Making Messes

Between daily breakfast dates with two of my grandsons (lucky me), a dazzling trip over Stevens Pass




and a much-needed visit to my friend the Graphic Designer for some R&R (thank you, my precious friend), I have been busy.

Oh, perhaps I should qualify that: I've been creating... all kinds of things. (The Professor and the Handsome Ginger have agreed to call it "Making Messes", one fondly and the other, well, not so much.. Here's the current list of Messes: I'm illustrating a poet's book for children. I'm mid-canvas on a painting promised in trade for The Blank Page Writing Workshop which begins next week. Check it out if you're interested in future workshops. I'm in the early stages of a painting I'm calling Surrender that will hang in the RU4ME Show at Hilcrest Chapel during the month of December.

As to future Messes, I've got a couple out there. First, I've decided to participate in this year's The Sketchbook Project with the assigned theme, Make Mine a Double. I plan to begin that next week. I'm also reconsidering teaching some children's art classes. Just the basics of color, sketching and 3-D drawing. I'm working on a realistic time frame and cost structure (doesn't that sound businesslike?) Whatever. Finally, I've got a new commission. This time and organization.

So here are the 2 things I've actually finished lately. One is a family portrait of a different kind. After a photo shoot with the family I chose the images I wanted and enlarged them to the sizes I needed. I then cut the from papers I had painted in colors to specifically compliment their living room (where it was to hang).




I then attached these images to the "canvas" (a hollow core closet door) which I had prepared beforehand.



I need to take a photo of it as it hangs, because it is killer! This time I was truly pleased with the outcome!

Here's the second project and this one I'll post over at Gitzen Girl. It's based on a quote Ann Voskamp posted. "We thought our secrets would save us... but they slowly slay us."



Too true.

What have you created just for the mess of it this week?