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Lily of the Valley

Lily of the Valley 11"x14"x1" Acrylic on wood These little white bells are some of my favorite shady flowers - the sheer daintiness! The scent! I planted a few dozen pips last year, an...

3 days seit 1 person likes this

Shirley Poppy

I've been working on some new paintings - I'm conceiving of them as flower portraits. These have been bumping around in my mind for a long time now, at least a year or two...and they'r...

6 days seit 2 people like this

Yelena Bryksenkova

Yelena Bryksenkova's world is somewhat new to me, but I was really happy when (via some internet rabbit hole twist and turns) I found myself there. Love Spell for Lone Wolf Magazine / All images...

17 Mai 12 5 people like this

Instant Flowers

My Instax camera was giving me a lot of bright-light joy in my ranunculus/persian buttercup patch the other day. I plant my new bulbs in Fall, some pull through from the year before, and I look forwa...

14 Mai 12 1 person likes this

Ollie & the Kite

Ollie and the Kite 6"x8"x1" Acrylic on wood What a heartbreaker that little vegetable-boy is. This painting was just added to shop! (Sold)

11 Mai 12 1 person likes this

Alice, 1903

A friend sent this to me on his birthday, and I said "Well happy birthday to me!" This 1903 film, restored by the BFI national archive, is wonderful - especially the end. It has this fun, d...

10 Mai 12 6 people like this

Best Method of Transit

I do not think you can beat travel by bird (unless it is travel by bear, for which I have a personal fondness.) A preliminary sketch (and clue) regarding the forthcoming picture book I mentioned in m...

08 Mai 12 3 people like this

Peach Geums & Chocolate Chips

A Thursday list of happy-making things: - I mail-ordered a new variation of my favorite flowers and planted it last fall without seeing the blooms. The flowers are coming in now and they're the ...

03 Mai 12 1 person likes this

Spitalfields Silks

I've picked up a few of the V&A pattern books (be warned, the V&A website is a rabbit hole - from old mechanical toys to beautiful wallpaper galleries, there's a lot to make a perso...

01 Mai 12 3 people like this

Voted Least Likely to Love Working Out

I've been thinking about this post for a while, and after lots of percolation, I find myself in the year 2012 writing about an extremely unlikely topic: Exercise. *Note this is not an accurate d...

24 Apr 12 8 people like this

Wolf Hearted & Rabbit Hearted Originals

The original paintings were just listed for sale in my shop! As much as I love them apart, when I see them together like this, I really love them fiercely.

19 Apr 12

Visit the shop!

16 Apr 12

Wolf Hearted

Here is the companion piece for Rabbit Hearted - a foe? A friend? Wolf Hearted 11"x14"x2" Acrylic on wood A few of you mentioned the differences in these paintings from what you...

13 Apr 12

Rabbit Hearted

A new painting -She also has a companion piece that I'll be sharing later this week. Rabbit Hearted 11"x14"x2 Acrylic on wood These paintings will be available for sale soon, I&#...

11 Apr 12

The Country Bunny

Yesterday, before my Powell's storytime, I was chatting with two (lovely) children's book room ladies about gathering a few picture books in case the littles wanted more stories after my Od...

08 Apr 12 3 people like this

Powells Storytime Saturday April 7

FRED STEIN Children Reading Newspaper, Paris 1936 I am reading from Oddfellow's at Powell's Burnside on Saturday at 11 o'clock a.m. for their children's storytime, and I would ve...

05 Apr 12 1 person likes this

Virginia Wolf

I originally thought I'd post about this book in a round-up with other picture books, but Virginia Wolf, by author Kyo Maclear and illustrator Isabelle Arsenault really deserves its own post. Lo...

03 Apr 12 6 people like this

Floral Dept.

Bits of blooms around the kitchen. Clockwise from left : 1. Thrifted vintage plates from occupied Japan. I love the big bunches of delicate flowers and the decorative edges. I don't know know th...

23 Mär 12

The Banjo Recital

I finished this painting recently, after I got a bee in my bonnet about a girl playing the banjo in the middle of the woods. The Banjo Recital 11"x14"x2" Acrylic on cradled wood ...

20 Mär 12

Liking Lately

A little list of things that have struck my fancy in the past few weeks: - Beautiful Australian children's style magazine Papier Mache - similar to Milk, but blessedly with English text so I can...

17 Mär 12 2 people like this

The Oddfellows Website is up!

This project was keeping me busy for a good little minute, and I'm so happy that it's finally out there. The official Oddfellow's Orphanage website is now up and running! With a chara...

13 Mär 12 1 person likes this

O.O. Portraits Added

All available paintings can be found here in the originals part of my shop!

09 Mär 12

2012 Oddfellows Portraits : Oddfellow Bluebeard

Oddfellow Bluebeard 8"x10" (10"x12" framed) Acrylic on canvas in carved, golden wood frame And finally, dum-da-dum! The founder of the feast, Headmaster Bluebeard himself. All...

09 Mär 12

2012 Oddfellows Portraits : Delia

Delia 8"x10" (10"x12" framed) Acrylic on canvas in carved, golden wood frame It's through Delia's eyes that you first meet Oddfellow's Orphanage, so I wanted to...

08 Mär 12

2012 Oddfellows Portraits : Hank

Hank 8"x10" (10"x12" framed) Acrylic on canvas in carved, golden wood frame Aw, Hank, that's quite a nice pocket square you've got there! Hank's occupation? Bea...

07 Mär 12

2012 Oddfellows Portraits : Imogen

Imogen 8"x10" (10"x12" framed) Acrylic on canvas in carved, golden wood frame Today we have the inky-armed Imogen. Even though she is a smaller character in the book, I have a ...

06 Mär 12 3 people like this

05 Mär 12

2012 Oddfellows Portraits : Daniel

Daniel 8"x10" (10"x12" framed) Acrylic on canvas in carved, golden wood frame Today we have Daniel, pickpocket-er of pickpockets and all 'round stand-up little guy. He spo...

05 Mär 12

2012 Oddfellows Portraits : Ava

Ava 8"x10" (10"x12" framed) Acrylic on canvas in carved, golden wood frame I think we're almost two-thirds of the way through the portraits! For Friday, we have sailor-co...

02 Mär 12 2 people like this

Paper Dollishness

I was getting a little posting-hypnosis from all the portrait posts, so I thought I'd share a little in-progress snip of new paper dolls I'm working on. I think the new Oddfellow's por...

01 Mär 12 2 people like this

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