WAW #56 & PPF #38

This is a background painted in acrylic paints with some rubbing gold wax added. I outlined some parts with white gel pen. After painting a couple of things and rubbing them back off, I decided to smear some gesso over part of it. Then I digitally added the scripture given to us by Word Art Wednesday.

Just on a whim, I used my Photoshop Elements to invert the colors. This is far more dramatic than the original coloration. I am entering this in Word Art Wednesday. This is the only painting I have done this week since I'm busy wrapping Christmas gifts for mailing and writing notes in my Christmas cards. So I am also going to enter this in the Paint Party Friday #38 too.

Marmalade Orange Monday

For Marmalade Orange Monday challenge I am submitting this digital art entry.

Sources of images and/or digital stamps:

Dezinaworld

Junibears

Annika Holdt

Dover Publications

Paint Party Friday - two entries

I feel like this is not a legitimate entry since I have only a little of paint in this post. The boxes are hand stamped and constructed of 2 pieces of cardstock each. I am showing only four of the ones I made. Inside are the Christmas gifts for the wonderful ladies in the Bible study class I lead each week.

Tonight our granddaughter who is doing research for her PhD in Chemistry at Cal Berkeley called us to wish us Happy Thanksgiving. Before I knew it I had doodled this girl, which I later painted with watercolors. I decided that I'd show this off at Paint Party Friday.

Happy Thanksgiving Day to All!

Psalm 34:1 is the theme scripture for this week's 

Word Art Wednesday.

PPF - Li'l Redhead's Portrait

Li'l Redhead is someone I created when my redheaded granddaughter was a child. Unfortunately, she never looks exactly the same so I am assuming that at different ages, Li'l Redhead looks a bit different. I did this large portrait this week and am entering it in the Paint Party Friday challenge. I may go back and outline it as the other pictures of her are done.

Word Art Wednesday #54

This lovely ballerina is from Graphics Fairy. I thought she looked as if she could be dancing before the LORD. Please click on the image to read the scripture text better.

This entry was made digitally using a doodle I had done and colored and put onto my computer plus a digital copy of a card I had made for another challenge. For some reason I named this girl Becky when I drew her. I believe Becky is very happy and feels like dancing.

These are my entries for Word Art Wednesday, where the theme is Psalm 30: 11-12.

PPF and Artekarten

This abstract of tree leaves against the sky was made using acrylic paints, some of which were shiny with mica. The text is added digitally.  I am entering this in Paint Party Friday.

This second version has hand written script, a part of the poem Trees by Joyce Kilmer and is being entered in Art Cards Challenge.

Fun with ATCs - Fashion

Fun with ATCs theme this week is Fashion. I have used a background I made using gesso and sprays plus a few scraps of texts. The image of Audrey Hepburn is from Dover Publication freebies.

Mandarin Orange Monday #17

These trees are in my front woods, enhanced just a tad with Photoshop Elements. Some years they are actually this vivid. This is my entry for Mandarin Orange Monday.

Metal tape

This was made using metal duct tape. Merrie told me about this method. Her example can be seen on Christian artists.

Tag it On - Butterflies, Motion

Because my stamped and cut out butterfly is 3-D, I had to photograph rather than scan my tag for Tag it On challenge. The challenge is to use self-propelled flowers (butterflies) and motion. The background music is stamped in Distress inks. The background butterflies and flora are sponged Distress inks using a stencil.

Paint Party Friday

Wednesday my former college roommate and long time friend called from Mississippi to see if we had gotten through the hurricane Sandy safe and sound. After I assured her that we were very fortunate and had not even lost power, we began to compare notes about our children and grandchildren. 

The longer we talked the more I doodled on a post-it note pad (see doodle above). I was tethered to the kitchen wall phone so my tools were limited. I found a green metallic gel pen, a red Sharpie, a black pen, a pink highlighter marker and a yellow highlighter marker. After we hung up I saw that this was actually pretty good, so I cut it out to enter this week's Paint Party Friday.