Wings of Wishes

On the Wings of Wishes is the painting that inspired one of the new QKD stamps this month. As a little girl I always like making wishes on dandelion fluff, although the adults would get very cross about spreading those seeds. In this painting I imagined each of those little seeds turning into butterflies and carrying the wishes away on pretty wings to find just the right place to plant the seed wish for it to come true.
This seems like the perfect painting for today, because I am celebrating the 12th anniversary of my favorite wish coming true. And true to our geeky ways we are celebrating 12 crazy years of marriage at a convention surrounded by art, books and geekdom.
May all your wishes have wings too.

Fancy Tail and Squid

I hope you all have been enjoying your Holiday Season. I know we have in our house. And of course now the kids have nowhere they have to be and lots of new stuff to keep them occupied (so happy my daughter likes crafting supplies). And hubby is off work and that means he will do the dishes and I can paint more. It is a blessed season around here. This is the time for making stuff just for the pleasure of making it. No rush to get done in time.
I love this little mercat. All that fun detail in the tail was so very much fun to design and paint. I am so looking forward to using this stamp, cause I will get to color it all over again. I would love to see how you all color this one too.

MerCat's Bath

Mercat's Bath is one of my Art Nouveau inspired works. This one probably has the most back story to it.
My grandmother made porcelain dolls. One day I was going through her doll books and found these tiny little fairy dolls that nestled into these tiny vintage tea cups. I even knew what tea cup I wanted it in. One of these china sandwich plate and tea sets that she had gotten at a gas station back in the 50's. She only got 7 before they discontinued them, so I tried to convince her that using one for a doll for me would even out her set. She told me I was crazy and that she would never make a doll so very tiny. for Christmas I got a fairy doll that was more the size of a standard doll.
When she passed away I found the heads and legs and arms for a pair of tiny fairy dolls that she never finished. And ever since I have been obsessed with the idea of little things in tea cups. You can find tea cups featuring in several of my works. Fairy Cats checking out a cup, or a kitty crawling into one, or even just a tiny cup resting next to a sleeping fairy cat.
Be sure to check out the shop and see if you can find some more of those little tea cups.