paint party friday - cleaning triumph & more wood art

Hi everyone at Paint Party Friday! Coming pretty late to the party, but wanted to share a few things regardless.

Here is my greatest artistic triumph of the week - possibly of the year - yes, it is a shower stall! The thing is, the horrid thing had not been sparkling pretty much ever. Sure, I cleaned, but I had never gotten it to be pure white for some reason. Then I learned of a new technique to get things going, and there it is - white.

I ended up at one point watching a cool British show called How Clean is Your House where they recommended you soak rags or paper towels in bleach solution, and essentially wallpaper the shower stall. Then, to leave it there for some time, and scrub it all off. Now.... I have as stated tried & tried to scrub it off in the past, to no avail - so I was excited to find out this worked.

But since this is not a blog about cleaning, and it is a blog about art, I am sharing one of the newest pieces we have finished. Here are both sides of the piece. As can be seen, on one side is a mask, and on another people who are fighting, plus symbols.
Hoping everyone has a great weekend!

Creative Tuesdays - Birthdays

The theme at Creative Tuesday is Birthdays, in honour of a particular birthday member of the group - the lovely Wanda.

This is my fun-filled rendition of a birthday card. If there's one thing I know about Wanda, is she'd be very fun, especially in a party. Probably not exactly in the way I portrayed, but fun and up for a good, cordial, friendly time nonetheless. I think it is a great accomplishment to acquire so much time, experience, and living, always maintaining good cheer, good looks, health, and a fun, lively spirit - as our Wanda does. So saying, I am more than proud to participate in the birthday wishing round robin.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Just learned that Alexandra had a bad car wreck - I am very deeply sorry about her difficulty and hope she recovers quickly.

Anyway - might as well get on with this even though the news put a damper on things....

When thinking of fun birthdays befitting someone fun, I recall those epic birthdays we all used to have as kids - who remembers that? Music, and clowns, and pinning tails on donkeys, hide and seek, and musical chairs. And, of course, epic quantities of cake, sugar, ice cream, etc etc etc.... in my case, we'd also always take home 'surprises' - parcels with yet even more candy, after the event.

We also had Piñatas, which were very popular with all the other kiddies ... not so much with me. I could never see the point of going all feral, attacking a poor papier mache animal and getting all stepped on - just for the sake of more candy, of which there was plenty enough in the bowls anyway... like, who needs that?

But I had fun imagining a 73rd year celebration as epic as those we had in childhood, complete with Piñata and all. I think I am promising to myself today that, if I do have a 73rd birthday party, I will have one - and go give it a good whack to make up for lost time.

Happy birthday Wanda! May you have fun whacking Piñatas.

PPF - art updates painting on Cedar

Dear PAINT PARTY FRIDAY friends - was feeling nostalgic for the old group so decided to post - may do so for SS as well.

Basically, as has been true for a good couple of years, I  have  not been doing a lot of ME painting - as in, painting oriented for my own personal inclination. Mainly  because I find myself spending so much more time on creating art that we sell, through Marshall Arts, with husband creating words, etc.

The piece I am sharing today is an oldie we sold months ago, but I have been recently spending some time unearthing old cell phone photos of these, and Photoshopping them as best I can so as to create something akin to a portfolio!

The words on the following piece are:

The Concept of Solidarity, Seemingly As Fierce & Tangible As a Rolling Wall of Flame, & Yet No Easier to Manifest Than Levitation Among Jupiter's Moons, Does Rest on Twin Foundations Both of Which Are Indisputably Accurate & Concrete, First, That the Vast Majority of Earth's Inhabitants Are Working Class Folk, & Second, That Every Human Being, Without a Single Exception, Is Either Cousins or Even Closer Kin

On another note, came back from a groovy art fair in South Texas this past weekend. It was incredibly fun and moderately successful sales-wise, in spite of the unexpectedly bad weather. I had never been to that area of the world, so I was very happy to visit. And be at an art sale so far from home.

This trip did entail a rather grueling 30 hours, cumulative, in a car, though, from Souther Appalachia to South Texas, so people can imagine how I feel now, LOL. Needless to say, saw a lot of coffeeshops.

Chattanooga, TN

San Antonio, TX

Baton Rouge, LA

Tuscaloosa, AL

Laurel, MS

Atlanta, GA (this was fun - was my old hangout from way back)

HOPE ALL are having a great weekend!

creative tuesdays - nursery rhymes

Hello all at creative tuesdays http://www.dottyhill.com/blog/

I am on the road and were it not for a stop in Chattanooga on the way back from Texas to Asheville Nc, I would probably not participate today. Been in cars for 30 hours this week,  man...

Have been all week on the road and all weekend at an art fair which was cool

I am writing on a tablet so don't want to write too much but more later. This is a nursery rhyme we had in Chile, analogous to the black Sheep have you any wool one from Britain.  I am embarrassed at my horse drawing skills which is why I ended u p doing 2.

Have a great day!


This is the song.
http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=196&c=33
http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=196&c=33

The words of the song are here, and the link above has some videos of folks performing it

Little White Horse

Canción infantil

(Spanish)

Children's Song

(English)

Caballito blanco,
llévame de aquí,
llévame a mi pueblo
donde yo nací.

Tengo, tengo, tengo,
tú no tienes nada,
tengo tres ovejas
en una cabaña.

Una me da leche,
otra me da lana,
y otra mantequilla
para la semana.

Levántate Juana
y prende la vela,
anda a ver quién anda
por la cabecera.

Son los angelitos
que andan de carrera
buscando la leche,
pa' la mamadera.

Little white horse,
Take me away.
Take me to the town,
Where I was born.

I have, I have, I have,
You have nothing.
I have three sheep,
In a cabin.

One gives me milk,
Another gives me wool,
And another, butter,
A whole week's worth.

Get up, Joan,
And set fire to the candle,
Go see who's walking
On the headboard.

It's the little angels
Who go running
Looking for milk
For the bottle.