The New Stuff

I have a few new things to post...very bad scans, however, so keep that in mind when viewing these pictures. I think I would've done better to just take photos of these paintings...that would've been better than these awful scans. There are LINES running through my paintings where the paper is uneven! Well, that's the beauty of mixed media, I guess. It's a very inexact science. Nothing will ever be perfect. There is perfection in its imperfection.

As a matter of fact, in the first scan, The girl with two different colored eyes...I added some black paint to one of her eyes and I didn't like it, so I tried to wipe it off, and look! It made it look like she's crying! So cool. I love it.

The second girl with the blond hair came out the best. Best proportions, best eyes (which I'm no good at)...she looks like a princess.

And the third is an attempt to add paintings to my Moleskine journal...and I added a made-up poem using random words on scraps of paper I drew from an old salt cellar my mom gave me. What I really love in that painting is the cloud. I will go back to that cloud again.

Well, that's about all that's new around here. I continue to make fabric flowers...I even sold a couple. They really MAY go up on Etsy, if I have the time....this will probably be when my Mother-in Law leaves.

I also found out I have 2 more travel blogs coming up...one in August/September and one toward the beginning of the New Year. The first one is Stateside and the second one will be International. Looking forward to that.

Enjoy your Mother's Day...TTFN.

Fabric Flower Power

These are a few of the new fabric flowers I've been creating. I can't tell you how much fun I have making them. It's like part sewing, part fabric origami! It's fun to pick out the fabric and then the embellishments...and then folding them and putting them together is so quiet and meditative.

I first learned about these fabric flowers when I was in Singapore. They're an offshoot of the flowers geishas and maikos wear in their hair. But these look nothing like what a geisha would wear! What I've done is put a little pin on the back so that you can put these on your jacket or on your purse. Can you imagine how cute this would look on your purse? I think I might make enough of them that I will post and sell them on Etsy.

Well, I just wanted to post a picture real quick. It's actually time for me to CLEAN THE STUDIO. Special thanks to Cindy for pointing me to Hipstamatic...that's where the awesome photo came from.