Rambunctious: Dogs Play

The reason dogs have so many friends is because they wag their tails instead of their tongues.
- Unknown

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A christmas gift,(so NO telling!), note the "similar" photo in the background!

baby

awake dreams insomnia 48x36

work in progress

Illustration Friday : Seed... faith..of idea..of dreams..

Seed...? I've been spending the last few months seeding my mind and springing to the easel in preparation for my first solo show.. and my journey into spring and summer tent canopy fairs....to promote myself and my art.. So, I haven't been around for Illustration Friday, and Ive missed it! I also won another 3rd in a juried show!

So 'please', enjoy some of the fruits of my germination process as the seeds come to light! and feel free to comment!

Illustration Friday: Pet Peeves: pollution

Pollution is a pet peeve.

Illustration Friday : Homage to Turner

I'm on the fly here... and thought I would pay homage to one of my favourite sky artists... Turner...
Pieced together from a 5x7 painting.. and internet magic.
Yes..the cartoon character is me! Homage to the striving me?

Illustration Friday : Heavy:Some Fat is Beautiful

This is a 16x24 chalk and acetate piece that I did as one of my assignments in school, for one of my favourite teachers. The challenge was finding a solution to the statement. Some fat "is" beautiful... and it can be. Our world is sooooo conditioned to find thinness appealing,to the point of annorexia. There is, a 'healthy' medium, a 'happy' medium, which might mean to a models standards 'that", we may be a little too heavy.

"If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush." ~Dawn French

Illustration Friday: Garden: Natures Garden :2 of 2

another small 5x7 acrylic study

"The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man". ~Author Unknown

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Illustration Friday: Garden-Geisha morning: 1 of 2

This is a very small painting.. all of 5x7.


"I do not understand how anyone can live
without one small place of enchantment to turn to."
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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Illustration Friday: Leap: look before you leap!

18x24 acrylic

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”
Winston Churchill

I shall leave the story of this picture up to you... Leap right in.

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Illustration Friday: Multiple: Seeing Double

This is a 30x36 inch acrylic..

"The cat is mighty dignified until the dog comes by!" - Southern Folk Saying

Illustration Friday: Theory: Serenity with an edgier addition

30x36 Acrylic
I have a "theory" that, if something isn't right.. you wait... then you work on it some more. This piece has taken ages of drafting and redrafting. I submitted it a couple of weeks ago... then took it>> back to the painting board. It was better but still wasn't right.


"Events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation." Eudora Welty

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Illustration Friday:Choose: Cups: Second of 2

16x20 acrylic
It occurred to me that those in business have to make choices quite often.
Then I recalled the game of cups which is all about the choice and singling out the right one.

"We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals"
Stephen Cove

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Illustration Friday: Choose: Which path to choose? :First of 2

This is a painted over another piece. 16x20 and acrylic.

Lifes Path
I look at my life and though I have a 'whole' bunch more to live, seem to always come up against 'that' path...
or fork.

You are the person who has to decide.
Whether you'll do it or toss it aside;
You are the person who makes up your mind.
Whether you'll lead or will linger behind.
Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar.
Or just be contented to stay where you are."
Edgar A. Guest

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Illustration Friday: Blanket: DogsPlay: 2 of 2

Acrylic 16x20
Quite often we find our dog in this position... underneath the blanket.

"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."

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Illustration Friday: Blanket: Bedtime Memories: 1 of 2

acrylic on canvas... this piece brings back the moments of childhood... bedtimes... and blankets, scarey shadows and the hiding place under that protective covering!!!

"Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it."

unknown





Comments are appreciated!

**Illustration Friday: Fables or Tales : A mermaids Tale

Playing with words... A Mermaids tale... >> or tail.... (MY first mermaid!)

**ILLUSTRATION Friday: Stitch> IN time, in laughter , in needlework,

coming soon.

100% not finished Illustration friday

This piece is 30x36 and acrylic...I was looking to capture the sense of serenity of a summers day...yet leave the feeling that even so...there might be other things going on in the background. Below see the progress....and thankyou for your comments and support!

Janice

First version!. Please click on pictures for a better view

Illustration Friday: Little things: captains of their hammock returned and improved!

16x20 Acrylic SOLD

I've been reworking some pieces that I've entered... and here is the end result of this one...

'Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other'. ~Carol Saline

**Illustration Friday: Superstion : Family Gathering

A rather unique superstition was, that if a goose layed 'only' two eggs.. it was considered bad luck.
another is : If one saw geese leaving a farm it was an omen of fire...

Illustration Friday: Trick or Treat

I thought about this topic and wondered what I could do that I could use.. and that might speak to this topic so.. being in a philosophical mood... I did this piece.. On board.. mix media...

The rationale behind it... We really do want to see what we want to cause it makes us comfortable... I talked ?ok wrote with an IF friend today... and started thinking about illusions... Christmas means the dove and peace on earth... but what if it came disguised.. dressed up... came as a pigeon... in a santa hat... Would we still recognize the peace.. the good will... ? Or would we want it only the way we know it...
If all one expects is a trick... sometimes we miss the treat...

Extremes: Evolving Revolving Agriculture

It may be pushing it to enter this as an Extreme Entry... but its what Ive been doing this week... And it is interesting how Agriculture has evolved from its simplistic roots, to abuse, then to the technologically savy and environmental awareness of todays world. Extremes.... yeah.. maybe it does fit!


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Comments are both encouraging, educational and inspiring. Thankyou so much for taking the time to leave me your thoughts.

Illustration Friday: Open and shut.

Keeping an OPEN mind.

The idea is that, inside we can become very barren and introspective but 'When' one remembers to open ones eyes and look outside oneself, its funny how the world has a lot more colour and life. Hope you are enjoying your day... :)
Acrylic.. 20x20.....

PS.. Happy THANKSGIVING!!! from Canada!



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Blues....Insomnia-the cat cannot sleep!

What can be bluer than a cat that can't sleep... and what is a blue cat to do? count rabbits!
this is 30 x36 acrylic

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Illustration Friday: Wedding

This was one of the last pieces I did in my fathers room...(smiling here) He, had Lots of advice! and wanted credit as an advisor. So.. here it is, it is pastel, ink, acrylic, and I dedicate it to his memory.

Illustration Friday:Poem

I don't know if you have ever had an experience like this. You get an idea in your head and YOU know, that its probably better to walk away from it, but you know if you dont persist its unlikely you will come back to it for quite a while. Well I persisted and what do you know this is the idea and this is its result and I believe it turned out :) . I personally love words and the balance one can achieve with them. A good poem is like a good piece of music, Powerful, moving, like a dance. The other thing I can equate with it visually is the dance of traffic lights at night as they weave in and through each other leaving impressions, yet always moving. There is the path, there is the rhythm, and there is movement. There is also the unknown and unexpected. I trust you to enjoy my personal vision of ............a Poem. Comments are always appreciated

standing alone

with a poem I wrote for this occasion