tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15517726667834863012012-01-09T13:42:49.823-08:00The fiber-y pursuits of woman obsessed with color.Chrystee - play at life fiber artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03538688202225383243noreply@blogger.comBlogger771100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1551772666783486301.post-55623785726031871642012-01-09T13:34:00.000-08:002012-01-09T13:42:49.834-08:00

I've moved the blog! Visit playatlifefiberarts.com to see what I'm up to at the shop, where I'll be vending this year, and what I'm obsessing about lately.

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There are some drawbacks to approaching work from a playful perspective when you're multi-tasking. In dyeing, largely it's the spontaneous, non-repeatable colorways that result from a sprinkle of this and a dash of that. Despite my best attempt at noting application technique, quantity, and time I often cannot duplicate colorways.Then there are the mistakes. I once left a half pound each of

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Our tree is up and the kids are already very excited about Christmas day. It's going to be a long month :)I'm wrapping up the Long on Color fiber club this month. I have something fun and festive planned. Here's a little clue while the fiber steams away.I'll be moving the blog over to my new website in the next few weeks. I'll be posting at both sites for a while during the transition but feel

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Two blog posts in one week? NO WAY ;)It's Work In Progress Wednesday and I am once again working on this pattern I wrote forever ago. I'm double, triple, quadruple checking the maths and making sure the yardage requirements are correct for the last time. I am going to get this pattern released. I AM!And I got my Little Red Bicycle mini skein club shipment. So sparkly and colorful!!! I need to get

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I love mini skeins. I love that I can knit swatches for the shop and not feel guilty about cannibalizing yarn inventory. I love that I can do this in one evening! I made 5 things in less than 5 hours while yarn was dyeing in the basement. The sparkly puffs are killing me. They're so soft and squishy and SPARKLY! Yup...I'm still crazy about the puffs.Holiday Collection 2011

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So much for Fiber Friday, huh?My old cell phone died recently and I was able to upgrade to smarty-pants phone. I had hoped this would help me get some daily progress photos done with the intention of adding them to an at least weekly blog post. Mwahaha...yeah, that didn't happen! But I have been taking lots and lots of photos and using Instagram to get them on my flickr and Twitter.New school

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It's ok if I string out all the objects I finished a month ago so I can blog weekly, right? GOOD! Here's the shawl I started on my birthday for the first ever G+ knitalong. Bashful Butterflies, designed by Julia Temiseva, is a great pattern for a quick, satisfying knit. I used a skein of my Revelous sock yarn and went up a couple needle sizes to use more yarn. Not only did I use almost all the

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In an effort to be more bloggy, I'm introducing Finished Object Friday! I'll be posting a recently finished knitting, crocheting or spinning project every Friday. This plan is genius. I have motivation to blog and finish things. Which means I can cast on more new things and work through my Ravelry queue. It can't fail!* For this inaugaural post, I give you Obnoxious Leftover Fish Socks! These

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It's that time again! The Tour de France is set to start at the beginning of July. Which means time for the Tour de Fleece! While cyclists are racing through France, spinner's around the world will be racing themselves and each other to finish their spinning goals.I haven't joined a team yet! Nor have I set a goal for myself. In years past, I used the time to finish spinning projects that had

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I have been remiss in keeping up with my blog. I recently moved my art blogging to its very own url ( www.cgovernoillustration.com ) where I have an online portfolio. And I haven't been back here to update things since! Bad Blogger!So what's been going on? I branched out more with my hand dyed fibers and borrowed a friend's drum carder (very long term so it seems!) I started working with a new

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Play at Life Fiber Arts is celebrating its upcoming 500th sale with a yarn giveaway! Sales numbered 490 - 510 will be entered into a random drawing for a free 100g custom dyed Maki!I'm not sure which yarns will be available yet. It depends on how quickly we get to sale #500! Right now I have plenty of sock yarns - Wishingstar (Silk/SW Merino) Boundless Sport (8ply 100% SW Merino) Jest (2ply SW

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Someone is copying me.I have stayed quiet on this subject. Some of my friends are familiar with the details and my feelings on the matter. I was going to pretend this person didn't exist. You know, Stay Calm and Dye On! But I can't. This is blatant and it isn't cool.I would be less upset if it were a stranger because, guess what? I'm not the only one doing long color repeats! We all put our own

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Artificial Cityscape - 6"x 4" Altered Postcard, Acrylic and CollageThis went somewhere I wasn't expecting. I'm really liking working on this slick surface. I have an entire box full of old postcards from a Freecycler and plenty of paper and curiosity. Wonder what will come up next week.

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Always Performing - 14"x11" Acrylic and CollageFinished this one for ARN. I rarely go back to a piece. I usually put it aside and move on. But with the annual group show coming up, I really need pieces to contribute! I'm not sure it's entirely successful, but I'm ok with it. The last "real" painting I did was for Salad months ago. I want to get back into doing self portraits using all the collage

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Over 6 years after graduating with my art degree and I'm finally getting back my motivation to make art on a regular basis.Mondays seem to be a very good day for this. I've been working on what I hoped to be small, quick pieces for Illustration Friday for the past several weeks. Except with the boys home from school quick gets its own new, shiny definition (ie it won't take you long, but the time

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Carrots notice everything - 6.75" x 6" mixed mediaI'm really happy with the subtle textures on this one and glad I did the initial quick and dirty sketch.

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The snake attempted to slither through the carrots without notice. Unfortunately, carrots notice everything.I vowed in September to submit something to Illustration Friday every week! The shop has been so busy (a good thing) and finding the time to pursue two careers at once while being a work from home mom is challenging to say the least. I'm doubling up again with this quick and dirty sketch.

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Tossed Salad - Mixed MediaThe Art Right Now! group meetings are up and running! Tonight was our first real meeting for 2010 and it went great. Despite our initial aversion for the theme, every one made some great pieces. I've decided to start taking my illustration work more seriously and worked up a mixed media spot illo perfect for a magazine ad, stock illustration or as a member suggested -

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Here we are, 3 days into February, and I still can't decide what colorways to dye up for this month's Randomness series. It's going to be an all Maki month; I have so much "regular" yarn in the shop and the Maki are really lacking.I love choosing colors randomly over at colourlovers.com and seeing how they work together in a palette. I let the random color chooser pick the colors and I line them

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I'm doing my first craft show! I'm teaming up with a couple friends from Knitaholics RI to form Island Fiber Co-operative for the Slater Mill Marketplace being held Saturday for the Knitting Weekend. There's tons of classes and other knit-centric events going on. I'm excited and nervous and exhausted from getting everything ready to go.I did a dry run with my new wire storage rack and found that

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A bunch of us LSGers over at Ravelry are donating and raising money for the relief efforts in Haiti. So far we're at over $12,000 and we're hoping to reach $15,000 at least. There's many of us with shops and patterns donating a portion or in some cases all of our profits to the cause. Play at Life Fiber Arts is donating 50% of all sales from this weekend to the Red Cross! So far I've had 2 sales

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I received my new sport yarn base yesterday. I am so excited about dyeing and having this in the shop! This 8 ply 100% sw merino yarn is cable plied. Instead of taking 8 singles and plying them together, the mill has taken four 2 ply yarns and plied those together making a bouncy, round yarn with good stitch definition. And 8 plies means a strong yarn that will wear well (like that uber popular

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The dye pots have been cooking for the past few days. I started dyeing up some Falkland and Merino fibers in long color repeats and playing around with grey. The grey that I tried for last month didn't come out as expected at all. Poking around at the palettes I created at colourlovers revealed many interesting color combos that paired grey with various colors both bright and deep. So I

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Happy Fiber Friday!!!December is here and yarn has been dyed! I had been feeling kind of ho-hum about Christmas but dyeing yarn in such fun colors from my childhood really has gotten me more in the mood. Tomorrow we'll be putting up our tree and I'm hoping all the lights will work!Jest Sock - Twinkle LightsJumping Joy skeins will now have more yardage with no price increase! Older skeins will

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I have been agonizing over what theme to do for the December yarns! Part of me wants to just ignore the December holidays all together. But the kid in me really does love all the colors and memories that surface at this time of year. The husband and I have been working at establishing our own traditions for some time now and I still don't feel like we've got it just right yet! And now that we

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Learn to Fly, 6"x6.25", Mixed Media on paperI'm doing my first Random Act of Kindness for one of my online groups. This will be going out to a fellow member in the next few days. I had a great time making it and I hope she likes it!

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Things are going well at KG Krafts! I dropped these off today :

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Play at life fiber arts yarns are now available at KG Crafts! Located at 260 New Boston RdFall River, MA Phone (508) 676-3336, KG Crafts is a great little yarn store with a nice selection, a great owner, and many other craft supplies. They also have classes for everything from sock knitting to basket weaving and making holiday centerpieces. The store is in a great area, right across the street

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The show is up at the Warwick Museum of Art! All pieces were done for my art motivation group, now called Art Right Now. We meet twice a month to view and chat about pieces of art we make based on the same theme. Each meeting a new theme is chosen for the next meeting and we do a creativity exercise. We are lucky to have had members affiliated with the Warwick Museum of Art and have been able to

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Here's a little preview of the new yarn bases and colorways that will be trickling into the shop in the next week. Jest Sock is a 2 ply SW Merino with a tight twist; it's super soft and positively sproingy! BlitheFuL Sock is a 4 ply SW BFL that is soooo soft but somehow sturdy at the same time. This month's Series is based on text message acronyms, LOL Speak and other interweb lingo.Asp Urchin in

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Caution! Apple Booty Crossing, Acrylic and Collage, 6.25"x7.25"My task was to somehow combine my Art Group theme of Fruit with the IF prompt of Caution. My first thought was of course Eve and an apple. Then I thought of children standing on pumpkins to get to something they shouldn't. The husband suggested banana peels and then I thought of prickly pears...then this title popped in my head. So I

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They're here! New sock yarn bases in 2 ply tightly twisted SW merino and 4 ply SW BFL! The BFL has a lovely sheepy smell. I seriously could roll in this stuff. The samples I dyed up were gorgeous! I've got some Merry Lace, Merino yet to be named and reclaimed yarns in the dye pot as I type. I'm hoping to crank out a bunch more this weekend for the Sept. 1 shop update!

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Into the Night, gouacheIt's been so long since I contributed to IF!I did this one a while ago, but it really fits in with this weeks prompt.

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Coming September 1st at play at life fiber arts - LOL series hand dyed yarn!I'm basing this series on the LOLSpeak dictionary. There will be lots and lots of fun colors and some new sock yarn bases too!I've been noodling around at colourlovers.com to hammer out some palette ideas. I love this site! So far I have these two - Enjoy!Color by COLOURloversColor by COLOURlovers

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Little Boy Yellow, 2.5"x3.5", acrylic and collageI have been neglecting my blog badly! So here's an update - from my Art Motivation Group. The theme was "instrument." I got the idea from my youngest son H. He told me about a dream he had that had a man in a bird suit. I couldn't get him to say much more than that. I immediately got the idea for this illustration from his telling of it.

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Intricate Vase - 8" x 7.25"mixed media collage I'm doubling up again this week. I've been dyeing a lot of yarn for my Etsy shop lately so I haven't had much time for my art work. The theme for my Art Motivation group is Vase and IF's prompt is Intricate so I made an Intricate Vase. I think I still want to tweak this a bit. I was inspired by a project in Cloth, Paper, Scissors. I love that

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Scarecrow means business - Acrylic and Collage, 6"x8"Climbing the corporate ladder is especially tough when you're a scarecrow.I shall explain: The theme this week for my Art Motivation group is "scarecrow." Which I decided to combine with this week's IF prompt (climbing) when the Art Doll I was making just wasn't working out. I don't know where on earth this sentence came from, but here she is..

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Pale - ACEO Colored Pencil, Craypas 2.5"x3.5"I have a thing with Mimes lately. I'm gearing up to make some more Art Dolls and I've decided my theme will be "the painted face." The prompt the last two weeks at IF has kinda fit in with that. I'll probably put these ACEOs up at my new Etsy shop when I have some inventory.

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In the process of getting my Etsy shop up, I learned about the new Consumer Product Safety Commission law. I had been thinking of using the scraps or overly felted bits of sweater I had to make dolls and stuffies for children.Turns out I'd have to have anything I made tested for lead and phthalates after Feb 10. Thankfully hadn't started making anything yet and I can still make art dolls as long

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I had a dream about the sun - 14"x11", acrylic and collageA painting for my Art Motivation Group; this weeks' theme - flame.  I really did have a dream about this painting. It was on a wall and a bunch of us we talking about it. But it was big, really big; much bigger than this. So I'm considering this a study because it doesn't feel finished or big enough for me. I'm going to do another one on

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I have two entries for this week's IF promptContained - mixed media ACEO, 2.5"x3.5"Imp - mixed media ACEO, 2.5"x3.5"His cuteness would not be contained by a 2.5"x3.5" piece of mat board.

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Silken Stout - hand dyed recycled silk blend yarnI now officially have an Etsy shop! Please tell all of your friends and stop by and buy alot of yarn!!!!I will eventually also have a shop with my mixed media art. One thing at a time.www.playatlifefiberarts.etsy.com

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Grocery Shopping - 4x5 acrylic and collageThis week's prompt had me thinking how much resolve I have to have when I go to the grocery store. I make a menu for the week so I know what to buy and scan the flyers so I can make a list and then I have to remember to bring it. I have to remember to bring my reusable bags so I can be kind to the environment. I look for the best deals and price per unit.

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NOTICE - If you are my Mom, Dad, Sister or Brother In Law - DO NOT PEEK!!!I made many of my Christmas gifts this year. I found some very interesting unfinished wood objects at the craft store to play with. I transfered scrapbook paper, used rubber stamps and varnished them. I found these big clothes pins. This was a smaller one, but they had some HUGE ones that I love and would like to find a use

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I'll have a few things at Dorota's  and Wayne's Rebel Headquarters this month. Check out their blog to see pics from past events and get details. They are a great bunch of people! 

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"Muse" Art doll - acrylic on muslin, recycled wool sweaters, paperI made this for my Art Motivation Group gift swap this year. I might start using my cast-off from yarn recycling and dyeing to make these to sell on my Etsy shop (opening  Jan. 2009.)

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Smile - 3.5"x4.75", pencil sketch, colored in PhotoshopShe decided to stop pretending to smile and just wear a mask.More playing in Photoshop this week. I enjoy playing with the filters; it feels like collage for me. When I can't get into the studio to paint, this is a good fix. I'm not feeling down, I swear. There was a pic of a girl holding a balloon in the paper and this popped into my head

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Bath Mask - 12"x12", acrylic and collageThis weeks theme at my Art Motivation Group is "mask." I've had this image of me holding up a washcloth with a face print on it for several years. I can't believe it took me this long to actually do something with the idea! 

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O-W-L that spells owl, Craypas and colored pencil on lined paperAnother quick one I did with my 3 year old at "Table Time" today. I hope I have more time next week for something more involved.

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Boob Tube - pencil sketch, colored in PhotoshopI played with textures in Photoshop this week. Man, I want a tablet! Here's my take on that vacant expression my kids always have when they zone out in front of the tv.  

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Occulus Repairo - AcrylicI haven't been able to submit to Illustration Friday in soooo long. I made time for this because I liked the idea so much. NO Scotch Tape was harmed in the making of this piece.

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Doorway - Mixed Media on WoodI'm really trying to get back into the swing of things. I haven't done an IF post in awhile, but I've been keeping up with my Art Motivation Group. I had no idea what to do for the "doorway" theme. This just kinda happened without me thinking about it much. I'm liking it more and more. My friends at the group noticed that it has some references to renovating which is

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Taking Off - Mixed media on Four 3"x3" mini canvasesAnother piece inspired by my Art Motivation Group. The theme for this one was "raven."

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Betsy Ross ATC - mixed mediaThis is for my Art Motivation Meetup. The theme this week was "A Historical Figure." I wanted to do something larger and more involved but just didn't have time! 

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In Hand, 6.75"x11.75", mixed media. Theme "Collection"Water Lily, 9"x12", mixed media. Theme "Water"Black-Eyed Susan, 9"x12", mixed media. Theme "Eyes"Here's a sneak preview of the new paintings for the Variation on a Theme group show. I'm also showing "All is Forgotten" (was Fences) for the theme "Eyes" and "Fun-Guy" for "Pattern."

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Rust - 5"x4", mixed mediaIt's been awhile! I've been working hard for our group show, but I found the time to do this for our Art Motivation Meetup. The theme this time was rust. I wanted to do a silhouette of my youngest, framed in a scrapbooking tag I had. I made it rusty with a kit available at the craft store which worked great! I also experimented with Through the Viewfinder photography,

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I made it on the postcard for my Art Motivation Meetup's group show!!! I feel so legit! It's the "collection" piece. Come check it out!!!Variations on a Theme2nd Annual Providence Art Motivation Group ShowSeptember 3 - October 4, 2008Warwick Museum of Art3259 Post Road, Warwick, RI 02886401-737-0010

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Lemon/Lime - finger paintSomething fun I did with my toddler for IF this week!

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Fence - mixed mediaThis is based on the sketch I did for IF's "Forgotten." I had a *lot* of fun doing this and I am very happy with how it turned out. 

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Fun Guy - mixed mediaA mushroom walks into a bar and asks for a drink. The bartender says, "I'm sorry, we don't serve mushrooms." The mushroom asks, "Why not? I'm a fun guy." Get it fungi....fun guy. It's my favorite stupid joke and the first thing I thought of when I saw this week's prompt.

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Forgotten Fences - pencil sketchAs soon as she felt the wind in her hair, all was forgotten.I intend to work this up to a finished piece for my Art Motivation Meetup group for our next theme -"fences." It commemorates the many lone bike rides I took through my neighborhood growing up.

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Mom - mixed media ATCPrincess - mixed media ATCMore gift tags; I'm playing with my new water soluable crayons. Sorry Princess is blurry, she has sequins sewn on her tiara and magic wand :) 

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Baby Dino - mixed media ATCAnother ATC for IF; this time to be used as a gift tag for my nephew's 1st birthday present. Happy Birthday, Christopher!!!

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Worry - mixed media ATCAnother Asperger's inspired illustration. If you know someone with an ASD, you know what it's about. I'm so glad that I had some time to get this out this week! I feel like my people are starting to work more with the mixed media, textured background.

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Swing - mixed mediaThis is another piece for my Art Motivation Meetup, the theme was "swing" this week. I have another that I am still fooling around with that I will post as soon as I can get it finished.

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Wide - mixed mediaFat-bottomed girls of the world unite!!! Bathing suit season sucks.....

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Fail - mixed mediaShe knew she would fail to make it over the puddle, but that was the point anyway.

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Bored in the Basement - mixed mediaHere is my entry for Illustration Friday this week. My oldest loves building with things and is enthralled with an old tail light that's in the basement. My youngest is found of shocking me when he comes off the slide at the playground. I'm still trying to figure out how to work this texture-y background into my figure work. Please check out my IF - Fail

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For Mom - Mixed MediaAnother painting for my Art Motivation Meetup. I did this one for my mom , intending to send it for Mother's Day, but I ran out of time. Her birthday is in June so I will send it for that occasion instead. I  may touch-up the houses, but otherwise I am pleased with it.

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I took these great photos on our car trip to NC. I used the "night landscape" setting on my digital camera. I just love the movement and blurriness of them. Check them all out here.

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Casey sleeping - mixed mediaI did this painting for my Art Motivation Meetup, this theme was portrait. I transferred an inkjet print of a photo I took while we were on vacation in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a place my husband Casey loves. He also loves to sleep and is a Pisces (water sign.)

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Shadow dog - mixed mediaThis is an illustration I did for my Art Motivation Meetup; the theme was "shadow." I instantly pictured a large black dog. When I was sketching, I thought a shadow on a brightly colored braided rug would be fun to paint.

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Pennies from Heaven - mixed media sketchThis is a sketch I did for Illustration Friday. The prompt is "Save" this week and I immediately thought, "Pennies from Heaven." I would like to work this up to a more finished piece for my portfolio at some point.

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Building - Mixed MediaThis illustration is an homage to my oldest son who was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome  when he was almost 6, just after son #2 was born. He is constantly building, drawing or making something. He gives me the best ideas when I am stuck and always has a new and interesting way of solving a problem.

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Illustration Friday Sketch - Pet Peeve - mixed media This is my first post for Illustration Friday. The topic, Pet Peeves. I hate when people throw trash out their car window. Even if it's biodegradable. Even if it's the Easter Bunny. Happy Easter!

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Naughty Librarian - Mixed MediaThis is a painting I did for my Art Motivation Meetup. The theme for this week was Naked Guy. I had this image of a librarian floating in my head for a couple of weeks. I decided to sneak a naked guy in the picture somewhere so it would fit the theme and so I could get it out of my head. 

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I'm starting this blog in the hopes that it will help me get some work done for my freelance portfolio. I'm hoping to post a new piece at least every other week. I'm a busy gal and fitting my art in can be a struggle to say the least.

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