Something New....

The current trend for "bib" style jewellery and my own interest in jewellery and fiber art (just a little segue) from my painting resulted in this new design. Hand crafted organza petals and leaves sprinkled with tiny crystal beads and vintage pearls and chain. There's even a snippet of a love letter trapped within the layers of leaves. I've completed several versions of this style

including a silvery gray and rhinestone version for winter.

Happy Thanksgiving Day

I try to avoid domestic topics here on my blog for living life creatively....
but I couldn't resist doing a little digital art work on my daughter's photo
of the Thanksgiving Day Turkey.

Hope everyone had a Happy One.

Montreal Home Magazine article

Nice article in the Fall Montreal Home magazine about Jacques and Debbie Demers whose home I had the privilege of creating for.
There is an image of one (the faux drapes in their bedroom) of the many pieces created for them on Page 90 with a mention of my name. Thank you Debbie! The second photo is of a cheetah sitting bathside with a potted fern in the Master Bathroom. (not shown in this article).

Signed, sealed and (almost) delivered...

From little labels measuring 2" x 4.5" to a painting measuring 3 x 5 feet. Finished this week, a request for fields, fence, pink flowers and horses. These photos were just before the finishing touches.

Penny stopped in to give her approval...

Final Stages of the Labels

From my previous post I thought I'd show you what the finished labels will look like.
I'll be excited to see how the labels look on the bottles when the oils are shipped later
this year. I have one more illustration to do of Oregano. The four flavors illustrated
here are lemon, peperoncino, basil and mint. If you're interested in purchasing any
of these oils, just click on the link for Tavola Mia for more info on where to find them.

Tulips Big and Bold

Back in June I posted a collection of paintings I had done using my favorite
flower to paint. Well, one more time, this painting is finished and ready to be
delivered. I always wonder why I never do one for myself and never seem to
be able to do so after I let one go.
This one is done in acrylics and measures 24" square.

Back to.......cooking school!

I occasionally do some graphic designs (which I enjoy) and this is one of the projects I've been working on lately. In my side bar you'll see a link to "Tavola Mia". A wonderful cooking school run by Maria Loggia here in Hudson, she has imported these olive oils under her label (designed several years ago). There will be four new designs for four new flavors of olive oil laterthis Fall and I've been working on the watercolor illustrations this past week. She will also have a cookbook out later this month. I've seen the book in stages over the past year and have just seen the "hot off the press" hardcover final. It's fabulous! Maria's attention
to detail in every aspect of the book is obvious. The recipes were wonderfully photographed and the book is full of beautiful imagery. I'll be posting the launch of the book here in my blog as soon as it's available.

September!

"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer and oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all." — Stanley Horowitz ...
I love the Fall, a sentiment I think the majority of artists feel. Probably set in motion by the beginning of the school year and
the end of Summer, there's a sense getting back into a groove and feeling the urge to create with even more purpose.
I haven't written in my blog for more than a month! It's not as if I haven't anything to write about...in fact I've been quite
busy with painting and jewellery designs but distractedly so because I am leaving tomorrow to drive one of my three to Boston where he's about to start at Boston University. I'm trying not to get too emotional. It is a happy event after all. But thoughts like;
this is the last week, the last dinner, the last movie out as a family, the last favorite dessert etc. etc. keep popping up in my
head. I am trying to replace it with opportunities to scout out the Boston area for new artistic ventures which I'm sure I'll take
advantage of once I'm there. Plus I have many promising projects to return to. It does sound like I'm trying to convince myself, doesn't it?

Six months already!

Tomorrow is my last day at Galerie Mouche on Cameron. I had taken this on temporarily while Melissa (of Mouche Mosaics) was
on maternity leave. I enjoyed having this space as everything that I create is never usually "displayed" by me in one place but rather over every area of my work area in various stages of completion. Also nice to meet people who are out and about visiting Hudson. Something I don't get to do while working at my home studio. Great news though, is that Ann Brisson who
has the furniture and objet's d'art part of Mouche will carry some of my jewelry and paintings to be displayed with her country furniture. So I am thrilled about that...

Stay tuned for postings about where I will be exhibiting next. At the moment, I can say for sure that I will be showing at
Whitlock Golf Club for the Christmas exhibition in mid November and always, 24 hours a day right here on my blog and
website.... : > )