I’ve been so busy working diligently on two paintings at once. My mermaid painting is almost complete, I hit a wall on what I want to do to finish off her background and the colors I chose are pretty unique in themselves to it’s making the task a bit more challenging than I had first thought. I hope to have her completed by Friday and posted here for you to see. She’s a little sweetheart with a love for the fermented grape. =) The other painting I’m working on is very wood-burned intensive. I know that that one is going to turn out fabulous. I smile every time I look at it. I need a way to organize my embellishments so they are categorized and in one place so that I can find what I’m looking for in a snap. I have very limited space for now and keep buying stacking storage drawers to keep my supplies in. The only place I have to grow is UP ~(I don’t wanna grow up..I’m a Toys R Us Kid!) and I’m only 5’1″ so I’ll need a step ladder soon to reach some of my supplies. Hmm.. I wonder if stilts would help! Hehe
Here are the two awards I received for my blog from Lisa at Simple Journeys. I will be spreading the love of these treasures among the talents bloggers that I’ve been running across over the last year soon. For now I wanted to share with you how special these wonders are.
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These are my very first blog award and I’m hoping that by sharing them with you you’ll feel inspired to post here so that I can visit your blogs and share the love of the awards with you all. I have very few people who add comments to my entries here and I would really love to get to know my readers. We are all in this together! Lets share the creative juices and grow as a community and friends! God Bless and I hope to read posts from you all very soon.
With Valentines Day just around the corner I was inspired to celebrate it a bit early by painting this sweet little cupid. She’s ready and waiting to draw back her bow and let go of her first arrow of the year. Love is the greatest gift of all! For this painting I did a red wash on the background letting the grain of the wood show through. I used pink with glaze added to allow the red to show through and to help soften the painting. Red and pink hearts are stamped around the background using acrylic paints. Tissue paper was added as well, the collaged paper across the top is actually a Christmas Kleenex. I added brads which I removed the backs of, a wooden button painted pink with iridescents, painted jute for the string on the bow, and the arrow tip is a metal heart sticker. The bow is painted with texture medium and glossed over with black acrylic paint. The painting was topped with a light spackling of white acrylic paint that was thinned down with water. This was FUN! I really enjoyed the process of this whole painting and have started another one that is titled “Free Indeed.” I can’t wait to finish it so I can show you. I’m off to paint! Happy creating!
Fourth and final in my mixed media collage canvas series. This one’s titled Cross Your Heart. This starts with lots of layers on the background, similair to Pretty In Pink. I used mulberry paper as a background for the collage paper and a LoVe run-on. The heart is cut from cardboard and layered with more collage paper. I used an awl to prepunch holes for sewing with to make the task easier. Using metallic gold embroidery thread I blanket stitched around the heart and at th bottom I wrapped threads around and use tacky glue to set them. Using the trimming for my sewing I added a layer of golden threads to anchor the piece. I topped off the upper corners with gold leafing and beeswaxed and buffed the painting. All that’s left is to add the hangers. I’m going to be doing a series of three now on 5×7 canvases with a whimsical bird theme. I’m also working on a Les Petite Dolls painting for Valentines. What’s on your easel!?
