These are my pics from Halloween 2011! I was a Forest Fairy and made my outfit in one day right before the party that night! I had to have a wand, so I sculpted a head out of paper clay and painted it and embellished it ...it was glued to a thick stick right from my yard. I made my headpiece, just hot glued all sorts of fall things to an old head band...It was so much fun to make the costume and dance with (strangers) and my gal pals at the party.
This is my entry for a Gustav Klimt Challenge...Finally fini!!! It is painted on an 8x8" canvas board, and is a mixed media piece. I used my face from several snapshots I took and painted with acrylics, nail polish and glued on confetti papers. 
I was able to get more work completed on my painting...I thought I would have it done and my next painting rolling along...but sometimes life takes the side roads and ...SuRpRiSe!!! You have to deal with it and let other things take the back seat for a while. I added some modeling paste to the hair for a hair-like feel...and some confetti that I glued down in pieces for the background and I still have a lot of painting and tweeking in that area, but I think I am happy with the results, so far....
I saw a challenge from one of my Favorite artist's Jane DesRosier.... who wanted everyone to have a fun time and do their version or interpretation of a Gustav Klimt painting...she posts them everyday on Face Book and they are amazing... so I decided to join in on the fun...I am painting myself as a sea siren, you can see the real one and my interpretation...I hope to finish it tomorrow...I just started it today, so be kind...! What a fun lady Jane is...Just look her up on FB and you will see all the lovely works.
This is the completed painting I titled "How Much Fun Can I Have Before I Go To Hell?" I am taking an advanced painting class to bring me back to life after a horrible 2 years of watching and caring for my Mother, my best friend, die, and I was her complete care-taker...I will never be the same person, but I hope I can be a person who can make people feel happy and comfort them at the worst times in their lives. Even though I still spend some days in bed all day...she passed at home in June, I am really trying to get back to living...something a care-provider needs to learn to do. This is my start...going back to the school I was in (WVU-Parkersburg)when I had to leave my life to help her on her last and most courageous journey...it was the most difficult, but beautiful time we spent together...she will always be my Hero.
This is the start of a new painting in my art class, Titled: "How Much Fun Can I Have Before I Go To Hell?" It is pure fun, I hope it doesn't offend anyone, but I have had one hell of a year and have decided to do all my paintings for therapeutic reasons...what I have been going thru and feeling...but with my Whimsy touch. It will be a semester of me or interpretations of me in different situations. This is just 3 painting hrs into this one, I see where my face needs to be fuller and my chin is too long and sharp...
Almost finished...a few tweeks and I think I am fini! I am showing the inspiration..."the Scream" by Edvard Munch. You can see the smaller canvas, which needs to be attached and I have to sign it. Now, on to my next painting ....
This is my work after 3+ hours in class...I am adding or gluing the smaller canvas to the larger one...a version of me, I took pics of myself and using them for my reference. My body of work this semester is a take on what I have been going through over the past year and a half...dealing with taking full time care of my Mother to help her pass...the hardest thing I have ever done, but would do all over again. Also many other losses and changes and now trying to find me again...stay tuned in...! They are all whimsical paintings...
I can't remember where I found this clock, but I immediately knew I could transform it. It still works and is in perfect condition. I used mixed media for this piece. I cut out bird shapes from musical-note paper, since birds sing in the mornings to greet us! The rest of the clock was painted with acrylic paints and I used a gloss finish to seal it. 
This is a few of my Christmas sculpts of fun and tipsy characters that I make for Christmas and sell...I also make funny ornaments and wine stoppers. I like to save some for reference and just to have some for myself. BUT, before Christmas, I MUST create them for HALLOWEEN....I usually use paper clay or sometimes the sculpy clay and paper mache'. I then paint and embellish each one with all sorts of things...so look for my Halloween treats and tricks soon!!!
Since my Mother passed away in June, I have been living in the house that I have known and grew up in...I moved back into a bedroom over a year before she passed, because she was battling cancers and colostomy problems for 20 years and needed 24/7 care. We had Hospice, but they were short of critical care nurses...I think she went to the wonderful home away from home 3-4 times when she would have episodes (when she was failing) and they loved her...then they would bring her back home after 5 days...I had the Living Room set up with the hospital bed, etc...and she wanted to die at home...the last time she came home from a hospice 5 day stay was my birthday...the best present I could ever have had, and I told her so...she died 10 days later....I stayed in her bed with her until they took her away in a body bag....I also did her make-up for her viewing...she was always petite, but at 60 lbs., she was a skeleton. I and even the Dr's. could not believe she lived as long as she did, but she hung on for me...we were like the same person...so connected and best of friends...too much love, she would say, because she knew when she died, I might die also. And if something happened to me, it would kill her....
This is an old bunny drawing I made for my nephew, Bryce, now 12, and I saw it in his bedroom in NC when I was recently visiting. I was happily surprised he still had it on display among all his sports stuff and saved things. It was created on black paper, with colored pencil. I tore the edges for a different look.
This was sent to me in an email from a best friend...I simply love it...it fits a lot of things going on in my life right now. I do not know who actually created it, but I love the message!
This is another one in my SketchBook Series. I am just starting it and have it inked in ...and also added a yellow napkin from a fast food joint...it is for the pee pee...Now...let the fun begin...COLOR and whatever else muses me.
Print Demo to show Bryce how to make a print.
More of Bryce's work...
Bryce's art work...he has this stick figure type of work and has created a ton of drawings and stories...quite awesome. Now... he wants to start drawing a more human form...I bought him a small artist mannequin to help him. 
One of Bryce's prints...he likes to use a lot of paint and gets the coolest textures. He gave this one to me, which I will frame. He titled it: "CreaTures"
Prints my nephew,Bryce, and I made while I was visiting in NC.
Pond ...great spot for meditating...just wish I knew how!!!!
Bryce's art...gee, where does that gene come from...I wonder...HHmmmmm...he does the coolest comic type of art...awesome...!!!!!
Full view of the pond area they made, with fish, fountains and a waterfall
Bill's house, on a golf course...nice...of course golf runs in the family...Dad, Bill and Bryce...I love it... just not had a real opportunity to work with a Pro...love watching it live or on TV.
Blurry pic of Bryce holding "Fred" his new kitten, and me, with my vintage glasses' frame...I picked out Fred from a neighbor of Mom's the day Mom was placed next to Daddy in the mausoleum...Bill wanted to surprise his son...and I kept him that night, my bro stayed in a motel to give Mom and I space, but she died...it was expected, and he didn't want me to see him break down, because I was so wrecked, myself, ....he is an awesome brother...always giving me the low down on life and what not to do anymore. We both learned the hard way....Life is way too short...so relax and let go of the toxic people and the negatives and move on....I am really taking this to Heart!!!!
I was lucky enough to visit my brother Bill and my wonderful, unique, nephew, Bryce, in NC this past weekend...an 8 hour drive...but worth every minute! It was HOT ...Did I say HoT...100's....ugh!!! but still gorgeous! They showed me around...with the intention of wanting me to move down that way...he is near Burlington, 5 min. and Greensboro, 20 min.
