Arts and Crafts is Knitting Again

Knitting again and I have so missed it.  It's been so long and I apologize.  So much has happened in the year since I wrote.

I still am not done with my home projects but I have gotten farther.  Now, we're talking about moving again.

I will post some pictures of what more I have done to this little place.  

We've been to Italy twice since I last wrote.  My ancestors are from Caraffa di Catanzaro Italy and it's been a long time dream to see where they were born and grew up.  Walk the streets they walked, etc.

So much to tell you but as far as arts and crafts goes, I am back to painting our little place, I hung more pictures and, like I said, there's talk again of moving.

This is a great little single wide and we love it but he would love to have a garage and I would love to have a better kitchen.  I would definitely miss this park and all my friends.  Do we want to not have a house payment and continue paying rent?  Or do we want to buy a house and apply that rent money to the house payment.  Everything will go up.  Taxes especially.

I will come back with pictures.

I have a small knitting project going and I couldn't be happier.  Again it's Red Heart Super Saver yarn; I love that yarn so much.  I have made a few things since I last wrote, too.  I'm excited to show you what I have done.  Some of them I can't as they were gifts and I no longer have the photos but we'll start fresh.

I'll show you some of my art work as well.  I've done watercolor florals and charcoal and pastel drawings.  

So more real soon..........Come back and see what I've been up to.

My Whimsy Art Studio

Several more listing in my Etsy shop.  Please go take a look and see if there's anything there you may be interested in for that special guy in your life, maybe for Mom, sister or your children.

There's so much there.  So many awesome, whimsical and not so whimsical and masculine photos taken while on vacation in Colorado at an old mining museum.

My Whimsy Art Studio

  
Thank you.  You have an awesome September fall day!

 Kathy

My Whimsy Art Studio

Listed two new paintings tonight.  Getting to my goal little by little.

Check them out!

 My Whimsy Art Studio


Thank you,
Kathy

Etsy Shop and NO, Low Carb Didn't Work! Ha Ha

I have added several Etsy Shop.     My Whimsy Art Studio

 Here's a sampling:

 This is mail art and you'll find it in my Etsy Shop My Whimsy Art Studio (click on the link above)  The envelope measures about 8 1/2" x 5 3/4".  The card is blank and is a print of one of my pieces of gorgeous art work!  Right?  It, as you can see is a matched set.

 Same here........... This is mail art and you'll find it in my Etsy Shop My Whimsy Art Studio (click on the link above)  The envelope measures about 8 1/2" x 5 3/4".  The card is blank and is a print of one of my pieces of gorgeous art work!  Right?  It, as you can see is a matched set.

This is one where I splashed on lots of water and used watercolor paints.  When it was dry, I could see trees, bushes and rocks.  See it?  I finished it off with zentangle art using a permanent pen.


 Hope you like my shop and visit often.  "Favorite" my shop and any of the offerings.  Please.

Have a wonderful day,

Kathy,

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Watercolor, Acrylic and Markers Art Work

More art work.  Watercolor, acrylic and markers.

Watercolor 

"Island"

Acrylic

"Marilyn"

Watercolor

"Roses"

Watercolor

"Today is the time of your life"

(My work but Original by Joanne Sharpe)

Color Markers

"Whirlies"

Happy creating!!

Kathy

Pins Needles and Gems Etsy Store is Now Open!

Yes, I have opened my Pins Needles and Gems Etsy store, just today!

The art and beads you see below are now available in my Etsy store.  That and much much more.

More to come so check back at Pins Needles and Gems often where prices will be labeled.

Colored Pencil

  

Colored pencil

Colored pencil

(Mt. Hood)

watercolor (Colorado) 

watercolor

watercolor

(Sedona)

watercolor

Watercolor Art Work

This is another watercolor I did in a class.  What we did was make a black and white color copy and then traced all the black areas.  Then those areas were filled in with ink.  You can see some of my ink dried dull and some not so dull.  The rest was watercolor painting.  This picture was taken on a hike while on vacation in Maui, Hawaii.  It was a very fun class and I was amazed it was "OK" to trace.  She was an artist in many galleries in the Kirkland, WA area at the time so guess it isn't a bad thing to do.  

This one was done about the same time I did the hollyhocks.  I was actually painting on silk at the time and this was a pattern I drew up for silk painting and then used it for watercolor.  I love love love it!  

Now I need to go design another composition for my next watercolor.

Have a fun day!

Kathy

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Art Work to Share

I can't believe it's been almost one whole year since I last posted any of my art.  Or posted at all!  Where has the year gone?  I've done a lot of art work but guess I've been too lazy to share it.

Where do I begin?  I hate posts that go on and on with huge long paragraphs.  I get bored.  I see that and won't even read it!  I wonder how many are like me that way.  So you hopefully, will never find that here.

I think I have to go back to my bead making days.  I love making paper beads but my box is overflowing with them and I can't use them all so I stopped.

So here's my watercolor paintings, just two of them for now.

This is my favorite flower or the one I remember when I was a child.  We actually were afraid of going near them because the really do attack bees.  These are my hollyhocks.  I didn't realize till recently, I love love love vibrant colors.  Some of that is coming.

This painting was done several years ago when I went to a watercolor class, which I forgot I attended.  Must have been in the 90s and it looks like our assignment was do paint a doorway.

Come back often and see more.  I promise I"ll post more often.  Have an awesome day.

Kathy
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Watercolor Painting Contest

Can you believe it?!  I entered a watercolor painting contest on a Yahoo group called Watercolor painting techniques.......it's a wonderful group.  This month of April the challenge is painting glass.

Here's the painting that won me some wonderful good feelings and kudos.  I also did one of my grandmother I guess I could post here, too.

Elizabeth Jean Guzzo O'Shea, Mom

Maria Ferraina Guzzo, Grandmother

What do you think?

Watercolor Painting as Promised

Here's the other watercolor painting I did of a friends doggie, Chas.

Chas

He is just the sweetest little guy.  He was fun to paint.

Watercolor Painting of My Cat Frank

Wow, it's been since August since my last post.  I've done a few paintings of my friends pets and I did one of my own kitty, Frank.

Here they are:

My Frankie

Fiona

When I find the painting of Chas, I'll post it here.  These two are watercolor.