nothing is ordinary

Brain fruit

today I'm going to tackle the inside the house spiderwebs .  these webs are the pesky little filaments that connect the computer desk to the elmer's glue to the shoebox of treasures to the bucket of paintbrushes to the artificial peony to the vintage paper mache rabbit  across  endless space to the the hummingbird dangling at the end of the chain of the hunter fan.  i cannot find the beginning, nor the end of this tiny dust-covered filament, nor can i find miss webber the spider that will be as small as a pin head, but who comes nightly to embrace my house with her webs.

i can dust the webs or vacuum the webs, all effort being effortless because those two methods are only temporary.  therefore i must take more drastic steps,  i must get some brain fruit. brainfruit  that looks like  lime green wavy grey matter the size of grapefruit. brainfruit, also know as hedge apple or osage orange is known to the old wive's talers as the only cure for miss webber's webs. wish me luck as i fight the invisible.

Healing Chocolate

It's been a rough week, but we've made it through and in the end, I wanted chocolate.

This is a small collage I did, not for competition, but it did sell.  The name is "Baby loves Chocolate".

I had doodled the hand and I doodled the "bon bon" for a painting called "The Bon Bon Bush".  I then painted the chocolate,  then put the two together on heavy paper.  The final step was painting the paper around the hand and candy.  I believe it was 4"x5".  Yum!

                                                       

                                                        

The painting below is "The Bon Bon Bush", again using the bon bons.  Funny name...bon bon.

                                                                  

Singing Trout

Yesterday's post was "Trout and Spam" theme.  I liked those trout so much that I painted another painting called "Singing Trout".  These paintings were large and were sold.  I wonder if they were sold to trout-loving people.

I've  always wondered about my buyers.  Did they really "love" the art or the colors or the whimisical theme? Where they collectors of a certain kind?  I once sold a painting of a man sipping coffee out of a White Castle mug.  It turns out he was a collector of White Castle memorabilia.  One painting had a large tennis shoe in it.  He collected Air Jordan memorabilia, everything he had bought had to do with tennis shoes.  I've had a collector who bought all but one of my Red and Wolf series.  She was from New York and the paintings were sent to a law office.  Was she a lawyer, or a paralegal or a secretary?  Who knows.

  I've sold  across the U.S., from Washington, Oregon, Texas, New Hampshire, New York, Hawaii, Missouri, Florida, to name a few. Louisville was the closest destination.   I've even sold to someone in England, Malaysia, Iceland and Germany.  What those sales showed me was that the "world-wide web" is, indeed world-wide.  I can't even sell a painting to someone in my home-town.

So if you are traveling and run across one of my paintings, please let me know.  Enough of that, here's "Singing Trout".

Trout Scrabble

I love scrabble, and boggle and perquacky, any word games.  This painting was done (again) for competition in a different online art group, EBSQ that has a wonderful group of artists and I'm still a member . Check it out if you get a chance. In any case, the key words for that month's competition was "spam", which is a yearly contest.  This is my entry. By the way the keywords were trout and spam.

                                                                                    

Cat's Cradle

"Cat's Cradle" is a drawing done with paint markers.  I've always been intrigued with the many string and hand tricks, particularly the cat's cradle.  Thus, my interpretation.

                                                           

Birth of Venus

The leaves are in full color..gorgeous.  It feels like heaven on the farm.

This painting is "Birth of Venus".  My interpretation did not include the entire composition and again was part of a competition with the online art group.  I sold it to my friend in Canada.

                                                               

Earth Angel

Today it was cold (47 degrees), drizzly and it felt like winter.  I've heard tell of a snowflake in Louisville. Aarrrgh!

This painting is called "Earth Angel".  Again, this was part of the online art group competition several years ago.  The theme was "angel".  Study the map.

                                                                

Pajamas

Weather update...it's chilly and will be even chillier(brrrr) which is perfect weather for the fast changing leaves.  The woods is beginning to take on a yellow/orange cast.

The painting for the day is called "Pajamas", with that cute little mustached kitty.  I couldn't resist giving him a silly hat and a couple of mice to play with.  I call this my "whimsical folk art".  However, I am still undecided if the cat's name is Pajamas or he is wearing striped pajamas.

                                         

Mona's Mask

"Mona's Mask" was painted as part of an online art group competition several years ago.  This was my interpretation of the Mona Lisa.  It was fun to work on and amazing to re-create and really study an old master's painting.  Lyla was my model.

                                                                  

Afternoon Nap

Today the weather was somewhat on the chilly side...in the 60's.  Wearing a sweater was necessary if you happened to have on short sleeve blouse, as I did.  A few roses are still blooming on the everbearing rose bush outside the office.  The  city has already furnished the office fronts with planters of golden yellow mums and the roses are a little out of place.

The title of this acrylic painting is "Afternoon Nap".