Workspace Wednesday (a day late)

I've been working hard to get some commitments finished so that I can concentrate fully on my Etsy shop and blog.  Hopefully I'll be able to come up with a more regular schedule for things featured on my blog.  With that said, I wasn't planning to do a Workplace Wednesday post this week.  Work on our apartment building has had my work space in a state of disarray but now that that is over I was finally able to make some order again.

Even  though I wasn't planning on a post, a visit from my grandchildren today prompted a couple of candid photos that I couldn't resist sharing.

How could I resist that face?  My projects can wait long enough to encourage this little angel's love of color!

29 Faces Day #23 and #24

I actually had the time to put color to a couple of these today.  I'm always amazed at the finished product.  Every one I do I learn more and more about my colored pencils and how they blend and work together.  I have so much more to learn but I'm so much better than I was so I'm thrilled.  I understand better than ever before the saying "Do what you love."  Creating art makes me so ridiculously happy I almost feel guilty about it!  I am so incredibly blessed to be able to pursue what I truly love.

Workspace Wednesday!

This week my workspace is in transition.  Our apartment...which we love...is the smallest place we've ever lived so its been a huge challenge to find room for everything.  I've seriously been tempted to get rid of the washer and dryer just so I can have that closet for my art space.  Instead I am trying some new options with the furniture we have in the hopes of creating a workable space that will allow me to not only have a place to create but a place to photograph my art properly and conduct business without having to be spread out all over the apartment.

Here's my work in progress...

This is one of the projects I've been working on this week.  I'm finishing these up and deciding which ones will be pins or hanging ornaments or framed items.  I absolutely love doing this kind of work...looking at things in a whole new way and giving things a new life and purpose.  I hope they make other people as happy as they make me!

29 Faces Day 19-22

Here are mine for Day 19-22. I started with an attempt at something more realistic and then tried a few as quick sketches with very little erasing. Really fun giving myself permission to just put things on the paper and not worry if they are just right. Even better that I really kinda like how they turned out!

29 Faces Days 16, 17 and 18

Here are a few quick sketches for Days 16-18.

Workspace Wednesday!

Hey, hey, hey...its Workspace Wednesday!  Your chance for a little peek into what I'm working on.

I've got two main projects I'm working on so I've appropriated the "coffee table" in the living room for one of them.

The first project is another secret gift for the Halloween Gift Swap I'm in over at AFA.  You can see various parts and pieces of it.  The finished product will have to remain a secret though until the recipient sees it.

The second space is where I'm working on some assemblage angels that will soon be available in my Etsy shop.  I've been collecting random and broken jewelry for years.  It's such fun to pull the pieces out and try looking at them in different ways.  Giving new life to some really beautiful bits and pieces is such a joy!  

Assemblage Angel

Check back for some finished angels and the next project I have in mind!  Wishing you a Wonderful Workspace Wednesday!!

29 Faces Day #15 WIP

This is a piece I've been working on this week.  I still need to frame and take some good photos of it but then it will be up for sale in my Etsy shop.  I'm really thrilled with the way it turned out.  Its one of those wonderful "Holy Cow!  Did I really do that?" moments that are so incredible to have.

The message is something that really speaks to me personally.  I hope it blesses others as it has blessed me.