by Anura Guruge
on February 14, 2024
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Last Year’s.
With or without a card she always makes my day, each & every day.
We now kind of KNOW that she will have cards made for us. Kind of expect it, BUT it is always such a TREAT. She doesn’t want us to see her making them. So she makes them secretly. Yes, we are very lucky.
Search on ‘artist‘, on this blog, for more or her amazing work. SMILE. Yes, I am rather proud of her.
by Anura Guruge
on January 14, 2024
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This was her first desk when she was probably four or five.
We had forgotten about it, because it was in my office, covered with a sheet.
After my two Christmas books, I am FORCING myself to allocate some time to tasks other than writing. One of these tasks have been to finally, after over a decade, to reorganize my cluttered and chaotic office. I, to my amazement, have made great strides. I made a concerted (& very credible) effort to (majorly) declutter, rationalize and simplify. Succeeding. In the process I uncovered this desk — which has been under wraps for at least 10 years. WOW.
You can see the shapes she had started with … houses, Sun & stars. But, she had also written her name — in remarkably good script. Then there is also a LOT of binary. I know I taught both these kids binary, BUT I can’t remember how old they were.
This was cute. This was neat. I had to capture ‘her start’ & post it. She will hate me for doing so. SMILE.
by Anura Guruge
on December 25, 2023
She worked till 2am Christmas Day morning getting these ready — baking them in the oven etc.
She makes us art, as presents, for Christmas, birthdays, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s/Father’s Day etc. She gets more daring & better each year.
This year we each got a very realistic sculpture of a reclining figure. Very clever. Very cute.
Well this year she was ADAMANT that I can’t post any pictures of her art! Bummer.
She is a private artist. She will not show her art; not share her art or sell her art. Shame. But, she is MY daughter — & as she points out, multiple times a day, she can do whatever she wants. And she does. SMILE.
by Anura Guruge
on November 11, 2023
Another GREAT female artist I was lucky enough to discover THANKS to the ‘Female Artists in History‘ page on Facebook.
That painting by her (shown at top) just BLEW ME away when I saw it on Facebook. How can one get that degree of realism, detail and intricacy. Bloody brilliant.
I sure wanted to bring her to YOUR attention. Check her out. I need to learn more about her.
by Anura Guruge
on June 18, 2023
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Her handmade cards have become the HIGHLIGHT of every ‘holiday’. She has been treating us with these for many, many years. Her speciality & she is very particular & proud of her work.
This was last year’s “Father’s Day” card (the front).
Yes, we know we will get one. She has never fails to deliver. She spends days, in secret, working on these.
Suffice to say, I am delighted, proud & grateful. Some of her new works are stunning. But, she does NOT like me publicizing them.
by Anura Guruge
on May 21, 2023
I was, alas, NOT aware of her until today. Then the ‘Female Artists in History‘ page on Facebook featured her twice, back-to-back. I was impressed with the first picture they had featured & was researching the artist when they posted the second picture. I have been following that page for years & do not recall them doing back-to-back posts on the same artist. I am glad they did.
Nancy Bailey is impressive. Her paintings resonate with I. I need to find out MORE about her. I wanted to make sure you heard about her too. ENJOY.
by Anura Guruge
on February 14, 2023
With or without a card she always makes my day, each & every day.
Search on ‘artist‘, on this blog, for more or her amazing work. SMILE. Yes, I am rather proud of her.
by Anura Guruge
on December 25, 2022
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Over the last few years we always look forward to this. Her handmade — or painted — gifts for the three of us. This year she wrapped them all, in bluish paper, & had them on the table.
Compared to last year, when she was sick & was home for the duration, she hardly had any time this year. She had school until Wednesday. Then on Friday we lost power for the whole day. So, she, basically, only had 2 days to get all of this done.
She worked like crazy yesterday, Saturday, once the power came back, to get it all done.
It is grand. She wishes she had more time. But, we love what we got & that is what matters.
We all had a grand Christmas. Hope you did too.
by Anura Guruge
on July, 2022
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It was an unassembled, unpainted, plain wooden kit from “Michael’s” (below).
As you can see it comes unpainted, BUT does include some stick-on butterflies. The kit looked cute & the price had been reduced.
I like butterflies. I had never thought about them requiring shelter.
But, I also knew that my artist would excel at decorating it. As you can clearly see she did NOT let me down. She needed a few days to think about how she was going to paint it. Then it took her a few days to finish it — which included sealing it to make it waterproof (though we plan to bring it in when we are expecting rain).
Well, I had to share it with you.
by Anura Guruge
on June 19, 2022
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This has now become the HIGHLIGHT of every ‘holiday’ — the amazing, exquisite handcrafted cards from ‘Teischan’.
This was last year’s “Father’s Day” card (the front).
Yes, we know we will get one. She has never fails to deliver. She spends days, in secret, working on these. That I was gone for 3 days last week (to the ‘Bold Coast‘) made it easier for her to get it done without me seeing it.
Suffice to say, I am delighted, proud & grateful. Some of her new works are stunning. But, she does NOT like me publicizing them.