Featured Artist at The Angel Store and More

I will be the Featured Artist at the Angel Store and More on 5th Avenue in Scottsdale next Thursday ~ November 12 ~ 7-9 pm. I'll be busy the next few days creating, collaging, painting... Hope to see YOU there!

Lately...

I have discovered it is more important for me to CREATE than to write about creating... But I still need to keep up with my once a month quota of blog posts... I've been creating collages and paintings for a specific store in Scottsdale. My theme is vintage angel, fairy, dragonfly, and butterfly collages and paintings. I am having a BLAST! The store will be on the Scottsdale "Art Walk" soon, so please stop in The Angel Store and More on 5th Avenue when you get a chance. Wishing everyone a cool fall ~ I've heard it should drop 20-30 degrees by mid week!!!

Fall...

WOW! I turned around and it was fall already! The leaves aren't changing by my art is! I realized I've never posted pictures of my latest artwork. Took a class with Carol Wingert, she turned me on to "betwinchies (tm)" and I'm really enjoying creating some collages! ENJOY! If you're so inclined, see the movie "Bright Star", love story, but so much more...

Summer Time...

Well, I'm still creating collages, and now teaching my grand daughters to collage too. One grand daughter decided on a fairy image (apologizing for not capturing this collage in a photo), one chose "The Wizard of Oz" theme. I would LOVE some ideas for a title for what may be the last in an angel series. Any ideas?!? Thanks for visiting my blog...

Mornings...

Morning is my time to reflect, decide what I might create... Today I'm working on some "Artist Choice" ATC's for Mystic Paper...

I also wanted to post a few links here... My oldest son is an artist, his website is amazing: www.bigchrisart.com Check it out! My youngest son is a musician. He is writing music with people all over the valley and posting his songs on line. His link is here: http://www.myspace.com/100memberband Enjoy!

My husband and I are taking a drawing class, nice to spend some quality artistic time together...

Life is good...

Princess

I often have a house full of adorable girls, maybe that's why I'm always thinking about images... Here's my latest collage, mailing to a friend today...

Spring Musical

Last year, a few of you might remember I did make up for the "beast" in Beauty and the Beast at a local high school... Tonight, I did make up for the witch and the wolf for the musical "Into the Woods", it opens at Mt. View tomorrow night at 7 pm! It's a delightful play that combings many of the popular fairy tales, you don't want to miss this! Doors open at 6:30 pm, be there early to get in line, opening night really packs them in!

Artists Gathering

March 17, 2009 was the first of many casual Artists Gatherings. We met at Harper's Nursery on McKellips and Gilbert Road, it was so peaceful and relaxing... If you would like to join us for the next casual Artist Gathering, please email me... judy@abrushwithangels.com

No agenda, just come, draw, paint, take photos, relax, meet new people... There was an early bird special for the first few through the gate... See you soon!

Fairy Photos

A wonderful Fairy visited me this weekend, she's looking after the butterfly garden... Here are some of my favorite pictures... *giggle* Isn't she magical?

Collages

I am really enjoying these collages, I'm doing a few a week now. I have been taking each collage to a different location for photo shoots, local garden nursery, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Mesa Art Center. I wonder where the next one will take me?

I am going to teach a class on the collages soon... Check back for more information!

ENJOY!

Healing...

I'm sad to report I lost my oldest niece a week ago, I've planted a butterfly garden in her honor... The seedlings started to sprout this week. The garden needs to be nurtured as do the people we care about in our lives. I was also inspired to do some new artwork. A new image for another niece's new home. We all need time to heal... Plant a garden this spring and hold near those close to you...

Angel Art

Here's a 12 x 12 collage I did for a friend over the holidays. One of the images looks a bit blurry in the photo, but I'm sure you'll get an idea of how it looks... Then while photographing the image at MAC, I saw an angel cloud, snapped that picture right up! Have a wonderful week!

January 2009

Hello all! Sadly my only sister ended up in ICU during the holidays so I wasn't able to blog much, then started subbing EVERY DAY when the spring semester started. Happy to report my sister is doing much better and I have a day off!

As promised, I am posting pictures of some of the pendants I've created over the last few months. Enjoy! Sorry I didn't get pics of the Audry Hepburn or Marilyn Monroe pendants...

My 'goal' for 2009 is to get and stay ORGANIZED! Wish me LUCK!