A New Stitched Artwork

For the first two weeks in January, a friend and I went on a cruise.  I had not been on a vacation of even a week since 2018, so I was overdue.  Part of my planning was to prepare some handwork to carry with me. Honestly, I don't know if that bag got packed or not.  I am certain that I didn't stitch a single stitch while I was on vacation. -And that was fine by me.  I rested, played and just generally enjoyed my break from being Mom's caregiver. 

So,  I had a prepared piece with everything I needed to work on it in a tote bag. 
I took that bag to Mom's and worked on doing all of the hand stitching.  I really enjoyed it. 

Better yet,  I got it all ready for the quilting phase.  I did that quilting on Friday and added a backing to it. It is now ready to be put on a canvas for hanging.   I thought that I had a canvas ready - but, no of course the one that is ready is the wrong size. 

For the photo, I just placed it over another piece that is mounted on canvas and happens to be the correct size. 

It appears a bit nore colorful in person.  I love it. 

I have made several of these in the past.  Those showed up in my Library Gallery Show

back in 2023.  Happily all of those sold.  

Now I have this new one and this one that is hanging in my bedroom for now. 

Perchance, I will have another show and sell these also.

I would certainly love to sell some of my artwork- why?  
I need room to make more!

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Memories of Mexico - Friday Faces

Some of my readers know that I have spent some vacation times in Mexico.  The first visit was on a cruise many years ago.  One stop was in Cancun, where we took a cooking class excursion.  I have to say that it was so much fun doing this excursion.  I even have a photo showing me cooking. 

On another trip, where we actually stayed in a rental in Mexico, I had taken my pennywhistle

(a type of flute/whistle) and was playing it in the main square, mostly for myself. 

I was approached by two young ladies who were on vacation also.  They had been taking photos of each other.  They asked if they could have photos with me.  I said "Okay if you will take some with my camera also."  

Mariela and Gene

Dasy and Gene

(Dah-see)             

Apparently they thought I was something "special" there. Ha ha. Probably due to my craziness of playing the pennywhistle in public.  My post from 2013 about it is here

Gene at the Train Museum

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Sunday in the Art Room

For Sunday in the Art Room, I am sharing some of my favorite creations. Some of them I still have but some of them were sold. 

After taking a watercolor class with Wayne Spradley, I did a few "foggy farm" scenes.  This is one of my favorites.

This little "beach" scene sold before I even had time to finish it.  But I did finish it before delivery. 

Blue Fall Reflections
This one started as "leftover paint" on watercolor paper. I put the paint on the paper and "smooshed it" with (I think) waxed paper.  When I pulled off the waxed paper I saw trees. 
It didn't take a lot to finish it. 

This was a project from a pattern (yes, I did change it!) 

I gave this one as a gift to a friend who was having a rough time. 

Transcend

This was painted after taking a class in abstract/non-representational painting. 

The intention was a fully non-representational painting.  But inspiration struck and I added the tulips. 

This hangs on my bedroom wall and I see it before I go to bed and when I get up. I love it.

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FaceOff AI self portraits

Just for fun,  I decided to take two photos of myself from my photo library and use the selfie creator on Nite Cafe.

For your information and to see how AI changed me (drastically)  here are the beginning images. 

At the time of these photos,  I was weaving LOTS of scarves to sell. I just modeled them myself as I didn't have a model handy. 

First I asked for abstract in the style of Picasso

This is what it did

I wasn't happy with it, so I asked for a portrait "IN THE STYLE OF Van Gogh"

This is what I got

It looks surprisingly like Van Gogh to me.  Like me? not so much

So I went back and did an edit on the Picasso

Here it is.

Strangely like the first one. LOL

Oh well...... I had fun playing with it. 

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