Time for a breather....

After I finish a big painting, I feel the need to do some fun, little things so I can take a breath.  Large paintings take a lot out of me.  I find that I take on any emotion that I am painting.  I even catch myself making the same facial expressions I'm painting.  So, with the emotions and facial expressions and the subject matter of the painting from the last post.....well, I was starting to lose my mind!

So, I decided to go back to my painting roots and do some fun, whimsical stuff.  I'm having soooooo much fun and it really is a breath of fresh air.  I did 4 paintings in 3 days.  I just couldn't stop!  It was very satisfying and much needed.  

This was totally fun!!!  I cut that heart out, myself, with a scroll saw my Dad got me for my birthday (my 38th on Feb. 6th.  Sigh......)  And the wings are made from grundge board.  Oh, how I have a love affair going right now with grundge board.  The shiny heart is the back of a pop can and it is nailed onto a heart made from the stuff casts are made from (like when you break your arm).  So much fun!(the cast stuff....not breaking your arm)

One of my all time favorite subjects......Decoupage Birds!  This is for a sweet cousin.  LOVE this new paper I found!

Love me some hoot owls, too.  

Eyeballs!   The pupils are created from some funky push pins I found.

Molly wanted to help.  Oh, how my heart beat when she asked, 'Mama....will you teach me to decoupage?'  Oh, the joy!!  Sweet Girl.

How flowers look in my wild dreams.  Oh, and bees, lady bugs and inch worms....all made from grundge board.....naturally!

And everything is nailed on.  HATE glue.  LOVE nails.

And last one, from last night.  I thought I would just paint the trunk to get a leg up but I just couldn't stop.  Too much fun with my beloved grundge board.  And yes.....cut this out of wood with my saw.  I'm so manly!!!

Yes, it is.


Goodnight, all.