I’ve started working on my first of several Vacation Journals. This one will cover the PARIS portion of my trip. So from all my memorabilia I selected 10 pictures, and other related stuff, ticket stubs, a map, and a brochure. Now I will turn the pictures into postcards, where I will be doing my travel […]
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Dear friends, I apologize for my tardiness, but April calendar is finally up. There is one open class being offered this month, as I am shopping for a new venue to teach classes from. The two other weekends I am booked for private events. However I am planning two new classes for May, so please […]
Happy Birthday Alexandra!! This birthday girl chose an “Under the Sea” theme for her painting experience with her friends for her 12th birthday. Each girls’ creativity resulted in a unique mermaid keepsake from the party. Nice job ladies !!
The ugly bulletin board is now complete and ready to use, a perfect compliment to my workspace AND it sports my business brand.
One of the goals and challenges I made for the new year was to take the spare bedroom and create a workspace for myself. After sorting through boxes of stuff stored in there, some good and some not so useable, I moved the furniture around as well. Now I felt I could be happy working in […]
These fine artists each heard the same information, and yet their interpretations resulted in unique portrait paintings.
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. this group af artists experimented with several watercolor techniques to interpret their vision of a path through a wooded […]
Another fun night with a great group of people at our Paint and Pour class. Last night these folks explored warm and cool colors in a Fall setting. With an Ombre blended background, each person created their own interpretation of Birch trees changing colors for the cool weather.
I really liked the way my Birch trees looked in the last step. But I decided to take a risk and go one step further. I added Fall leaves. Just dabs of color here and there, stopping to assess after each addition if that was enough. Gotta know when to stop. Now I stop, and […]
. After the background, I add trees. White lines that are thick, thin, and anything in-between. These are going to be white bark Birch trees. A few stray thin lines for branches, and the trees are in. A light gray painted down the side of the trunk and branches for shadowing. And finally the […]