Three Wise Women...

Artist Trading Cards - Series of 3

Images courtesy of Kim at Paper & Digital Art.
I cut a background I had painted into small pieces, added gold tissue paper and images.

Inspired by three of my favorite women, very wise women, Helen Keller, Maya Angelou & Eleanor Roosevelt.

Enjoy!

From small beginnings...

From small beginnings come great things. -Proverb

Happy Monday, hope you had a great weekend.

Mine was great, spent time with Tyler, our oldest grandson, watched a bit of football and had many hours of creative time. Lots to share.

There is still time to comment here to win my "alphabet" giveaway.

Here's to a great week!

Go...

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. -Confucius

10 x 8 on watercolor paper

One of my new pieces, very bright! My favorite process, layers and layers of paints, oil pastels and ink.

Hope you have a fantastic weekend!

Life's a beach...

I would love to be at the beach right now but it will be another 24 weeks before we head to the Outer Banks. Our first vacation in 7 years and so looking forward to it.

Life's a beach is one of the current tag challenge themes at PDA...

Let's go for a swim

Creating faux sand is easy. Apply matte medium to the area you want sand and sprinkle with a light colored, course glitter. Once dry, paint with sand colored acrylic, I used a craft acrylic in peach. It looks like the real thing.

Have a wonderful evening, off to create.

Texture, Part 2...

There are many ways to create texture in your art and if you have been following my blog for a while, you know I love experimenting. Every time I sit at my worktable, I try something new, always experimenting.

Here is another process I like for creating texture and dimension...

I used a border strip from K&Co...

I cut the strip into pieces to fit my tag and then adhered with gel medium.

I then applied layers of acrylics and oil pastels in shades of red and yellows...

Embellished with a piece of scrap copper, a bead, ribbon and a Pentel Slicci pen.

Easy and fun, the way it should be.

Make sure you get entered for my giveaway, drawing will be done on February 1st.

All you have to do is comment on this post.

Hope you are having a great week.

Texture...

Texture is the theme for one of the current tag challenges at PDA.

There a many ways to bring texture to your art.

Here is one of my favorites...

I adhered a piece of a vintage sewing pattern to my tag using matte medium.

Once dry, I applied dimentional paint using a stencil.

Next, I applied two coats of acrylic paint, for this piece I used red and then blue.

Once the paint had dried, I applied a layer of gold. Sanded lightly, once dry, to expose the first two layers of paint.

She sang a little tune

Several tags and ATC's created this past weekend, it was a productive 2 days in the studio.

Hope you had a wonderful weekend, have a great week.

A giveaway...

The Artistic Alpha Challenge at PDA is going to be active for 2012 and I am so excited to be moderating. You can read all the details here.

To celebrate, I am giving away a box (a medium Priority Mail) filled with alphabet sets, stickers, chipboard, rub-ons, stencils, vintage dictionary pages and much more.

Here's a peek...

To enter to win, leave a comment on this post. The challenge at PDA begins on February 1st and I'll draw a winner then. This is a 10 month project and we would love to have you join us but that's not a requirement to win this giveaway, only a comment here is necessary.

Best of luck!

Live Simply...

Several weeks ago, I received 3 of these from a fellow artist...

She had issued a challenge at PDA to use them in our art.

I tried a few things, nothing was working, so I put them away.

Several days later, I was working on an ATC and was stuck. I wanted to add a stick pin and could not come up with a way to attach it and I thought about the "thingies" I had received. My original idea for the stick pin didn't pan out and then I had another thought...I cut off the black cord and used the silver piece as a little bucket. Added a few flowers (actually beads) and here it is...

Live Simply

Artist Trading Card

The image was a gift from Lee Weber.

Some things work better when taken apart.

Have a great weekend.

Dream...

10 x 8 on watercolor paper

layers upon layers of paints, pastels and paper.

Hope you are having a great week...dream!

Art...

Light tomorrow with today.

5 x 7 on watercolor paper

Image courtesy of Dover Publishing

I've been lucky to have so much time the last week or so to spend in my studio, it's been quite productive. A few more hours this morning and then it's back to work, have a few orders for Photography Art. Here's to a great day, hope yours is fabulous!