My Friday Feature

So  you all know I'm a painter and I love to look at other people's work.  That's why I so enjoy my Friday Features. Today I am featuring a new member of my Old Farmhouse Gathering Team. Her name is Lorretta from Port St Lucie and her shop is PumpkinPatch on Etsy. Here's the link  http://www.etsy.com/shop/pumpkinpatch5

But don't be fooled by the shop name. She's got much more than pumpkins in that patch. You can find some tigers and dragonflies in the way of fine art as well hiding along side them.

Loretta is very talented. She is a color pencil & batik artist with incredible skill. The photo shown is my favorite from her shop. Please drop by and take a look. I promise you won't be disappointed.

Shedding A Few...

Well a friend tipped me off to a website I thought I'd share with you. It's sparkpeople.com . Got a few pounds to loose. It will help you. I haven't used the whole site but I have been using the nutrition tracker (calorie counter).It's helped me shed about 5 pounds.

There are lots of other parts to it too but I haven't taken advantage of it. There's a exercise tracker, community support, articles, you name it. Maybe I'd loose more if I did more but I just don't have the time to do it.  Feeling like Santa with a few pounds to shed too? You might want to check it out.
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Speaking of checking it out. The handpainted china Santa bell ornament is available in my Etsy shop Painted Panache by Joann Y Wheeler . Here's the direct link http://www.etsy.com/listing/54409514/hand-painted-porcelain-santa-bell

And the winner is....

....drum roll please.....the winner is...........Patricia/Painted Prose. Thank you all for participating. I hope to have another give away during December! Keep checking back.

Fall is here. The other day a friend of mine and I went to Larriland. It's a farm up north of where I live. I went there to pick apples but I never got to the apples. I got lazy. The have a store there and all the fruit and veggies were already picked so guess what I did? LOL 


They had the cutest little gourds and I bought a bunch of them for a basket on my kitchen table.I bought some peppers and the end of the seasons tomatoes.  They had flowers for picking so I paid for my cup and I filled it up with beautiful flowers. I ended up with 3 vases of flowers out of it. They are so lovely. I remember to get straw bales for my son and pumpkins. And guess what I forgot? THE APPLES!
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If you like the ACEO on the right side. It's an original watercolor. It is available in my Zibbet Shop. Here's the link

 http://www.zibbet.com/ArtByJYWheeler

Friday's Feature

...better late than never! I have been so busy today that I just got the time to write my blog.  Today's feature comes from my blog give away list......See it pays to participate in my give aways! Who knows you too can be featured.

Anyway today I'm featuring Valerie aka Yorkie's Primitives on Etsy  http://www.etsy.com/yorkiesprimitives  
She happens also to be one of my Old Farmhouse Gathering Team mates. Gosh we have such talent on OFG from primitive to cottage. It's all so beautiful. And Yorkie is one of those talented people. She's been crafting for most of her life. She started with sewing, then macrame,quilting, cross stitching, ceramics, woodworking and then she stumbled onto primitives and she found her niche.

 Check out some of her gorgeous work.

She also has a selling blog. I didn't know that until I started doing this research. How cool is that. Here's the link to it. http://yorkiesprimitivessalesblog.blogspot.com/  She's so creative. Check out her Pear Pin Keep.

Tonight is the last night to enter my blog give away. It's a couple entries back. I draw the winner tomorrow Oct 9.

More from the Sketchbook

Two more pages from my sketchbook. Remember my theme is Make Mine a Double.

"Two" Colored Pencil

This page was fun to do. I just doodled some twos and filled them in with colored pencil. The page to the left is some scrapbooking paper glued to the page. I like that way that turned out. It looks nice. I was a little disappointed because when I sprayed the arrow the spray glue got a little thick in one area. I should have just redone it but I thought the glue would dry away. No luck. So I'm stuck with a wet looking mark but I learned a valuable lesson from it! Next time just redo it!

"Mirror Mirror" watercolor pencils

The mirror, mirror page is watercolor pencils. I was trying to be so frugal with the water and paint so that it didn't go through. I'm no so crazy about how this turned out. I may work a little more on it. In fact the first page I did, the Double Cheeseburger I went back and put more detail and then a red and blue line at the bottom. I replaced the scan on the last blog about the sketchbook. It needed something it was up too far and I guess I didn't plan the page out well enough. The lines help fill the page.

Well this sketchbook is not so easy to work with because the pages are so thin. If I stick to colored pencil I think I'll be okay. I had to glue a couple pages together because you could see the art from the other side. I kind of like the 2 pages together because it gives it some substance. Stay tuned for more pages from the book.

One Good Turn Deserves Another

Well, Rose, one of my OFG Team Members on Etsy, featured me on her blog. Here's the link:
http://basketsbyrosebasketsbyrose.blogspot.com/2010/10/monday-market-with-old-farmhouse.html#comment-form

So I thought I'd show you some of the BEAUTIFUL work she does. I just love her baskets. AND they are so reasonably priced. They'd make wonderful Christmas gifts, filled or not!  I hope you enjoy watching her work displayed on this widget

The SKETCHBOOK has arrived!

Well yesterday I received me Sketchbook. I have been thinking about it since I sent for it and I was so excited I worked on it right away.

My theme is Make Mine a Double. I have finished one of the pages.  In reading about this sketchbook project I had heard the pages were very thin and boy are they!  So rather than glue the pages together and loosing pages as others have done, I think what I'll do is do a piece of art on the right and then on the left glue a piece of artpaper on it with a quote, line from a song or some other thing that might relate to my artwork.  I haven't begun working on that as yet but it's coming. I was thinking for the cheeseburger to have the nutritional content! I'll post photos when I finish it. But the art first!

I had wanted to do watercolor but the pages are so thin so I am going to work lightly with watercolor pencils and control the amount of water I use on the brush.
Colored pencils seem to work the best so far for me. The Double Cheeseburger is colored pencil. The cover is Delta Acrylic paints sprayed with a matt finish.