home again

I have a feeling you may be seeing a more of these 'happy homes' over the next few days. I am really loving painting these! I got some comments that said they have a 'beachy' feel. Moving to the coast is my hearts desire, so maybe that is coming through in my work... Either way, home is the sweetest spot. Illustrating that is pretty sweet too! :)
xo kp

now squares

Last week it was circles. Now for some reason, I painted these squares. Honestly, I don't know what has gotten into me? When I go into my studio, I just sit down, with nothing in mind, and start doodling and painting. The past few posts have been what comes out...not even sure that they are complete and they certainly are not anything more than 'sketches' and experimentation. I guess I will just keep it up and revisit them at a later date. I think maybe I should be more focused and try harder to create something more cohesive. There is always tomorrow :)
xokp

 ....from the above painting, the idea for these 'happy homes' came to me!!

Please someone tell me what I am doing!! LOL What is going on with my art and my mixed-up mojo!?!

remembering...

This is a watercolor collage I have titled, "Remembering" in honor of all of those we loved and will always be remembered....

greetings from LaLa Land

Here is a mixed media collage I made today in one of my experimental moods.

I call it Greetings from LaLa Land.

It seems I have a thing for circular flowers lately. Hmmm don't know why but i seem to have a theme going on here...

kp

a page from my journal...

As you may have noticed, if you peek at my blog(s) at all, I like to make things. I like to make all sorts of things. Too many things, I sometimes think.... but I can't stop. And when I really think about it, I don't even want to stop. I give myself permission to make lots of things. I like to doodle and color and make with my hands. I like to put things together. And I like to blog.
I started this blog with this sort of vision that it was going to be a certain way, that it was going to be different from my "other blog". It was to be a card making/stamping blog with this sort of set theme. That was a great vision and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, however, it just isn't working out that way. I just don't have the time in my life right now to keep up with the set schedule that I imposed on myself and I am finding that I just don't want it to be so rigid anyway. I just want to make stuff and share it and hope that you like it. So that's what I am going to do! I hope you will still come by to see what I am creating. I will still be posting tutorials and have plenty of ideas to share.

Here is a journal I made last night:

Made from an old book cover and one of my doodles (which I turned into a stamp for the card from my last blog entry!).

x's & o's
kp

it's not just black and white...

Nope it's not just black and white. It's black and white and YOUR favorite color! That is the card challenge this time over on my Papercraft Planet group! I hope YOU will come and play along! If you are not already a member, please join (it's free and really easy) visit here http://www.papercraftplanet.com/group/kpink to check it out !
Here is my inspiration card for this challenge:

:)
kp

creative women

I have some really exciting news! I finally got my aceo trade going and WOW!  What a fabulous, talented, generous group of women artists I have gathered! Our theme is Creative Women and the art will be collected on August 5th. I hope you will continue to follow along as this 'story' unfolds...
...more about this soon :)
In the meantime I made up this little atc with all of the creative women in mind.

x's & o's
kp