Dooley's Dog House

Hello Animal and Art Lovers
May 9th I will have my dog and cat paintings in Kirkland, Wa. , to help promote animal adoptions. If you are ready to adopt, or just want more information this is the place to get it. The event will take place inside and out at Dooley's Dog House. There will be pet food experts on hand as well as other animal related services. I will be offering some big discounts on my art, with a donation made to Pasado's Safe Haven for all art sold. All available work on my website will be discounted that day as well. A donation to Pasado's Safe Haven will be made on all art work sold.Even if you cannot adopt at this time come and see me, make a little donation to one of the agencies on site, and just have some fun. www.JanetWoldart.com
www.Pasadosafehaven.org
www.dooleysdoghouse.com

Recycled Art

I was recently asked to be apart of a recycled art show for Landfillart.org, which is an artist reclamation project. Each artist is asked to create a piece of art from a hubcap. The hubcaps were dug up out of a landfill and very in size, weight, make and model. I asked for two hubcaps to use in a sculpture piece. One was from a Ford and the other larger hubcap was from a Dodge. They were both very heavy and kind of neat on there own. I tried to use all used materials, that where either headed to the dump or headed to the thrift store. I call my piece, "Hub City Twirl A Whirl". From bottom to top: hubcap, large juice can, old metal bread basket line with can lids and reflective disks, hubcap, metal bowl, with neat legs, metal napkin ring, the plastic top off a detergent bottle, and the plastic handle off a dead scrubby. The seats are made from left over frame wood, hung by wire, covered in black straws from last weeks mocas. I used a little paint, some nontoxic gliter glue, and to hold it all together I purchase a metal rod, place through the center. For a little more fun and to put in the twirl, I put the whole thing on a lazy susan that I took out of my spice cabinet, and Kazam! She twirls! You can see my piece at www.janetwoldart.com or all the art at www.landfillart.org

Spring

Well, we are only days away from the official opening of Spring. The showers are here, the budding leaves, the crocuses, and the grass is getting greener. March winds have been blowing all month and the snails and slugs are already out. It even smells like Spring, which is a rather nice thing. My yard has suffered a lot of weather related damage this winter. We had a great deal of blow down, snow down, and freeze. OH! and the flooding. I would like to forget the flooded creek in my back yard that turned into a raging river. It left behind some substantial sandbars, but the creek is deeper and maybe that will help the salmon when they come back. The only draw back to this Spring is my dog Lucy. She is getting better everyday from her knee surgery, but the extra load bearing of all her weight on her other (good) knee made it give out too. So now the poor thing limps on both back legs. She will be going into surgery for the other knee in about four weeks after a little more recovery from the first operation. Yikes! She smells Spring right outside the door, and it is making her crazy. She smell the little night critters coming out of their winter homes and she longs to get out there and chase something, dig something up, roll in some awful stuff and howl at the moon. Spring can do that to a dog, but Lucy will have to miss it all this year. She is supposed to be confined, kept calm and not more then 3 very short walks a day, very short. If all goes well she will be running, digging, swimming and rolling in the stinky stuff by mid summer. Looking forward to it. www.janetwoldart.com

Unclad Art 2009

This weekend is the opening for the 2009 UNCLAD ART show in Stanwood, Washington. This is a beautiful show, with some giggles too. If you can't make it to the show all the art is online at www.uncladart.com
I have two pieces in the main gallery and several smaller pieces in the gallery gift shop. This piece is sculpted in polymer clay and mounded on a painted metal base. She is bound by copper wire and adorned. She stands approx 16 inches tall.
To view my other sculptures see my web site at www.janetwoldart.com

In other news, Lucy is doing very well. I am amazed.

A Good day for Lucy

It was a beautiful sunny day here and with the snow it was nearly blinding, but that didn't keep Lucy from trying to get around. Yes, I said get around. She is walking/pulling to get out in that sunshine. She is only allowed two 5 minute walks, but she gets every minute of it. She is making such good headway, we can finally breath a little. Her morphine patch came off last night, and today she had an appetite. So that was another little triumph. I can tell she is still very disappointed with us especially when it comes to medication time, but I am feeling positive we/she will put this all behind us. Yowza! Visit www.janetwoldart.com for more pictures of Lucy and other wonderful dog and cat paintings

Lucy Comes Home

Lucy came home from the vet Friday afternoon. I was so happy to finally get her back. Her leg looked much worse then I imagined it would. In fact it was pretty ghastly. We had done our research so we should have known it was going to be bad, but when it is your own sweet dog, it is very hard to take. My stomach has been in knots for nearly a week, with worry, sadness and self pity. I pray each day will be better for her then the last. Better for me and my hubby too. I've been throwing myself a pity party every night with a little wine, some tears and then raiding the cupboards for goodies. Lucy has a long recovery ahead of her, but for right now all I want is for her to get a good nights sleep and eat. For a chow hound she has eaten very little since shes been home. She doesn't trust that we aren't packing all the food with drugs. If I cannot get her to eat tomorrow I will have another thing to worry about. Yikes! My poor poor baby.
Who is that doggie in the window. Lucy was the model for this fun painting. Painted for Flying House Productions for use in their winter catalogue.

It's a dogs life

What do they really mean when they say "it's a dogs life". Today I took my dog Lucy to the vet for the second day in a row. Not her choice. She was terrified. I felt so sad and guilty. She trusts me. What must she have been thinking as I walked away from her. She is having knee surgery today, which I now understand is not unusually. I was surprised that it cost $4000. I am just thankful that we could afford to give her the surgery she needs, even though I feel so guilty for it right now. The Vet is fairly certain that she will need the other knee done within 2 years. I just hope somehow she understands and can trust me again. Then there is the long recovery stage, were the poor thing must be restrained for 8 -10 weeks. A dogs life it won't be for sometime. No playing, no running, no jumping, no fun, and what is a dogs life with out the fun. It will be hard on all of us, but after reading several blogs on the same subject, I know that we will all pull through a bit frayed, but ready for action by the time summer roles around.