Lil Poo

Lil Poo is a famous Japanese Kawaii character. We have plenty of inspiration in our backyard thanks to our wonderful dogs.

Watercolor and Sharpie Pen

Kawaii Art

When life is a little (or a lot) too much, making some crazy kawaii art helps.  :-)

Painting With Joint Compound As A Base

The first lesson in Wyanne Thompson's You and Me Painting Big class was about using Lightweight Wallboard Joint Compound as a layer for building texture in your painting. I wanted to try doing a painting of my Billizetti character. (The little guy in my blog header.) I've only done him digitally and wanted to try making a physical copy. This is how it turned out. Crazy but fun! Definitely anime and kawaii style.

Be sure to click the painting to see the larger size where you can see the ridges from the joint compound.

The Night The Animals Played!

I finished the "kawaii" style painting I've been working on. Pretty crazy, but in a wonderful way!

You know you have a true friend when . . .

. . . they send you a log with little kawaii poos on it! (Kawaii poo? Yep. I know. Strange. I talk about it, though, in one of my online classes at http://purplemooseheartart.com. The Japanese have some crazy fun kawaii characters that are always good for cheering people up.)

I bet you guessed the gift was from my friend Marguerite. (She's crazy like me, and has sent me several versions of my favorite kawaii character.) Her new beau Storm was in on the venture, too. I think he gathered the log and moss. M also sent a bouncing strawberry girl. What better present could anyone ask for?! It definitely cheered me up!

Marguerite could tell I was down from all the cold, gray days and snowy weather we've been getting here in southern Michigan. M and Storm live in northern California. I sent M a snowy picture to remind her of what Michigan is like right now. (Marguerite use to live in Michigan.)

You can read some of M's fascinating posts at http://redballoontothemoon.weebly.com/blog

At least we don't live in Boston! We don't live in Maine, either, where my online friends Betty and Victor have been braving out the snow storms. Betty wrote to say they've been buying lots of groceries so they could stay hunkered in. Betty added in her latest email that she is working on a big project involving her own cute character Victorienne.

Betty knows how much I love Paris and Victorian things, just like she and Victor do. You should visit her blog to see some of the fun adventures Victorienne has. http://gossamertearoom.blogspot.com/

Since it's been a long time since I've made a post here on my blog, I'll be brave and post a picture of me singing live at an event two weeks ago. Who knew that pictures taken on a phone would make you look 50 pounds heavier?! Cameras only make you look 10 pounds heavier. Oh well.

Evidently my anxiety/depression medication was working that night, because I can't believe I got up in front of 150+ people to sing.

I thought I'd add one more photo here. No sooner did our oldest daughter, grandson and two dogs leave after staying for a week then it was time for us to dog sit our youngest daughter's two dogs. We have four of our own, so that was almost an entire month of having six dogs running around the house. They always seemed to be taking over my bed, too!

I felt extra nuts the entire time, because all six dogs followed me everywhere I went in the house. I love animals, but six dogs in one house at the same time is too much! Having cabin fever along with six dogs and three cats was about enough to push me over the edge. I haven't been participating in the usual digital challenges or many other things. Hopefully I'll get back in the swing of things soon!

Kawaii Mixed-Media Painting With Haiku

This is the mixed-media painting I finished for the Week 2 and Week 3 sessions of my class "I Don't Want To Grow Up." Week 2 is about kawaii art and Week 3 is about haiku.

Kawaii Art - Week 2 of My New Class

We are going to be working on "kawaii" art in week 2 of my new class "I Don't Want To Grow Up."

In the week 3 class, we will be learning about writing "haiku." We will add a haiku to the painting of Hello Kitty I did for a sample. If you would like to join us, please check out the info here:

http://www.purplemooseheartart.com/#!notgrowup/c1tif

Fun Monday Challenge #26 - Enjoy the Subversive Qualities of Intrinsic Rewards

Lani Gerity has a challenge on Mondays on her 14 Secrets for a Happy Artist's Life blog. Yesterday's post was about creating intrinsic rewards to give ourselves joy. I created this digital collage in response to her post.

I just can't help myself. I love silly "kawaii" art!

One Kawaii Painting and One AJC 2013 Collage

If you don't like the kawaii style of Japanese art, you won't like this painting. I love kawaii art, because I'm just a big kid inside. They are difficult to see in this photo, but there are a few little "puffy sticker" kawaii characters in a couple of the windows.

Yep, this painting is silly, but it makes me feel happy. :O)

We started a new month in the Art Journal Caravan 2013, which means we have a new "port-of-call." This month it is Italy. This is the first digital collage I created using elements from Tangie's new "September 13 Collection."

Sure would love to visit there!

Surprise Gift

I've talked about my special friend Marguerite Bryant many times on my blog before. Yesterday, I received a surprise package from her. It contained a fantastic "kawaii" painting. I don't imagine everyone appreciates kawaii art. It's probably for the more crazy artists among us. Marguerite and I fit that label pretty well. If you aren't familiar with the kawaii style of art, think Hello Kitty, cupcakes with happy faces and, well, you can always do a Google search for other examples.

One of our favorites is a little pile of poo. I know. That probably sounds pretty disgusting. But look how cute this is.

Marguerite took it to a whole new level. Here's a scan of the painting she sent.

 

Each little pile is a very famous artist, kawaii style, of course. It sure put a smile on my face!

If you would like to visit Marguerite's blog and see her other work, the link is: http://redballoontothemoon.weebly.com/blog.html