Flame bride

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In response to a prompt at Easy Street Prompts. Weird prompt = weird collage. Struggled with this one for weeks.

blind date

Made for a challenge blog with the theme "in the garden". I like to take a humorous twist on things when everyone else is doing pretty vintage floral thing. The little hedgehog is cut off a birthday card I received this year and I've been looking for a fun way to use him ever since.

Out of her shell

As the young girl comes out of her shell, will she decide to open a bakery/coffee shop in Key West or will she head to Manhattan to pursue a career on Broadway? The sky is the limit for this young lady!

Done for Theme Thursday's "Celebrate Girls" challenge.

Shamu's faery

Little known fact: Shamu is so busy, he needs his own faery to help him keep the magic alive.

New year resolution faery

She was an ordinary woman until New Year's Eve when she set a most unusual resolution: In 2008, she would grow wings and learn to fly.

Whisper of the Beloved

the text is really difficult to read because I was fighting with my pen and still having trouble with the curly script. Here is the quote:

Let silence take you to the core of life... All your talk is worthless when compared to one whisper from The Beloved. -Rumi

This started out as a response to the prompt "eyes" for the Make It Monday group. Somehow, though, as the concept expanded in my mind, the eyes were replaced by these "sealed for your protection" things I got off some vitamin bottles. They remind me how easily the eyes lead us astray in our search for meaning. So, I guess even without the eyes themselves, the eyes are still the theme of this piece for me.

Be a great farmer

A quote from my boss that he wrote up to motivate the clinicians in our program. I'm trying to get a curly printing style worked out.

Made for the Illustration Friday "seed" challenge.

La nuit

This is for the "la nuit" challenge at Dans ma maison il y a... . It is not beautiful and artsy like most of the entries there. It's what I could do with 5 stolen minutes at work, hoping my boss wouldn't find me gleefully pawing my stash of magazine cut outs and playing with my glue stick. The background color is done with watercolor pencils - still trying to figure out exactly how those could work better for me. Better color selection would be a good start. I may rework the background color to fit better with the blues inside the house...

bionic seniors

The prompt was "metal and bone" which made me think of hip and knee replacements. Thus the metal legs on my ladies.

Fun!

Done for Illustration Friday, where the theme is WRINKLES. When I think of wrinkles, I think of my skin after I'm done playing dolphin in the pool.

Beyond

This was supposed to be based on the color of my hair, but I trimmed all that color off from around the pine needles. Oh well, it started that way.

The squares are from a Jack in the Box bag. You've got to love junk food wrapped in art supplies.

The word "beyond" signifies that I want to grow beyond the stereotypes associated with my hair color.

See It

Response to a prompt on the Yahoo gluebooks group to base a page on the color or shape of my eyes.

The background paper I got free at the dollar store - they used it to wrap a purchase. My eyes are more hazel than green, but I had to use this paper!

Cover of my first glue book

I'm so excited about starting a glue book. Finally something to do with all the pictures I've been hoarding.... I also joined the gluebooks group on Yahoo." Very cool daily prompts there.