Art breakthrough . . .

Not that I had a block or anything, but suddenly I feel very comfortable painting what I love. I suppose that practicing over and over and over helps a lot!

New art video . . .

So, I've tried a bunch of times to link my new youtube art video to this blog, but for some computer-illiterate reason, I can't get it to work. So, go down to the bottom of my blog and on the right there is a link to my youtube videos. Click on there and go to my new video. It was really fun to make.

Today -and yesterday's birds

Today was not as wonderful as yesterday and I don't really know why. I think it was the birds. As I was driving home yesterday, I noticed some little brown birds at the side of the road. They were flitting and fluttering in a little puddle of water right at the side of the road. It was near lots of traffic, but they just were having the time of their little bird lives. I think they really had something there. We all need to take a bird bath by the side of our roads that drive us mad, the roads we all have to drive during rush hour, the roads that pretty much lead us nowhere, but that we have to drive anyway. Thanks little birds.

Art dolls!

Ever since I was young, I have loved making dolls. When my sister and I would go to the city library right by our home, she would check out a pile of books to read and I would check out doll making books! Here are my most recent tries at doll making!

See my new art listed on ebay!

I wonder if your favorite is mine too!

Jane Filer Art

This lady's work is awesome! I love the way she paints and the results!

Christmas soon will be here!

These lovely angels are here to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! They are up for grabs on ebay! Thanks for a great year everyone. I am very happy to know that this great community of art lovers and artists are here at my fingertips. It is wonderful to read your blogs, see your art, read your posts and share this experience here on this beautiful earth we all share.

Do you ever . . . . ?

Do you ever just feel like stopping painting? or whatever you love to do? Are you ever just burned out for a minute, or a couple of days? You just feel like there is nothing left to create inside your head. Nothing left to spill out on the paper? I have felt like this on and off. Then it happens. An idea, or an inspiration comes from seeing other people out there in cyber land. I see something in nature. I hear something in my head or see something outside myself and I slip right back into the ease of painting. I have to go paint. I keep doing it. I can't stop. It is like a habit - biting your fingernails, holding your blanky (as a baby) - you just can't stop. And there I am again, painting, drawing, imagining what the next work of art will be. It is an amazing journey. It holds twists and turns in the road, but the views are awesome and the path is never boring!

Here is one of my favorite artists!

New Ebay listings . . . It's about time!

I am so grateful to be able to walk downstairs to my new studio to paint and create! Things seem to be getting back to normal for me and I have so much to be thankful for!

For my man

Daylight ebbing,
Night falling,
Kids calling,
Dinner settling,
Air crisp and colder
Sunrise gone
Night is long
But still you hold me,
believe in me
Like the sun that rises,
You are there.

Soo, I am back to work

After the whole hospital stay and recovery (which is still in effect I guess) I am going back to work tomorrow.

A couple days before my accident, my husband and I arranged all my art stuff in one room downstairs with two lovely windows to let in great light and it is so roomy and everything is organized. Since my accident I have probably spent 3 hours in my studio. I cry when I go down there because I am grateful for one more day to paint, one more day to love my kids, one more day to cuddle with my hubby, one more day to see the beautiful sunshine streaming in my window, one more day to pet my dog, Ben. Here he is. He doesn't look like the type of dog to pull you down the deck stairs, does he?





Things are going well, but I'm getting frustrated at all the hobbling around in crutches I have to do.

Dear Friends

Dear Friends,

I have had an eventful week. After taking my dog outside with a long leash and allowing him to pull me off balance down my deck stairs, many things happened since then. I have also learned a few things . . .

• We went to the emergency to see if I broke any bones (found out later I just sprained my knee)
• Slept all day the next day with ice on and off my knee
• Called 911 the next day when I broke out in a cold sweat, breathing very hard and my hands and feet started to turn numb. I had been taking a walk around the house with my crutches
• Stayed in the hospital for 4 days with blood clots in my lungs - ouch
• Found out through sonogram of my heart, that I have a heart murmur
• I am home now, hobbling around on crutches
• My family is the most awesome caring family
• My friends and neighbors are wonderful, caring people
• Hospitals and technology are amazing
• People who are emergency technicians, nurses, and doctors should be applauded - they saved my life
  

All this seems like too much information to post here on my art site. I hesitate to post it, because it seems crazy to me that so much can happen in so little time and what good will it do you, followers and buddies online?

I would just like to encourage everyone to thank a person who smiles at you. Help a person who needs you. Give a lift to a person who cannot reach. Notice the colors of a nurse's shirt. Notice the fragrance that your friend is wearing today. You never know when your time to leave this world will be. I am grateful to have more time on this beautiful planet, to share this message with you. The sun shone through my window today and today it is different than last week. I value that sunshine a little more today. It is more beautiful than ever. . .

Thanks to God for sparing my life, for He is ultimately in control of what will happen. He is the divine creator of us all. I give Him and His Son the glory of all these beautiful things in life and my abilities to perceive them.

Here is a watercolor on eBay right now. It is in a group of watercolors. They already have bids, so I guess that these were a good idea. I used to do watercolors all the time. I love them. This one tells you to follow your heart. I wonder what that really means? Do you just do what you want? Is it really truly diving deep into your soul and searching for what your heart yearns for? Is it asking God for the best for you? He does know what is best, after all, He created us. I think that God wants me to become me and make those decisions though. If I let Him do it all, then I don't learn who I am. A little philosophical today. I think it is that I do not want the summer to end.


Here is another painting that is on eBay right now. I think I captured a thoughtful mood. I had a lot of fun doing this one. I am going back to teaching school in a week and a half. Training next week. I hope that I can keep posting art at least once a week when school starts. I hope, I hope, I hope. Sometimes it is all a little too much and I don't get much art done. We will see.

Baby Angel

Here is my latest attempt at painting a face. I really like how this little baby turned out. I have painted a couple of babies in honor of my little Baby Michael who left this world before he was even born. I was 5 months along in my pregnancy when we discovered he had died. I am so grateful for my other wonderful children, but this little baby always will have a spot in my heart.

Here are the latest paintings I listed on ebay!

Summer . . .

Summer is here, it is right now. I think about time and how it swiftly moves, it's wings wafting carelessly over our heads without any desire to slow. We watch and can't help but stare, hoping with our hearts and minds that time would land one day on the porch, by the swing hanging there, ready for us to lounge in. But sadly, time wafts on, carrying on, lifted higher by breezes we cannot see and by winds we cannot feel. Time is the enemy of artists. We create and time goes by, we paint and time laughs at our efforts. We try again and again, but time changes everything, from our styles, to our supplies, to our subjects. Time molds us into artists that we never knew we could be. Time . . . what does it mean to you?

Here are two more on ebay!

Well, here are two more paintings that I listed on ebay tonight. . .

And this next one is a result of being inspired to try cardboard as a painting surface! I got inspired by Mystele from Little Glimpses Studio. Click on her name to go to her blog if you want to see her beautiful art and her cardboard creative creations in paint! (Thanks, Mystele, I love working on cardboard!)

New pieces on ebay!

Here are some new folk art angel paintings I just listed on ebay!

Four Angels on Ebay!

This fun angel display is currently on ebay,
starting at $.99! Sorry Sold!

You can watch me paint two of the
angels on my last video I posted.
(Scroll all the way to the bottom
of my blog and it is posted there -
or go to my youtube channel
and see it there)