Seems like the summer is flying by even faster than usual.....can't believe its August already! Only one month left before my kiddo heads back to school (he'll be in 5th grade this year)! Something I've been meaning to work on all summer is creating a computer desktop wallpaper calendar, but time kept getting away from me.....I ended up just biting the bullet and staying up late last night and did it. Pretty tickled with how it turned out too! I was inspired by my artist friend Michelle Allen, who started doing them a few months back. I probably won't be able to keep this up as a monthly thing, but occasionally I'd like to create one of these for y'all so you can inject a little "joyful light" into your days. :)
right click on this link and select "Download Linked File" to download the August calendar
(for personal use only)
Please do share a link to my blog with your peeps so they can come get a little "joyful light" too!
Join me this Friday, July 5th at the Newberg ARTwalk in Newberg, Oregon! I'll be at Coldwell Banker Professional Group at 610 E. 1st Street from 5-9pm. I hope to see you there!
For more info and directions, check out my event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/208967499254294/
With the end of the school year quickly approaching and working on paintings for my show in July (details next week), I've not been posting as much as I had hoped. Thought I'd give ya a peek at the paintings I started today... 
Have been feeling a bit under the weather the past couple of days, so no new paintings to show ya. This afternoon I played for a bit on Picmonkey and created the collage below with some of my past art.
If you've never heard of Picmonkey, you really should pop on over and play around. Its waaaaaaay cool! You can apply all sorts of effects and frames to your photos, plus create cool collages like mine.....though I didn't do the text on there...I did that on my computer in Photoshop Elements. You could always save out your college and then upload it back to Picmonkey and add some text. :)
Monday is field trip day for my kiddo's class and I'm supposed to be a chaperone...provided this silly fever goes away by then. So, I'll catch y'all on Tuesday with some new art progress pics and such. :) Have a fantabulous weekend! xoxo
