbons.

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"Chinese Dog Butterfly"

Zentangle drawing created with pen and ink, 

black, red and gold.

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Pen and ink sketch from my art journal.

Practicing my zentangling.

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pages 4 & 5:

WALK BAREFOOT ON THE BEACH

Forget about stopping to smell the roses, just take off your shoes and walk on the beach. Not near a beach, walk in the grass, walk in a puddle - at the very least - just take off your shoes. Free your self from your usual constraints and just be . . .

Merry Christmas and the Wold and Dog

Christmas in August - I missed July!

A Pen and Ink drawing. 

First you see the wolf, then you realize 

he is with a Santa figure - but wait - 

Santa is a dog. 

Well who knows - maybe Santa can be 

whatever or whoever you want him to be!

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 pages 2 & 3:

See You Later Alligator

This journal is made up of scraps of words and quotes and pictures I have collected over the years from hundreds of magazines and books. Glued with a student grade glue stick alongside my own original drawings. I used acrylic paint on only one page, I did not like waiting for the paint to dry so the rest of the drawings and writing were made with ink pens, gel pens, and colored pencils. 

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Pen and ink drawing, "The Nutcracker".

Christmas drawing from 2017.

Ball Point Pen drawing Octopus/Kracken with Anchor

Ball Point Pen - one of my favorite drawing tools. 

I used this fabulous vintage sheet music for the background.

Surprisingly it held up to the pen drawing. 

I originally used only a black pen, but then I went back and 

added some color with my colored ball point pens.

Ball Point Pen Steampunk drawing on Vintage Book Page

Steampunk Hat

drawn with ballpoint pen on vintage dictionary book page.

The Mini Art Journal

Look at this lovely Journal. 

Small enough to fit in my hand. 

Beautifully stitched and bound 

just waiting to become . . . become whatever I want. 

page one:
Walk with 
the dreamers, 
the believers, 
the courageous, 
the cheerful, 
the planners, 
the doers, 
the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.   ~ Wilferd Peterson 1900 - 1995

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to Me!

Celebrating the 2nd Anniversary of my 35th Birthday

Ball Point Pen drawings on Vintage Book Pages

 

Ball Point Pen Drawings

on Vintage Sheet Music

Three Bears in the Shower with Rubber Ducky

Many hours later and many layers later the Bears are done their shower.

They are having lots and fun and won't come out!

Three Bears in the Shower with Rubber Ducky

The bears are cleaning up nicely. 

I have added layers of color, gradually building up to the color I want.

I love the shower curtain, the collaged book pages can be seen through the paint.

Three Bears in the Shower with Rubber Ducky

BEARS IN THE SHOWER

or

You make bath time lots of fun!

What fun - this large 30 x 40" acrylic painting.

I wanted to create a painting that would look good on a shower curtain.

So I am painting a shower curtain.

The canvas was first collaged with pages from a book of maps. 

I am hoping to let this paper show through the painting in some places. 

Then I painted the base coat.

Book Cover Art - "Out of this World"

My latest book cover art for author Joanie Findle, available at Sunbury Press 

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Folk Art Rooster Acrylic Paintings

Roosters

Roosters have always been on my "Painting Bucket List".

There are so many varieties and they are so colorful.

The background is collaged pages from a book of maps.

In Process:

Acrylic Mixed Media Sommelier Dog Wine Painting

HAIR OF THE DOG

This fun and whimsical painting will be the featured star of my August exhibit at the 

Adams County Winery, 25C Chambersburg St., Gettysburg PA 17325.

The gallery wrapped canvas was collaged with old sheet music which can be seen 

in the background. I used acrylic markers 

to build the first layer of the 

painting. Finding just the right dog took a lot of research 

as he needed to look good in red.

Frenchie was the perfect choice!

Art Exhibit at Adams County Wine Shop, Gettysburg PA

This exhibit will run from July 23rd thru August 29th.

Come take a peek and enjoy a 

Pennsylvania glass of wine,

 I recommend the Summer Sangria!

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Just a pen and ink doodle from my art doodling journal.

Landscape Acrylic Painting

LANDSCAPE PAINTING

Landscape painting is a genre I normally avoid. There are so so many talented artists who paint beautiful realistic landscape paintings that I did not want to get lost in the crowd. Hence the reason I paint conceptual whimsical colorful paintings.

But my family has said to me on more than one occasion -

"Why don't you paint something someone might like?".

So I decided to do just that.

I will hang it in a show this summer and see what the reception is.

In Process:

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"Bracelet and Ribbons"

Ball point pen drawing.

Love drawing woven ribbons and string,

 this time I mixed it up with some jewelry.

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"Reflecting Turtle"

pen and ink drawing

Recycled Painting - Red Flower in Acrylic with Collage

FINISHED

Many many layers of paper and acrylic glaze.

Recycled Red Flower

In Process:

Recycled Painting - Red Flower in Acrylic with Collage

Another Recycled Painting,

an old painting that needs a new lease on life. 

Rather than spend years in the closet, 

I've re-invented this canvas.

 Painted over with gesso, then stenciled and glazed, 

creating a background to start a new painting.

The flower petals were cut from a 

1935 issue of Home and Garden.