Frida Boxes and Fur Baby

Our little grand pup is growing quickly!

Gus loves this little patch of grass we

have in the backyard for our tortoise. 

It's the softest and coolest place to lay.

No wonder he gravitates there

every time he visits. 

Our son-in-law is in the middle

of a 2 month long chemo treatment. 

Every opportunity to help the kids out

during this tough season of life is a blessing. 

This is one of my two Frida 

shadow boxes. 

The yellow background on this

one is an easy way to tell the two apart. 

(Just a little side note, there's a glare

in this picture that isn't in the actual piece.

These are hard pieces to get good pictures.)

This one has loteria cards

on the side. 

 This is the second one. 

It's sides are painted with gems added here and there. 

I've left a spot in front of each to

place some tea light flameless candles. 

It'll help to light up the inside. 

Personally, I don't think pictures

do them justice. 

I love the way they look in person if

I do say so myself. 

Hoping you're having a wonderful 

week and all is well with your soul! 

Terri 

Frida Folk Art Painting

I'm having fun working on some

Frida boxes that I look forward 

to sharing with you in the near future. 

In the meantime I finished this 

Frida painting. 

We're finally seeing a break in

the weather here in the southwestern United States. 

The monsoon season is coming to a close. 

We look forward to sleeping with the windows

open very soon. 

Wishing you a wonderful week ahead! 

Terri

Daily Paintings of Late

My goal is to finish

a painting a day. 

I'm not always successful

with that goal, but I have

been successful in pressing

forward whether I reach it or not. 

This fact is a win for

me on it's own. 

Here are some

of my most recent

accomplishments. 

I'll keep my words

to a minimum in this post.

Thank you for visiting

and touching base.

I hope you have a fabulous week!

Terri

Superior and Artsy Sites to See

This week is a little mix of

work and play.

Although, I'd never call creating 

artwork, actual work. 

Onward, to some play and play then. . . 

Here are a few of my pieces from this 

past week. 

~Mixed media fun. 

Pink kitty

Mixed media with colored pencils,

paint, and collage papers. 

Blue eyed Frida mixed media

Folk art bird.

The quote is one of my favorites on faith:

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings

when the dawn is still dark. -Tagore

Been there. . . 

On Saturday, we took a visit to Superior

Arizona. It's not too far from our house. 

Here are a few fun pictures of the 

desert and the town. 

The fruit on the saguaro's are open

now, feeding many of the desert animals. 

That's Picketpost Mountain 

in the background. 

They drop from the top to the ground

and feed more creatures there. 

Isn't it pretty? 

This was one of the fun artsy houses

we drove by. 

This house made me smile when

I saw John Wayne at the front door. 

The following are some of the

town shops with their murals. 

Thank you so much for 

visiting!

I hope you have a wonderful week.

Terri

Last Week's Menagerie of Artwork

Here are some of the pieces 

I've been working on this past week. 

Purple kitty wearing a 

polka dot tie. 

These butterflies make me laugh.

Not the pieces themselves, but 

the fact that my husband hung

them in our pond area upside down.

I asked him if he realized he did that

and he was insistent they were right side up. 

Oh, how I did not want to look at

those things hanging upside down

every time I looked 

out my kitchen window. 

I'd decided just to zip it, and

not say another word about it. 

Well, to my surprise, the next day

I saw that he had flipped them right

side up. 

"Thank You Lord!" 

This is a sign that I made

for the bathroom. 

It has resonated with me

since the first time I saw

it in an old Victoria magazine

many years ago. 

Frida magnet

                                

This is a large 'welcome' sign I made

from a long cabinet door

someone was getting rid of. 

Mermaid magnet

Kitty Plaque

Fish magnet

That about wraps it up for 

now. 

Hoping it's a wonderful week for you.

Thank you for visiting. 

Terri

Frida Collage

I was going through my art journal

and came across a face I'd drawn

in colored pencil. 

No neck, no ears, and a nonexistent chin, 

but I liked her. 

I decided to throw caution to the wind

and make a mixed media collage. 

I didn't think about rules,

or what was accurate or not,

I just did it. 

"Just do it!" 

I'm kind of liking her

and that's what matters, right? 

The freedom to "go for it"

was fun.

I want more artistic 

experiences like that.  

Hope you have a great weekend! 

Frida Artist Trading Cards

I'm so excited to be participating in

Steph's "Women in Art" ATC swap.

Never having done any Frida tribute art

before, I chose her as my subject. 

It was important to me not to look at

any works paying tribute to her

before I began. 

I wanted what I created to

lack outside influences. 

Another thing I decided was to

just make an impression of her,

and not go for an actual likeness

(which is really simple to do). 

I used acrylic paint, colored pencils,

collage, pitt pens, and DMC thread.

They're all a little

different, but still

cohesive as a grouping. 

They were fun to create and

I enjoyed having an "assignment"

to work on. 

The link is up top if you'd like

to join in the fun. The deadline is

not until March. 

I'm one of those people

that don't like waiting until the

last minute. . . for doing anything.  

It's one of my husbands

favorite traits about me.

I'm always ready to go 

on a moments notice. 

Happy Weekend!

Mini Mixed Media

This was a little diversion

piece I made while taking

a break from a larger piece

I was working on. 

I've found for myself, it's good

for me to have a few things I'm working

on at once. 

This way my mind and brain 

is refreshed by something new,

without having to stop creating art

(which would be so sad). 

I finger painted the background of an ATC card. 

While that was drying, I drew my subject with 

colored pencils on a piece of Bristol paper. 

She was brushed with a light coating of matte

medium and then allowed to dry before

collaging her to the card. 

I added some designs with pitt pens and 

a few cross stitches with some bright DMC thread. 

I like her "milky' appearance, and it's kind of making

me want to go in the direction of a geisha. 

She almost has that look about her. 

*****

Thank you for visiting!