Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Running around in circles

Hello peeps,

I know I haven't been updating a lot lately but besides all the trouble with the devorce of my parents, my boyfriends and my birthday and the hollyday's I'm waiting for a few orders I made! YAY new stuff to play with ^o^ I have been painting and I I wanted to share the MM painting Running around in circles. This one is made with funfoam, netting, wallpaper and acrylics. I made this because I love circles and sometimes you just feel like you are just running around in circles don't you?!




Have a great day and play!

Love Lydia

Saturday, November 20, 2010

As I have mentioned before, I'm going through a tough time and it inspired me to make 2 pieces, it seems making art can be healing. Or at last a way to express my feelings. My parents (mom and stepdad who maybe isn't my biological dad to me he is my dad!) are getting through a horrible and ugly devorce, with out getting into the details, they talk through the attorney and their financial person. My mom is in a shelter and left my dad with all the financial problems, they have to sell the house, neither one of them can pay the mortgage. I love them so much and it hurts me so much even though I'm an adult, my save haven is gone if you know what I meen. I'm the only one of their (step) kids (they don't have kids together) that has a good relationship with both of them, so I'm the person who they come to if they want to know something about the other and that was killing me, so I told them both that I cannot be stuck in the middle of their (financial) problems and that hurt them although they do understand. I feel so guilty, but I don't want things come so far that I have to choose between them. I'm fighting a depression and I have to choose for me and for my healing and this was not helping at all.

The colours stand for the hurt and pain and the love I feel for both of them (red and orange although you don't see the orange that good on the picture) The strings are all connected because I felt they both were pulling on me. I think you can imagine why they are black ;-)



This one represents the blackness that I felt pouring over them (and me), the colours I used stand for the favorite colours of my parents. The black is crackled because well.... they are cracking up in every sence of the word.




Have a great day and play!

Love Lydia

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

When life gives you lemons....

I wish I could squize them in lifes eyes but that's wishfull thinking I'm afraid. I'm going through a tough time and don't have that much time to create lately but I have some things I'm working on when I can. So I hope to show you something new in the next couple of day's!


Have a great day and play!

Love Lydia

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Meet amalia

Hi hi!

This is a piece where I used gesso, tissuepaper and mosquitonet pieces to create texture, painted over it with acrylics and sponges. The image is a homemade stencil I made from a public domain image, this is the first time I actually used a stencil. I don't know if I will use them often, I don't have spraypaints and I used acrylics and a sponge to make it but I really do think that it would look a lot better if I used spraypaints. Who knows... maybe I will buy some in the future ^o^





Have a great day and play!

Love Lydia

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Falling into pieces

Hi there!

I've been playing with puzzle pieces again, I love the depth they give in this piece. I used gesso, acrylics and colourwashes. I love how they drag and drip the underlayers away, leaving their colour! This was actually inspired by the colours I saw when talking a walk in the woods, the autumn colours are so beautiful! Although this looks nothing like the pretty red and orange coloured leaves. It looks more like rust LOL. I like it anyways ^o^




Have a great day and play!

Love Lydia