She dreams the future

She dreams the future, originally uploaded by Reluctant Aquarian.

My first stab at a beeswax collage. Woman's face is a sticker I found at the First Friday Art Walk in downtown Phoenix.

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.

Money equals power

Made for the Monday Artday blog with the theme: money.

The mounds follow him around

I love this guy!

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.

Angel

Made for the Saturday Surprise "yellow" challenge. Well, it started yellow, but then some orange and bronze and even purple got in there. There is glitter in the wings that you can't see on the scan. I really like the texture.

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...

All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go

Watercolor, acrylic, rubber stamping, papers from magazines and scraps from other collages.

Made for the Saturday Surprise Challenge group on Flickr. Theme was WATER.

Also for Mixed Media Monday challenge on paint.

I hate this scan. How do I get rid of the ridges where paper overlaps under the paint?

If you love someone....

Altered book spread. Ingredients: discarded book, gesso, acrylic paint and matte medium, paper from an annual report for a stock. It needs something at the top, I think, but I can't figure out what. Classify this as "probably unfinished."