So much is going on!
June 18, 2009Oh, my gosh… I went to Boston to see my niece graduate from high school, then I came back, then I filled a bunch of wholesale orders (new store in Bristol Vermont!), then I learned something really neat.
Since I go up and down the stairs a lot (upstairs is my good printer and computer in the library) and downstairs to the studio a lot (downstairs is the studio with Lisa helping with shipping and soldering and card making and everything) I can sneak in little painting breaks of 20 to 30 minutes, and then by the end of a couple of days, art has been made! I guess I didn’t like my studio enough before renovation, ’cause I never wanted to do this before. But Elizabeth has done this for years, and she gets a TON done! So now I’m like Liz!
Here’s one I just finished - she was gonna say something sassy, but she looks too darn nice!
Birdhouse Belt girl…
June 11, 2009Okay, finally my studio is almost done - not good enough to show you, but good enough to paint in! And I painted over an ancient canvas, probably one of the first ones I ever bought. I can tell cause there are staples on the side, and I’m much too *cough* sophisticated to have staples anymore!
So here’s the girl, and I LOVE her! Since the canvas is 12 x 36, there was room enough to make a bigger face, and I like her ’spression. The face is usually the hardest part to do. Also, on this girl I painted her shirt, and gave her a McKenzie Childs birdhouse for a belt buckle!
Can’t WAIT to make her say something!