INTERMISSION WITH A DREAM ~ "FISHIN on a DREAM "~ MOPSY THE SPIDER DREAM CATCHER

Since last Friday I've been busy working on my WIP "Brown~Eyed Daisies and Chrysanthemums " Bas- Relief Painting contemplating the finish I want to render it in. So far this is what I have achieved in the next step of the work, adding a few more tints of colour ,wiping away the excess and highlighting some of the areas ; now, I'm sort of stuck where to go from here.

So I thought a little respite from the painting and dreaming along the way that I would share this Dream Catcher I made.
Being one who always loves the intricate magical work of a Spider's web, I'm not at all surprised when an idea pops into my head that it's source derives from Charlotte's Web…: ) and leads me somewhere new.
 As I recall, the idea came to me when I saw a little boy fishing on a dream catcher; I thought, why not a spider  fishing and instead of his catch of fish, make them fireflies .

Here is where vintage jewellery comes in handy.

Mopsy the Spider fishing for fireflies

A Little Star

Fireflies and a mother of pearl heart


So now , without rushing the work , I must get back to finishing this Bas~ Relief. …..I have another painting that I'm anxious to get started : )

Don't forget to pay a visit to the gang at Happy Paint Party Friday

Until next time,
Annabelle

A Little Mystery Solved

How exciting it is when one finds a magical surprise in their mail, never knowing that it ever existed, until one day there it is, veiled in falling snow. At first, I didn't know who had managed to enhance the WIP Bas ~ Relief painting I've been working on but with a little investigation, I found the magician behind the work was none other than the secret robot belonging to Google+ . I kinda of like it and actually I discovered more of my images had been touched by his magic wand and had been for some time.

Moral of this little story, check your mail a little more often and read it all for you never know what you may delightfully find concealed inside the envelope: )

Until the next surprise : ) 

Annabelle

A Good Habit ~ Art Obsession ~ "Brown~Eyed Daisies and Chrysanthemums " Bas- Relief Painting

BAS ~ RELIEF PAINTING ~ WIP

Paint Party Friday Week 47 ~ Year 3

Art has it's way with me, almost always , if I let it.
Usually, even before dawn has waken, it quietly arrives accompanied by the high pitched vocal of a hunger cat by way of a strong aroma of percolating coffee entering my senses and triggering my creative habit…..my "Art Obsession Habit ". A habit I happily accept with a few minor negatives thrown in, like one  having too many unfinished projects. One of those unfinished projects is this Bas- Relief of potted daisies and chrysanthemums I've had for some time now. A found art piece which was never finished and had the worst colour ever.The original background was a chocolate brown and the flowers were painted gold. So I decided to give it a fresh coat of white gesso paint.

 After a number of applications of a monochromatic colour and drying periods in-between, I mixed some paints and started to repaint it. I also used some interference gold and mother of pearl for the flowers. In the process of deciding on the shadowing of the florals ,my daughter mentioned that the work reminded her of Van Gogh's Sunflowers painting in the way I had painted only a few of the daisy centres brown. I had never realized it until she mentioned it but her remark did make me feel good about this work's progress.

For now, I call it “Brown ~ Eyed Daisies and Chrysanthemums”

Love some FEEDBACK on where to shadow : ) THANKS



Until Later
Annabelle


Linking this art post to the Paint Party Friday Artists' Group

The Girl with The Far Away Eyes

One of the beautiful physical charcteristics on my mother's side are the eyes besides gorgeous thick hair, two of the traits I seem to have missed out on.
Mind you, when I was young, if I spent a few hours in front of the mirror, I could claim close to those same characteristics....😊

Anyway, yesterday while visiting my mother and helping place a few pictures on the wall, she asked my daughter to place her picture on Facebook. Since no recent pics worked well , my husband suggested we use the one her friend had drawn of her as a young woman in the sixties; as you can tell by her bee- hive hair do.

Not only is she lovely but the drawing is equally beautiful and in my mind the way my daughter Emma photographed the picture makes it that more fascinating and quite intriguing by her incorporation of the reflected image of the living-room window doors.
So I thought it be nice to share with you this morning this art piece, actually two art pieces, a photograph and a drawing of my mother .

Hope you enjoyed this post.

Until later
Annabelle

p.s. needs some photoshop ...adjust the colours.

CABINET OF OLD SECRET LOVES ~ TUMBLR

HOME SWEET HOME

Eduardo Teixeira Pinto (Amarante, 1933 - 2009)

I suppose I should take a moment to leave you a forwarding address since I've haven't been much around the old place for a while.

You see, I've finally found my Home Sweet Home.....on Tumblr. A new blog I call "Cabinet of Old Secret Loves " 

A place where I keep all that belongs to the earth. A collection of sorts, a collection of Dead People's Stuff and of the Living. Poetry, Literature, Art, Music, Movies and Film, Magical Lands, Culinary Inspirations for a cozy, comfy home. 

In addition to re-blogging curiosities rare and common from time to time I will write my own posts inspired by my new found muse....Tumblr. 

This place holds an endless library to my heart's desires, maybe Tumblr may even become your very own personal library as it has become mine.

To navigate the site scroll down the page and click on the word "older" where it will take you to the next page; so far there are 510 pages in the Cabinet.  

Here is the link:

Hope you enjoy it.

http://cabinetofoldsecretloves.tumblr.com/#me

Until Later

Annabelle

p.s. The Wood Beyond The World will remain Active

MERRY CHRISTMAS

You guys see the cat run past here? - Imgur

You guys see the cat run past here? - Imgur

HONOUR AND REMEMBER

Honour and Remember

Monday, November 11

Remembrance Day 2013

Can I Keep You?

It's been so long since my last post but this doesn't mean I've stopped doing what I love most....ART... of all sorts. Only, I'm not ready just now to share with you my private room, later : )

So, for the immediate moment I'll leave you with Casper and the poem 

"The Spider and the Ghost of a Fly " by Vachel Lindsay

And now, revel in

THE SPIDER AND THE GHOST OF THE FLY

by: Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)

NCE I loved a spider

When I was born a fly,

A velvet-footed spider

With a gown of rainbow-dye.

She ate my wings and gloated.

She bound me with a hair.

She drove me to her parlor

Above her winding stair.

To educate young spiders

She took me all apart.

My ghost came back to haunt her.

I saw her eat my heart.






The Smiling Spider 1891 by Odilon Redon



Can I Keep you .......until later?
Annabelle m..m