Bragging rights and good advice

Hi all. Pictured here is my wonderful Daughter #1. Just giving her kudos for an article well written...I will NEVER get tired of braggin' up the kids. So she may think it's no big deal, but for me it is. Check out this link The Coast, a wonderful little Halifax newspaper that throws my girl an opportunity now and then and publishes her. In this latest issue of The Coast, Allison gives great advice for those wanting to enjoy all that Halifax Nova Scotia has to offer, but must stick to a budget. Enjoy.

Redux, Redux...goin' solo

Redux, Redux will be showing at the Ross Creek Centre of the Arts in beautiful Canning Nova Scotia in July! I will be exhibiting solo as my Redux partner, Laura Moore has her hands full at her new boutique. Her presence and her fab work will be missed at Ross Creek but you can see her found object paintings and her other creations at Finders Keepers in Bras D'ors her on Cape Breton Island.

Meanwhile, I am excited to be showing off-island and hope that the Valley folk will come on out and enjoy my work.

Check out the Ross Creek Centre's website for info on my show and upcoming exhibits and their theatre company Two Planks and a Passion. I'm hoping to take in a performance of Rockbound, this year's play.

So Mainland Nova Scotia, here I come! Wish me luck all!

IT'S A GIRL!! IT'S A BOY!!

What do you know?

The arrival of the Blue Boy and Pink Girl is earlier than predicted! And I'm so proud!

These kids came

together quickly and enthusiastically for me. I hope you all like the results!

And, I have featured them on my Etsy site...just choose 'Sellers' and 'allmyfancey' on the search bar at http://www.etsy.com/ to have a look. This is a new venture for me and I hope a successful one! Gotta start paying for my painting vice!

I'd love some feedback on these kids and the blog or the idea of etsy. Really!

I thought for sure the Bread and Honey painting would have been completed first but no. Stay tuned as I am sure to get Demeter to the finish line any day now!

Blue Boy and Pink Girl

I have stalled on Bread and Honey but fortunately, being a creative, moody type, I have two more pieces in the works...ALWAYS have more than one thing on the go!


As promised new pics of two new pieces in progress!
These paintings were inspired by the nursery rhyme:
What Folks are Made Of
What are little boys made of? Snips and snails and puppy-dog tails;
That's what little boys are made of.
What are little girls made
of? Sugar and spice and everything nice;
That's what little girls are made of.



In these first two photos, both paintings have had a background of pink and blue applied and the photo transfers have been completed. These two kiddies come from a photo I found at a flea market. Where are these two now, I wonder? Did they follow a path that was laid out for them? Or did they follow the one less travelled?



The photos to the right show a bit more progress made. Both images have been embellished with paint, the transfers tend to be quite 'ghostly' as I have
mentioned before, so a bit of painting takes them to a new stage and kinda makes 'em my own.


I have worked on the background and chosen what found objects and ephemera I will be adding. At this point, I want their 'stories' to be about what society's general expectations are; what kind of man or woman they should aspire to be.

Objects for our Blue Boy include:
vintage Toronto Maple Leafs metal game piece, plastic army man, vintage wedding cake decoration, plastic baby, glass 'bubbles', ephemera from old encyclopedias and an illustration from The Modern Sex Manual (1942) .

Objects for our Pink Girl include:
doll shoe, vintage button, vintage swizzle stick, plastic baby, toy wooden house, glass bubbles in pink, ephemera from old encyclopedias, illustration from The Modern Sex Manual (1942) .



The Objects have yet to be attached to the piece. I will do so once I'm satisfied with the background and the bubbles. Then I'll integrate them with some fussing and glueing.



Stay tuned...I am really caught up in telling these little stories and am sure to have more progress to show you in the next day or so....