I made a slideshow of photos I snapped while out for a walk this morning. It's posted above. But, here are a few of my favorites.

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New Banner Design with 3 Sidebar Avatars

I'm especially fond of this design because I've incorporated two of my own photographs - the lovely daisies as well as the little chickadee! The daisies were actually that soft periwinkle color you see here. This banner has loads of potential for great custom avatars for email, favorites, etc. - either with the chickadee, butterflies or tiny cherub! My mother was very fond of feeding her 'chickadees' and mimicked their sound as "chickadee-dee-dee" :0) They used to eat out of her hand so easily! Available on Etsy. 
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Edwin

These are two photographs I took back in 2007 of a most fascinating fellow by the name of Edwin. I was on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. Edwin was from Ontario originally but had been 'on the road' for years. Even though our lives had lead us on entirely different paths, our connection was instantaneous. From time to time throughout my life, I pass through periods where I carry my camera with me for weeks at a time to record moments like these.

I will be printing and framing these side by side to look similar to -

But, I also like the background like this -

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Doodling again....

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Further along ....

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Progress to date - Acrylic Painting

Thanks to Bea for reminding me I hadn't taken a recent photo of my drawing-painting. Unfortunately, progress is slow as I easily get sidetracked doing other artwork - in particular the blog banners and backgrounds. It's also easy for me to become reconnected with the 'blank canvas fear' - even when it isn't blank anymore! But, here it is - the process I am currently engaged in is just blocking in the general colors. Again, I did find it very helpful, being left-handed, to start on the right hand side of the canvas. This is even more important now as my sleeves brushes against the paint as I go along. Especially for me, as I find my common sense disappears when I am engaged in a 'right-brained' mode.

Below - the original photograph taken by MICHAEL S. YAMASHITA (2001) "Tajik children go over class notes before school in a mountain village of China's Xinjiang Province. Again - a portion of the his photograph for ....gulp....comparison sake, and to remind me of the daunting work still left!

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Digital Postcard - Playing around with Composition...

I was just playing around with a couple of ideas with respect to composition - the golden mean, light to dark and cool colors to warm, ( a friend mentioned this notion to me recently) as well as complementary colors.

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Encaustic Workshop

I spent Saturday at an encaustic workshop with artist Maria Madacky. Some of her work is available on "Absolute Art". We worked on a still life in the morning and in the afternoon, I opted to just experiment with this medium. The photo above is the result of my morning effort. I am smitten with the textural possibilities encaustic painting lends itself to. This was done on the rough side of a piece of masonite board (17x20) . I added a few pages of Japanese text in the background that is modestly visible if you were to press the photo to view it large.

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Citzen ATC - Isles of Morpharchengigel "Keats-....let the muse be free..."

ATC for Citizen Project - The Recollection Parlor Group

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