Moos, ATCs, 4x4s-Drawing and Painting

Me again! 

I've been quite busy today! All but the first 5 sets of moos and the set of inchies were done since I was here last. that was about 10, maybe 12 hours ago!

These moos and inchies were done last weekend. 

I forgot to put them in the last post.

Moos

all are markers on thick mat paper

tomatoes

sunset on the beach

green spotted pear

pink poppy

siamese cat

Moos

all are markers on thick mat paper

finch

pink poppies

circus dog

blueberries

swiss cheese

Moos

all are markers on thick mat paper

best friends

zombie nep

zombie nef

Moos

all are markers on cardstock

red dragonfly

dancers

striped butterfly

monarch

songbird Inchies

all are markers on cardstock

Moos

all are markers on cardstock

mermaid

red seahorse

cigar

green dragon

Everything else on this post was made today.

Moos

markers on cardstock

pink lily

day lily

Moos

markers on cardstock

red eyed tree frog

green red eyed tree frog

And then we did some ATCs today also.

Sleeping Flamingo

ATC

markers on cardstock

sheep on hill

ATC

tempera paint on book page with marker

pink sheep

ATC

tempera paint and marker on book page

orange sheep

ATC

tempera paint and marker on book page

Flamingos

ATC

markers on cardstock

Flamingo

ATC

markers on cardstock

Brown Sheep With Flower

ATC

tempera paint and marker on book page

Brown Sheep

ATC

tempera paint on book page

My muse needed an elephant fix apparently....the rest are all 4x4 inches, painted with tempera paint on book page

Brown Elephant

Bull Elephant

Elephant

Geisha

Thanks so much for reading!

Be good to one another!

It truly does matter!

Peace, friends

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A Bolt of Lightning, A Monster, some Painting and Drawing...

Hello Readers!

I've been busy in the art department. 

Enjoy!

A Visitor

ATC

tempera paint on book page text

After The Storm

ATC

tempera paint on book page text

Bird's Eye View

ATC

tempera paint on book page text

Chippy the Little Blue Bird

ATC

tempera paint on book page text

Donuts

ATC

markers on cardstock

Eyes

ATC

tempera paint on book page text

Fire at Sunrise

ATC

tempera paint on book page text

Omar, the Orange Duck

ATC

tempera paint on book page text 

Out At Sea

ATC

tempera paint on book page text

Penguin Pete

ATC

tempera paint on book page text

Raining Lollipops

ATC

tempera paint on book page text

Tangerines for Breakfast

ATC

tempera paint on book page text

Pink House

ATC

tempera paint on book page text

Yellow House

ATC

tempera paint on book page text

Blue Haired Goddess

ATC

markers on cardstock

Chameleon

approx 3x6 inches

oil pastels on book page text

I think this one will end up on a postcard. He's a bit smaller than the previous chameleon I showed you all that was done quite similar to this one.

Kansas Sunflowers

Moo Cards

markers on cardstock

Treasure Box

ATC

markers on cardstock

Destination Undetermined

ATC

tempera paint on book page text

Every Which Way

ATC

tempera paint and marker on book page text

Grey Seal

ATC

tempera paint on book page text

Inca Laughing

ATC

tempera paint on book page text

rat

ATC

tempera paint on book page text

Little Book Unfinished

I'm just showing it off at the moment. It needs a bit of help before I can call it finished. What you see here is actually just the page block. I need to assemble a few more pages for the book, make the covers and put it all together before I can call it done! It's roughly 3x3 inches.

More Polish Stars!

Small one is made from magazine paper that had a picture of a cowhide rug on it. The blue one is magazine paper as well. Small one is about 2 inches, larger one, 2.5 inches.

Small pink one is made from magazine paper. Larger red one is made from wrapping paper with party balloons all over it. Small one is 2 inches, larger one is about 3 inches.

Pay no attention to that pink one, you just saw it.

The yellow one is magazine paper, roughly 2.5 inches. The picture on the magazine page was of a drawing of a pelican's head and beak.

Again, pay no attention to the pink one. 

This yellow one is magazine paper also. I forget what was the cause of the yellow color on the pages. This one is about 2.5 inches.

Tiny Green Monster

Cashmere sweater for his body, velvet for his horns, plastic beads for eyes and embroidery thread for hair. He's stuffed with polyester fiber filling and stands about 7 inches tall. All hand sewn.

He is the tiny green monster because I don't usually make monsters this small. They're generally almost twice as big as this guy. This one was fun to make but those eyes make him totally inappropriate for small children. All the big monsters are perfectly safe for the youngest of children.

I have more art finished but it has yet to be scanned yet.

I attempted to put the buckyball together but that was a total disaster! I forgot to take a picture of it when I was in the kitchen photographing the polish stars earlier today. It turned out looking like a hatched egg, giant hole and all! Not sure where I went wrong with it. There is no saving it! It will end up as fodder for some other mixed media project.

We had ourselves a really cool lightning storm the day before yesterday! I was outside after the storm taking pictures of the wheatfield out north of the house, trying to capture that beautiful gold color with the sun shining through the rain clouds. It was gorgeous.

Ma called while I was out there and asked if I had seen the rainbow. Nope hadn't spied it yet. Couldn't see it while standing on the porch at all. So went out to the driveway where I captured both ends of the rainbow and really cool flash of lighting as well!

Enjoy!

You can barely see the rainbow, but it's between the left side pole of the highwire line and the lightning bolt. That big yellow blob on the pole is the yard light. It comes on fairly early in the evening. This was around 9pm or there abouts if memory serves me correctly.

I didn't even know I'd taken a picture of lightning. Too bad it's not a good picture of lightning! Lightning nonetheless though! 

And here's the other end of the double rainbow. Here we are looking south across the highway. In the other picture, we are looking east down the highway.

I'll be back in a few days with more art to share! 

You all be good to one another!

Thanks for reading!

Peace, friends!

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Stars, Books, and a few Other Interesting Things

Hello Reader!

I'm either gonna die cause a doc got it wrong or I'm gonna live awhile longer cause a doc got it wrong. I do not like doctors right now because they have confused me even farther than I was confused before I was informed I don't really have polycythemia vera and I've never had it. 

Doc's exact words were, "If you had PV, you'd be dead by now." 

I'm confused because I went to see the hematologist because my hematocrit numbers were high. I assumed he'd give me a phlebotomy and send me on my merry way. I was mistaken apparently. He didn't and will never again, give me a phlebotomy because I don't need one according to him. 

I should back up. This doc I'm talking about has never seen me before the day before yesterday. The doctor who diagnosed me PV, six years ago, ran off to practice somewhere else and this other guy was put on the case. The new guy tells me I have high hemoglobin numbers cause I smoked. I think the man is so full of crap his eyes are brown! (And they ARE brown~!) 

I'll be getting a second opinion on this newest diagnosis. 

The way I see it, the new guy is saying the old guy didn't know what the hell he was talking about and he was treating me for something I didn't even have and further more, they apparently don't give phlebotomies for PV now anyway. 

A phlebotomy always made me feel better. New doc didn't seem to believe me when I told him that. He tells me most people feel much worse after a phlebotomy. He said I would just have to donate blood from here on out. Well, you know, that's all fine and good and I will attempt to do just that but the Red Cross doesn't want my blood! They want it cause I have diabetes and they won't want it if the hemoglobin and the red cell and the white cell counts are all elevated. So I'm stuck with this bad blood in me whether I like it or not for the time being! 

When I'm stressed...and I AM stressed right now...I make things. 

I'm on a Polish Star kick at the moment. I cut out enough rounds of magazine paper for about 20 more of these things just today. 

Yellow Magazine Paper

Polish Star

2 inches

Purple Magazine Paper

Polish Star

2 inches

Wrapping Paper

Polish Star

3 inches

Phone Book Paper

Polish Stars

3 inches

And I made a few books over the last few days as well. 

Here's two of them.

There is another one almost finished, just need to figure out what I'm gonna do with the strings hanging off the binding. When that happens, you all will get to see the finished Red/Yellow Board Book. Probably in the next post.

Pig Book #1

4.5 inches square

onion paper pages-40

The cover is part of an acrylic painting of a pig holding a trident. It was titled 'Deviled Ham'. I got it in trade for one of my monsters. There is enough of this canvas left to make another book the same size as this one and one that is about 3 inches square.  I glued some orange sweater material to the inside of the cover before I bound it in a long stitch pattern. 

Green Tyvek Cover Book

Copy Paper Pages-50

5x5 inches

I'm thinking this one really needs a closure of some sort. Will have to think on it for a bit. I wasn't really pleased with the leather button closure on this book's twin. It might not even get a closure. I don't know.

Oil Pastel on Book Paper

Chameleon

I think Mr. Chameleon will end up on a book cover.  I'm not sure how well oil pastels will hold up to the abuse a book cover receives. Won't know unless I give it shot! I need a new notebook for at my desk anyway and that would be a good trial to determine how well oil pastels hold up. 

I watched a few videos about the use of oil pastels and learned a great deal! There will be more oil pastel drawings in the future. I'm now on the hunt for a better set of oil pastels.

I did some baking. 

Sour Cream Chocolate Chip Banana Cake

No icing required. Moist, chocolaty and so very yummy with a big tall glass of ice cold milk. It doesn't actually have sour cream in it. I traded out the sour cream for plain yogurt. And I didn't have any vanilla in the cupboard so I just skipped it. The recipe calls for walnuts (and it would be scrumptious with walnuts) but I didn't have any walnuts so I ground up some mixed nuts (mostly peanuts) and substituted those instead. You were also supposed to bake this in a loaf pan but I didn't want to wait an hour for it to cook so I used a cake pan and it was done in just over half the time.  I wish you could smell it! 

Lola says hello!

This next picture is kinda creepy and cool all at the same time. 

I took this picture out my back door looking west towards my sister's house.

It really doesn't look like much unless you click on it and take a look at the cloud between the first two trees in the picture. 

I had just come home from town and was checking the mail when I noticed this cloud. It took me a minute or three to get the van parked and come in the house to find the camera to take a picture of it. It really hadn't changed much though. 

Does it look like a devil figure to you? Cause that's exactly what it looks like to me!

Be good to one another!

I'll try not to stress too much about the doctors and their diagnosis of my health. I can't control either of them so I shouldn't be stressing about it in the first place! 

Do be good to one another though....

it matters so much more than we realize! 

Thanks for reading!

Peace

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