Faye's Adventures in Art: October 2014

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Most of these things you have seen before, maybe not all.

These are the things I hope to sell at the church bazaar on

November 8. The red box holds the greetings cards I have

made, some hand painted. Below is the display board I

made today to show off all the cards. This is what I am

A figment of my imagination done for Paint Party Friday.

This piece is on Strathmore 140#, 400 series. It comes bound in

a 6"x12" book, an unusual shaped page. And another one:

A card I made today with watercolor pencils

on watercolor paper. I had a friend over and

we did some sketching and painting. This is

This is a background paper I made this afternoon using

stencils and distress inks that I sponged onto card stock.

This will be two different backgrounds when I cut it.

This group collage from Jo's Saturday morning art class is

the effort of 5 artists as we tried out 12 or more prompts including gluing, stenciling,

drawing, painting, etc. It was one of the most fun exercises yet. This is the one

I started with and finished with as we passed each piece around the table round robin

style. My initial glue-ons were the 1890s woman and the castle/cathedral/? from St.

Petersburg. My favorite part of this is the painting of the yellow flowers by Marion.

Here are some different colorations using Pixlr:

Tuesday I took a relative in for a procedure. I passed the waiting time by sketching

with my watercolor pencils. The sketches were dampened with a brush

when I got home. These are being shown for Paint Party Friday.