Last Snapshots of the year

The bird boxes each had a birdhouse made from bark inside. (I did not make the houses..only the boxes!)

Hailey got a painted box





Goodies inside: markers, bird pins, jelly beans and mini art scratchboard set.


Oh la la! here are my new tights and new shoes!



A new addition to my "Shelf O' Russia" :
Medieval Russia's Epics and tales.



A cute Tiki card from Astrid in NZ.



ANd.....


J holding a sign for me (It says "HI BON") at a Time Square Webcam.


Pretty good!

Have a good one!

The Wonder of Birds

Two designs for my twin cousins Lalia and Sierra. This will be decoupaged onto boxes like the "Entchen box" pictured below this post.

"Entchen" Box

The finished product...with a surprise inside.

inside the front cover displays the whole poem:

"All my ducklings"

I'm making decoupage boxes for four children in my life. (3 cousins and one upstairs neighbor.)
The girl upstairs is German speaking, so I thought it would be fun to make her's have a German nursery rhyme.
There is some of the art work that will adorn the box(click to enlarge):

Blue

Just Peachy

Andrew Bird

I've been getting to know Andrew...and his whistle.

website: http://www.andrewbird.net/

After Waterhouse

WIP

still blocking things in, now I will need better reference to help me correct anatomy issues.
And that means...I will probably have to pose myself. Haha I always feel silly doing it, but I know other artists do it all the time. Still, I have so many pictures around of self-poses for paintings that I always joke that someday someone is going to find them and either think i'm crazy or really really really vain!! (or both)