19 more folk art

Every year I like to attend this painting convention in Las Vegas. I have missed it for the past few years for various reasons (health and money), (time and space).

I love folk art painting, cut paper, tole, and fraktur. At this convention, I get to see all the new paints products and mediums.

I may not get a chance to attend this year, so while I was thinking about it at my drawing table, there were some birds I cut out with a yellow ombre paper, and some arrows I cut out with some of my painted papers.

It's hard to see, but I attacked the cut-outs with chalk, colored pencils and a white pen.

Leftover hearts from the Valentine project were not spared.

 I really don't want to clean my table 

there is so much inspiration there.

6 morning pages

  

Morning pages is a big part of my creative process. Only I don't do them in the morning. I get effective results from doing them when I get to the studio.

I take a pen and paper and write. Sometimes it's painted papers or tea dyed papers. Sometimes It's scraps or old papers lying close at hand.
Then I cut them up.

More playing

Sometimes they look like this:

They are not going to stay like this, although some 

may end up like this.