...in due time we shall reap - Create With Joy -

let us not lose heart in doing good,
for in due time 
we shall reap
if we do not grow weary.
Galations

  

warn those who are idle,
encourage the timid, 
help the weak, 
be patient with everyone.
 1 Thessalonians 5:14



 

-Kat- Hope you find your own inspiring muse today 
and all-ways
I am hoping and praying to some day 
see my illustrations in a children's book or two

joining in on

I was featured at:
 Create with Joy 
 last week
Oh JOY! joy joy JOY!
Thank you so much
you just made my week

Good times this Christmas

My Daughter-in-law, Jessica made me this

I Adore it...She made it by applying the cut out holly and edging it in gold

 This apron is my favorite gift this year

 I will treasure it always

and wear it every Christmas season from now on !

This is my next project to get finished

 Percy the mouse was so hungry

when he woke up one fine spring day....

But he wanted something sweeter

than the stale nuts and pine-cones he had stored in his log.
- KAT -
click on the Paint Party button below
and see some creative art posts
and join in !

Wordless Wednesday SSssshhhhhhhhh !

- KAT -

Paint Party !!!!

RATS!

These watercolors are still drying
and I haven't erased the pencil lines yet on them.
this is what they look like
BEFORE
I add ink lines to the picture for definition 

Today I took a few photos of my work on the book

Percy

Im doing these watercolors... with ink added

for  my author/ poet friend...Danny Langone

and our  rhyming children's book series.

He says Creeper (the cat) 

and our very first book together will be out hopefully soon !

but I like my pictures for this book much better

with experience it gets much easier to relax and enjoy it

This is still wet
with no ink lines added yet. 

Percy is tired of stale nuts

This is Percy afraid to look at the rat
I would do this too !

Happy painting and crafting 
and just being super creative this week
with your pencils, paints, materials, papers, cameras....


- KAT-

winner will be picked soon and PPF

here is my art work for this week.

I am trying out the new water soluble oil paint 

made by Winsor & Newton

 I have not painted anything much, just yet 

...still in the drawings stage 

for this children's book.

called 

"Percy"

My friend and I are going to do the 

self publishing thing with Dog Ear Publishing

out of Indy.

So here is a little of what I have so far.

There is Percy, a hungry field mouse

 that lives in an old log.

There are two mean rats,

and of course a 

cat

to deal with.

Some of you may be wondering 

about the first children's book,

 "Creeper"

It is in the process still.  

It takes time when you self publish.

I look forward to these

little books coming out in 2012.

P S...I will pick one name 

from the comments for the owl giveaway at noon and I will send the winner an email.

Thanks to those who commented on that giveaway post from last Friday.
you can still go to that post and leave a comment 
before noon EST.

 Good Luck to you all.

-  KAT -

My Over-Worked Work- Desk

My Work Desk...
 this fine Wednesday morning...
"fiddle-dee-dee"
looks like ...
a war zone !

 I have been working from home all summer. 

...soon I will transition back over
 to working more at my  studio.

This time of year it gets real busy 
and more people are over there.

I am working on many things at once :

  sketches  for a children 's book

 about a mouse named Percy...

"Percy"

an owl oil painting on slate...

...and more tiny birds to send off to the gift shop 

out in Williamstown , MA.

Mr.  G says he has no where to sit and do HIS work 
(and he's right)


I have my stuff spread 
every where 


Time to get organized a bit !



Easier said than actually
DONE !


I'm an awfully lot like Scarlett O'Hara...






" I can't think about that right now...


 If I do, I'll go crazy.


 I'll think about that tomorrow."




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