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Ok, so where have I been? What was I thinking when I signed on for this? I'm a week behind and week 5 turned out so bad I didn't even post it. I got so frustrated with it that I did't even take a final picture of it and tried to fix it a million times and finally had to give up on it. So until after the holidays are over, I'm still trying to get my 1 painting finished a week (behind one now) but I won't be pulling names out of the hat for random ideas. I have to paint what's comfortable for me right now in order to stay commited and I will make up the one week I missed too.  PLUS and I know I didn't announce the winner of my little miss winter miss but I will announce that shortly too.  Sorry if you've been waiting. I've just had too much on my plate and not enough hours in the day.

So here is the newest painting I wanted to share with you.  I call it  Mr. Crows Outing

        

Ok, finally here she is, The Winter Miss.  If you would like to win a free print of her, make a comment on my blog here and you'll be entered to win. I'll announce the winner on Friday of this week.  I hope to have week 5 finished this week which will be back on track. 

        

Ok, I'm a little behind on week 4 but I wanted to show you that I am working on it. I hope to be done tomorrow with a little luck. But I already know what week 5 is going to be and that's incubating in my head at least.  Here is week 4 in progress. Still working on every area throughout.  Here are the 2 pics I've got so far.

        

I want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you all have a great day and fun visiting wth friends and family. 

I had the most hilarious dream last night I've got to share. I had a dream that Victor and I were getting married. Everyone was gathering in the church but for some reason I had forgotten everything in my preparation to get ready. No nylons, no shoes, didn't take a shower, have dirty hair, hair legs the list goes on.  I can't find any place to take a shower. So I try to go to the store in the meantime to get nylons and shoes. I end up getting a long black wig so I don't have to wash my hair, I find these hot pink tights for nylons and they don't have any shoes and I end up buying slippers.  Somehow, nobody managed to think of getting a bouquet for me and I'm picking plastic flowers out of the arrangements in the hallway of the church.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, or church I should say, the natives are getting restless. It's way beyond the point of I'm running a little behind and now we're running out of time becasue there is another wedding scheduled after ours. So we make a decision and get a message to all our guests, to go ahead and go to the reception and eat because we'll get married afterwards.

It was also discovered that Victor had forgotten the rings and was substituting with cigar bands. 

By this time I'm so late I figure I might as well go back to my house and get everything I forgot. I take a shower, put on a long dress, hiding any hairy legs or pink stockings and fluffy bunny slippers. I had some braided thing in my hair but didn't care at least it wasn't that long black wig.

I get back to the church where everyone is back now, well fed and looking a little tossed more like the salad they had for dinner. But then all of a sudden the music starts and I've got a Rainbow bright wedding. I mean they came out in a 7 course parade. First all these little girls came out in pink tu tu's and dropped daisy's and rose petals all over the aisle. (where did they get flowers I'm wondering) Then these acrobats all dressed in blue tumble down the aisle, literally.  All the yellow girls had these medieval headdresses on with drapery hanging from each point. I don't remember what the red and purple people were doing but I believe I woke up at some point around there. 

OH and for some reason I had a zillion donuts that we decided to eat for breakfast. But I had a donut for everyone.

I guess everything worked out but I went in to a fit of laughter trying to tell Victor about this dream.  If any of you want to take a stab at guess what all this means, I'm all ears.  It was just toooo funny.  OH, Victor said that fact that we told everyone to just go ahead and eat before we got married just means that we have easy going friends.  Well, I agree but I also think it might have had something to do about sampling the extra pumpkin pie filling we baked beside the pie that was left over.  It must have been the pumpkin pie spice.

I just told my niece about my dream and she said it just means I need to be more celebrated.    HA

OH and on another note here is my results of what I baked in the kiln yesterday. It isn't a total success as the images faded. This was my first time trying these but it gives you an idea of what's coming. 

Have a Great day!!!

        

Ok, I'm sad. Nobody made any comments on this painting so therefore, nobody is entered in the drawing making the winner, noone. I know that people are busy this week etc with the holiday this week.

I will say, that I had pulled an idea out of the hat to paint but I'm going to put off for next week so I can do it justice as I'm busy this week with company coming myself. So instead, I'll have the one I drew this week be for next week and I'll paint something else this week of my choosing. 

I did list prints of the White Queen on Etsy today for only $5.00 for the next 2 days. Then the price will go up.

I hope everyone has a great week and doesn't stress out over everything they need to get done. If everything doesn't get done, Oh Well. 

Take Care

        

I've finished my painting for week 3. It was a painting of my choice and this was what I chose. It is the White Queen from the up coming movie Alice in Wonderland. I hope to eventually do all the characters and this was the first one. 

Someone will still be winning a free print. So if you want to win a free print of this painting, just post a comment on this post to be entered to win. I'll announce the winner hopefully by Monday.

        

Good morning people, and that is actually a greeting, not describing people in the morning that behave appropriately.

First I want to thank you for all your great ideas. I'm loving them. When you submit an idea though, I want you to think of the theme, and if your idea is painted and you win a free print, will it be something others will want to hang on their wall all year long? And think also, if other people will want it hanging on their wall all year long if they want to buy a print. I'm mentioning this because I'm getting a lot of very seasonal themes here and as a general rule I don't paint seasonal paintings. And as much as I'd love to paint a picture of you and your baby, that's more of a commisionable request and not a generalized idea for my 52 week challenge. I realize that I painted a very seasonal painting when I put a snowman and mittens in my first painting, but even I don't want all those kinds of paintings on my wall all year long.

Let me give you an example of a painting my friend Julie Fillo did. I know I keep mentioning her but she really was a huge inspiration to me in this whole idea. But she had the idea of a housedress. So she painted a girl, in a dress but the dress was actually a house with a door, windows and I think the little girl had a chimney sticking out of her head.

Also I want to mention, that currently I'm not able to accept commissions. I may open that door in the near future but right now I've got other commitments I'm working on.

I know I probably wasn't specific enough when I first threw all my requests out there and I'm sorry if I'm hurting anyones feelings here. The whole idea here is to spark creative ideas from you and also to spark mine as well and to make me stretch and grow as an artist and not be so stuck in my box of "girls".

I also want to mention that this week I'm going to be painting something that I saw that speaks to me. I'm not saying what that is right now but at the end of the week, it will be reveled. There will also be a give away and I'll tell you what you have to do to enter to win a free print.

Again, thanks for all the great ideas. Keep them coming but again, ask yourself, is it something you want on your walls all year long.

Have a great day!!!

        

And the winner is, Sue Frumerie with her idea of Sleeping Pet. I know this dog has his eyes open, but he's laying down and I couldn't resist painting him.  I just thought he had the most precious eyes.  I also knew Sue has greyhound dogs. Sue, you'll be receiving your print in the mail very soon.  Thank you so much for the idea. 

        

I've finished the painting for this week and will be ready to post it hopefully later today or tomorrow. There were a couple challenges in this painting but I think I finally figured it out. This will give me time to work on some new ideas I've got in my head. I've been wanting to do the Alice in Wonderland characters so hopefully I can squeeze them in between my weekly drawings. 

I forgot to mention a couple things about my original challenge. First of all, a person can only win 1 free print a month. And 2nd, I've got some seasonal ideas in the hat right now and I'll probably pull those out in relationship to the season ending. I didn't get a Santa Clause idea but I've got some other Xmas themed ideas that will come out a few weeks before Xmas because it will be too late to paint them for this year.

So please continue to give me new ideas so I can have them to pull from. OH and occasionally some of you will submit an idea that just speaks to me right then and there. I might just choose to paint that idea and that will be the painting for the week instead of drawing a random idea. 

I'm getting some really good ideas and this has been really good for me because it's challenging me to do things I wouldn't normally do.  Thanks again for submitting them.  Don't stop now. 

        

JoAnn West!!!   She submitted the idea of Winter Storm and this is my interpretation.  I like the way it came out and I have to admit I was challenged which is the whole idea of this.  It's too easy to paint in my safety zone but I don't feel I'll grow as an artist if I always do. So this is how I'm choosing to grow. 

JoAnn is going to get a free print and other prints will be available on Etsy later today.