And Now with Gold!


The lighting is not the best, but I added a first layer of metallic gold paint on the side walls of the niche.  It looks great not in this photo of course, but trust me the gold and the purple really pop!

I need to find my stash of barbed wire bits and pieces, there's a natural crease line in the timtex about a third up from the bottom that seems like a natural spot to put some barbed wire. As I've been painting this piece I've been contemplating what other colors and embellishments I want to add to this piece, aside from the tiny bit of barbed wire I haven't come up with much yet.

WIP Queen Anne's Crows No. 7


Queen Anne's Crows No. 7

I don't like the clock face in this one, for starter's it's to white.  And while I'm tempted to rip the clock out altogether it does occur to me that I could get the clock functioning, after dulling up the clock face a wee bit, and put it up for sale at one of the local gallery shops.  Otherwise, yes I'm tempted to pull the clock face out and put something more meaningful, to me, in it's place.

WIP Queen Anne's Crows No 5


I'm not overly ripped on this shade of red, but for a base coat on the wood this will do, I'm wanting a much deeper shade of red. As for the paint dripping on the stitched panel never fear, that panel has been covered with plastic wrap.

I have to say I had doubts but this was a great idea, I figure if I truly end up hating the color(s) I can always paint the piece black, BUT, the act of painting the wood got me to thinking about the piece, what I want to add and where, what other colors do I want to add, do I want to leave the birds as is?  Btw you can get hose birds from my stencil series over at StencilGirl Products, the birds are a part of my Three Crows Series.  Am off to look at my copper nail and barbed wire collections while this layer of paint dries!


Before the first layer of red paint.

Adobe Cloud SUCKS

It is Sooooooooooooooooo nice to know that I pay $49.99 a month for a cloud program that is well, SH*T!  Excuse me but I'm one of those b*tches that expects when I click on a program on my computer to open up and with no issues.  And by no issues I mean it actually opens up instead of giving me the redundant Photoshop, Bridge, or Illustrator is not responding right now message.

Ummm actually I may be bordering on insanity with my level of expectations!  The program opens and closes without any notice and this is just not exceptable. Overall I give Adobe Cloud an solid "F" as in Adobe's Cloud is */#*&^%(@ sh*t!  Adobe if you want the masses to pay for your garbage and allow you to hold them hostage well then you need to offer a much better product.

Experimental Birds and Studio Clean Up


I have a bunch of altered papers so I decided to use my Three Crows Stencil to make some cut outs for some upcoming projects, so far it's a LOT of fun!


Shiva paintstik in iridescent copper and raspberry pink folk art paint on blue scrapbook paper.


Cleared off my drawing table, let the fun begin, well for me it's cleared off!

Am gearing down for my solo show next month, and another project that will be revealed about mid-month so decided it was time to do a little cleaning and organizing so I can focus!


I found this raised panel frame earlier, while organizing my paper storage rack, it's been hiding there since about 2009.