Happy Paint Party Friday! Painting with my fingers is pure joy. Using bright colors and seeing the paints blend is just happiness. My inner critic was getting too loud, so I decided to finger paint. No plan, no expectations, no goals. Just fun. After a few swirls and smudges, I saw a head. An imaginary [...]
Mixed Media
When it snows I am filled such a magnificent feeling, okay, only when I am at home, warm and safe. I do not feel this way about snowfalls when I am driving. I wanted to be reminded of my snow feelings so I decided to create a journal page. I began to flip through [...]
The kids now have a bit of color – more like a rainbow exploded on them…This paper was just cheap cardstock for the printer from the office store. Not art paper. I used watercolors and watercolor crayons. NO PILLING. SMOOTH. I have been working on a 3/4 face for the Lifebook class. I used watercolor [...]
I want to learn to draw, especially faces. So I signed up for Carla Sonheim’s class, Faces 101. I am drawing faces! I love how she structures her classes. My kids were willing models for my quick left handed with a sharpie sketch. They are such good sports. Emma’s eyes are actually right across from [...]
In my last post I showed you how I made background papers with gesso and slick stix. The papers obviously make great backgrounds but I also like to use it for die cuts. I cut a several at a time and then they are ready when the muse strikes. [...]
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! I took a few days off from the computer and I’ve missed it! This piece is just a big experiment. It started as layers of glossy magazine text and a die cut leftover randomly glued down. Then a thin layer of gesso. Then a bumble bee stencil. Ho [...]
Christmas preparations are consuming so much of my time that I had to work hard to find time for art today. But I found it!!! I’ve been playing with my spatula for spread colors. It has more control than a credit card and makes less mess than a brayer. To do this one I squirted [...]
Do you ever look at something and know you must cover it in paint? A cardboard box spoke to me. Once I had the painted the cardboard the tree die cut started whispering that it was just what I needed. Once I had the tree things just started jumping out at me. Oh, my, this [...]
My Paint Party Friday piece with only 3 Colors? Really? I doubted Diana Trout when she taught a class on using only 3 colors. I shouldn’t doubt her. She changed my world – I am now in love the 3 primary colors. I did learn the hard way that cheap paints don’t color mix as [...]
It’s been a slave shop here getting ready for Christmas. I had this crazy idea to paint the gift boxes (okay, amazon boxes, old book boxes, any fun box I’ve found). Why bother with so much wrapping paper when I could paint them. Out came my stencils, stamps, and paint. I had boxes everywhere [...]
