Cimg4506 Happy Turkey Day to all the Canadians out there!  We have been invited to our near and dear neighbor's place for Turkey dinner.  I'm so excited, not only do I get to eat stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy but I also don't have to cook it!!  Another year goes by and I still haven't learned how to cook a real turkey... oh well, there is always next year.

So yesterday I was feeling particularly creative and started painting an abstract piece that I had sketched out for Paige.  My paper wasn't stored correctly (or something) so it wasn't performing like it should.  I ended up having to paint over most of the piece with black to cover all of the paint that bled out.  Instead I sketch in some doodles on the black part with gel pens.  When i ran out of doodle Ideas I started writing in a list of her favorite things, a la scrapbook style.  I was inspired by a book that I had read earlier at Micheals on art journaling. Anyway, it turned out not half bad considering all the problems.  If you click on the picture it will open up larger and you can see some of the detail.  You will notice the 4 hearts for the four people our family that love Paige.  I traced her hand, there are three circles to represent her age and also i number three in the bottom right hand corner. The hypnotizing swirl is because she drives me crazy. 
I may try this one again when I find my good watercolor paper.  Or I may just try something else.  It was nice to do something abstract to stretch my chops a little.


You can also see in the background- my practice work with crayons on Paige's coloring sheets.  That was fun and I love the way it looks... Don't you??  Crayons are fun and I'd like to do some serious work using crayons.  Anything you'd like to see???


Well I should go and work on my household duties a little bit before the day gets away from me. 
Take it easy folks and don't eat too much turkey,


~jen