Fall/Autumn Colours! :)

Happy Wednesday Everyone!

I wanted to share some of the lovely Fall/Autumn Colours I have been seeing around me here in Oregon in the past week!

I Hope you enjoyed them!

What are the colours like in your part of the world?

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

FRIDAY FLOWERS! :)

Happy Friday Everyone! :)

I wanted to say a BIG "THANK YOU" to everyone who left such heartwarming comments on my last blog post. It was a tough piece to write but I felt it was the right time. I am a pretty private person and not many people around me know what I deal with but I just felt if it could help anyone then it was worth writing. You guys rock, thank you again, it is amazingly awesome to know that you are there, sending your Love, cheers, T. :)

And now to Friday Flowers! :)

We have had lovely weather this week and some of our tomatoes have ripened, YAY!

The leaves are starting to Fall from the big Oak Tree in our Garden and there is definitely an Autumnal feel to the early morning (not that I see it that often He! He! :)

So, here are the last of the Flowers to grace our Garden this year. I have had so much fun showing you all around. But even though our Garden is done, there are still some beautiful things I have to share with you in the next few weeks. :)

So, stay tuned, as they say :)

Rose among the Lavender

Snapdragons, the kids loved to make these "Talk" by gently squeezing the sides :)

Geranium

Verbena, I love this one because it starts a deep peachy colour and goes to an almost peachy white, gorgeous!

Coleus and Geranium

Last Pink Rose

Double Delight Roses (The best Fragrant Roses, I think! )

Buddleia

Scented Tobacco Plants

I am having so much fun playing with the angles and light in my photos right now :)

Hanging Baskets are still looking good :)

This is my Fav. right now. The Hydrangea is changing to its Fall colours and the low afternoon background light coming thru the trees is so much fun to play with :)

Just an extra pop of colour to get us thru the next few weeks :)

When I looked at this Rose I immediately thought of a Nuns wimple, like Sally Fields as the Flying Nun :)

Mimosa Tree or the "Pink Fluffy Stuff" :)

A few shots of this beautiful Japanese Maple Leaf :)

And I couldn't resist adding yet another Spiders Web, as we have so many. This one was huge approx. 18" (not the spider He! He!) But seriously they are big enough!!

Lost count of how many I walked into this week :(

I hope you enjoyed Friday Flowers!

Have a Lovely Weekend everyone, see you next week :)


Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

"Integrate My Circuits" :)

Happy Saturday Everyone!

I missed Friday Flowers yesterday but they will be back next week I'm not done yet  :)

If you missed last week's FRIDAY FLOWERS you can see the Happy Sunflowers and the "WATCH" Cat HERE :)

I wanted to share with you one of my pieces of Artwork that I have hanging in a local business right now.

(Click on photos to see larger images)

"Integrate My Circuits" (4' x 5')

I love how the spotlights bounce off this piece creating a powerful reflective light from the foils and gold leaf.

Here is the description of this piece that I wrote for my Etsy posting :)

This artwork is a swirl of connectedness. Layers of multi coloured paper, vivid acrylics and electronic components all come together in an ensemble piece.

I love to place everyday objects in my artwork. This time it is electronic components thanks to my Hubby the Engineer. Yes, who would have thought an Engineer and an Artist could be compatible??


The playful movement of the acrylic paint connecting the components, overlapping the many textural papers, brings to mind the connectedness we all need, desire and cherish in our lives and on this planet.


"Integrate My Circuits" starts, like so many of my pieces, first with the strong textural layer of gesso. Next I placed a C.D. in the centre (corny I know!) as they were constantly arriving in the mail a few years ago and I knew I would use it one day, maybe not in the way it was intended! Then the multi layers of coloured paper (symbolic of office?) Next the randomness of the electronic components plus the acrylic paint trying to link it all together.


"Integrate MY Circuits" is created on a 60 x 48 unframed canvas with wrapped sides.


THIS PIECE CONTAINS SHARP OBJECTS.


"Integrate MY Circuits" is an original work of art, it is signed on the front and back, this art piece has not been copied or reproduced in any way.

This was such a fun piece to create, I love working big, I love working with found objects, I love using mixed media and I love finding a way to make the connections in my work.  

I hope you enjoyed this :)

Have a Lovely Weekend :)

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.

Making The Most Of The Rain! :)

Happy Tuesday Everyone! :)

It has been raining here, in Portland, so much that I have been trying to ignore it, it is too soon, GO AWAY!!!!!! :(

So, to cheer myself up I decided to Make the Most of it and take some fun pictures :)

I hope you Enjoy them :)

"Raindrops on Roses........." (now I am going to have to watch the Sound Of Music :)

I really love this one, I think because of the sense of intrigue :)

We are surrounded, literally every window and door, with Spiders and their webs, must have been a bumper year for them, I have walked into so many webs recently, yuck!  :(

Yep, that is a glimmer of Sunshine in between the torrential rain!

I love how in these shots the outside lighting makes beautiful shapes with reflective light bouncing off the raindrops on the Bamboo :)

I am really enjoying working with the Black and White photos right now. :)

I am going crazy trying to get everything co-ordinated for the upcoming shows but hopefully the stress and the expense will pay off.  Seriously, you would think I had never done a show before!

I hope your Week got off to a great start :)

And a little better then mine, back to trying to block out the sound of a chain saw right outside my office while our "DARLING" neighbours hack down yet another tree, AAAAAAAAH!!!!!!

Happy Painting/Creating! :) T.