A Plug for STJ

If you buy something from Spooky Time Jingles artist's , part of the sale price will be donated to Animal rescue. Its a drive to collect money to help the neglected and abused . A good cause! Also I have been clicking daily on the AnimalRescue site. One click a day donates kibbles to hungry cats and dogs. How can you go worng and it only take a minute. I have them send me a daily reminder and when I open my email message box I automaically go their first. Please help and thanks in advance.

Back to art----I should have my little table done today but as I said in an earlier post I cant seem to get away from adding more details when anyone with a brain would consider the piece FINISHED.

Tomorrow it will be

100 days until Halloween. I saw that in discussions in my new group AHQU. Thank you for asking me to join. Lots of very talented folk in this group.
I am still working on that table. I dont know if anyone else does this except Tammy from Light and Shadow but if something isnt "perfect" in my eyes I simply "erase" it which usually entails painting over the whole dang thing. I painted thr dancing witches on the hexagonal top and drew in some smaller designs with witches on each side ( in pencil). After drawing them in, I didnt like them because I think it would take away from the nice top design and would look too "busy". So I had to erase with an actual eraser but then I had to paint over each side as the erasing removed a little of the shaded paint. Long story. So now I am reworking the area from the top down. I think I will add a bit of fun to this with some hanghing Halloween colored beads from the rungs on the legs. Darn beads are so spendy. Anyone have any ideas where I can buy glass beads on the cheap. Aint no such thing!!! lol I think you'all will love the table though.

Another project in the making

I will have to take a picture of my workspace. It is on the living room flowwr like always. I have just started a darling table. I found it on ebay and though I paid more than I wanted, it was just too cute a shape NOT to buy. It will lend itself well to a Halloween theme. I am trying to do one of those dark to light fades of color on the sides. That is soooo difficult unless you use an airbrush. I also have a had some luck using pastels to fuzzy the lines between colors. It works well most of the time. Then you just spray with a matte sealer over the pastels and go on with the rest of the designs. Think I will post a couple of pics here so you can see what happens with that process on this table. Anyway, thanks for looking. Talk atcha' soon.

Too many ideas- not enough time

I have posted a couple of pics of my latest painting that was commissioned by a lady who wanted a "portrait" of her home. Actully I do like architetectural subjects- basically buildings with interesting features and have done a few of downtown Cannon Beach businesses. The town is a unique little artsy community with lots of nice galleries and good restaurants and beautiful cedar shaked establishments with lots of ginberbread and fun details.
But now that I am through with her piece I have several items that I have collected to "do up" in Halloween colors and designs- probably vintage since I love the old Halloween postcards etc. I have a great little side table I found on ebay for a song. It will lend itself quite nicely to witchies and ghosties. The top is octagonal. I also found a darling gumball slot/machine bank that is dying for a redo. Gad, I have tons of great items that I would love to finish in time for Halloween. I sure hope I can work faster than I usually do. Unfortunately I am easily distracted so I will have to take the phone off the hook and refuse to answer a knock on my door and send my husband out for pizza if I want to get anything done. Oh and, I won't hear the garden crying out for attention. Good luck

New Stuff

I have been very busy. That's good I guess but it, leaves me precious little time to do the blog thing. I am working on a 16 by 20 painting of a house. Yes I said a HOUSE. Sound exciting? Well I DO like to paint architectural beauty and this house is very picturesque. The owner wanted a painting of her home and I needed the money so-----. I am enjoying it though and am pleased with my progress. I just listed a couple of goodies on ebay for Halloween. The big lamp is really quite nice if I do say so myself and the little table turned great. I had sold it before on ebay for a good price but the buyer had what some call "buyer's remorse" whatever the After I finish my lastest painting I think I will do a table. I found a small ornate side table that will lend itself well to my favorite vintage Halloween designs. More later