Of mothers day cards, monkeys and hairstyles

I couldn't think of a card design that I liked (okay, maybe I was too lazy to look for blank cards) so I did a oil pastel for my mother on watercolor paper instead. 

I guess I like to do this kind of stuff rather than cards.

And once you get out the oil pastels it's hard to stop! I did a monkey as well. I modeled it after a sock monkey I have. Reminds me of Paul Gauguin's paintings because of the color contrast. If you don't know who that is, look him up!

This isn't really my art, it's my friend's. She did  my hair for a dance I went to, but it is like art... you take damp hair and twist it from the front then bobby pin it into random swirls. My hair stood 3 inches off my head when I took it out!