People, Places, Things... only not people

It's that time of the year again!!! My awesome friend Dan Z's Famous Fictional at Mad Art Gallery!

Here is a sneak peek at a just about finished corner of my piece and a shot of it hardly done at all.

Any guesses on what my famous theme is?

The show is this Friday night if anyone is interested in coming!!!!

Annie's gift

One of my bestest friends in the world is getting ready to have her first child and I wanted to do something special for the baby's room. I did a series of eight little people in 4x6 frames.

Super Post

It's been a while since I had much to show from work so I snapped some pictures this afternoon. I have really been trying to focus on bringing out a more fun and funny element in my signs lately and I'm really having a good time with it. Enjoy!

First off some featured item signs:

these apples are about to get sauced!

little known fact: chedder is the party animal of cheeses

Devo? yes please

good moms drink caffeine

me, "sure I can make a funny sign that deals with Greece and their crumbling economy, while not being offensive and tie it in with yogurt"

chicken sheriff

Some endcaps and endcap backs:

bowie swan inspired

pretty colors

Desmond is on a boat

she's naked, shhhhh, don't tell my boss

Curtiss inspired

I'm more like the one on the right

why? it's the first image that popped into my head

awesome bottle art

And some random stuff:

I have an issue with making squirrels look like cats

awwww, she's so self conscious

just cute

Plein air St. Charles

Last month I participated for a couple of days in an outdoor painting event. It wasn't as productive as I had hoped it would be but I got one decent painting out of it, and here it is.

Hats Hats Hats

Finished Cinco/Derby Hat

So, I am kind of on a hat making kick right now. It all started with a Kentucky Derby/Cinco De Mayo party I was invited to where you had to wear a hat. I of course went overboard and made my own. 

 

semi-finished just missing taller black feathers and tulle

back of semi-finished hat

 So now I am always thinking about making hats and I have made a few and want to make lots more! Here are some of my finished projects.

A headband style with a mosaic of googly eyes

a felt/sea monsterish style

Me modeling a moss and eyeball concoction.

Little People Parade

I never got around to posting pictures of much of my show so these are some of the Little People drawings and paintings that I had. Happily, I sold pretty much all of them and I was really pleased with the reaction I got from them. 

I'm pretty sure anyone from my generation played with these little guys and can probably remember chewing on one too. Alas that was probably their downfall (just Darwinism at work in my opinion). I started competitively collecting them when I was a teenager along with my Aunt Julie and mom. You might say we were obsessed. I have a couple hundred now and I still love looking at them and their bite marks and musing over the variety of them and the personality each one contains. I hope you enjoy them too!

1%, oil

99%, oil

bffs, oil

off into the sunset, pastel

Real Housewives of Fisher Price, oil

Who Let The Dogs Out, pastel

Woof, Woof, Woof, pastel

Howdy Partner, pastel

Green Girl, pastel

Fearless Flyer

Here are a couple of pieces I did for the current flyer in my store. It was a circus theme and I wish that I had had more time to do more fun stuff with it. I liked it because I like any art I get to do that can also include glitter! (p.s. if anybody knows anyone that might be interested in a job like mine they should come by my store and talk to my boss)