bright

There's the heart, can you see it?

layers

No particular pattern, just laying down the squares.
Then lines in the alternate colors. Designs of whim and flow.

compare

It's never fair to compare objects or thoughts or emotions. We do it anyways. It's a way of setting ourselves up and dropping ourselves down. One beat at at time again.

Matters not, really. What we see is what we see. What we hope for becomes things we may not have imagined. One hope at a time, I guess.

I miss it all. I compare here and there and know that isn't fair. Do it anyways. But is it a case of grass is greener or a case of familiarity or a case of just plain wanting things the way I want them.

gloss or matte

Each base was a matte black, about two coats thick. Then in a similar fashion to the Mosaic piece, single brush strokes to from squares in green, blue, and pink.

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.