ANOTHER MIXED BAG

May 16, 2015 

 

I love taking advantage of my time at home by making art! For me, it's a contemplative time...a time to relax and let my mind wander (more than usual! :) ) 

The challenge blogs have been busy and creative in declaring their themes. I've tried to be equally creative in responding to the challenges...

DIGITAL WHISPER wants to see a piece featuring COFFEE...

MIX IT MONTHLY continues it's request for a "happy couple." This is my third entry...I really like the theme!

TAKE A WORD challenge blog simply wants participating artists to use turquoise in their art piece... my response centering around one of my favorite subjects- trains!

THE THREE MUSES challenged participating artists to include some form of wheel in their piece... see my circus Ferris wheel?

Finally, at FLICKER's DIGITALMANIA, our inspiration this week is the Portuguese graphic artist, Cristiana Couceiro. Here's one of hers...

 

and here's what Cristiana inspired me to create...

That's it for this posting. Didn't take you long to see it, right? Thanks for stopping in. Please DO return...

 

Big Hugs,

abbyj

MIXED BAG... 
February 9, 2012  

 "Happy there's no snow..."  NOT ME!

What an extraordinary winter! Here we are in the snow belt of Central New York, annual victim of  lake-effect snow (from Lake Ontario,) and we're still waiting!! We live in the nation's snowiest metropolitan region, averaging 114.6 inches every winter (...and we love to talk about it!!) I can remember years when we had snow on MOTHER'S DAY...October to May is always fair game!!! Our snowiest winter on record  blanketed our fair city with 192.1 inches...that was in 1992-1993. 

THIS winter, we've only had a mere 31.8 inches...unacceptable! Most people who read this blog KNOW that I love the snow!! I miss it, but I'm certain that between now and Mother's Day 2012, we'll see more of the beautiful, fluffy white stuff...we have to put to use the biggest snow plow IN THE WORLD, (or so they claim,) that sits at our airport. It's a 32-foot, 3-inch blade attached to a payloader. The 48-inch tall piece of steel can clear 8,500 cubic yards of snow in an hour!! That's equivalent to about 4 feet of snow covering an entire football field...it would take 850 standard sized dump trucks to haul all that snow away!! Can you imagine? 

Enough snow talk... moving on to this week's artistic challenges!  SUNDAY POSTCARD ART tasked artists to create a piece based on the movie classics...here are two!

CRAZY AMIGOS asked us to concentrate on Charles Dickens... I remembered "Hard Times"  that took place during England's Industrial Revolution. Unlike many of his other books, it had no scenes set in London, but takes place, rather, in "Coketown," a fictitious,  Victorian industrial  mill-town in Northern England. 

Shorter than most of his other novels, it's a good one to sit down and read with a cup of COFFEE...

TAKE A WORD's challenge for the week...coffee!

COLLAGE OBSESSION challenged us to play with a theme of TANGERINE TANGO...

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Finally, in one of my online Yahoo art GROUPS, PAPER TRADERS, I've joined a page swap involving creating 7 coasters with a Wild West theme. They're not due until March, but here are some of my creations..

This was a good week for art...if not for snow! We'll see what next week brings. Thanks again for stopping by.

XOX,

abbyj