ROULIER'S RUSTY RELIQUES

MY DOG HANNI

My dog Hanni

 was put to sleep yesterday at our home where he was buried next to Zoe

our other Newfoundland who died two years ago, it's a sad day.

Our new girl has big shoes to fill.

BIRD COLLAGES FINISHED

Finished up these four pieces except the protective coating. I went back in and used colored pencil for the birds added a few collage pieces including some old liquor labels, then painted a wash over the areas I added collage to in order to better blend them.

could not believe I had enough cat liquor labels for these birdies

the cool thing was that I had used a cat picture from a children's book before I thought about adding the birds to the others

 

BIRD COLLAGES

Working on some bird collages for the Summer Art Market. These are going to be further embellished they are about half done.

BRONCO FAN

Yes I admit I'm a big Bronco fan and this year finally something to look forward to with our brand new quarterback Peyton Manning.....woooooooohooooo. A little mothers day gift for memememe!

MY DOG HANNI

My dog Hanni likes peanut butter, in fact the whole family loves peanut butter! We eat enough so that both dogs can have their own peanut butter jar after it's done, at least once a month. I save my mostly empty jars until I have two then give them each a jar to clean out. For some reason they don't chew the plastic and they work them over pretty good and it provides them something to do for a while......

 

Hanni has bone cancer you can see the large knot on his leg he is at least four months into it and we don't expect him to live through the summer I think he looks pretty good in this picture

 

CROWS AND PARTY ANIMALS

Getting ready for Summer Art Market in Denver, here's a couple of paintings I am almost finished with. I'm in a decorative mood for some reason, unknown to me, just seems to happen every so often. The party animals are very festive.

two 8x8 festive paintings almost done, the blue edge is painters tape

MY DOG KONA.........NEWFOUNDLAND CHRONICLES

My dog Kona....

is admittedly cute but she's a puppy and has a few annoying habits one of which caused to to have to erect this barrier yesterday down the entire length of my yard.......sigh

my vines that cover the back of the mountain behind my yard which grow on old wood were being trampled by her puppy happiness.......now that happiness at 60 some pounds is taking it's toll.......

and for those who ask was it worth it, all that work, the splinters, the frustration.....

well, time will tell, she's pretty cute but I don't know yet if she's equally smart......

EVOLUTION OF A DOG

This is an evolution of a dog painting I did for a charity.

 

line work and color laid in over the top

 

sprayed a stencil, which now becomes the picture

 

tonning down and blending the the words and number in so it's not the most important thing then the whole thing is coated with gloss ccoating.

 

BACK TO WORK

Back to work finally, I took a brief break from doing art and am trying to catch up on gardening (weeds), and chores around the house. Slow progress but some accomplishments. I started a piece for charity which fell during the time I was getting ready for the other two shows. It's the only charity piece I've done this year. Last year I did 5 pieces for charity and decided that was too much so I wasn't going to do any this year but.......things happen.

Took a cute shot of Kona the other day and had to share.

pretty high "aw-w-w-w" factor

just starting, I like the fact that he has a shadow eye will probably play that up!

RANDOM THOUGHTS, BUGS AND WET DOGS

A few random thoughts. While I was sitting my show at Core, Katie Fowler and I were talking when she said what the heck is that. We ran over and saw this totally cool bug and it was big, at least 3 inches long. I personally was immediately attracted to the stripes. Next up, my praying mantis egg cases hatched, they are so very very very cool. Last but certainly not least, while I was letting my shower water warm up my adorable puppy crawled into the stall, since she was already wet, we showered together and I snapped a picture of her after we toweled off.........lol.

 

is this bug awesome or what

 

 

tiny praying mantis some are cream and some are a brownish green, they are eating out of their case on the right

 

 

she always has this guilty look