Painting

  • Big canvas, part II

    This will be part of the painting I started a couple days ago.  The boat will be cut out & all the little words {from a Dave Matthews song} will find their place along the girl's skirt.  Ok, back to the work table ~ just wanted to show you this bit!   ♥

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  • Messy Fun

    I still have dried gel medium on my hands from squishing out air bubbles caught between the paper & canvas!  This is one of the 12"x36" canvases I purchased while still on my creative high from Art Nest back in February.  I was so inspired to continue creating that I ordered them online while I

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  • Finished & Revisited

    Blue dress girl is done!  The text up in the corner says "A fountain of leaves".  Not sure what that means in the context of the painting, but I found the words in a poetry book and was inspired to use them. While I was out photographing that painting in the backyard, I spied my

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  • Wedding Season

    Shower ideas, anyone?  I'm so excited that my friend Meg is getting married this summer & that she's letting me throw her a shower.  Now I just have to figure out what's suppose to happen at a shower!  I seem to recall a game where wedding dresses are made out of toilet paper, but after

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  • Anonymous

    She won't be anonymous forever, but my girls always look so weird in this stage.  I feel like I should have assorted stickers of eyes & noses to decorate her with.  Like a Mrs. Potato Head!  I do like the texture happening in her dress though.  I scrunched up some thin tissue paper from a

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  • K is for Kettle

    Toot, Toot!  The kettle is singing that the water is ready.  :o) I wasn't sure what to paint when I sat down this evening, but knew I wanted to do something with this little 6×6" canvas.   I rolled on some color with my brayer, dried that layer with my heat gun, then put on a

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  • Spring Girl

     A tiny piece of watercolor paper + my Caran d'Ache Neocolor II Artists' Crayons + a little inspiration by way of some $1 frames from Michaels = I love a tiny frame.  ♥

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  • Matilda, the problem child.

    This is Matilda a.k.a. "ice cream hair girl". The color scheme ended up being kind of chocolate/cherry.  I've dubbed her my problem child in this post because this is about the 5th version of this box!  She just wouldn't come together and honestly, I'm still not sure she's quite right.  Hmmm.  Maybe she's too pale

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  • Yep, still boxing…

    Unlike yesterday's box,  I have no back-story to tell about yoga inspiring me for this girl.  And even if I did, there would surely be no photographic evidence!  :)   I think of her less as a self-portrait and more of a person to become.  A future-self portrait maybe.  Here's a better look at her with

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  • Box #2

    Finished my second little box this afternoon!  I've always liked my scuba girl & her snapping crab friend, so it was fun to revisit this one.  I added a few details with my gel marker that aren't in the original + I'm happy with how the sides of this box came out…kind of a dappled

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