While you are all creating wonderful cards and scrapbooks, we have been having fun celebrating St. Patrick's Day with green hats, shamrocks and lots of milk - dyed green of course!
I am always in the mood for these three little amigos and the silliness that they bring with them. They are my own "little leprechauns" - full of mischief, full of giggles and full of movement.
Someone should have told me that being a "Grandma" was going to be more wonderful, more magical and more work than I ever imagined. The 3 Amigo's keep me running, smiling, and most of all - YOUNG!
Besides changing diapers, serving up a 24 hour milk bar and chasing after these active little men, I have been working on two art projects. One for a friend - a tryptic of his granddaughter Irish Dancing, leg kicks high with her bouncing hair and another painting devoted to "Botany" which will appear in a local art studio on April 11th.
The canvases have been primed and the backgrounds painted while I work on the photos to add to them. Both projects will be a composition of paint, Pan Pastels, and transfer immulsion that will hopefully give my projects a feeling from a past era.
The Poloraid Transfer Immulsion technique is one that I fell in love with years ago at the Craft and Hobby Association Trade Show. I taught the class in Cincinnatti, OH a few years back and loved teaching it.
The Poloraid Transfers come out with a sepia tone in them and leave you feeling like you are looking at a photo taken in the 20's or 30's. They make wonderful overlays or fabulous backgrounds depending on what medium you use as a base. Either way, the end results are beautiful no matter what mistakes were made in the initial stages of the creative process.
I am so turned on by these projects that I am burning the midnight oil to get them on canvas and that is no blarney - so stay tuned in to see them within the next week or two.
Wishing you all a little mischief, a little green beer, and alot of fun as we move into spring!
Happy St. Pat's Day,
Laura Anne and Bella Boo, the only Irish Schnauzer on the block
