I have had more than my share of blog tech troubles, but I’ve reinstalled, updated, etc etc and I should be back in the game now :) So rather than recap the past, I’m just going to start fresh.
I worked my shift at the gallery today, and while it was a quiet Sunday morning, I pulled my trusty travel watercolors out of my purse and played around. Of course a weed grew on my page… I’m still in that kick, so I decided to have fun with it and use all kinds of colors on the leaves.
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I was craving the cool feel of clay today. I have started relief domes done by a new method I just learned. I’ll keep posting my progress.
I’m a day late taking pictures because the light was too bad last night. This is the last of my cards for a while… I’m pretty well stocked up. These little gems have ‘snow’ on them. Too cute.
Tonight I hope to get to my beads and work on some jewelry.
I love the pom poms but they are a bit too big for this stamp. I’m using some anyway because they are cute. I need some time to work on my art or jewelry, but all I can squeeze in right now are my cards.
Here we are at day 4. I missed day 3 because I was out of town all day, but I did shop for art supplies, so that counts right? LOL
Today I’m working on greeting cards. Here are some in progress. A stamp by Memory Box with watercolors. Today I ordered teeny tiny pom poms today for thier hats. OMG they will so cute. I’ll show pics when they are complete.
I have a wee bit of purple to add in yesterday’s painting, under a flower, on the advisement of my teacher, but I’m not working on that today.
Today I started a new painting… because it was class day. Today we did wet on wet. I forgot to sketch something out ahead of time, so I decided to whip up something cute for my g-baby, Ava. Maybe she would like an owl for her wall?
OK, so this is NOT finished… it’s about mid-way. Several layers of color have been gingerly painted on all-over wet paper, ‘willy nilly’ style. Then I started to define the owl a bit more, bringing out his eyes a bit. Next I’ll do leaves and maybe some fun flower shapes on it’s body. For class we were suposed to leave this strictly paint on paper, but I might have to add some fun things with a pen and maybe a dash of acrylic. I’m a mixed-media gal after all, so I gotta do what the heart tells me, lol.
I’ll post more, next week when I get around to finishing it.
Peace out and THANK YOU for visiting!
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Well I thought I was finished this watercolor, but I can’t leave well enough alone. I’m still working on it and this is what I have so far…
… from an unbelievable week in the gallery. A great guy came into the gallery to furnish his vacation rentals with local art. He’s purchased several pieces from our gallery already and yesterday was my lucky day. I had hung new work on Monday, and he loved all the color and purchased 2 of my biggest pieces. Then I got a phone call this morning and he commissioned another painting. I’m thrilled beyone measure! I will have 3 paintings in his vacation rentals. Sweet.
All my pottery acorns sold on Etsy last night too. And I sold a mixed-media beach haning and a small ‘weeds’ painting the other day. Phew! Looks like I can pay the rent after all, LOL.
I’ve been practicing gratefulness and the power of positive thinking and it’s working. I’ve also been sure to do some give-aways, art for charity auctions, etc – because it’s important to give back. Karma is rewarding me, which is a real treat!!! and a switch ;)
What’s a gal to do when when she’s sick with an icky cold? Scrub acorn caps. My eyes are too watery to draw or paint, and if you can believe it my studio is clean, so there’s nothing to do there. So I decided to fit my acorn caps to my pottery acorns.
I have new series in the works… I’m going to share some of the special elements I use in my mixed-media art. I will be offering hand crafted elements like the glazed pottery acorns with real acorn caps. I collected some caps last fall, so today I figured was a good day for scrubbing, since I’m sick with this darn cold. Dirt and germs be gone! I made the acorns using red clay and white clay and have glazed them with a variety of glazes ranging from matte & earthy, to shiny with crackles. I really love they are turning out.
Update! – I have some listed in the shop now.
I just finish this new painting.
