A World of Wonders ~ Come and Color with Me & R-Chee!

Happy Monday everyone!

R-Chee & I love to color to just relax sometimes!  You can color on anything and make a special thought, feeling or character pop to life right before your very eyes!

I love turning junk mail into little canvases to color on.

It is a wonderful way to recycle messages people are offering that would otherwise be thrown away.

He was so FUN & Easy to make!

To create him...

I lightly painted a coat of gesso on a junk mail postcard mailer and let some of the background still show through.

After the gesso dried, I painted a light wash of watercolor over the gesso to add some color and let it pool to form water stained blobs to find a character in to bring out.

After turning the page this way and that to create some interesting shapes, I let it dry and pulled out my pencil and found a little fox to color in!

I pulled out my Neocolor 1 & 2 Wax crayons and started coloring him in.

He started to come to life and I finished his features with a bit of outlining with a black ink permanent marker.

The final step was to get out my old magazines and paste and cut out letters to form a message he was calling out loud and clear!

After our new friend appeared before our eyes & we heard him as he exclaimed... 

We LIVE in a...

"World of Wonders"

Wax Crayons, Ink & Collage on paper

Melissa Langer ~ 2015

"World of Wonders!"

What a smart message!

We are all here appreciate everything around us!

What things will you appreciate today?

A flower?

Blue Skies?

Clean, Fresh Air?

Please leave us a note and let us know!

We cannot wait to hear all about it!

xoxoox

Melissa & R-Chee

Meet Tip Toe Teddy!

Happy Friday everyone!

R-Chee & I had so much FUN making a new collage this past weekend that we made another one to share with you!

After our new friend appeared before our eyes & we heard him whisper his name to us!

"Tip Toe Teddy"

Wax Crayons, Ink & Collage on paper

Melissa Langer ~ 2015

He was so FUN & Easy to make!

To create him...

I lightly painted a coat of gesso on a junk mail postcard mailer and let some of the background still show through.

After the gesso dried, I painted a light wash of watercolor over the gesso to add some color and let it pool to form water stained blobs to find a character in to bring out.

After turning the page this way and that to create some interesting shapes, I let it dry and pulled out my pencil and found a little dog to color in!

I pulled out my Neocolor 1 & 2 Wax crayons and started coloring him in.

He started to come to life and I finished his features with a bit of outlining with a black ink permanent marker.

The final step was to get out my old magazines and paste and cut out letters to form a message he was whispering from his heart to me...

"Tip Toe"

Tip Toe Teddy likes to Tip Toe everywhere he goes!

It is FUN to Tip Toe through the Tulips!

Spring is coming!

We can all feel, smell, hear and see it popping up all around us!

Let's go play in the sunshine this weekend!

How will you celebrate the Spring weather?

Please leave us a note and let us know!

We cannot wait to hear all about it!

xoxoox

Melissa & R-Chee

Fred's Photography Adventure to Vienna & Prague ~ April 2014

Happy Monday everyone!

I am so excited to show you Fred's new traveling photographic adventure!

In April, he went to Vienna and Prague in with famed photographer, Joe McNally, along with several other students.

Here he is capturing the perfect shot on a cold evening outing in Prauge with Joe McNally's wife, Annie.

I smiled from ear to ear when he emailed me this photo that night as although I could not tag along on his trek, I was there on the bridge as I made him the warm hat he is wearing! :)

Here are some of his photos of his trip for you to enjoy!

... and here are some shots that his fellow trekkers took of them enjoying their adventure together!

What a magical week he had and captured for us all to go along with him too!

I cannot wait to see what trip he plans for next year to take us all on!

What FUN thing are you up to today?

Please leave us a note and let us know!

We cannot wait to hear all about them!

xoxoxoox

Melissa & Archie

Friday Funnies ~ Archie's Oodles of Noodles & Doodles

Happy Friday everyone!

It is me...

R-Chee!

I have been sitting here all morning at the kitchen table under my momma's feet!

I am waiting for them to move to signal to me that it is time for lunch to be served! :)

I have a menu request for spaghetti & meatballs!

I wonder if I will get any!

My momma has been doodling in her new urban journal that auntie Lynne inspired her to make!

Today she is doodling Florence Italy from a photo that dad took of the Piazza!

Ta Da!

She says doodling & coloring with watercolors is a very FUN way to start the day!

She has no expectations of where her sketch will take her except hopefully to the center of the square in Italy! :)

Hey momma, while you are there, will you pick me up a pepperoni pizza too?

Well... you cannot blame a puggy for trying!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

What FUN things do you have planned?

Please leave me a note and let me know!

I cannot wait to hear all about them!

xoxoxo

R-Chee

Friend's Fabulous Art ~ Lynne's Gorgeous Paintings & Fiber Art!

Happy Wednesday everyone!

R-Chee & I love to see what you are doing and creating everyday!

Today we are so excited to share the new journal my friend Lynne in the UK just started making.

She features her sketches every Saturday!

She has been my crochet buddy for years and she recently started making these amazing renderings!

She was inspired by Urban Sketchers and this gorgeous Artist's journal Workshop Book that she shared with me!

I am excited to try my hand at creating quick urban sketches on location too with all the markers and pens I got for my Blob Book!

I was so honored when she chose to add sketches of the dolls I made for her birthday this year of her 3 wonderful Chihuahuas, Bridgette, Elliot and Dinah. :)

Her art is even better than the real objects she is looking at!

This is a sketch of the mug I got her for x-mas! :)

Lynne's crochet mini me Chihuahua

Lynne's love for life and everything around her inspires me everyday!

She is so generous and has a blog, etsy shop and creates these mini me's of peoples dogs as custom orders.

Contact her anytime if you would like one custom made of your pets too!

She makes, cats, dogs, birds and more!

They are so popular, I am amazed she has time to create these wonderful drawings too!

Thank you so much Lynne for sharing your inspiring art with all of us!

R-Chee and I would love to see what you are creating too whether it is art, food, vegetables from you garden... 

Anything that brings you joy!

Please feel free to contact us anytime!

I would love to share it with everyone too!

xoxoxo

Melissa & R-Chee

The Blob Book is Complete!

Happy Monday everyone!

I am so excited to show you the last two inside pages and the front & back covers of my BLOB Book that is now complete!

I started it last Fall in October 2012 at my Sister's Art Retreat!

Melanie and I took a wonderful Drawing Workshop with Carla Sonheim through Art Camp for Women.

Here are all of my posts showing all of the drawings in my magical Blob Book that I just LOVE.

October 2012

November 2012

March 2013

June 2013

It was so FUN to see these splashes of paint show me shapes to trace and color in whenever I wanted to just relax and create!

Each character seemed to just arrive and say hello every time I pulled out my pencils, markers and glitter glue pens!

Here is the page you saw above that I made using a simple set of kid's watercolor paints!

All you do is lightly swirl, splatter or swish the paint on a piece of watercolor paper leaving space for the white paper to show.

You do not have to lay a lot of swishes down, and it is best to really water down your colors to keep them light and transparent for you to be able to see your creatures in your blobs.

Then I just let them dry, folded the pages and cut random scallops on the edges to make a FUN edges instead of hard corners.

It also made the pages different sizes from each other which allows you to draw creatures that actually are partly on one page and partly on the one underneath if you would like!

Then you just take your pencil and find the creatures in your blobs and trace around them.

There are no rules!

You add any faces, expressions and colors & textures that you want when you color them in!

I just used colored pencils, watercolor paints, markers, and glitter glue pens to color mine in.

It was so FUN, easy and relaxing to do!

Front Cover

Back Cover

Ta Da!

My first Blob Book is complete!

I cannot wait to make more!

I love that I did not rush through this process and just let the book evolve over 6 months.

If I would have done it all at once, each page would have looked the same!

But by spreading it out, I was able to have a clean slate each time I sat down and pick up new colors, markers and even glitter at the end!

These are things I never would have done if I did it all at once!

Now my book is even richer and, in my mind and heart, has a whole life and story on each page that I created!

Thank you so much for always looking at what I am making!

It is so FUN to share it with you!

You really make my world a very special place to be!

xoxoxo

Melissa