Red Tape

Inconceivable

Today marks the 30th year since my Mother went home.  Thirty years.  That is hard to grasp.  I was in my early twenties when she passed away.  One would think I've had plenty of time to  assimilate the fact that she has been gone longer than I had her. And yet, it is like a puzzle piece that doesn't fit.  There are days that the memories are so hazy, and others that are sweetly crystal clear. 

Thirty years later...I still miss you, Mom.

 

Grace Barbary McCandless

August 31, 1915 - September 26, 1979

 

 

 

EDM #178 - Vintage Child's Telephone

This is for EDM #178 challenge-Draw Something Red.  This is a child's little toy telephone.  Definitely missing some parts....and I definitely don't know how to mke it 'sit' on the table!  It looks like I am looking at it straight on, instead of sitting.  Hmmmmmmm.........

  

......until later

I WON!

I do not usually win.  I rarely buy raffle tickets and never lottery tickets.  Why fight a proven track record...I do not win these things!  Now, my brother in law, Steve....he wins all kinds of stuff, and he has managed to pass this trait on genetically to his children.  Go figure.

My streak has been broken and I was the lucky winner of the art journal below!  Too fun.  Marie P. had a blog giveaway and arranged with Book Journals for the prize.  They rebind old books, with interesting covers, into art journals.  Mine has some of the original pages mixed in with blank pages.  There were literally hundreds from which to choose!  It was fun just to look through them all. Take a peek, if you get a chance. 

   

......thanks Marie!

EDM #244 - Speaking Yiddish

Here is my big chance to speak a foreign language!  I drew a tchatchke.   Well, that is much more exciting than saying a figurine!!  Here it is, a little vintage dressed mouse.

.....she stands on the stairway and torments my little dogs!

Nantucket Town

Spent the day, Saturday, wandering the streets and lanes in Nantucket.  The skies were blue and breeze cool, but an overall gorgeous fall day.  A day on an island that makes you want to re-do your whole house to shades of aqua and creams.  Follow me.....

.....some of us slept the whole way home, on the ferry.

Is this true?

Because my last spread 'fought' with me (regarding a gel medium transfer)...I had to do another one, so it did not get the best of me!  Someone set me free of my own self-competition!!!

......until later

The Door

Part of my scripture memory series, done in an art journal spread.  The right side is actually a photo of a great door, which I took in Santa Fe...but the transfer did not come out as I would have liked.  Ah well!  That is the nature of transfers-unpredictable.

.....keep knocking

Mail Art 4 The Fun of It

This looked like some fun.  I would like to get some cool art in my mailbox as a surprise!  So I decided to git some..... ya gotta give some. So, here are a few of my attempts.

The envies are all vintage wallpaper.  The rest is just flotsam-jetsam around my worktable.  The backs, as well as the inside card are all done this way, too.  I have new respect for long-time mail artists!  This takes a lot of time.

......going postal

EDM #185 Le chat

Anyone ever hear of Captain Bob the art instructor on TV (Boston area) in the 70's or 80's?  I rented his videos through the library (very dated!) but he guides you through some great sketching.  This is one of them, so you will see the reference marks etc.  I was happy because it looked like a cat in a pretty natural position!

......ha!

Lost Journal Page

Sometimes you just feel at loose ends.  But then you must go back to what you absolutely know for sure.

  

......safety first