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Peter Hunt Silkscreens

Last year at a garage sale I saw these, loved them and bought two of the four available.  Not only do they look so, so sweet in the kiddos' room, it seems they weren't such a bad investment, after all.  And when asked why I'm spending $40 (we're garage sale cheapskates) on two dumb posters,  this makes me want to say, REMEMBER BLYTHE, suckah.

Another shadow box

I'm being quite proactive about brightening up our space for the upcoming winter. I made this little shadow box during the presidential debates the other night. I love the process of gluing, cutting, just being present with what I'm doing. It doesn't even matter whether people like it or not, although the little squeal of delight from my daughter did put a smile on my face.

The Bunkbed Period

 

My daughter is obsessed with painting bunkbeds. It's almost the only thing she'll paint. They usually involve her stuffed lion or our cat landing on her brother who happens to be slobbering for some reason in the above painting (as she tells it.)

The pink one was for over her bed

The red one was for her brother and she kindly painted her purse collection hanging over his feet. I'm sure he is thrilled.

I bought lollipops to make a mobile for Junior but ended up making this epoxy resin/lollipop/magazine piece instead. It's called "Dream House" and was commissioned by my five year old. If the truth be told I mixed the epoxy on a very humid day and it never hardened. Now the lollipops are dripping and it's a mess.

This was a collective family effort. The pink thing is a picnic blanket.

My daughter did this painting of the two of us as mermaids. We were out of canvas so she resigned herself to forgoing another bunkbed painting. I love kid art so much - think about framing some and hanging it in your house!

Recycled Magazine Collages

I wanted to show you these collages I've been working but my goodness they are difficult to photograph! They are made using old magazines and covered with eopxy resin for a tough, shiny coat. The resin I'm using is virtually VOC free and environmentally friendly. It's quite labor intensive but I love the result. I'm plan to hang the one above (21X21) over my pink bathtub where the steam won't affect the eopxy coating.



























 

Pink Reverse Painting

I got this painting (it's a reverse painting on glass from 1956) a couple of weeks ago while on an Artist Date.  Do you guys know what that is? It's a suggestion from The Artist's Way and encourages creative types to take themselves on a date all alone once a week to do something FUN. I so highly recommend this book to anyone creatively blocked or creatively seeking.