Friday, November 4, 2011

From inspiration to art...


What inspires me?

Life.


My work springs directly from what my eyes have seen recently.


Leaves have been on my mind...

And I've been remembering the fishing and hiking we did in Alaska last summer.


So you will not be surprised to see peeks at the Great Outdoors collection I'm working on recently.
This one features the leaves of oak, aspen, maple, even the blueberry leaves in our back yard.
And birchbark puts in an appearance, along with a vintage fishing creel.
I'm addicted to FW's black acrylic ink. My paint seems to last forever but the ink vanishes in no time.


Will I have to do a farm and garden series next?


A little bird told me that my calligraphy will be on iPad covers very soon.
Oh, what fun.

Time to pull out the ink again.