Think Pink

It's Breast Cancer Awareness month and my cousin-in-law is undergoing treatment right now so

I made a collage using lots of scraps of pink from my stash and a wonderful rub-on by daisyd's.

There are lots and lots of layers to this - papers, paint, glue, sanded & done again.

If you know me, you know this saying is appropriate.

Linked to Inspiration Avenue's Pink Challenge
and Theme Thursday's pink challenge

Charmed, I'm Sure

As I may have mentioned once or twice (*wink*), I'm going to

The Creative Connection Event next week.

Since I absolutely HAD to have some new jewelry to wear,

I made this new Super-Sized Charm Bracelet

which I will be wearing as a fun, chunky "statement necklace" using the Bracelet Converter

If you want to meet up at the conference, just look for the necklace!!

From the comments I received while shopping yesterday,

I think it's safe to say it's noticeable!!!

Linked to Inspiration Avenue's Pink Challenge
and Theme Thursday's pink challenge

See Me

The Three Muses Challenge this week (#56) is EYES and it reminded me of an ongoing theme in my work:

SEE ME

so I wanted to share these pieces I've done in that theme.

I blogged about this in a post titled Transparency back in December.

How can anyone love me if they don't see me?

And how can they see me if I don't show the real me?

~ Sherry

Courage to Create

CREATIVITY TAKES COURAGE ~ Matisse

So with a little courage I'm declaring this "done" and showing it to you.

Though, quite frankly, I'm really still not sure it IS done. I just struggle with making art that has no images drawn or glued on. For some reason, in my head it's still just a background. Because this is how I do most of my backgrounds: layer, layer, layer.

I started out with a book page and two images from a fashion magazine altered with acetone. Then paints, tissues, modeling paste - not necessarily in that order.

Ink, more paint, more texture, the quote written in sharpie, a copper charm I made but never used. Oh. And apparently very different lighting!!!

Charcoal around the edges, a little more paint, a thin layer of beeswax and still different lighting.

Green crayon and gold encaustic.

What do you think? Is it really done?
Do you always include images in your work?
Thanks for the help ~ Sherry

linked to the week 24 challenge at Lots To Do and
the color green challenge at Thursday Challenge

Another OOPS!!

I found a beautiful image at The Sum of All Crafts (always very cool photos there) and, as I mentioned in my rambling post yesterday, decided I was going to try transfering it to beeswax.

Well, it didn't work (guess I could go pull out some of my art books and verify the instructions) but I ended up with this beautiful image. This is the back-side of the paper; after melting the wax, the picture printed on the other side came thru.

When I saw this beautiful, ethereal image I decided to do an art journal page, the first in a long time, about how in art and in life our mistakes lead to interesting discoveries, happiness and great achievements.

Using photographers' black-out tape and tiny staples, I attached her to the page. Then I painted around her with some metallic acrylic paint I was using in another project, added dots and words with Sharpies Poster Pens (they write on wax easily - actually they write on just about anything) and applied a little PanPastel to the edges. Finished off by writing OOPS! at the top with some of that glitter fabric paint that comes in a tiny squeeze bottle.

Here's to us all having great results whether they're the results we expect or not.
In our art.
In our lives.

linked to the beeswax challenge at LOTS TO DO

Key to My Heart

I started this piece by laying down a torn piece of scrapbook paper and my favorite scrolly tissue paper. Then I set it aside for months. Sorry no picture.

In the fall I did a collage workshop at a local high school and took this piece to show them how various materials interacted. During the workshop I dyed some handmade paper and slapped it on. Then I scraped on some modeling paste. And again, after the workshop, I set it aside for months. I pulled the board out this week and started playing around with it, wondering if I could actually turn it into something. I added some watercolor and acrylic glaze Then I added vintage German text and painted gold dots and the piece started screaming "I'm a heart" so I drew a heart in charcoal and added some acrylic paint around that. Then I found the key (an old Christmas ornament), added some beeswax and, voila, KEY TO MY HEART.
And, on top of all that, I actually put it in my Etsy shop - it's my first Etsy listing.
So what do you think? ~ Sherry
I linked this to Show and Tell at Blue Cricket Designs

"K" Charm Bracelet

I got an order for one of my initial charm bracelets that was a little different - instead of making it in multiple colors, the client wanted it in red. I had so much fun trying to find and make letters for this bracelet.


Here are some close-ups of two of the charms:

It's fun to see how different each of the initial charm bracelets turns out. I'd love to make one for you - click here to see what's available ~ Sherry

I linked this to DIY Day at A Soft Place to Land and Make it for Monday #8 at Cottage Instincts and Show and Tell at Blue Cricket Designs