Self-Portrait Tuesday-"All of Me, period!"

 Alright, we are almost done with this whole ugly mess, I'll be able to put on my 'rose colored glasses' tomorrow (MAR 1)and "fo-get-about-it". I could not let the month end without going out with a bang and addressing some of my boring but very "appearance related" all of me uglies. To explain the above collage, I offer the following details. These mostly take place in my bedroom.

1. Exhibit A and B: Framed photos propped against wall. One of my ugly habits. I move around photo, pics, furniture in the house "often". I wonder if they have a name for this disorder? Anyhow, the MAIN issue is that I leave the pics propped up where I want to hang them but then don't get around to doing it. Everyday they stare back at me. Case in point. Procrastination lurks it's ugly head in "all of me" artjunk land.

2. Exhibit C: Me in the morning, holding my toothbrush today and doing something at the same time (taking a pic for SPT). Another ugly habit I have: brushing my teeth and walking around doing something else at the same time. I often multi task. NOT a good thing I have learned. Don't I look great in the morning? Pretty scary stuff.
And don't even ask me to get on the scale...I have not wanted to know how much "all of me" weighs lately. Maybe I'll face the scale in March for our next challenge...ah, maybe not...

3. Exhibit D: Procrastination lurks again in folded clothes that have not been put away. I don't get the good housekeeping award for complete cycle laundry. wash, fold and PUT AWAY. There is usually a basket there. I just vacumn around it...

4. Exhibit E: My bed. I have a bad habit of using my bed for my office work. I layed out all my mail, bills, mags, etc. to sort on my bed this morning, before I even brushed my teeth and in between trying to get up the little munchkin under the covers in Exhibit F.

So, this is me. First thing in the morning. All of me. Now, I better get off the computer and go put those clothes away. shame. shame. :) LK 

My Son Rich---Mom likes to Color...

Trying out my new watercolor crayons...still experimenting with colors and mediums. Found out about these from one of my books. Now I need some sketching pencils....anyhow, this is a pic of my son that he had "pixilated" on picasa. I saw it this morning as I was trying to find a photo in my computer files...they are becoming quite cluttered! Anyhow, got the idea to print this out and "color" it for him. He loved it!!! He said, "Mom, you have to put this on your blog!" You never know with him....he's 16, so I was suprised he liked it. LOL. Anyhow, this was my art for today! Now I am going to go "veg" and watch "24". I didn't have a good day otherwise, but it ended well. :)

p.s. you can tell how handsome my son is can't you....LOL....

Inspire Me Thursday-Feb. Challenge #2: Self Portrait without a Camera! Tag!

  













Lia K.
ART JuNK~

This was fun. I haven't sketched anything in a while and I learned that I so can't do anything beyond one dimension, so this was indeed a challenge. I also tried out some oil pastels we had around. They were fun as far as color, but messy and smudgey--maybe that was a good thing! LOL.

Check out the Inspire Me Thursday website for more challenges and inspiration. I am looking forward to stretching myself and learning from these amazing artists!

Blogging the Artist's Way---Stay Tuned

 
I think I had a major breakthrough with 2 key concepts from Artist's Way this week. I want to share so much but have to go take care of some family things today. I will be back soon to share!

p.s. this is a summer picture with my "bodyguard". That is what I call my husband. He is so protective of me. My girls and I are picking him up from his trip to Bahrain. more later! LK 

Journal Share~My house "journal"

Here is one of my many half full(LOL)journals. BlueDog asks, "what do you write in?". (my answer on her blog post). Anyhow, being the compulsive person I am (not!)--ha ha....I keep separate journals for separate topics: Home, faith, morning pages for Artists way, quotes I like, etc. etc. Now you know why I need my own shelf for all my "art/creative" junk. I took photo's of this fave journal of mine, as is, as I also stick stuff in them for later use or glueing down. Share your journal(s) if you like and let BlueDog know over on her blog. Have a great day---I'm off to buy some new paint markers.

Mixed Media Memoirs-"Living in Color"

  This week's challenge for MixedMediaMemoirs is "The trajectory of my Life Changed when.."

I STARTED LIVING IN COLOR

I chose to focus on what Art has done for my life. When I started on my art journey, it changed the way I viewed everything: my surroundings, my children, my life. I started to see life in "color". Seeing things from an art perpective helped me to focus on life's beauty. It also made me see that I could change something dark and bring light and life to it through my art. Art has been my helper and my healer. It's turned back the hand of time and found the young girl in me and given her a second chance to dream. LK

Inspire Me Thursday---ATC~"Junk Mail!"

 Inspiration abounds in this wonderful Art-Blog world! ,
Inspire Me Thursday has begun with a challenge to get out an ATC and try it out. An ATC is an Artist Trading Card. If you don't know how to make one, they have included a beautifully done picture tutorial. I hadn't done an ATC is a long while, so I went and got a card out last nite before bed. I had just finished cleaning the kitchen and there was a stack of junk mail staring at me at the kitchen table, so I ripped the envelopes open, grabbed a few pieces for the ATC (this is a challenge to just get creative...not make museum ready art, so pressures off, get out the glue and paints and go with the flow!) Anyhow, I gladly dumped the rest of it in the trash and went to work on my ATC. My hubby kept saying, "honey, you coming to bed?" and I said, in a bit! I love these little challenges to get me doing something artful each day. I had a hectic day yesterday and hadn't had time to do anything artful. Thanks to Inspire Me Thursday, I went to sleep with an ART smile on my face! LK

p.s. There will be a new challenge this week

Self Portrait Tuesday-ALL of me..Hands, fingers and toes...

Ok, here we go. Since the "ALL of me" month has had a lots of hands, feet and belly's, I thought I would join in and share mine, well, the hands and feet, but I will not venture any further..... Mind you, I never look at my hands or feet. For one, I have four kids, so that that means that almost for years were spent where I didn't even see my feet. lol. anyway, as always, SPT get's me to "challenge" myself, so I have been strangely holding my hands out in front of me and examining them thoroughly. My kids look at me like, "mom, WHAT are you doing?" and I proceed to answer, "well, you know... ...selfportraittuesdayis having this...."whatever, Mom, ok,..."
So, where was I? Oh yeah, hands and feet. I have arthritis in my hands (note bent fingers), but this has thankfully been better this year. The main thing about my feet other than the fact that I haven't had a pedicure in, I don't know, years? The second is that my "baby toes" are longer than my big toe. I had forgotten that. Thanks, SPT, for reminding me.....now for my belly, sorry, I admire the women who don't mind bearing them (and trust me, you are not showing me anything I haven't seen) but I just am not there yet. I think my kids would surely be traumatized if they saw me taking a picture of that. Happy Trails. LK

Art Tag~"Escape"

 


"Somewhere out there......." LK

 

Mixed Media Memoirs.....I'm just an old fashioned gal!

 


This is myMixedMediaMemoir for this week. Here you go, Melba, this one is for you! Thank you for all your encouragement!~Lia