More odd things

Well....looks like I can sign up for the "odd things with wings" swap now! Got them done.
This was quite a bit of fun and a bit different than anything I'd done to this point.
Surprising what can happen when you just let your silly side play for awhile.

Pearl

Yay....only a tiny piece of art at the moment...but a piece nonetheless!! (hmm...is that one word?)
I rarely do atc's these days...so they are seeming to be much smaller than I remember them..lol
Anyway, figured I jump quickly into a swap that's set for tomorrow for "bird themed" atc's.
This one's name is Pearl.
She's done in acrylic and ink on patterned paper.

Funky Mermaids

Well....in tryingto keep my hand in atc's....which started all this "mailart" for me, I made some funky mermaids. Seems that I've been doing everything but atc's (ACEO's) these days!

Certainly not that that's a bad thing....just an observation.

A peacock ATC

for a summer PAT (pick a theme) on the Illustrated Artcards site.

I really wish that all the shine and glitter of this one would show up better in the scan...but it really looks great in person. I did all the stylized feathers in pen & ink. Then, for the body, I used beautiful glitter gel pens. They blend so well and really have a nice shimmer that doesn't show all that much in the pic. I then used a variety of gold leaf for the circle in the center as well as the areas outside of the feathers.

I'm pretty pleased with the whole thing overall. It actually looks quite lovely in person!

Had some quiet time

here at home this weekend. Took advantage and did some drawing for an atc draw-a-thon. Got four done.....

two pen & ink

and the lilly done in colored pencil and the tropical boat house done in marker.

I also broke out some of my new beading books and

taught myself a new beadweaving stitch.

I made these green glass bead earrings using some of my

favorite square green beads. They've got little garnet bead

accents.

I think they came out pretty nice for a first time. I've added them to my Etsy shop. I'm gonna try a few more variations on them.

I've also got another stitch in the works but haven't gotten it quite down yet. I think it'll be beautiful once I've figured it all out.