Well today there is no painting of any kind for me, it's a day off. My husband Chris and I are headed to the Bronx Zoo today. This is one of my very favorite places to go and we try to make it to the zoo as often as we can. We'll be spending the afternoon there, walking around seeing all the animals, having lunch and spending the day in this beautiful fall weather we're having. My favorite place there is the gorilla house, I could stand there for hours and watch them. They are on my "want to paint list" for the future as well.
So, on our way out today, we'll be stopping at the post office so I can mail out some customer orders as well as the above Sunflower plaque. For the 4th time now, I'm participating in the Secret Sister exchange for an online group that I'm with. These exchanges are so much fun...I really look forward to them. We have one per season and the theme of this one is fall. The computer program that is set up, basically picks names for everyone, rather then someone standing there picking names from a hat. I am the secret sister for a really nice lady, that I guess I've known on-line now for a couple of years. I was really happy to receive her name and find out I'm her secret sister.
I decided to paint a welcome plaque for her front door. I thought Sunflowers would be nice for summer and fall. I really like this one so will be adding it to my website in the upcoming weeks. Most of all though, I hope my secret sister will enjoy this.
Didn't I say I've been painting some extremely small miniatures these days?? I was contacted several weeks ago by a very nice lady, Joy, from Australia, who found me through my ETSY shop. She is part of a worldwide miniatures club on Yahoo and as the name states, they have members all over the globe.
Joy asked if I would be willing to paint some very small mini's for her club and because I like a challenge and was quite intrigued, I said I would do some work for her.
If I ever thought that eggart was small and hard to work with, I think I have rethought that notion. The spools are a bit difficult to hold and because of the way they curve, a challenging surface to paint on.
The thimbles however, are the biggest challenge because they are just, in a couple of words, super tiny!!! I actually ended up painting the thimbles by sticking them over one of my fingers(after all, that is what they were meant to do) and that made creating the design a bit easier then trying to just hold them in my hand.
So these little ones have been shipped to Australia already and are probably, by now, on their way to their new homes around the world. I will be doing some ongoing work for this club so I'll have more photos to show of new mini's as they are completed.
