Mother's Day is coming up and its one of my favorites! Love my Mom and I love my kids! This chunk of a babe was me on my Mom's first Mother's Day.
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So I'm sharing the love with you to share with your Moms and the special women in your life. Use promo code THANKSMOM20 in My Shop and/or in My Etsy Shop and you can save 20% on everything! Sale ends May 10th at 10 am.
Happy Mother's Day!!
I recently have fallen in love (again) with doing mosaics! It started with doing pots with my boys at Cub Scouts. This past weekend I went on the prowl at Renningers Antiques and found this cute table for $10. I wanted to create something colorful and meaningful. I am thrilled with the results.
I decided to pay homage to Clara Driscoll, who worked for Louis Comfort Tiffany. Check out the great book, Clara and Mr. Tiffany. She not only created and designed his dragonfly and wisteria motifs, she created and designed the first lamps that would become his lamp collection! He not only never gave credit to his huge staff of women (the male glass workers were on strike and the women were cheaper to employ), Tiffany never let his female staff get married as long as they worked for him! So for all the women throughout the ages who have helped others get all the money and credit, I give you the spirit of the butterflies and dragonflies: metamorphosis and longevity!
I believe that we are spiritual beings having a human experience, and that underneath each personality is a collective story and life energy- the soul. Like the layers of drawing, painting and collage, I try to mimic these layers of personality, story, energy and spirit. My faces and figures are not about portraiture in the sense of capturing a likeness. They are about capturing an essence.
Time to Think, 40" x 30"
Found this great fabric project on Houzz and felt liking sharing.... $35 for a great looking piece of furniture.
The Gallery at Avalon Island and Patrick Greene present
Artist Talk: Saturday, May 10, 2014, 12 pm
Show runs through Monday, May 12, 2014
39 S. Magnolia Ave., Orlando FL 32801
Land Divided started out as an experiment in using an old broken photo into a patchworked collaged landscape painting. It was a struggle trying to find the balancing point between it being a distraction and losing the photo entirely. Up close this piece is quite abstracted but from far it really takes on the look of a landscape.
Land Divided, 16" x 16"
Love the slogan, "Think Globally, Act Locally", but this one got its title simply from the paper globe that her face is drawn over! This one started out as a demo in the Villages and I've reworked it a few times. Finally finished.
Think Globally, 16" x 16"
First tutorial video is hot off the presses!!
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