MORE HOKIE ART!!

Hokie Fan - Collage for my son's apartment!

VT is Number One for one of my lacrosse players!

Let's Go Hokies is another new collage!

My latest collage!

A collage for a friend's condo. Love making art to match a color scheme or theme. 

It is for her ocean condo and she wanted a little love of Maine in there plus her family info. 

It was so much fun!

 Lots of different items and techniques to include watercolor, napkins, tissue paper, fine specialty papers, transfer technique for names, stamping, stencils and more! 

Happy New Year!

Ready for the Olympics to start tonight!! Made the Candy Jars with 1,2 and 3 for Bunko and then realized they would work for Olympics too! Filled with gold, silver and bronze ribbons and jingle bells! Finally found a use for all those trophies in the boys rooms too! The Olympic torch ornament is from years ago and is a Christmas ornament from Hallmark - wish I could hook it to lights so it would sound on each time we turn the lights off but alas 3 different strands proved to be incompatible! Oh well! Enjoy all!

Altered Matchbox Swap - Fairy Belle

The Closed Matchbox Cover

Inside standing on outside.

The Inside of Fairy Belle Box

 

 

This was a Swap in my Altered Art Group. The Contents were provided by the person you were to give it back to. I loved the little porcelain doll, the bird, the ceramic flower and the music. It was so much fun adding my own things to what she had provided. I actually took the outside box apart to cover it and glued it back a little bigger than before to aid in sliding.

FISHY TIME

Took a cool class from Fred Mullett today called "Dancing Rubber Fish" which was great fun! Very new and different embossing techniques using several powders at once on stamped image. Stamped image is stamped both black and white with grey blended with sponge at intersection. Then powder applied with coffee straw for accent then black and translucent powder added as well. Next you highlight areas with watercolor! It was a blast!

My Great Grandmother Aimee Hyatt Spicer was born in 1879. She died in 1978 and I had the pleasure of knowing her. She was my artist grandmother's mother. She collected miniature pitchers and when my Dad died I wrapped them up and shared with the cousins. These are left and I had fun making a little Christmas tree with them as ornaments! Thanks Aimee!!

Altered Fan

An Altered Fan made with paper collected. Background is from last summers trip to SF's Chinatown!

Here are my Greatgrandmother's pitcher collection partially! Yes this is a PICTURE of PITCHERS. I continue to work on things from my dad's house as he passed away this summer.
So this will explain the reason for no art post yet!! Working on it!

All Hail the Royal Falcon! This paper weight was done before the Royal Wedding for a fun show called Chick Picks.

Royal Wedding and More...

I'm back!! I haven't posted since last year - wow! I have been doing crafts and art just not as much. But I took care of my father thru his last days and my youngest is graduated from high school so I hope to use my art to express my feelings and share my joys the rest of this year and on! In the spring I was thrilled to enjoy showing some of my art at a wonderful home show called "Chick Picks". It was in the spring prior to the Royal Wedding so the theme was Royal. I made vintage england postcards, birds with crown paperweights and more.

More Christmas Canvases!

This one was layers over a canvas primed with yellow ocher. Next paper that has been embossed with clear embossing powder on patterned stamps was spritzed with liquid paint to add the green and purple shades. Star embossed on additional purple paper. Isn't she sweet?

Merry Christmas!!!

I was very busy making 4 x 4 canvases this Christmas. Most have Mary or an Angle on them! This one was custom made for someone who did their entire family room in aqua for Christmas - it was stunning! She even painted Nutcrackers aqua on the red parts! Canvas primed with black gesso then touched with luminears paints. Angle hair and glitter at bottom. Mary cut our from artwork purchased from Lisa Vollrath at

More Hokie Art

Two more Hokie Colleges - using ticket stubs, bits and pieces of anything maroon and orange. Canvas was base painted with splotches of gold, orange and maroon. The pieces of napkins, photos, scrapes of paper and fabric were glues on with gel medium. They were originally made for my son's apartment at Virginia Tech but since he claims it is fully decorated we kept them for our Hokie basement!!

Angel Beeswax Collage

Wednesday our Altered Art group played with beeswax! What fun! I made this 5X7 canvas with some Cavallina paper in the background. Angel is from the web and dove from a catalog. Whispering Hope was from a sharing friends hymnal! Paper Flower and brad and button too for dimension - wax held these with no problem!

My Latest - HOKIE ART

This is my latest Hokie Art series. I have done 3 but need to finish up the last two. I first painted the canvas with patches of color hokie style and then added napkins, scraps, ticket stubs and other orange and maroon embellishment. I then used distress ink to darken the true whites. Finally, I used rubber stamps with grids, numbers, and manila folder closure patterns to add depth and texture. I will post the next two soon! Happy Easter!!

Merry Christmas!!

I made this last year for a Christmas swap with our marriage group! Forgot to take a picture of it so after a party at the home of the recipient I have a picture! 4x4 canvas painted with black gesso and layers with fibrous papers stamped with music, an embossed yellow star and the scroll pattern at the bottom. Mary and baby Jesus were purchased from Lisa Vollrath and I added gold ink to the halo on each!! Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!!

Halloween Fun

Happy Halloween!! These are two shadow boxes I made at my Wednesday Altered Art Group at Angela's Happy Stamper! I used some old toys found when cleaning out my husbands basement. Rub-ons were used on the glass to give added depth! FUN FUN!!
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!! Linda

Button Fairy

I framed and added rub-on words to a button fairy made earlier this year! This is some cool back ground paper that I found at Mish-Mish the art store in Blacksburg, Va for Virginia Tech. I love it with the button fairy.

Say Hello to Jelly Jane!!

She is made of a single Jelly mold wired to an old spool and then a bead and shank button below and behind the head. Her legs are wired on and are two of those test tube things for individual flowers to water them. I filled them with chenille yarn. This was a fun project at my Wednesday Angela's Altered Artist group!

Happy St. Patrick's Day! These are the two postcard sized decorations I did for our kitchen this month! It is fun to do one for each season! Nothing fancy just some cut out images glued on paper background that is torn and edged with ink. Top of the Mornin to Ya!!