A is for...Alphabet Art!

My painting

+

a nice fat type

+

some clipping mask magic

Put them all together and you get...

this!

Nursery art, grown-up art...I'm not fussy :)

Sunshine In My Hand

Real paint (YAY - REAL PAINT!)

on paper.

OK, a tiny bit of PhotoShop too...

but mostly just honest-to-goodness acrylics.

Ditzy Doodle Day

Hey!  I like the sound of that.

That's it. One day of the week should officially be called

Ditzy Doodle Day.

So here's my ditzy doodle for today - 

ink pen and felt markers (some nearly dead but braving it)

on printer paper.

Drawing really doesn't need fancy paraphernalia 

(ah, another juicy word!),

but just a minute or two of not being afraid.

Really.

I've been told my ditzy doodles would make great fabric prints.

It's funny, but many people have asked me if I design fabric,

and the truth is I don't know the first thing about it.

By the way, I'd like to share with you this wonderful place

that sells designer fabric.

It's full of amazing talent. Do check it out!

Soup Season!

I like soup.

Carrot, pumpkin, chicken, tomato, potato, onion, 

rutabaga, wheat-and-barley...

...soup made with any of these,

or all of them mixed together, and spinach, oh yeah spinach!

With lots of black pepper, ginger, cinnamon...mmm...

Soups are wonderful!

Well, soup season is here!

Do YOU like soup?

Fully equipped

Pencil-drawn, scanned, colored in PhotoShop.

It's Children's Day in India today.

Here's to all children, everywhere, being able to

learn, discover and grow in safe, happy environments.

Over The Moon Stories Facebook party

Author Suzanne Muir of Over The Moon Stories

asked me if I would like to participate in her blog party.  

She is trying to raise money for an iPad for a special needs kid.

It always humbles and amazes me when people organize events 

in order to benefit someone else!

I hope this party does well!

Here's my contribution:

Red Leaf

Reproduction print of my original acrylic painting.

I scanned the original and created digital variations, 

so I have the same painting in a few different colorways.

The two below are slightly different from each other,

but they both share the same exuberance :)

My contribution is one print in one of the different colorways 

(I haven't shown them all here).

It'll be a bit of a luck of the draw kinda thing!

Drop in at Over The Moon Stories this Saturday at 1 P.M. EST 

and bid for a good cause.