new art doll and fairy paintings

This is my first post since the spectacular Alice in  wonderland blog event held by the lovely ladies and gents over at artdollsonly.blogspot.com...and i have several new paintings and one rather large art doll to share with you today....My mother and her husband came to visit from Ohio...and they brought me a very large supply of art paper and assorted paints...mostly water colors...water colors are a new medium for me and will take a bit of getting used to but are great fun....and being that my original love is painting i have been busy, busy, busy....here are some photos to give you an idea of what i'm working with...see all the awesome types of paper my mother and stepdad brought...wasn't that the sweetest thing....there is nothing like having the support of family...my mother is ever incouraging to brooden my artistic ideas and to go a more traditional route such as landscapes, florals,,,although more than likely she is right as mothers often are...i'm drawn to the fantasy art...fairies, day of the dead, the dark side of life so to speak...although i do like pink and pretty fairy princess's...go figure....seems the exact opposite of dark...doesn't it...oh well what can i say...i am a gemini and gemini's have two sides to their personality and i believe it is often visiable in my variety of creations...here is a few of my latest and all my new lovely paper...

these are my attemts at water colors...the day of the dead zombie picture is a mixture of acrylics and water colors...and my blue sprite is all water color...not sure why she looks so mad...i was in a good mood when i painted her...hehehe.

and there are more....i've really been excited about painting again...this lil' fairy on the scull needs work...the scull needs improving but hey this was my first attempt at painting such a large scull....so maybe with practice....it'll improve...i'm also working on a very large two by three feet painting of mother earth in the goddess form but she is still a wip...so no photo's of her yet....and last but not least here is a picture of my latest artdoll fairy princess...she is huge...eighteen inches tall and free standing...her head, hands and shoulders are polymer clay and her body is soft sculpt on a candle pedastel...i've yet to create her wings and floral beaded crown....but this is her so far...and a few pictures of my living room and doll collection.... 

and hall way...can you tell i love dolls...all kinds of them...even mass produced....(gasp) but i do prefer hand made one of a kind...and last but not least here is a collage photo of my fur babies....co-co, tarbaby and trouble such sweet animals and all rescues....these characters are truly my best friends...and funny too...always a source of happiness...well thats my news for awhile...i'll be undergoing another surgery on my right arm...third one in one years time...hopefully my last for awhile...so i'll be recovering for about a month and then i'll be back to creating...until then...hugs...christen

mothers day is fast approaching...

     
   Mothers day is fast approaching and always the delemia as to what to buy her...how to say just what she means to me and what words could ever describe the sacrifices she made to give me some of the best days of my life...this song says so much and reminds me of she and I in so many ways...you know its really sad but it took me thirty-seven years to really feel the depth of how important she is to me...and i just wanted to share a few of my childhood memories and how she helped create the magic of childhood in some often hard circumstances....when i was five my father left...yes...i still love him...and yes to me he is a great man and always will be but still she raised three children alone...she worked a full time job...she gardened...did lawn care, took us to ball games and dance practice...long hours of dance recitals, apple picking in the fall and never instant potatoes or canned bisquits even once...our christmas's were full of magic...our home had a huge yard with a park at the fence line were we could fish or ice skate in winter...she gave us the ability to dream and said girls could do any thing just like little boys...when i doubted myself...she always said...sure you can you can do it...and practice...she believed in practice makes perfect...panio lessons...bike rides...indoor swimming several times a week during winter after long work days....i just wanted a moment to stop and say...thank you mom...and to tell the world i had the best mom and many best days spent with her....she is my hero...