Sunday, March 31, 2013

Pied beauty


Robins' eggs are a beautiful sign of spring.  I made this necklace a few weeks ago, as a Saturday morning project, in celebration of the eggs' gorgeous blues and dainty freckles.


The splattering technique took a bit of effort -- a few squeezes of brown paint, finding a good dry bristled brush, rotating the beads to ensure an even (yet random) covering.  My fingers were slick with paint and a bit raw from raking over the brush bristles by the end.  And, it was a little challenge to contain the splatters.



Once finished, I went to eat breakfast.


Let him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us. - g.m.hopkins

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P.S. Hope the E.B. remembers your favorite, Mom.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Happy St. Patrick's Day



Somewhere whose zip code does not begin with 606--
Commission, 11''x14'', acrylic


Meanwhile, beneath blue-grey skies...


there are signs of hope


as Chicago begins to reveal her own verdant hues.


Cheers!