Happy Paint Party Friday !

"Wind-Swept"

I lightened up this painting to make a starry night sky

Starry  Night  Over The Evergreens

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Went to my studio 

A bright yellow sticky note was on my door

This is usually a good thing

I like to see bright yellow sticky notes!

Lynda said she had something for  me ,

and to come over to her studio.

So I walked into Lynda's jewelry shop 

(she makes her own beads etc....)

She hands me an envelope with cash in it  !

"You sold a painting at Paxtons!"

WOW I never thought anyone would actually pay  

for my art  

...sold in a restaurant in little Loveland.

I am so happy

This is the painting 

painted from a photo I took of a nosy deer

 I met one day in the woods

this is my photo of the deer
peeking at us in the woods

My painting

WOW
I am on Cloud Nine!

 Hugs... to the whole wide world
KAT

Why I like Nature Art and Nature in General

 

Why I Love  Art, Color, and Texture... and all of Nature

My Grand- parents had a wonderful lake house when I was very young. it was a perfect piece of land right on Lake Huron, in Michigan, in the Lexington area.  My family would spend summer and fall vacations there.  My best memories all seem to involve thinking about those days and those smells even though I was so very young.

...coloring on the screened front porch at the big round oak table, crayons grabbed from the  cigar box and we had piles of coloring books.

reading little golden books in the fancy parlor in the mauve colored wing chair by the book case secretary.  I remember "Little Black Sambo" and how he loved pan-cakes just like ME! and "The Little Red Hen" (Why wouldn't anyone help her?)

 and bed-time ,..listening to the English type chimes from the clock on the shelf  (just like the Westminster chimes)

The smells of fresh cut juicy peaches (Michigan peaches), that I loved to have sliced onto my Rice Krispies, with  creamy milk (no skim or one percent here)

sunny warm days of flip flops, bathing suits  suit ( Gram called them bathing suits) my sons hate when I use the term " bathing suits" for their swim suit ...I don't know why

The big  grapefruit sack of beach toys - metal bright colored pails and shovels, sand sifters and various toys and blow up  black tire inner-tubes

making shell necklaces with tread and needles and little tiny lake shells (they make a great sound when you shake them)

getting rinsed off with rain water from the big rain barrel by the back door (no sand in gram's house)

birch trees  right by the lake shore next to Gram's beach(a forest of them) they make the most wonderful sound when the breeze blows through the leaves

( so peaceful and wondrous)!

I have always appreciated Nature and all it gives, to all of us. I wish more people could  just enjoy nature and realize how wonderful Nature is. ( take better care of it all.) I know there would be peace on our planet if everyone on it would just see how miraculous the place is and appreciate each other more.

Red-bellied Woodpecker Visit

 Hello There Red!

Here are a few photos of a Red-Bellied Woodpecker that comes here in the spring and summer.  He is bigger than the little downy woodpeckers that I have spied this winter, eating suet.  This guy likes the bird seed that I put out in the feeder.  He will eat with all the other birds without fighting, as you can see.  He does have an impressive beak, don't you think?  But, I would love to see one of those Pillated Woodpeckers that can be twice this guys size.., I've heard.  Spring has sprung a bit but the chill is still lingering.  I hope the snow that we are expecting tonight won't chase this gorgeous woodpecker away.

I am all moved into my new art studio that I share with a fellow artist.  Lisa is an abstract, colorful artist and we are very similar in our likes and attitudes.  She loves texture in her art also!

I'm working on a children 's book, drawing lots of  illustrations for a friends book about a cat named Creeper. His name is Danny Langone and he has the blog titled, "Ta-duhhh" over in my linked blogs that I follow.  He is  a very talented and witty author and a good person.  Check out his blog. and his books.  I am fine tuning the pictures a bit right now and trying out different painting styles .  I would like to try water-coloring the illustrations.

also... I am loving the fun of using my silicone nature molds of turtles, frogs, bees, butterflies.  I have tried making them look metallic in finishing them but colorful (green, blue, purple, orange)   and adding them to hair pins, necklaces, pins. 

Time to get to work.  I have a lot to get going on.


be back soon!    KAT

Bark Art is not Fine Art

Hello,
we did not get any new snow( few flurries this morning) mostly today it is very windy and the temps are dropping into the 20s. The ice is treacherous...lots of power outages just north of us more in the rural farm areas. I think the cold air is blowing right in through my cheap windows and doors! I feel drafts everywhere in this house today!

So here is my "Bark- Art" my own little invention. although I am sure someone else has done similar stuff. I was wandering down the paths through the St Columban woods and found lots of old pieces of bark that had fallen off the big old trees. I gathered some up, dried it out in the sun then baked it in the oven also. I coat it with wood glue and strengthen it on the back. I love the natural textures and the jagged shapes. I put some hummingbirds and clay flowers on some and different owls peeking out from behind some more. It's evolving as I go along. I am running out of bark now so I have to go hunt up some more.

I put some of these on my ETSY shop at dblrainbow.etsy.com

If you know any bark lovers send them to my shop! :] Please

Oh yea, Second Saturday open house event is coming up. I made a sign with my "ART-ist" name on it...I made it from an old roof slate tile I got in Florida. and I used clay to make letters and a flower and cemented that on,

then I added a hummingbird...My latest bird creation. I really want Spring to come EARLY How about YOU?