New Art for A Show

My Mom and I are getting ready to exhibit some art together. She has some paintings and I'll be putting up some digital photography, but I thought it wouldn't be a bad idea to have some smaller pieces that were less expensive and thus easier to sell, so I've benn taking some scans of her sketches and water coloring them in. Here's what I have so far. Note that the top[ one isn't actually in the frame (I simply set the frame over it, because I want to use a different frame. (That's why it looks a little wonky.) I printed Mom's sketches on a piece of watercolor paper on which I had done a wash.

 This one I hand tented. (It is actually in the frame.)

Sculpture of the City

This will mostly be pictures, but I am so impressed by all the sculpture in Milwaukee.  This piece is near and dear to my heart because it is in honor of letter carriers.

How about this dancer?

Of course there is the bronze Fonz.

This is a cool maritime oriented piece on the Riverwalk. Looks very Thai.

This piece is on one of the many bridges.

This one is also along the Riverwalk.

Very nearby is this bright red piece.

These are just a few of the many pieces in the downtown area!

Coloring ChrisB's Roots

Some time back (June 2nd actually) Chris B issued a challenge to her readers in general and me in particular and because I had just gotten back from our trip to Texas, I had somehow missed the throwing of the gauntlet. Under most circumstances, this would be a good thing - but under any circumstances it smacks (haha) of rudeness to be addressed and refuse a polite answer, SO after a gentle nudge I am doing the gentle(wo)manly thing and responding.

The challenge is as follows:

Take Chris B's picture of this fallen tree and turn it to an even more spectacular image using photoshop elements or whatever.

Here is the image (It is slightly truncated because her image was too large for my dial up modem to capture. You can see the original image and challenge HERE ).





I'll warn you, this one is harder than it looks because of the complexity of the image. I will post a couple of weak attempts today and then there will be Fun Monday and then I will turn my efforts to this more seriously during the course of the week.

Failure Number 1:



And here is Failure Number 2




The difficulty I see with this image is that it needs a stronger focal point - so I am going to have to cogitate on this a bit (Hear that, Mindy?) and will get back to the physical after a bit of the cerebral. I'm sure at least a couple of my readers will be willing to give this a try!!

Friday Guest Lizards

Here is Esoterica's Friday lizard.

Three More Lizards.

I've been so busy today that my box has filled up with lizards. I'm finally getting them on the site now.

Here is what I have gotten:

From Mindy:



From Esoterica, my artist friend:



And this is the one I came up with today: