"FREEDOM" wax collage © Saundra Lane Galloway

 "FREEDOM"

8x8 gallery wrap wax collage with design all around

Available on my WEBSITE at www.saundralanegalloway.com

"Freedom" is a big ole switch from my oil pieces.  One of the freedom's I enjoy is that I can work in any medium I choose to and as long as I work hard for each one it is fine!  I LOVE THAT about being an artist on my own terms.  I have a few new star paper cast molds I've made for more star pieces, but this first one had to be about our wonderful country! No matter what may come, the bottom line is we enjoy a freedom in this country unlike any other.

I've placed this piece in my EYE CANDY section of my website...and now to other things...

Next month I will be teaching a workshop on collage so for a bit I will focus on that type of work as I get ready for a fun day with Mountainside Art Guild.  I absolutely LOVE teaching workshops...after my experiences in the public school system I truly know my niche...now to find other venues where I can feed that need within me!  If I have to start an art guild up here I will...whew...lots of things to think about...among them...we may have decided NOT to move just yet...CRAZY me...just can't reconcile moving to the burbs after enjoying such beauty and quiet...BUT...we need a generator and better snow plowing services if that is going to happen...I think I'm relieved...yep...I feel a bit crazy right now...hope I am up for the ride!!

We had a visitor last night...my husband has named this "little" guy Rocky...but he is not really a little guy...I'd say he is a good 30 lbs...I suspect Rocky will be visiting more now that the weather has gotten better...I'm fine with it as long as I don't go out on our deck at night and step on him as he hangs out waiting for a hand out!

HAPPY CREATING!!

"California Toes" original oil seascape © Saundra Lane Galloway

 "California Toes"

6x9" oil on panel

available on my website at www.saundralanegalloway.com

After a couple of hours on a HOT heating pad, a good night's sleep and a little stretching the kink in my back went away, so I was happy to get back to my easel and paint this funny little portrait of my toes.  I am tickled at myself as I noticed that I slimmed down a toe or two...but it didn't really make that much difference in the scheme of things...so I left em as they came out.  I have to tell you...feet are funny things to paint!  I am glad I got a laugh this morning at my own expense! 

I find photographing things that are completely horizontal or vertical and they come out bowed...but I assure you the ocean line is straight in real life!  Another funny thing in the world of photographing my own artwork!  But I'm all I can afford right now, so I deal with it...:)

Sharing another fun cloudscape from yesterday morning...I just can't get over the beautiful views I get here...yet another thing I will miss...The rest of the day is spent cleaning up, working in my lab on my paper casts, and looking for an area we might want to move to...boy howdy...it's gotta be pretty special to pull us away from these types of views!  Wish me luck!!

"All Puffed Up...going to new home!

I thought I'd be painting and having a ball...but slept wrong and can't bend at ALL to paint...so, hopefully this kink will be gone tomorrow and I'll be back at it...So, FYI today...Dean chose "All Puffed up And Nowhere to Go"...Here's hoping that you all had a day of

HAPPY CREATING!!

CONTEST WINNER...!!

Today is the announcement of the contest winner; which will be at the bottom of this post...but first I wanted to show all the entries...two of which came in last night!!  Thank you to all who participated, I hope you had fun!  Here were the entries all together!!

Autumn Leaves; Sherry's Giraffe

Jean Lurssen's Bird

Dean Haven's Lion

Kate Cissel's Elephant in W/C...THE NEW ENTRY

Kate Cissel's Lion in W/C NEW ENTRY

And the winner that was randomly chosen is DEAN HAVEN!!  As soon as Dean let's me know which is his choice I will pass the information along...Again, thank you to those who participated...It is such a joy to see the artwork that came from my surprise zoo day!!  

HAPPY CREATING!!  (I'm back to my feet...:))

White stuff

The days I do the prep work and the gesso work and the lab work usually end with no color...making paper casts, sketching, gesso...all white...well, a little graphite in the mix, but white all the same...That was my today...important, but none the less...WHITE STUFF. kinda like all the empty space before the next few words here...:) only white...:)

AS YOU KNOW...I've been missing my son...so I launched into doing paintings from our trip out to San Diego a few months ago to try to recapture those moments while I was close to him...and it has been fun!  Today's challenge for the San Diego series was my feet.  Have you ever drawn, painted, sculpted feet?  Have you ever done your own??  I gotta tell you it is a bit weird...Drawing toes feels like I'm drawing fat misshapen hands...kinda funny...kinda wierd...So, I'm showing you a pic of the pic I took of my feet in front of the ocean and the sketch as the beginning (every once in awhile I remind myself my blog is about process also...so here is step one of the process).  I wish you could have seen my face as I was sketching my own feet...THAT would have been a great picture...well, for a laugh anyway...The only way I know to describe it is with a word and the picture that comes when you say it....ICKY...:)

I ALSO worked in my lab today; which for the new followers is my wonderful kitchen...PERFECTLY suited to a lab...L O N G cabinets in front of the mountain...beautiful view and wonderful sunny place to work (ahhh I shall miss it when we move!)...I made a couple of molds of stars for paper casts and I cast some stars...:)  I don't know what will come of this...but it is a beginning...MORE FUN!

So, here is to hoping you had fun today in whatever you created...hope it made you smile and not say ICKY...The April contest will be closing soon...I think only a couple of days...so anyone out there who had wanted to participate you STILL HAVE TIME to sneak one in under the wire!

OH and a PS...for any of you who have followers who comment in other languages I found a WONDERFUL free translating site if you don't have a widget on your blog for that...thought I would pass it along on the white stuff day... try it...I have a french commenter and I absolutely LOVE knowing what she says!!  

http://www.freetranslation.com/

HAPPY CREATING!!