What If's

Sometimes we just have to let go of it! I can "what if" myself into a depression...ha! I will have this print for sale soon for First Saturday Artist Market here in Houston. I did this using acrylic, dye ink and paper. 

Jurassic Butterfly

This butterfly is huge but I will make sense when I get it on the frame. 

2010 is Coming!!

Here I am working on some new artwork. I decided to listen to my little owl friend again.

paper and text

Illustration Friday- Contained

Here is my idea for Illustration Fridays topic "Contained". This piece has lots and lots of layers because I used all scrap paper.



"Contained" paper, dye ink



I love my little scraps...best pile I have in the house

Monday Monday

Flowers Are Nature's Poetry
paper, dye ink, pigment ink, paint, wood frame


I know my pictures totally stink!

Cheese Is Good

I know what you are thinking...Oh, I know she didn't do an illustration with a big chunk of cheese. Yep, I sure did.

Happy Monday
Jen

Your Own Perspective

Here is some new artwork I have been working on. I just love trees, birds and my funky swirls. What do you think the little birds are thinking about?

New Art Sunday

New in my Etsy shop...

Never outgrow fun!!
paper, paint, ink, wood block

Art He Knows

Here is a fun piece I've been working on. I got it done today so I thought I would share.

8x10 Giclee print is 24.00 with 3.00 S&H

Flute With Music

Ok, so trying to do this flute for some reason was just the hardest thing. Didn't enjoy doing this piece very much as all the little groves and nooks were driving me nuts! My thinking was that if I did one close up it might be a tiny bit easier but I was wrong. Have you ever looked at a flute? Man, those little suckers are intensely complicated! Flutes are off my list for a very, very long time.

8x10 Giclee print 24.00 plus 3.00 S&H

Vox Culture August 2008

I've been so busy this week volunteering at VBS I haven't had time to do much arty stuff. I have several projects going on right now that I am trying to get ready for. One is the Vox Culture Benefit on August 3rd here in Houston. I will be selling some originals and prints during the show and eating lots of good food. FUN!

My Orange Guitar

Orange Guitar- paper, dye ink, pigment ink

New Violin

I'm a music lover. To me instruments are so darn cool and so are the people who can play them. I especially love the cello...I could just listen to it all day. However, today it's going to be the violin. Can you hear the beautiful melody?

Violin-paper, pigment ink, dye ink, adhesive

CareFree Gum

I'm a gum girl. I love pretty much any kind. I was eating at 59 Diner the other day and I went nuts over the gumball machine game they had. It is the best game because you could win up to 5 gumballs at once. I was hooked on this twenty five cent game! I never won more than three balls at a time but I spent three dollars on the game and walked away with a purse full of little round babies. My all time favorite tasting gum is Dentyne Blast Cool Lime. That gum just rocks and I would buy it in bulk if I could. Another one of my favorites is CareFree because of the name. Can a gum name get any better than that? I have to tell you my CareFree bubbles really are the best!

CareFree Bubbles-paper,dye ink, chalk, adhesive

Knuckle Draggers Scooter Rally

Here are some items I did for the Knuckle Draggers Scooter Rally on August 1-3. I just love scooters so working on these pieces for the rally was fun. I hope they have a fun time! Here is the website if you want to check it out.

Here is a vespa I did on deep edge stretched canvas. I really like these papers because they are all handmade. When you look close you can see the "handmadeness" of the papers because they have tons of bits and tiny fibers in the paper. Also, what's a scooter rally without some matchbook art? I really enjoy using my vintage matchbooks because they are so fun and different. None of them will ever be the same because I use a different matchbook for each one. On these I used an old Alka-Seltzer ad (blue one) and an old Macke Stauffer ad (green one). I think the
M. Stauffer was a tabacco company but I am not sure. That particular matchbook was so old it was falling apart. I was happy I was able to work with it because I really liked the color.

Our House

paper, dye ink, adhesive

Let's Not Blend In!

Here is my take on not being like everyone else.

Simple Monday

Something simple for this very relaxing Monday

You Can't Ruffle Her Feathers...I love people like that (and birdies also)

What's Your Favorite Color?

We all know when you put that quarter into the gumball machine you are secretly wishing for your favorite color/flavor. I always want the pink one...can't really explain it I think it just tastes more like bubblegum. Silly, I know.

When you see that white one coming you just shake your head and think, "man! I hate the white ones". However, that was your last quarter and you end up chewing it anyway. So don't you love the feeling when you see your favorite color come out of the machine into your eagerly waiting hand? Now that's happiness to me!

Flower Garden

I wish my flower garden really looked like this. Right now all my pretty flowers are dead from this crazy Houston heat. On Friday I spent time in my flower bed pulling all my dead azalea plants and flowers. My poor yard was in desperate need of watering but don't you know the minute I get the water hose out a storm blows in and buckets of water fall from the sky. That's how things roll for me.





Flower Garden Collage-Cut paper, dye ink