New Piece, "Free Hugs"

"Free Hugs"-12 x 24 inches. Acrylic, vinyl, and paper on MDF board

I'm so happy, I guess I can still feel the energy of the free hugs. This is my new piece, just inspired by the previous post's picture and moment. Cathy Nichols posted it today in her Found Art Friday project. This is so great, she's getting to be an institution! If there's anyone out there that hasn't participated in her project, let me tell you is a lot of fun. You should try it!

This time, I wanted to recreate the warmth of the hugs against the cold, big city. I started cutting out some circles out of a hot pink rectangle to make the faces, but the left out piece looked like their hugging bodies. I ended up downsizing the circles, and using the funny leftovers of some other piece to make the city behind. Funny how we can "paint" with paper and a pair of scissors. Hope I didn't go off track with the theme, only one of the girls seems to be yelling "Free Hugs!" in my painting. It was the greatest shout I've ever got, the energy spread over Dundas Square was amazing. Hope you like it ! Soon for sale.

Free Hugs

As I was walking around Toronto, I was also looking for a SHOUT as inspiration for my new piece. We were coming out of the Eaton Centre when a bunch of boys and girls, with colourful signs, shouted to us :"Free hugs! Free hugs!". I guess they were students from an art school in the middle of a project. I don't even know who they were, but the warmth and energy they spread was amazing...specially in a cold day like that one. That was the best SHOUT I ever got. Inspiration is everywhere, definitely. Enjoy the pictures while I start my piece. See ya !

City Language

I'm impressed about how this blog helps me organize mi ideas and inspiration. Cathy's new theme for this Friday is SHOUT, and while I was in Toronto I tried to find SHOUTs everywhere. Big cities... everything is about metal, cement, concrete, wiring, glass, sound and faces (at a first glance). But then you start "reading" their language...Cities "speak"...there's texture everywhere, expressions, shapes, shadows, patterns. Maybe it's the fact that you don't get to see nothing but space surrounded by buildings with few pieces of sky, that make you focus on all the quiet things around you, that tell their story. It's a whole new language, so silent and talkative at the same time. That's why I titled this one "City Language". Sounds like the title of a new piece...

Holy Week

Hello everyone ! (If there's actually somebody else but my three followers out there...ha ha ha). What a busy week I've had. My sister and her boyfriend came over to visit us, like I said before. We were in Niagara Falls, London, of course, Oakville and Toronto. I barely had time to finish my Found Art project last week, and here I am, finding new inspiration as always. Amazing how it is everywhere! I'm sharing some of the pictures with you...the trip, my family, the places. Just a few.

Happy Easter !!

Hello ! I'm in Toronto right now, enjoying my baby sister as much as I can. She's leaving on Tuesday, so these days have been very busy for us to get as much of Toronto as we can. This picture was taken at a house near our friends place, where we stayed. We just got back after walking all over Toronto, and rushed to the computer...wanted to post this one before midnight, while it was still Sunday, and being able to SHOUT happy Easter !

p.s: SHOUT, next Found Art Friday's theme...!

Green Hope

12 x 12 inches, acylic and magazine cutouts on MDF board.

My new piece... It's the story of a seed hoping to grow into a tree. She won't mind the pesticides or other chemicals. She's just hopeful.



Another piece for Cathy Nichols Found Art Friday. Hope you like it too!



Soon for sale.

Another Vintage Rocker

Just check out this rocker, twin to the one I found on the old church at my sons recital. It was posted by vintagejane on her Etsy shop and found by Jenn Ski. Definitely, we attract what we think about the most. Or was it a simple coincidence...no! :)

Babel

This is one of my two new pieces. I kind of had a dream about it and had to stay up until late in order to see it finished. Its killing me. I had to take it downstairs so I could stop looking at it. Please dont think Im trying to take part in any religious beliefs. I just think the actual story of the Babel Tower is an interesting piece, plus it was a perfect theme to display my passion for arches, doors, windows, people, and civilizations.

Hope you like it like I do!

-Babel- 12x12 inches. Acrylics and paper on MDF board.

p.s: Please note I couldnt type any apostrophes or quotations in this text. I have a new lap top and Im experimenting typical technical problems of -computer challenged- people! ...ha ha ha...will fix this soon.

Flower Records

Hello everyone ! Seems like years...I COULD NOT wait to share these two new pieces with you...Hopefully one of them will be on Cathy Nichols blog tomorrow in her Found Art Project. Its called Flower Records. It is a found because the backlayer of the flower-records are actually ceiling fans from a Home Depot catalogue !!!! I guess the pallette I choose was so retro, I had to punch some papers and glue the small circles in the middle to give it a record look. Im so in love with this one...soon for sale ! I apologize for taking too long in opening my Etsy store...but it will happen soon...!!!!! :)