Lily for PPF

This has been a relatively non-creative week. I did

do a watercolor painting of the lily that was in the

bunch of flowers I had bought for myself.

Below is the watercolor lily.

Then I tried to do the lily with oil pastels, a medium

I am completely baffled by.

This is a sketch with digital coloring via Photoshop Elements.

Next is a photo taken from my kitchen window.

 

Here is a photo to show how kids had fun in 1937.

I am the child on the far left. My sister is next to me.

My uncle Leslie and aunt Anne are on the right

And an old digital piece I made some time ago.

Lastly, I helped out in the children's Sunday School

with the craft activity last week. I took my embossing

folder and Texture Boutique embossing machine.

None of the children or other teachers had seen this

done before, so it was a really big hit. Here is the

results of our efforts.  I'm joining the artists at 

Paint Party Friday with this post.

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Paint Party Friday

More photos of the Legos exhibit and my granddaughter.
The wall "paintings" shown above and last week were more
impressive to me than the 3D figures.

 Doodle using colored pencils and mineral spirits

 First attempt at colored pencils and mineral spirits

 Intuitive painting in watercolors

 Lily using colored pencils and mineral spirits

Another ethereal watercolor
subject to your interpretation:

sky with mountains in fog?

sky and water?

sky and green foreground?

 And one last attempt at using the Prismacolor pencils.

Thanks to Eva and Kristin for so

generously devoting their time to

giving us Paint Party Friday to enjoy.


Since posting these,  I have found some tutorials
on using colored pencils and some blending techniques.
Next time I try, I think they will be much better.
Today's were all my own trial and error efforts.

Skimpy Art Week

My granddaughter and I did watercolors almost every

day she was visiting me . These 2 are mine.

 Here are some photos taken at 

Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden

and the Legos exhibit.

I'm late getting to Paint Party Friday because I have

been without electricity, water, and telephone for

about twelve hours. PTL, everything is back in service!

Bear Sighting

Last night around 10:30 I heard what sounded like 2 dogs

in distress, as if they had gotten caught in a trap. So I

got into my car and drove around the neighborhood.

Seeing nothing extraordinary, I came home and double

locked the doors. Today I got an email from a near

neighbor who had just seen a bear run through her

backyard. When I called my neighbor next door, he

said he also saw said bear as it ran across the road

and into the woods behind our house.

We live in a small, 34 house subdivision  in a rural area, 

and we have never had a bear visit us. Maybe a fox but

never a bear. We live about a mile as the crow

flies from the James River and bears do travel

along the river, they say. This has shaken my

sense of safety although I know the bear is

probably more afraid of people than the other

way around. If I could draw a bear to illustrate

this event I would do that. I can't draw animals.

So here is a watercolor to show mountains, which
we are about two hours away from and we know
"the bear went over the mountain" (I hope).

The bear went over the mountain.
The bear went over the mountain.
The bear went over the mountain
to see what he could see.
To see what he could see,
To see what he could see.
Oh, the bear went over the mountain
to see what he could see.

Gabrielle's Graduation

Granddaughters Ashley and Gabby

Gabby with her mother Rise and stepdad,  my son

Gabby in recessional

Gabby with her half brothers

Paint Party Friday

Having fun with my granddaughter from California this

week so it may be a while before I get to visit the

Paint Party Friday blogs. Also my step granddaughter

is graduating this week from high school. Busy week.

Watercolors, "Brushes", and Other Art

 The first pansies painting is with watercolors;
the one below oil pastels.

Here I made a Photoshop Elements brush from the pansy painting

and made this digital card from the resulting "stamping".

 This is a very quick watercolor I made this morning.

This is a digital "brush" I made of one of my watercolors.

Here is the brush I made from the painting I did of Valerie's sunrise.

This was done this afternoon on a watercolor card,

looking at an example in Wendy Tait's

Watercolour Flowers. Although I drew my

fuchsias freehand, she includes in her book patterns

of her flowers for beginners to trace and paint.

She also gives very detailed, step-by-step instructions on

how to achieve a decent looking painting even if the

painter is a beginning artist.

Visit Paint Party Friday to see what other artists have been doing

this week. Many thanks to Kristin and Eva for hosting this event.