volumes

We're back in Florida, I have extremely limited supplies here. The handful of brushes and paints and stuff that fits into a plastic container. So I pick up a pack of three small cardboard canvas' to work on.

More Alice

Patrick actually made the teapot - out of a large plastic barrel and casters, with cut foam for the handle and wood for the spout. He painted the base ivory type color on it. Then he let me go to town on the color and designs.

I used purple, red, blue - all royal, rich colors. On the sides and spout and handle, I used random designs, swirls, checkers, stripes, etc. On top of the lid he had found a circular piece with a fleur type design on it, then put a knob in the center for the handle. I kept with the red and purple, then added hot pink and neon green to the fleur parts and on each side of the knob. A very eclectic piece of art that fit perfectly at the Mad Hatter and March Hare's tea party!

Alice In....

Ahh... "Off With Their Heads!"

The Red Queen's Royal Garden. Well, the basis of it anyway.

Green fleece, a bit streaked with lighter colors - very pretty, very stretchable, looked good on stage under lights. And on sale that week at Hancock Fabrics!

Pick up several bunches of roses from wherever fake flowers are sold, pull the roses off the stems and quick stitch them to the fabric at random intervals. I actually spread out the measured and cut fabric, threw a handful of rose heads up in the air and let them fall, then stitched them where they landed. This was a pretty fun thing to work on, and I kinda wanted to keep the finished pieces to hang on my walls. It's better they ended up staying at the theatre to be used in the traveling set pieces.

Wonderland

Working on "Alice In Wonderland" at the Globe. I'm playing the Cook, so I get to be silly and dance with a pepper shaker. It's all good. (grin)

Anyway, am also helping with the painting and creating of things. One is the painting of the Walrus and the Carpenter that Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum talk about with Alice.

This is a shot of it stretched out on my bedroom floor while I worked on it over the summer. I used a painters canvas - it was slightly more flexible than regular canvas, it was already the dimensions I mostly needed, and same cost. Then I found sketches of the Walrus and Carpenter in various books and on the web, drew it in free hand, making sure to leave room down the center to cut it and faded out on the edges to help with the surreal effect.

After sketching I started painting, using basic acrylics, filling in the clothes, rocks, and skin tones. The oysters were easier - I painted grey and black and white swirls in circles all along the bottom. I used a sharpie to outline the clothes and eyes and such, then to fill in the lines on the oysters and their little shined shoes on their little feet! (If you know the poem, you know what I'm talking about!)


I spent half the time in rehearsals and the other half doing other projects, and the other half traveling to El Paso to see Rob, or he'd come here and we'd hang out more than I would work on anything useful. It happens. Especially with a wonderful and handsome man like him!

Here's the shot of it finished, and still in one piece. (It had to be cut in half for the turning triangles for the set.)

Road Trip!

We had a wild girls weekend in Georgetown. (if Georgetown could be wild, this was about it) Amber, Bobbi and I meandered the street vendors and the great little shops at the Red Poppy Festival, then cleaned up a bit and ate dinner and went to the Trent Willmon concert/street dance.

Ok, that was the condensed version.


I went to stay with Amber on friday night, we left Saturday and aimed her minivan towards Georgetown. Along the way we stopped and took pictures of wildflowers and each other taking pictures of wildflowers.

We sang along with the radio, joking and chilling along the way. Thankfully Amber made maps, otherwise it would have been a much longer trip! The town square is a neat little place anyway, but the streets were full of vendors with lots of eye catching things. Yeah, and we were admiring the men we saw as well... ;) Lots of pretties - necklaces, rings, artwork. Bobbi & I found photograph prints at one guy's booth that we bought - pretty photos and supporting another artist. I picked up a delicious jar of strawberry-rhubarb jelly, we looked at the cars and trucks in the car show down one street. And then we found the chocolate shop - they had pretty wreaths and ornaments and stuff, but they also had chocolate! Like chocolate covered marshmallows and chocolate covered fritos! Yeah! Grabbed a couple of hotdogs and a Miller Chill at the food tent, we could have done without the Miller Chill. If anyone ever tells you they're good, like the lady selling them at the booth did, please smack some sense into them, it's like lime-ish piss. Thankfully we had chocolate to make everything better!

We made our way around and out, found the hotel and a bit more shopping. Shoes at payless, nail polish and a couple of pretty dresses on sale, back to the hotel to clean up for the night. We dressed up and went back to an italian type restaurant on one of the street corners, we ordered drinks and ogled the waiters, one of whom became our waiter when we were seated.
Dinner was great, we were close enough to the balcony to hear the music starting outside, so after a bit more flirting with the waiter (on my part), we aimed for the stage. Bobbi moved up to the stage taking pictures and swooning (my words, not hers, although she was). I got camping chairs out of the van and we parked ourselves off to the side to watch and listen.

After the concert he came out and signed cd's and took pictures - Trent Willmon really is very nice. I've met some artists who aren't, but he did the street festival for pretty much free because he's from Texas, he played a great set, and he visited his fans. We were all smitten, not just Bobbi, by time we left.

A good long saturday, giggled and talked till we fell asleep, then got up on sunday to head back. We stopped to eat lunch, more people watching, then back on the road. We stopped at Lake Buchanan to take pictures of the ducks - and Bobbi sat down to visit with the ducks.
After they figured out she didn't have any food, they wandered on.

A few more picture stops, we rolled into Menard. Lots of hugging goodbye and I got on the road again to head back home. A huge storm was rolling across past San Angelo as the sun set. I think it was a beautiful way to sum up the weekend as I caught a bit of the lightning on (digital) film, for memories.

So.... where to next, girls?

Moving Forward (ish)

Step one: Find something to write about. Supply pictures.

This will be a foray into showcasing both writing and painting, and maybe on occasion some wood carving. One step at a time, showing the process, writing short stories, whatever.

Since I've been writing under pseudonyms for the last three years, I figured it's also time to air out a few more of my writings in effort to strengthen my skills.

Fredericksburg Lights

A weekend getaway to wander and visit. Street lights glint in the cooler air, the store are all selling holiday cheer. It's like a welcoming cup of hot apple cider, saying "Come, sit a spell. Watch awhile. There's some pretty things to see here."