Children's Hand Print Zoo Animals for Needlepoint

James and I have been very busy printing hands on Needlepoint Canvases.  James is my five year old God Son, and I have been painting his hands, printing with them, and then he cheerfully goes and washes off the paint.  We are going to make some more hand prints in different colors, but this is what our collaboration has produced so far.  Now a couple of the canvases got some extra spots of paint on them, but working with a child of five, eager to help is fun, and paint does happen.  If you should want your child's or grandchild's, or significant other child's hand print just buy the canvas and paint their hand with Acrylic paint.  Try to position the hand so the animal semi-makes sense, or if you just want to stitch a Zoo Animal or Aquarium make-believe fish order these canvases from Jelly Bean Stock.  James and I have a few more animals to hand stamp, and then I do the painting of the different critters.  We had fun making these for you, and I hope you have a great deal of fun stitching them.  Some have glitter, all are brightly colored, and all are 10" X 10" canvases Zweigart 18 count, but the borders are different widths depending on where Jame's hand ended up on the canvas.

  

Here are the silly little canvases that make me smile, and were so much fun to create for you!!!

These small ten inch by ten inch canvases can be obtained by going to Jelly Bean Stock, and James and I will soon be using his hand to make more Zoo animals and pretend creatures of the deep especially for you!
I have been learning stitches from the Needlepoint 101 book, and perhaps I might even know how to do more than the tent stitch and the Basket weave stitch.  Everything takes time, but half the fun is the journey getting there.  Write when I get work, and enjoy your day whatever you do!

New Triceratops Babies Needlepoint Canvas

Well, I have finished a new group of  Baby Dinos, but this time they are Triceratops babies.  Cute as can be, and ready to stitch up for your Needlepointing pleasure.  I want my viewer to know that all of these canvases are designed by me, drawn up on the canvas by me, and then painted by me.   Jellybeanstock North represents and distributes my work, and does all their own painting also.  None of our work or designs are shipped out to other services, countries, or nations.  It's all made in America with our own little hands.  We may be old, but we still have our skills and our talents.  If you purchase one of my Dinos you are purchasing something made by me.  I have no minions, no helpers, except my assistant Ale, and she went to Art school with my son, so she is qualified to come to my aid when necessary.  I also come to her aid also, and I will put up the cutest quilt that was auctioned off to raise money for her son's Kindergarten class.  But first the baby Dinos, and I will explain how the quilt was made later.  

These are the Five new baby Triceratops that will soon be seen at JellyBeanStock, and you can call Kim and order them right away.  Thank you, to the lovely woman who ordered a baby dino already, and they will be shipped along with all my other completed canvases to Jellybeanstock Wednesday June 1.  Thank you for the order, and blessing on your home and hearth for supporting our endeavors.

Now, this is the quilt made for James Shannahan's Kindergarten class.  The squares of cotton were cut by Mrs. Dean, the teacher, the children's individual handprints were painted and applied to the squares by Ale and her friend Heather.  Ale brought the squares to me, and I painted each hand print to look like a Zoo animal.  She told me the children's personalities because she works in the class room, and I tried to paint an animal that suited the handprint and the child.  Mrs. Dean then sewed all the Zoo Jungle Print strips to the squares, and made a wonderful quilt to raffle off to the parents.

Here is what the process looked like!

Now you can see how the painted Zoo Hand Animals became a quilt.  The Children each wrote their own names, and I tried to preserve the actual hand print so the parents could see their own child's hand.  I added hooves, paws, hands and feet below the finger tips of the child.  Each child's hand told me which animal they were to be, and Ale was the person transporting the painted square to the drying table, and bringing me a new square to paint.  A very fun project, and after Mrs. Dean sewed our masterpiece together we were all delighted with the results.  I may not be rich, but I do have fun every day.  Thanks to little children, new projects, and having work to keep me busy.  

Thank you to everyone, and I hope you enjoy the latest work to come out of my studio.  It's not earth shattering, but sometimes, happy, quiet, peaceful, and fun is much better.  Write when I get work....Enjoy your work, and may we all be at Peace and Prosper.  

Peacocks Elephants India Oh MY

Seeing that beautiful and talented women from India have decided to follow my blog, and comment (Very much Appreciated!) I decided to put up some sculpting I did for the Four Seasons Hotel and Resort in Goa India.  These were sculpted by me out of 4 pound density foam, then sprayed with Automotive Primer which is why they are gray.  Then I sanded resprayed and sanded some more before they were transported to Mexico, a manufacturing plant and cast into Fiberglass parts.

  Now , because my viewer in India like Peacocks, and very decorative art.  I will put up some of the Peacock Images I did in Etched glass, a process where I sand blasted the glass after applying and cutting a mask of the Peacocks.

I got carried away, and added oil paintings, stained glass, and other things from my portfolio other than etched glass.  Now, I will put up some Peacocks done in oil and Alkyd on board, and some done in Prismacolor Pencils on black paper.  I hope you like!

I again got carried away, and added other things.  I thought perhaps you might like to see the two peacock panels side by side.  I also added some of my oil paintings of Laura and her sister Norma in costume and with umbrellas in my garden.  The pink roses are planted outside my kitchen window so I have something beautiful to look at while doing the dishes.  I hope everyone enjoys todays offerings.  I've been sick with the flu, so don't feel like working very much.  Sleeping all day was what I did yesterday.  Thank you so much for visiting my blog and commenting.  I will get back to work on some parrot canvases, roosters and flowers, and of course dancing dinosaurs.  Write when I get work, and remember I enjoy your comments wherever you live.  Have a good, fun, productive day.