Christmas Doodles

I painted these two a couple of weeks ago and totally forgot about them!

Multi-tasking Mama

 I've got a young lady on my hands who doesn't like it when I work on my art during the day. She needs constant attention.  How do full time bloggers and stay at home moms do it?

Stackable Animals

Remember the days of letter writing?  I do, and I also remember my favorite stationary.   The illustration on the stationary was of five or six animals stacked on top of each other.  I don't recall what types of animals they were.  Maybe a cat a dog, zebra or a horse..   For some reason I thought of it the other day and decided to create my own version but with a Christmas twist. 

9" x 12" Works on Paper

On Friday our little family made a quick trip up to Fort Worth for an art opening at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center, which included six paintings of mine.  We have friends in Fort Worth as well so it turned out to be a fun and eventful weekend.

Amelia had a lot of fun running through the gallery after a 5 hour long car ride.   

St. Nick

St. Nicolas or Sinterklaas (patron of children and sailors) comes every year to Holland on a ship from Spain and showers kids with candy.  On the eve of the day he arrives, Dutch children will place the largest shoe they own at their fire place or right at the front door (in our case since we don't have a fire place), and the next morning it will be filled with delicious candy!  I have many fond memories as a child so even though I don't live in Holland anymore, I thought it would be fun to continue this tradition with my sweet Amelia.

One tiny shoe

I found this illustration by Philip Kruseman of Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet throwing candy at children. 

Someone was very excited this morning.  Candy at 8AM? Yes, please! 

Art Crawl 2012

Better late than never..is what they say.  This was about three weeks ago.

Every year a large group of Houston artists open up their studios to the public and call it the Art Crawl.  We decided to tour the studios that were a bit off the beaten path and this is what we saw.  Move on over NYC, Houston is coming to get you!

I've been off the radar for a couple of weeks, working on four watercolor paintings for a client's bathroom.  She had a beautiful Moroccan  pillow where I drew my inspiration from.  It had some metallic silver fabric to it as well, so I decided to incorporate that in the paintings.

Sugar & Spice

What a day.  Liz and I had high hopes of decorating sugar cookies with the girls.  Of course we had day dreamed of Martha Stewart's perfect cookies you see in her magazine or on her show,  but we can honestly say that the girls mostly ate their cookies and sugary frosting instead of focusing on the decorating part.  Well, at least we had fun trying and we now have good memories of the two young ladies running around the house on a sugar high!

A colorful  table.

Yum. Yum. 

Finger painting is so much more fun than using a brush!