Designs Incubating ...

These are a few of the cedar shake paintings I did some time ago ... love the colors flowing together, and have missed doing them. 

So ... drum roll please ... maybe it's time to do some new ones since the inventory on them is pretty well depleted!

I know it's not even New Year's yet, but there are dozens of Valentine Designs running around in my head, with those colors flowing in the background and maybe some metallic pretties as little accents. 

After this weekend I'll have a few days to play, and am going to have a great time with all the playing I'm planning on doing! Got a bunch of cedar shakes from the roof of my 100 year old house, some brushes, some paints, and a lot of imagination just begging to be turned loose. Instead of (or in addition to?) landscape silhouettes, think designs maybe something like these I found in my internet roaming:

Here's where I found this version of a very old pattern:
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Or something like this on a hand-painted card maybe:

Somebody's rendition of a fun design ...
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This could get to be a whole lot of fun!

There are thousands of intricately carved stones still in existence from a very long time ago, and even more fancies to be found in the metal-work of old times. Over and under and around and through, repeat and repeat and repeat in the most amazing ways ... fascinating stuff I tell you! A person can 'create' a design that they think is new and complex, then turn around and find almost the exact same thing that someone else 'created' a few thousand years ago ... and the wheel goes 'round and 'round ... so wrap your mind around it and come up with a 'creation' of your own! It's a challenge, and it's fun.

Let's see what we can 'create', shall we?

Some of the new pieces that I'm bound and determined to 'create' ought to be at Close to Home in The Q on Main Street of Fessenden ND USA just after the dawning of 2015 - a year that's something to look forward to - only a few days away!