Artist Market Tomorrow!

The first NCCCA Artist Market will take place on Saturday, January 26 from 10am to 4pm!
FREE ADMISSION!

Come meet 15 local artist vendors who will be selling their handmade fine-art including: ceramics, photography, jewelry, paintings, sculpture, prints, fiber arts, spices and more! Meet NCCCA teachers, listen to live music, watch class demos, participate in raffles, play in the photo booth, munch on snacks, decorate a sundae at the Ice Cream Bar, and participate in a number of free and low-cost family activities (Mask-making and Egg Carton Creatures!) For further details visit our website!

I am so excited about tomorrow's big event at the Cultural Arts Center and being one of the featured artists. 

This afternoon a fellow artist and I will be setting up our space and I plan on taking many, many photos of all the great art works that will be on display.

Although it is bone-chillingly cold here in the North Country I know that tomorrow spirits will be high and fun will be had!

Come join us if you can but bundle up warmly!

THIS WEEK........

All week I have tried to get to a couple of projects that I have mulled around in my head for months. 
People give me old wood and pieces of old house siding thinking I can use it for some art project or the other and of course I do see some wonderful pieces of artwork developing on the weathered grain.
So this week I started a painting on a piece of old wood and some fabric art using old textiles.

I kind of like the way the grain of the wood appears to mimic the grain of the table. I added glitter to the petals for fun and a very old rusted chain for hanging it. 

And in the textile department......

I used some very old fabric for this piece including the old crochet that was done by a wonderful 103 year old lady many, many years ago. The spoon is one of many I purchased a couple of years ago at a garage sale. I always love it when I get to utilize stuff I have dragged around with me for years...YAY!
I have already picked a few fabrics for the next project and I hope to finish it in the next day or two.
This is going to be a very busy week because I am doing an art show at the local Cultural Arts Center this Saturday the 26th and I still have a folding door that needs to be painted so it can be used to hang my paintings on and then I need to create a few paintings for the ASPCA Valentine's Day table in the local mall. I try hard to never turn them down when they ask for help.

I hope everyone is having a super weekend and planning something special to celebrate Martin Luther King Day tomorrow. 

May Liberty and Peace always be ours in America!

Where the Heck Have I Been?

I am shocked to see that this much time has gone by since my last post but yeah life does whoop up on us sometimes and 2012 was not the best year for me. There were changes both in my life and the lives of people I care about that seemed to eat up time and energy and left nothing for less serious pursuits.
I want 2013 to be different though and no one but little 'ol me can make that happen, so here's to change (mostly good I hope) and re-connecting with blog friends again!
I do have some new projects to share with everyone in the days to come and lots of art and fun activities I have been fortunate enough to enjoy over the last few months that I can hardly wait to share.

Here's to 2013 and new beginnings!

Little Faces That Made Me Smile

I made a few more little cuties from some of the vintage hardware I keep collecting from the odd garage sale or neighbors dropping off things they think I can use...

This little gal  (I call her Belle) was made from a vintage door plate and where the knob would be attached I made a little face from polymer clay. Her hair is wool roving that a friend picked up for me at a craft show from a local sheep farmer.

 And here is little Lucy....

 Of course the wood I mounted them on is from an old drawer that was languishing, but no more! The keys were from an old box of my great-uncle's junk.
I have to admit the more pleasurable thing about these are that I got to use things I have had hanging around for years and wasn't sure what the heck to do with them. I hate to throw things away so this was the perfect use for those items.
Well I have a new painting in the works in a different style from my usual and I am anxious to get back to it.. I hope everyone is safe and sound and that the weather will co-operate with us so we can have a grand 4th!
Always....


Tina xo

More Little Things

This has been a hectic week filled with catching up on household stuff and trying to find as much time as possible to create a few things....
Here is what I have been up to this past week or so:
Again I used old wood, some tulle and polymer clay face, arms and legs. The old hardware piece is screwed around a wine cork that is holding the tulle skirt. The garters are really meant to be attached to the bottom of a bra to hold it to your girdle (remember those?)

Her hair is mohair that I was lucky enough to have won in a lovely giveaway.

Here I made a small hand painted poly face, a velvet butterfly that I have held onto for ages and a key chain of Route 66. There are some sweet little charms added to the sides and of course my painting and stain finish for the wood piece.

Dear little Frida...pieces of old jewelery, a great old piece of wood from a vintage birdhouse that I painted crackled and stained, crochet lace from a VERY old doily, plaster tiles I made, carved and painted myself. Notice the piece of fabric I wove through her braid before baking the polymer clay. I thought that was a nice touch!!!

This has been fun and I still have a few more I would love to make using some very old escutcheons and then I think I will paint a few canvases in oil paint this summer and see if I can reproduce the images I have stored in my head.
I hope everyone has been having a good start to the summer even though the weather in some areas has been outrageous. It was 94 here yesterday (100 with the heat index) and even expected to get hotter today...ugh! I am not a huge fan of high temps and humidity.
Take care and be well whatever you choose to do today!

Tina xo