Take a Word--Moon

Wasn't able to view the super blood moon last night--overcast and rainy here--but saw some spectacular photos on the internet this morning.  Then I saw the theme of Graphic Design for this week's Digitalmania challenge and received the free "City Bicycle" mini kit from Marisa Levin...it all came together very quickly after that.


I love it when art makes itself!

Painted pillows

Finally made a few pillows for my couch.  There are thousands of incredibly beautiful pillows for sale in the world, but having $0 dollars to spend on decorating at this point, I opted to try my hand at painting.  I found really inexpensive cotton canvas (cheaper than dropcloths, even) at Dharma Trading.  Wonderful natural fabrics, from linens cottons and hemp to silks and bamboo fabrics, as well as nylon and rayon.  They also sell dyes, markers, paints for dying as offer instruction on their site as well as books and DVDs.  It's a great site to visit for ideas, too.

Anyway, armed with cheap craft paint acrylics and fabric painting medium and a few stamps and stencils, off I went, and below are the results.

 Pillow #1, painted (before I got the fabric medium) and stenciled and stamped, on the front only.  It's a little stiff, but the paint was applied lightly.

Pillow # 2 same paints, mixed with medium, and applied more thickly. I also added a little water to the mix, to make it absorb into the fabric. Used a stencil or two here and made an unholy mess in the upper corner. So, thinking more paint would only make it stiffer, I decided to make a patch.

Cut and raveled a square, and began randomly stitching lines and circles--still getting comfortable with my old sewing machine,  Then I sprayed the patch with water to dampen it and dribbled acrylic inks on it and sprayed some more to move the ink around. Stitched it on with more lines and circles, and I quite like it.

The back of pillow #2, decorated with stamps and brushed on inks.

Sunday Postcard Art--Buddha

I have the honor of hosting SPA this week, and I have always been fascinated by the teachings and especially the many faces of the Buddha.

Playing with layers and blending modes--

La Vie en Rose

For Digital Mania

made up of eight layers, including the lovely Gladys Cooper (one of my all time favorite images) 

and texture and painted layers from Leslie Sowden, Hollywood, Rucola Designs and Itkuptilli.

such fun to stretch the Photoshop muscles

Three Muses--Apples

trying some digital painting using filters and blending modes.

SPA--Owls

Night Owl

First, it was not a strip bar, 

it was an erotic club. 

And second, what can I say? 

I'm a night owl.

~Marion Barry