In a previous post I showed my progress with my
very first portrait of my grandfather. Just as a beginning place, I
wanted to remind you of the progress from beginning toend.
I don’t know who this is, but it’s not my grandfather
finished…..
My completed piece was a much better portrait than I began with.
Since drawing has always been a passion of mine, it startles me now
that I allowed myself to have such difficulty learning to draw a
portrait. As a girl, they just scared me so bad, so I stuck with still
life, and architecture.
Now, on to Daddy….
Oh, just as with Papa, when I began Dads portrait I miscalculated and came out with this…. (don’t judge me….)
but, I caught a deep breathe and started over…….
this is what I have so far……
getting better….
I would really like to get all the kinks out before I start on Mom.
(I'm really wondering how still I have to stand to keep some of these photos from being
so blurry. )
Thank you for letting me get that off my chest.
These are my two newest letters
"M" - 8" paper mache letter. Morning Glory.... ( I actually think my best friend Michele plans to scarf this up, but I wanted to show it any hoot. )
"N" - 12" wooden letter. Naughty or Nice.... I really enjoyed doing this one.
I am working on my "O" now. I'm going with a Opium Poppy for the subject. A very pretty flower that I think will make a lovely subject matter.
"P"
- Paper was my subject. A collage of craft paper, paper dolls, algebra
books ( didn't see any reason to not use them, won't be needing them
any longer myself!) Ha! I also threw a couple of photos of Shirley Temple in there.
I actually created the "P"
a while back, but decided that since I wasn't staying in sequence with
the letters I would wait until I got to the M,N,O before showing it.
Okay, I have skipped over "O", but only for a short time.
Side note........
Sweet Tea & Shopping
presents
Last Chance Santa
A Handmade & Vintage Holiday Celebration
Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013 - 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
Bottom View Farm – 185 Wilkerson Lane
Portland, TN 37148
I will be in my first Crafts Fair on December 7th in Portland, TN .
I am Oh So excited about this......
If you are anywhere in Middle Tennessee on the 7th, please try to stop by for a introduction, look see and visit.
I
will have a number of drawings, my letters, aprons and purses with me.
All wanting you to get them out of my closet and on to more useful
circumstances.
When I was a little girl I wanted to be Juliet Prowse. I wanted to dance!
I realized at some point that I was just way too short to be Juliet
Prowse, so I decided that it would be much more realistic to be Mitzi
Gaynor….
See, that’s a whole lot more realistic. Ha!
Needless to say after taking ballroom dancing from a friend of my
mother at the age of 12, 13 or 14? I can’t remember, I didn’t dance
again.. I would tell you that I did the shag in college, which is both
true and not true. I was so self conscious in college that I wouldn’t
do it in front of a male at all. Well, that’s kind of not the truth
either. I did it once, but I was terribly drunk. As I recall, a little
later in the evening I got terribly sick… probably jostling all that
alcohol around in my tummy! Ha!
I did dance one dance, once with my ex husband… in the early years…
but he told me that I bounced. So, I never danced with him or anyone
else again.
Any hoot, my daughter introduced me to a co-worker who belonged to Meetup.
It’s a very great organization that matches people up with their
interests. This co worker said that she belonged to a swing dance group
where you can take an hour lesson during the first hour and then you
have 3 hours to just dance. Your dancing with people in you dance
class, but then you also dance with others as well.
Oh, yes! If my stamina was a little better, I would have. But, I
did stay 2 1/4 hours and I had so much fun, it seemed like a fairy tale!
If the world danced with each other all the time, there would be no
war, no misery! Just a bunch of people having fun! And, drinking a lot
of water! Ha!
Ta Da! I'm done! I'm sure if you know me on facebook you have seen the finished product, but I'm tickled it turned out so good. For my first!
I feel so good about this that I’m doing one of my Mom & Dad.
I’m going to draw them from their photo portraits done in their 20′s. I
think it was their 20′s…. they were young anyway. What’s so important
about age anyway, it’s just a number. They sit on my dresser and I look
at them all the time. So, here I go again!!!
If you have excellent vision, you can probably tell that I’ve started
on the head. I’ve come to a halt today since I reached his nose and
ear…… these area’s are intimidating to me for some reason. I have to
make sure that I am feeling “all creative” before I can continue on.
But, on a happy note, I am on fall break, I’ve promised myself this time
would be spent creatively so I have all the time in the world to get
this right. At this point, that’s how it seems…. :[ Ha! We will
see.....
I know this is my 2nd post in one day, but I'm on fall break and I'm on a roll.....
I
have been working on this "L' for forever! It surprised me when I
realized how intense it is to paint Lollipops! I'm serious, it's
amazing.....
I have creating these paper mache letters with interesting
designs for a time now. I am working on my "M' already..... a flower
theme I think. I know most of you know this next section, but this is what I added to my new blog on wordpress, so I thought I'd let you see it too. Aren't I sweet?
Here are some of the previous letters I've completed and now are for sale at www.etsy.com/AllBeckysCreations
And, just to add a little side bar, I have also done a few that have been for individuals....
Halloween can not be missed also, so here are my contributions to Halloween 2013
Boy
that spider H is blurry. I tried to find the clear one, but I haven't
got all day. If I find it later, I will give it the attention it
deserves.... It's really cute! Here it is! Told you it was cute!
Oh, Oh, just wait til Thanksgiving! I have something great coming up!
Written by Linda Williams, illustrated by Megan Lloyd
"Two shoes go Clomp, Clomp
One pair of pants go Wiggle, Wiggle
One shirt go Shake, Shake
Two gloves go Clap, Clap
One hat go Nod, Nod
And the scarey pumpkin head go Boo, Boo! "
"I'm not afraid of you," said the little old lady bravely.
This is my rendition of the drawing done by Megan Lloyd. I don't want to spoil the ending, but this is where after being chased through the woods by all these various parts of a "Scarecrow", these individual parts come to the Old ladies house, Knock on the door.... so as not to add an element of fear....cause with the lines like I typed earlier, some children are laughing hysterically. Any hoot, the poor parts are so upset that they did not scare this little old lady, they then start to moan about not having a purpose in life. That is when the old lady suggest they become "her" scarecrow and sends them to the garden. End of story! Ha! I bet that was not what you expected, I know. But, the kids absolutely love this book and it's perfect with Halloween coming!
This is about all I've done creatively this week. It took a pretty good while and it is rather large. Something like 38 x 14. Or something like that. It's going on the wall when we read the book beginning Tuesday.
Since this has come to a close, I will begin some other portraits, finally finish my "Lollipop L" and begin an "M" don't know what to do yet? And, begin a project I'm doing for Thanksgiving.
ps - I typed the excerpt just as it was written in the book. Which is disappointing somewhat. The reason you ask..... I wonder if you can find the grammatical errors in the excerpt? I wasnt going to change anything, because it's not my book, but when you are attempting to teach kids how to spell, it generally isn't a good idea to give them a book with grammatical errors. Or, it may just be me. But, I'm pretty sure it is. an error that is?
What a life the scarecrow has.... and the one in the book thought that little old lady was doing it a favor. Ha! This photo is not from the book, it's Pinterest of course. Ha!
More later......
pss - I also started a WordPress blog called, "AllBeckysCreations", ha! Bet you didn't guess. I will not stop this one.... yet. But, my sister Debby told me I would get a bigger audience, so I'm going to try it out.
I know I showed you my latest portrait of Papa yesterday, but I have not been able to pull myself away from the tweaking all weekend.
This is my last time. It's done! I will move on to another portrait now, and leave this one as it is.... but I did want to show you my last tweak.... I promise, it's my last!
The paper is much to weak at this point to continue, so I've decided to hide this in a closet somewhere, so it is hard to get to. That way maybe I will leave it alone.
That's not all I've been doing. I have also worked on my "Lollipop L" , broken out of the box to complete a "Paper P". Started working on my banner for our October book, "The Little Old Lady who was not afraid of anything". I'm not going to show you my book banner, because it's just lightly drawn on the banner so you probably wouldn't be able to make anything out from a photo.
But, here is the out of order "Paper P" - Ta Da!
As you can probably see, it is covered in paper. Craft paper, old algebra books paper and not to leave some part of my childhood out I also attached some paper dolls. I mean after all, what would a paper P be without paper dolls? I hate to think... Oh, yeah..... some pictures of Shirley Temple too. Can't leave Shirley off my P.
I have also been painting my "Lollipop L". It's is taking time due to the use of puffy paint. But, I don't know about you, but a painted lollipop without some puff is boring! Don't ya think? Puffy paint does not dry as fast as acrylic paint.
I'm just about done, but that chocolate and the swirled lollipops are taking "forever" to dry. Ugh!
I'm painting lollipops all over this L. Of course not on the bottom, but every where else. Why you ask? " I just really don't know what got into me, but when I finished the front, I said...."You aren't done Becky, paint the back". So, I did.
I actually think this is turning out quite nicely. This is a 12 inch letter, much bigger than most of the ones I did at first, but there is a lot more room for creative expression, so I like it.
It is such a girly lollipop, but I'm kinda girly too!
And of course I know you want to know what George was doing while I was busy with all this art......
wondering when Mommy would be done.....
Now I don't know where Schroedie has been, but I fussed at him this morning and I haven't seen much of him since. Of course, what he did scared him too finally.... Ha!
Ok, I know my hand was a shakin in the second, but this wasn't the first time he tried this stunt, and I was a little beside myself since he almost lost his footing. I was so afraid he was going to break the curtain rod and tear my home made curtains. Him, I was not worried about, he has most of his 9 lives left since we rescued him and he was going to fall on a fluffy leather chair.
I'm not completely ruthless.
Blair and I will be leaving on a shopping and ice cream eating adventure when the Titans game is over, so I will leave you this "First Fall" weekend until my next creative adventure.
It’s a very great organization that matches people up with their
interests. This co worker said that she belonged to a swing dance group
where you can take an hour lesson during the first hour and then you
have 3 hours to just dance. Your dancing with people in you dance
class, but then you also dance with others as well.
