Party Dress

I just can't seem to pick up shimmer and shine with my camera or phone.  I spent a very long time on this--it has beads and glitter and tissue paper and acrylic, and two kinds on enamel, and...well, you get the point.  I went out to eat with a very good friend of mine, the last bit of the post-Thanksgiving weekend, and everything is now twinkling with Christmas decorations.  The holiday is working its way into my art.

There's my friend Cindy, or Cinderella as I call her, in the background.

Pierogies and Street Tacos--fusion food, baby!

La Silla (and Ebert)

There's more layers and different media in here than I can recount.  I had fun making this, playing around with it for days adding this and that.  It's more vibrant in person.

La Silla

(Spanish for "The Chair"  (pronounced see yah), in case you didn't know.

Oh, and p.s., it's National Puppy Day.  Who knew?  

Here's a picture of Kman holding one of our dogs when he was a pup.  

Ebert, my beagle boy.

Patty, Marie, and Family Past and Present (SOLD)

No one has waited for a commissioned piece from me longer than Patty and Marie.  They asked me to paint themselves along with 2 pets from their past and four current furry children.    I had to think about how I wanted to do it and then I needed a chunk of time to do it!  It was a big one - 48" x 60" I completed it in bits and pieces and stalled at about 60% there.  And then I went full-speed ahead and had 98% of it done, but then spent another 16 hours on it.  And so it went.  In the end, I am SO proud of and happy with it.  Thank you, Patty and Marie, co-workers and friends, for being so patient!!  Forgive me for the abundance of photos.  It's just that it took so much work, and I'm very happy with it.

I based Patty's and Marie's image on a photo they shared with me from 22 years ago when they first met.

The cast of characters:

Patty

Marie

The dogs:

Buster--Leading trait--Fairness

 Marie's "Hunky Boy" a.k.a. GRRR dog.  He was blind in the end and only had eyes for Marie.

Lola - Queen of the House and Royal sophisticate

Crazy, young daisy.  Flies through the house destroying all her stuffed animals and depleting them of their stuffing!

 The Cats

Gracie a.k.a. "B*(#h Kitty"

Patty's beloved girl, who always used to wrap herself around her owner.

More details:

 Marie is always glad in jewelry and loves to read--especially "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen.

 Scales of fairness:

 I sparkled Patty up a bit with ring and earring.

 The stuffing coming out of a play toy.

Molding paste, metal, wire, glitter and seed beads-details of crazy Daisy.