Project Mania: Pinspiration Projects: Paint Chip Art

If you do not know what Pinterest is and care to spend a great deal of time immersed in visual joy and inspiration go to Pinterest.com now. 

I LOVE it. There are so many great ideas out there to be reinterpreted. I love paint chips and I thought this piece of Pinspiration from The Craft Scientist blog, would be a super fun project for our nursery. 

 Inspiration...

 Finished Project, I favored a more organic approach for our project.

And yes that is a troll, or Dam Doll, it is a gift from Grandpa Mike that he saved from childhood, his mommy forced him to hand it over to the new baby. (OK maybe not forced, but coerced) Also note the birds in the basket, awaiting the rest of their flock and assembly. 

I think this will make for something interesting to look at for the late nights ahead sittin' in the glider. 

http://www.thecraftyscientist.com/2011/05/paint-chip-art.html

Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago was amazing...even at 50 mph

I had no idea what I was in for and at about 30 seconds a master piece painting...it was worth the aching pain in our calves (I guess I can only count for mine)

Does this little girl remind anyone of anything?

I am dying, I can't remember the name of this one or even the artist... I think it is Berthe Morisot but I can't remember. Can anyone ease my pain and help me out?

I spoke too soon....

Yesterday was a gloriously chill and foggy day. So what did we do? Go to the beach and relax with next to no one else there. Amazing. (well that and we watched Babel, which was terrible, 2 thumbs down)

Anyway back to the beach. I painted, enjoying the quiet, cool, fogginess with a hope of cooler days to come.
and Dom got in the frigid water, when almost immediately a seal starting following him around. Seriously like ten feet away and they were in the first wave break. Dom was nearly out of the water when I finally thought that I should be taking a picture, oh well. I will try and get a picture next time because it happens almost every time we got to Sunset.
isn't the beach the best for portraits?
We finished off the cozy day with comfort food. We had chili and cheese dip, tomato soup
with a few yummy extras
finished with a grilled pulled pork and cheese sandwich. In terms of weather and food, it was the perfect day.