I love pastel ! I do a painting with the pastels and then go back and add color and details by using water and a brush. I shave the pastels I want to use with an exacto knife into a small palette . Then I dip a brush into water and mixed the "powder" to add more colors. It gives it a nice painterly look. 7"x 9" pastel in 17"x 21" frame http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.com/2011/06/paint-party-friday-week-12-check-in.html
I used material of my design that I ordered from a company called Spoonflower
http://www.spoonflower.com/welcome pansies, for get me nots, dried feather grass, fine glitter, ribbon trim snail shell with flowers and carried on the back of a grasshopper
Her daughter Chris was in my class of 62 high school boarding Catholic boarding school. One year she came up to teach us some dance routines for broadway tunes show. She was so darn cute and she knew her moves!!! http://starletschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/06/week-4-ruby-keeler.html
Photo from divasdeste cd!
Art has become for me "therapy". I can celebrate happy occasions or work through sad or difficult times by creating art. I love creating special art for others. I often use old family pictures in my pieces and feel good about giving them birth again. I love to laugh,am very sentimental, and cry more happy tears than sad ones. Loyality, honesty, and sharing good things with others is important to me. I enjoy seeing all the new art of artists friends and am learning something new every day!
Laughing makes better wrinkles on your face!