My bit of paradise...

If you know me at all, you know that my favorite place on earth is Anna Maria Island. Of course, like most finer things in life, you have to be seriously wealthy to live there. But living just a few miles away, and being able to go to the Island anytime I want, is fine with me.


When I started practicing on a couple of canvas boards with the Golden art mediums, without even thinking about it, the theme became Anna Maria Island. The text reads:

Weary of the long cold winters, she gave her snowboots away, packed her flip flops and drove south.She kept driving until she reached a stretch of powder white beach, where she sat and gazed with wonder at the Gulf of Mexico. She had found her paradise. A magical place of mermaids, seahorses, dolphins, manatees, star fish, sand dollars, and palm trees. And warm sunny days that end with bold splashes of color across the sky as the sun drops below the sea... vivid blues, violets, reds and golds.She found her bliss on Anna Maria Island...

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Since I had another canvas board available, I just had to do another one. I love working with the Golden mediums, and think I am ready to do one on a real canvas, to which I could even add beading and wire.

And just because they make me smile, I have to throw in a photo of my Keepers of the Shells- the old sailor I sculpted on a gourd, and the cute little wooden flamingo I bought in a shop soon after we moved to FL. And no, I don't have a collection of tacky flamingos- this is my one and only. Doesn't he look darling sitting on the box Hoppa and Bruce sent me?

Hope you all have a great weekend...

Peace-

Linda