Morning beginnings...

A little coffee...

a little paint..

How do you begin you mornings?

May Flower Challenge - Day 22 - Tie Dye Painted Flowers

I'm fascinated with flowers. 

They are all over my tiny apartment. I photograph them all the time.

I draw, paint, doodle them, create them out of paper...I also see them all over NYC. 

Each day during May I will post flowers and I hope that you will join in.

The only rule is that your blog post or flickr photo that you link much contain flowers.

Click above on the May Flower Challenge Page to learn more.

I've been playing around in 21 Secrets,

learning new techniques,

new products,

and simply having fun.

I've adapted one technique

and painted some tie dye flowers.

Outlining the flower in water.

Then touching the water outline

with the paint.

Tucker sat in the window

and watched as I painted.

A few minutes later he decided that he 

was supposed to be the center of attention.

He had a little purple and orange 

paint on him when he got up.

Giggle.

I'm linking up with Julia over at 
Stamping Ground for WOYWW.
(What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday)

Thanks for visiting!

May Flower Challenge - Day 3

I'm fascinated with flowers. 

They are all over my tiny apartment. I photograph them all the time.

I draw, paint, doodle them, create them out of paper...I also see them all over NYC. 

Each day during May I will post flowers and I hope that you will join in.

The only rule is that your blog post or flickr photo that you link much contain flowers.

Click above on the May Flower Challenge Page to learn more.

Real flowers often inspire my art
and what I create (paint, draw, jewelry design).

I picked these flowers up a few weeks ago
as I walked home.

This is what later painted.
I used watercolors and then
added the flowers in with my micron pen.

Have flowers inspired your artwork?
Don't forget to link up.

WOYWW - Flowers

I'm playing along with Julia at Stamping Ground this week 

and What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.

I've been playing with old make-up brushes.

Using them to stamp and paint.

I had someone a few weeks ago ask me
to post something that I've finished,
since you always seem to see my art in progress so here it is.
All inspired by the flower doodle in the center of the photo.

Flowers. I have flowers on the brain this time of year. 

Spring add color to my landscape and I look forward to seeing them bloom.

Speaking of flowers. 

During the entire month of May I will be blogging about flowers.

Flowers I create, that I see in NYC in the gardens, in architecture, etc.

Each day I will post a link on my post 

so that if you want to play along

 and blog about flowers we can all play together. 

Visit here to learn more.

And, don't forget to visit Julia's blog so see a few more desks this week.

Flowers ...

It's Spring!

It has finally been above 50 degrees in NY. Yippee!

I'd like to think that means that Spring is finally here (fingers crossed).

Spring brings flowers so I've had flowers on my brain.

Louise Gale started her monthly Creative Color Challenge up again

so I'm jumping in with flowers, of course.

A little water color fun.

I almost forgot, it is Paint Party Friday, too. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Paint Party Friday - Creating a Little Love

My week has been filled, over the top filled, with travel, conferences, presentations, long days, very little sleep, and not enough art. (All because of the day job.) So last night, instead of watching tv in zombie mode, I decided to paint some love.

I cut out some hearts from watercolor paper, painted, and doodled.

I love the way they turned out.

I am linking up with Paint Party Friday today. Hop over and visit.

WOYWW - Art Journaling

Fellow WOYWW bloggers and followers, thank you for all the love last week!

Here is my desk (after many piles were moved). 

Living in a 320 square foot apartment means that my desk has multiple uses and for the past couple of weeks it has served as a collecting space for mail, magazines, collected art supplies, and other random "I'm not sure what to do with this" stuff. (Secret, I finished my sketchbook by creating a workspace on my bed.)

So, here is my desk this week:

I recently purchased a journal at a discount and I decided that my first page was going to be a reminder to myself. This journal is going to be a place for me to play with paints, inks, stamping, etc.

Be Brave

I'm not sure what it is about the blank page but sometimes I can stuck on it. 

Does a blank page ever intimidate you?

By the way, if you missed my post on Monday you can find it here. Monday was my 300th post and I'm giving away one of my photographic prints to one of you who comment on that post. So hop over and leave a comment. 

I'm linking up with Julia's WOYWW. I encourage you to visit a few desks for inspiration.

Creative Color Challenge and Day 28 AEDM

AEDM Day 28

I'm linking up with Art Every Day Month throughout the month of November.

Creating art each day: doodling, painting, journal making, stamping, photographing, etc.

Today I'm also participating in Louise Gale's Creative Color Challenge for November.  Each month Louise gives us a color palette to play with during the month. I just love the warm colors she gave us this time.

On Day 6 of AEDM I shared this piece of leaf art. Created with watercolors, inspired by the maple leaves of Central Park.

I decided to make a mobile out of them. Originally I was going to take them to my office, I still might, but for now they hang on my closet doors near my bed.

By the way, at the suggestion of a dear friend, I did not cut up my original watercolor. I photocopied it, cut the leaves out, and simply strung them with thread.

Thanks, Louise for the color inspiration and this month's challenge. Also, thanks to Deborah Velásquez for the mobile inspiration.

Hop over to AEDM and Louise Gale's site to visit a few other creative souls today.

As always, thanks for stopping by.

Watercolors and Doodles...in the works

AEDM Day 10

I'm linking up with Art Every Day Month throughout the month of November.

Creating art each day: doodling, painting, journal making, stamping, photographing, etc.

I have been playing with watercolors. I drew 20 circles and chose 3 colors for inside the circles. I wanted to play with saturation of color - for me that means how not to make the depth of color look the same. I have a tendency to love bold color and thus I use my watercolors like ink - thick and dark. So, for me, it was a challenge.

Oh, and I chose to use colors that wouldn't normally be my first choice.

This is a work in progress. I have the watercolor all done but still need to finish the doodling.

I'll be honest, I found it challenging to not make each color be the same with the circles. See I love the dark rich colors and not the pastel ones but I do love the variation in this piece and I can't wait to finish adding more words and doodles.

Have fun creating and remember, challenge yourself to do something different. Oh, and I encourage you to play with your art supplies in new ways. 

Hop over to Leah's website and visit a few other creative soul's who are participating in AEDM.

Sketching with Watercolors - AEDM Day 2

AEDM Day 2

I'm linking up with Art Every Day Month throughout the month of November.

Creating art each day: doodling, painting, journal making, stamping, photographing, etc. Moving forward I'll post each morning what I created the previous day (I know that my crazy day job can't stay closed forever). 

In the meantime, I love to sketch using watercolors and a tiny brush. I love how holding the brush and moving the paint is different than using a marker or a micron pen. Smoother.

Leaves: Watercolor Sketch                                                        (c) 2012 Lori Moon

These are tiny leaves that I picked up during a walk in Central Park last weekend, pre-hurricane.

Hop over to Leah's website and visit a few other creative soul's who are participating in AEDM.

What's on Your Workdesk? - Mandala

I'm linking up with Julia at Stamping Ground again this week. 

If you visited last week I was working on a Mandala. Well, I finished it. 

This is me painting with my Creative Team (Java and Tucker). As you can see, Tucker was approving or trying to correct something that I was doing. (Superman took this picture while I painted this weekend.)

You may remember this picture from last week. 

This is the mandala before I added color.

Here is the finished product.  I used Koi Watercolors, Inktense pencils, Prismacolor Pencils, Tombow Markers, and Peerless Watercolors for the blue. (layers, layers, layers)

I believe that you will see that center flower again.

Hop over to Stamping Ground and visit a few desks.

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday - WOYWW

 I am linking up with Julia over at Stamping Ground for WOYWW - What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.  It has been a few weeks since I played along. 

This is what my desk looks like.

I have signed up to participate in The Sketchbook Project 2013. 

I received my sketchbook a few months ago and it has sat on my desk in the envelope that it was mailed in ever since. 

This is what I've been afraid of...the blank page. 

I manifested my own fears...what if I mess it up, what if it looks awful, what if... what if...what if...

Well, if you look back at the first picture on left side there are 2 containers of gesso, one white and one black. That is my answer to all my what if fears. 

So what, I'll paint over it.  I have all of the fun tools to play with so I might as well just start by making the a few of the pages not blank. 

By the way, if you look really close at the barcoded label on the left my name is printed on the back of my sketchbook. So fun! 

I am so happy to say that I just started. I used dylusion spray inks, layered a few cardboard letters and made the page green.  I have 5 pages that are no longer blank. They aren't finished but they aren't blank.

My fear is less by just simply adding a single layer of color to a few pages I made it less scary. 

Now to play with all those fun art supplies that I have and create an art journal that I am going to share with the world. A few doodles, a few photographs added in here and there, some of my messages from the universe sprinkled in, and before I know it my sketchbook will be full.

I'll continue to share my progress during the next couple of months.

Do me a favor today and choose one of the things that is scary for you today and just begin. Take one step forward to making it less scary. Those 'what ifs' that live in your head are really only in your head so begin today so that you let them go. xoxo

I promise that you'll feel better and be more joyful if you just begin.

Hop over to Stamping Ground today and visit a few more desks.

Don't forget to visit my friend, Rachél Payne's website to learn more about her fabulous upcoming e-course Touch the Moon. 

WOYWW - What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

 I am linking up with Julia over at Stamping Ground for WOYWW - What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.  It has been a few weeks since I played along. 

My desk is rather clean for once as you can see above.  I am having so much fun playing with watercolors, doodling and now adding black pen line art to my journal pages.  I can't wait to play with those pan pastels that you can see in the photo above.

Below is the same page but with some of the black line art added to the page. This still needs a lot of work.

Do me a favor and hop over to Stamping Ground and check out a few desks today to see what other people are working on.

Day 5 May Flower Challenge

Welcome to day 5 of the May Flower Challenge.


I'm fascinated with flowers. They are all over my tiny apartment. I photograph them all the time. I draw, paint, doodle them, create them out of paper... I also see them all over the NYC. Each day I will post flowers and I hope that you will join in. The only rules are that your blog post or flickr photo that you link must contain flowers. Click above on the May Flower Challenge Page to learn more.

On Thursday I shared the flowers that I am making out of paint cards/chips, if you missed it scroll down or click here to visit that post. So, to add leaves and the place where the message will be written I decided to create the leaves out of watercolor paper.

I then cut leaf shapes out of the paper.

Cut a piece of wire for the stem.

Wrote a short message on the front and my blog address on the back.

Saturday will be spent making 25 - 30 more.

The plan is to place 5 of them in public places on Sunday and the rest will be on my desk at the day job. My co-workers can then stop and take a message during the day. Also, during my lunch break I may take and place a few in hopes that someone will benefit from the smile.


On Monday I will post a few pictures of where I placed them and share the bouquet.

Participate by linking your blog post to my blog post. Each day during May, starting on May 1st, on my blog post I will have a linkytool available so that you can link your specific blog post (not just your blog but the post itself) to my blog post. And, please remember to link back.

Participate by linking to the flickr group - May Flower Challenge- and adding a photo of your flower creation. Make sure you add your photo to the linky below each day that you post.