Parrothead Inspiration

I have posted quite a few Adirondack chairs on this blog and will probably post many more. The chairs are fun and the opportunity to paint them came about because my husband broke his leg in 2000. Weird huh!

We are in a Parrothead club and went to see Jimmy Buffett at Alpine Valley in Wisconsin. My husband had broken his leg early in the summer and he wanted me to paint it with a tropical design because we were going to see Buffett. The then president of our Minnesota club, StMinnesomeplace, saw the cast and asked if I was able to paint some chairs. Well, sure, why not! Thus Dawn the Artist came to be, that is how that name was started.

I just finished the chairs that will be auctioned off at the end of March and got news that the club founder, the one who asked my to start painting chairs had passed after a battle with cancer. Jerry was my inspiration to start painting tropical designs. It was because of him that my life long love of art was rekindled after a dry spell. These chairs are dedicated to him...Thank you Jerry...Sail on...

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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.

Creative Dawn

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