....Peggy Ferguson....

new ideas!

2011-11-04T10:12:00.002-07:00

i'm currently working on a series of quick decorative wall art/paintings. i'm REALLY really excited about this project because it's a fundraiser type for the hungry and homeless. 50% of each piece will go to an organization which helps the homeless in some form. some organizations i'm kicking around in my head are St Mary's Food Bank because they are a source for most of the other local food banks as well as the wonderful work they do, Streetlight Phoenix which rescues children trapped in prostitution and sex slavery providing homes for the kids they rescue, Food For The Hungry feeding thousands all over the world as well as others as the Lord leads. I'm working on more pieces today and hope to get them posted here as well as Facebook and i'm looking for other "venues" to display/sell.

let's get this thing UPDATED!!

2011-08-29T19:47:00.010-07:00

Nov 4, 11.....i got tired again with my previous blog background (one of my acrylic paintings) and before i remembered to take a screen capture i changed it! Now I've selected an image straight off of bloggers templates. hmm appropriate for fall.

ahhh I guess I've just about forgotten I had this blog!!! eeek! I messed up my other blog dovevalleypainter.blogspot.com when I tried to switch my address with my purchased domain name. yeah, I really messed it up.... then I contacted them but I still didn't get it right, so...... someday I'll have it right but for now I'm gonna use this as my "website." I'm kinda surprised I remembered my login!!

oookay....... so bear with me, I will be changing the layout, adding more pictures and who knows what else but doing it a little at a time so it might look a little scrambled for awhile. here goes................

alright, here is my first choice for layout/background (Aug 29,11) ....hmmm i love the raw wood image but it's not really artsy. however, the raw wood is really a representation of me, my background, my beginnings. When I was little I would sit in my room with my window shutters open and the light flooding in, doodling, drawing, practicing my art. My dad would be out back in his workshop working on some project. He was an amazing craftsman/carpenter/fix-it-man/I-can-do-anything person, incredibly optimistic and a perfectionist! In his workshop you could always find all kinds of scraps of wood not to mention shavings everywhere and the smell of fresh cut lumber is almost heavenly. He's been physically gone for 17 years but he was then and still is an inspiration to me. So, raw wood for my blog/website background is really PERFECT for me.

Being that I love variety though I will more than likely change the background from time to time. And I think I will keep a record of them here =)

okay, enuf now. on to more important things.

Sep 5th -Well that border didn't last long. I didn't like the colors choices to coordinate with the wood so I'm updating again. Out with the not-so-very-old and in with the new.

Portraits

2011-08-28T17:30:00.000-07:00

Greeting Cards

2011-08-27T17:20:00.000-07:00

Public Works

2011-08-27T10:24:00.000-07:00

35' x 8' Mural at AZ Lost Boys Center in downtown Phoenix. This was a donation and I loved working on it! It needed to be completed in 4 1/2 days. I had two wonderful assistants had never done anything like this before and they were a huge blessing. I also wanted to have the "boys" (who are actually grown men) participate in this so they could "own" it. I cut a stencil of a cow that they have in Sudan and we had each one of the men sponge on paint near the bottom. For most of them this was a brand new concept and "skill" and it was very rewarding for me to have been able to bring this element of participation into the mural.

To me the young men and women of Sudan who wandered from place to place for so long and are still holding on to life, hope and a future are my heros. I can't imagine how this is possible except for the grace of God who has given each one of them hope to hold on to.

Pen & Ink

2011-08-26T17:24:00.000-07:00

Children's Book Illustrations

2011-08-25T17:24:00.000-07:00

Decorative Furniture

2011-08-24T17:23:00.000-07:00

Colored Pencil

2011-08-23T17:21:00.000-07:00

Paintings - Oils and Acrylics

2011-08-22T17:21:00.003-07:00

Murals and Faux Finishes

2011-08-20T17:21:00.002-07:00

Pencil

2011-08-18T17:20:00.000-07:00

Watercolor

2011-08-17T17:03:00.000-07:00