I’m into Christmas – especially trees. Now that all my trees are up at home I decided to make a canvas of trees. This one is 18×24 and it came together faster than I ever imagined. I’ve been making lots of papers – just experimenting so there was a nice stash of choices for making my trees. Something unexpected happened while I was going through the papers – I used some of my absolute favorites that I had been saving for the “perfect” project. You might have guessed that I am an art supply hoarder – we all know the perfect project rarely comes along. Yeah- I might be letting go of perfect!!!!!
Thank you Leah and everyone I’ve met during Art Every Day Month. This was my first year participating and it has been a magical adventure. I completed more art in this one month than I have in the last 3 combined! This is a piece in progress – I felt it was a perfect background for my watercolor crayon “thanks” because of the ladies (and guys). AEDM is about art but mostly it is about the people – people willing to share their journey & encourage others. As an unexpected bonus I won a beautiful set of cards over at Tracey Fletcher King’s blog! Could this month get any better? I’m off to feverishly start signing up to follow blogs so I don’t miss out on future posts!
I finished up the background on this piece and I am now just enjoying it until my muse gives me a hint where to take it next. I must confess I tried to force the next step on this painting and my muse stormed out due to my impatience. Perhaps my impatience is coming from the reality that there is just a wee bit of time left in Art Every Day Month.
Used some number foam stamps I created. This felt like a gumball machine to me – not my goal…
A bit of gesso to calm down the gumballs & a leftover from a die cut.
Decided to create texture out of my scrap box.
The layers of paint, ink, really anything with in reach.
A stencil on the edge and now I’ll sit with it and see where to take it next.