Halloween Party

Rita and Mason

I was cordially invited to a Halloween party last night. What to bring the hosts for their hospitality? hand-painted Kokeshi style dolls of course. I've recently dabbled in painting these wooden dolls and am enjoying it immensely. Love experimenting with different surfaces and having fun getting messy. Since it was a halloween party, it was only fitting that I bloodied them up (hope they didn't mind).

So begins the start of my Kokeshi doll collection, which will focus on couples and wedding cake toppers.


If you want to see more samples, I will be posting them to my facebook page as soon as the paint dries.
More Kokeshi dolls

Bat Girl

Bat Girl

I had to get a last Halloween painting before October 31st....and before my habit of painting bats gets perceived as being a tad creepy.

Can you spot my hamster Gordon? He loves halloween and blends into the night quite naturally, with his thick black mane of hair.

Costume Party

Costume Party , October 2012

Skeletor

Though I rarely dress up for Halloween and live vicariously through my boys, I have found that I absolutely LOVE painting skeletons and creepy critters.

So what was my inspiration? Why Skeletor was, he hangs on our mailbox and blurts out zings as you press the top of his head. I thought it was time to bring him inside for an evening and make him dress up with antlers. My girl, dressed up as a bee, is making him bone soup for dinner....and what Halloweeny painting would be complete without a bat and cat? right. Oh, and hard to spot, but I also included my black bear hamster right at her knee. My boys spotted him right away..heh.

so Trick or Treat and hope you get some goodies this year!

dania

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So Begins a New Week....

I work from home and yet I get Monday anxiety just as if I was going into an office. What will I accomplish today. Will I clear off enough things on my to-do-list so that I can be successful at falling asleep tonight. All things that plague me from Sunday night....hence why after trying to sleep for hours last night, I called the whole 'falling asleep' quits and came down to the studio at 3am to get some work done.
Blogging today was on my list, so here i go...

I got nothing to say other than, I have to get some work done.



blogging for the week - check!

2011 Challenge

As with last year, I will be once again challenging myself to create and add a new painting to my Etsy store every week, no matter how busy my day job gets (painting for wee ones on Cari Bimbi Art).

Every Monday on my fb page, I will post my new painting.

Here are my first 2 paintings of 2011....

Exposed and Ursula

Anxiously painting...

...painting...anything and everything...anxiety creeps in and creates wrestless nights of possible future paintings...consumed by it...almost to the point of madness. not much more to say...but definitely more paintings to come.

Arial Catches Lunch

So I'm killing 2 birds with one stone (not that I would ever kill a bird...fed one and nursed it back to health once...another story..another time)...but I got my weeks painting done + I finally got around to painting a mermaid. Been wanting to for quite some time now.

AND....round bubbles...notice a theme yet?