Magic Love crow.............

I have a blogger friend who paints her love of crows. I enjoy her work and bought a couple of pieces, one for my daughter that I really liked. Also Aceo's small cards.
ACEOs are miniature pieces of art that measure 2-1/2" x 3-1/2". If a small piece of art has different measurements than this, it does not qualify as an ACEO.
Her web site is MagicLoveCrow I encourage you to hop on over and check her blog. She is a very sweet and lovely lady so I hope you enjoy her blog.
This is a lovely painting she did for me. I had asked for something with Lavender and this is it. Lavender Dreams



I have not done well in photographing it or the Aceo's but you will see in her Etsy shop how very lovely they are. This Aceo is in a plastic cover so reflects light, sorry about that. Its Bluebell Kiss


She was very sweet and also sent me one I had said I liked called The Sword. Just because she is nice.



Well here is a link to her Etsy shop. MagicLoveCrow

Enjoy browsing and if you should buy something I can tell you it will be very securely wrapped and will come to you immaculate. I hope you will give her a shout out and enjoy her work.

New pictures...........

These are done on drawing paper and so they crinkle up. Not a great way to show work. Still I will show a few......A New Forest pony.



This came from a picture I saw, I liked the way the hair covered the girls face. I did it from memory and have forgotten where I saw it so I hope its not too much the same as the original



the rose is just another loose attempt done without a drawing first. Pencil added after.

This is an original done after a day at the beach..........just a simple attempt

Sometimes even the most simple drawing might make a note card?????


Sunflower.........

The flowers actually looked a lot better on the paper. Taking a picture never gives a good image, it highlights the ink too much.

This on is also a very simple one.........no depth or anything like that.....just look so much better in the book but that's OK. This is just to record some of what I am doing. I am on Book 5 now, its fun looking back through. Time to begin on original stuff.
I still see no point in doing paintings because I have nowhere to put them. I may do some note cards though.

More lovelies...........

I am sort of recording some of these beautiful gowns for my own pleasure. I see them as works of art really. Especially the beaded ones. So much work put into them. I wonder what happens to them. I know those who buy them probably only wear them once or twice because they are so memorable but then what?
Most of what I am showing is Haute Couture.....that means lots and lots of money.
Look at this. Not sure what occasion would allow for the wearing of this but I think its awesome

Why do the models make themselves look so ghastly....love the dress

These silver gowns are wonderful

A short dress too, not so fond of the short styles these days but as its not for me, well she sure looks nice in it

The gold is beautiful too

I look for gowns with beading or beautiful use of fabrics. I liked these two

The gold one looks very Egyptian. The other is Celtic

I decided that I was a Magpie in a former life as I love glitter.



Not so fond of bright colours but I did find a few that I liked


How about shocking pink....or the Celtic robe?


The bead work and the silver is wonderful. I wonder what the fabric feels like? Is it scratchy?



These two are more elaborate and I think I would like the 2nd one without the slit up it.......but it looks great on the model.



I am still not sure if I like the pink outfit, it looks like a 1950s or early 1960s outfit so I sort of like the fabric and style.........the red is just beautiful though. I wish they showed the rest of the dress


So there ya go, a few more beauties to drool over.

Joining Mosaic Monday at Little Red House

more beautiful things.............

I cant help it I see these beautiful things and just have to share.

I think I would enjoy shopping for things like these, I love clothes and it would be nice to be able to get things that look good on me. As it is I wear mainly casual stuff.

I like the artistic quality of Haute couture. I would never pay those prices no matter how rich I was, but some things are just plain beautiful

Ok this next one may be weird but isn't it astounding?

I love this colour. I love the subtleness of it.

I like the beadwork on this dress.

This is the most beautiful colour pink. I also love the beadwork

This would be more my size if I am honest. Its nice to see that the larger sizes can look just as nice, just as pretty

This one is unusual but pretty


The colour combination on this one is dramatic and wonderful


I have many more to show but enough for now. This is a place I can store some of the things I enjoy. I hope you enjoy them too

Watercolours and some of my failures...............

Above are two "cartoonish" pictures that I like to do. I am thinking of note cards later on and thought these might be something I would like to do. Here is another



I saw someone did a couple of owls on a twig. I liked it and did my version of crazy owls like a bigger one that I did before.

This didn't come out so well but I may try it again.

This one? maybe not

More cartoons.............copied this from somewhere and changed it a bit for me. I add it to my crazy cats collection. Remember Clarence the cross eyed lion? That's why I wanted him.

Then another pathetic attempt at a Cardinal. I just can not get it...........will keep on trying

Another thing I find difficult is male figures. They end up looking like hairy girls

more pictures....................

First some birds.....not sure now what I already posted so here goes.....Choockie


Working on hummers..........as you see these are not what you would call paintings, just practicing my looseness.



I am trying to paint without drawing first and just highlighting with a pen after. This is called Coming in for a landing. I saw the basic idea somewhere and then just did it from memory so hope its not too much like the original because I am not trying to copy people. Just get ideas to practice with.


This little bird has gone through several incarnations before becoming this one. I think I ended up with a blue bird but was aiming for an Indigo Bunting



A little French village street maybe?

To the Beach...........that was us yesterday. Catch our adventure on Bluebell Woods

Thats it for today folks.............I appreciate comments and critiques. Only way I will improve
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A few from my latest journal...........

I am still working on the loose idea of watercolour. I needed some idea of what to try next so searched the blogs and Pinterest. I collected some pictures of birds. I took a look and then tried similar things. They are just for my journal and to learn from people whose work I like. Not for any kind of publication or other use. This first picture is rather bland but I sort of like it. Called "Going Home"

Some bluebells......loose bluebells (smile)

This is my poodle Bodicea. She was sitting on the deck and I drew her and then I painted her

The other poodle that was sitting with me, Bella

This is one of my baby birds.

My English Robin

Flowers are still a work in progress

hummingbird

my little table top fountain

I am not sure I see a lot of progress, but in some ways I do. I like to look back over my other journals and try to see progress. I see baby steps. Not what I have in mind I want to do things well. I see so many others who do such a great job and I like to try their style, then I see more and try that until I don't know if I am coming or going. So I carry on in the hope that I will find my own style.......but I like to do so many things. I like child like drawings too for fun. Anyway all for mow