Under the influence

The other day, I went to my local library. As I was browsing through the stacks, I came across a craft book with Mary Engelbreit designs. Her artwork has always been something that I enjoyed and my style is similar to some of the things that she does. I don't know about other artists, but sometimes when I look at things like this, it sparks ideas for me. They influence my art and that is why many times a certain artist may be reflected in the project of the day. I also checked out a book on Peter Maxx so that will probably be something that I will be blogging about in the near future.

My posting for today is a drawing and the frame it is in was a thrift store find. The frame is 8 x 8 and was purple to begin with. Originally I painted it black, but after I drew the designs, decided that red with yellow dots was the way to go. With the influence of Ms. Engelbreit, the color scheme was perfect. Hey Mary, if you ever see this maybe you could hire me as an assistant! Hint hint!

Here is my interpretation of her style. Enjoy!

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Heartthrob Cafe Memories

The best job ever and the coolest friends that I ever had were when I worked at a restaurant called the Heartthrob Cafe. It was in downtown St Paul, Minnesota and was so fun! Today we had a get together to catch up and reminisce. This is one of the many good things about facebook, finding people that you wished you never lost contact with. So, today my post is the buttons that I made for this event. We had 'flair' that was a lot more fun and cool than a restaurant chain that I will not name here. We danced and sang birthday songs. The girls wore poodle skirts and we did all of this while wearing in line skates. We were a crazy family and honestly this was one of the best times in my life. Ahhh...memories. In the time spent there somehow the button machine came into my possession. In honor of our gathering, of course I had to make pins. Here are also two murals that I painted at the restaurant. Let me tell you they were tricky! The murals are on glass and when

Beaded Sunflower

Remember yesterday when I said this beading thing could be addictive? Well, here is another beaded project. Originally the flower was supposed to be pink but the yellow seemed to work better. For now it is attached to a headband but that may change to a brooch. While I was photographing the subject of this post, it reminded me of a cruise that we went on. The ship was the Carnival Conquest and until we got aboard the ship, I was unaware that the decor was all impressionist artist influenced. Just wandering around and looking at the decor was like being in a floating gallery. Why this post reminds me of the cruise, the gigantic sunflower in this atrium! Here is a picture of it. Yes, another item influenced by Van Gogh, go figure.

A few paintings

Can you believe it? Another post this soon! I have been making stuff, but the posting has gotten slower, sorry. These two wooden plaques were bought at a thrift store for less than $2.00 each. They had some premade botanical pictures on them. I decided to just paint some random designs on them. They are about 12 inches square and they turned out great but now what I really want to do is some more paintings in this style only much larger. The designs would make such a statement on a larger scale. That may require a trip to Menards or Home Depot. Sorry for the picture quality, my camera in not working the best right now.

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