Fish in pond

These koi are on a new companion piece to the larger koi painting.   I am trying to keep the background lighter, so the old maps show through the glazes. But I rather like the darker one better.  I will live with it awhile and see. 

Another fish..... muxed media

I was going for light hearted simple piece.  I dont want to fuss over it. I think it will end up out on patio wall.

Whats that fish doing there?

This one was pretty mych done but the fish cutout was on my work table.....  mixed media artists can guess the rest.     It was a use it or lose it moment.  

Flowers and fish

Here are some recent paintings.  98% completed.

  this one I thought was finished a month or two ago, but it needed something more. So I added greenery, fallen blossom and foliage and finally the fish.  I want to add a shadow behind the fish and then let it go. 

Mixed media play day.

After seeing Jane Davies post, I challenged our group to either draw, or collage cards with heads, torsos, or legs and feet.   Most did theirs before our meeting, but some worked on them here.   We passed them around, and changed them and had lots of good fun.   There were 11 at the table.  Chitter chatter and giggles.  Here are some of mine.

Busy busy

So many interesting things going on lately.
Our old Wackos group has started meeting again in Modesto.  Beverly has turned her parents house which is on the same property as her own home where she and her husband raised their children, into an art house.   She calls it THE HOME.    It is full of rooms of books, supplies and work spaces. Im looking forward CV to our next get together  when we will work on gelli printing.  Its magical.

Some of our projects will be using supplies we havent touched for a few years, so we can revisit techniques and learn new ones.

The mixed media group that meets at my place, which I call THE BEACH HOUSE, had a bang up day yesterday.   Carol, Sue, Marilyn, Nancy, Sally, Trina, Taffee, Elizabeth, Pamela, Rosemary, Cat and me.  Full table.   I will post pics later. 

This is a piece I did for Valentines day.  I will be teaching a couple of the newbies how to create similar pieces later this month. 

 Basically its layers of papers, napkins, tissues, glazes and tissues.     There are a lot of steps. 

I need to prepare for this mornings painting group. Ill try to update my blog this weekend.

Yahoo groups closes archives.

A month or so ago, group owners and moderators were contacted to announce the closure of many features of yahoo groups.    If can still be used for mailing, but the files, links, and photographs will be deleted today.     

 It grieves me as an archivist to see the past wiped away.    We all bought into the Yahoo groups concept and built our sites to reflect the interests of our members.   Hours and hours of planning and uploading built our sites. 

Yahoo offered some suggestions on how to salvage our files, but for some of us, they were not accessible or usable.    As moderator of several groups representing 100+ members, it saddens me to see our hard work erased. 

 I notified members several times that they would need to download anything they wanted to save, and thats the best I could do.  I hope those readers who were members of groups took the time to review and save things to your personal devices.



The mixed media site was set up in 2009. The others were added later as new groups were formed that coyld benefit from the group features for sharing communications, calendars, polls, files, photographs, links, and resources.