Art for Sale....Art for Sale! what i have been working on ..

on ply wood, a girl has got to dream or there is nothing to shoot for or live for....

the sconce is at the lake house and i am not parting with it...$1 flea market find for the metal, and some walnut for the base made by the spousal unit trying o ut his router. it took four blanks to get the edges right on this one...

Frogs in Art

Jen - Here are the tiles for you. Bonus tile as well ! Ribett, Ribbett!

geenie

green meanie and love...what a contrast

New tile

a request from a friend...for her son. Not quite done yet but almost

A creative streak happened!

So over the last few days it occurred to me I have all thesewonderful things around waiting for ideas to make them come alive. After many late nites, and the fact I had to stay home for the last two days with the painters, I created! The words signs i bought on sale at Michael's and they may or may not end up on a plaque, wood or ?... what is not that clear in the pix is that I experimented with spray paint [a graffitti artiste at heart] and got neat two tone fading on them....

BTW - if you see something you might want, let me know..everything is for sale !!!!



Repurposing is a cute way to say re-cycle, but that is what I am doing with all sorts of stuff...more creativity going on. Below is a top to a champagne box , the bubbly long since gone but I couldn't part with the box. Up till now it was just sitting in the basement, but an idea in a magazine got me to thinking. I sanded it down, rubbed some tung oil on it and sort of made a frame out of molding i found lying around. the frame didn't come out too well, since me and the mitre saw didn't quite hit it off....


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And lastly, one of my latest works in in progress - a $10 flea market bench, made in NC and which I was told was an antique...yeah right. But I wanted something to go in one of the bedrooms at the lake . So i stripped the paint off it, sanded the hell out of it, and now kinda thinking I want to go for that distressed look. A pillow for a seat and some stain or varnish and it will be good to go.

New creations and projects

The bowl is part of a wooden salad bowl set that my mom put in the dishwasher and had the finish stripped off...so i took them and recycling into different projects...the tray is something i put together from bits and pieces on sale at Michaels...i drew the coffee cup. Didn't come out exactllllyyyyy the way i wanted, but hell, each piece is a learning experiance.



More recycling..the tile and shell both had different designs on them that sux bad...so nothing a little black paint couln't fix and erase....then a little gold marker..and voila. something that sux less! :-)

tiles, Tiles , Tiles

The one that looks yellow is really a very light green....can't be the camera ! I think it had to do with me being in a rush, not using a flash and had some weird light on it .....but you get the idea.
I guess I should take more pains to photograph my art?

And yes, I am collecting wise sayings, adages and quotes for the tiles, signs and art illustration.

Tiles for sale !

The butterfly is for a friend's pal, who is giving it to her daughter in law. the in Law's husband is in Iraq, so she is trying to give the daughter in law something butterfly, which she likes, every month to keep her spirits up. How can I charge someone for that sentiment?

another tile

i still have a box of them and one by one doing them for friends or just to experiment. i have projects started all over the place...glassware, vases, a sign i need to do, two signs i need to finish...oh, if i could just win the lottery! and not have to work in the real world!