Mixed Media Tag Tutorial

Happy 2013!

Hello everyone and Happy New Year! Today also happens to be my Five Year Blogoversary! Whoohoo! I can't believe how time flies when your happily creating. I normally have a giveaway all set up but unfortunately I have to push that back for now. "I will be posting more for sure this year." I have to have that in writing to make sure that I do. Heehee! I think I did okay with my 36 posts for 2012 compared to the sad 5 posts I did for 2011. Here's to more posts for 2013!

So what's on the drawing board? For now, I'm playing with ACEO's again. These tiny art pieces are 2.5" x 3.5". I have so much fun painting on these little canvases. Besides that, more larger paintings in the works as well as sharing my art journal pages again.

Thanks so much for sticking with me while I continue to share my creative journey! Hope all your dreams come true for the new year!

Creative Blessings,

Lisa :)

She will move mountains

Hello everyone! Here is my latest angel painting. It's a mixed media piece I created on a 16" x 20" stretched canvas. I started out with painting the mountains first. They were just plain white mountains calling out to me. I didn't know which direction I was heading for until I added the angel and knew what she was looking at. 

Sometimes you just need the pull of inspiration to come from somewhere. And that is what my angel did for me. Regardless which direction life takes her, she will move mountains. 

Creative Blessings! :)

Halloween Giveaway Winner!

Happy November everyone! Here is the original Annabel Lee painting I created from the Halloween party. I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do for the party this year until I remembered this poem. For those of you who didn't see the altered version of this painting, check it out here. 

I really got into the zone when I painted this piece. By reading and re-reading the poem Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe. Painting and stamping out the sweet haunting words that he created. It brought me creative chills.

Now let's not forget the reason of this post! 

I really do appreciate all your sweet comments. I used a random number generator to pick the lucky winner.

Congrats Janine! YAY!!! 

You are the winner of my Masquerade Muse Ornie! 

Please email me with your address when you get a chance.

Thanks to all of you who participated in the fun event!

Creative Blessings,

Lisa :)

Happy Halloween

Halloween Party 2012

Annabel Lee

It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of ANNABEL LEE;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea;

But we loved with a love that was more than love-

I and my Annabel Lee;

With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven

Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,

In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her highborn kinsman came

And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulchre

In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,

Went envying her and me-

Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,

In this kingdom by the sea)

That the wind came out of the cloud by night,

Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love

Of those who were older than we-

Of many far wiser than we-

And neither the angels in heaven above,

Nor the demons down under the sea,

Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,

In the sepulchre there by the sea,

In her tomb by the sounding sea.



Edgar Allan Poe







This poem always makes me tear when I read it. I just can't help it.



Reference Links:

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/annabel-lee/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabel_Lee









Here is my Masquerade Muse Ornie!

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For more Halloween parties, visit Vanessa's site here!

Blessings,

Lisa :)

She will make a difference

Here's my latest mixed media portrait created on a 5" X 7" canvas. 

I love the way she turned out. Full of touchable texture.

I added a few fabric flowers and a paper leaf. The flowers are centered with some brads. 

I also stitched some sequins down around them with french knots.

Hope you like her!

You can find her in my shop!

Thanks for visiting!  :)