Happy Fourth of July

Wishing all the US folks a happy holiday. Some of you

will be getting a long weekend. I don't expect to do anything

special although in years past I have enjoyed band concerts

and the fireworks that followed.

My art life is in the pits. I only did a few doodles,

which I am showing below. Thanks, Eva and Kristin,

for making Paint Party Friday possible.

Journal Pages

With no classes this week I am pretty much artless,

except that I decided to work in my art journal.

Here are 3 spreads that I am posting for

PAINT PARTY FRIDAY,

hosted by the wonderful Eva and Kristin.

On the last one I used an old English Lit textbook pages

and glued them to the journal. The primary colored part

is painted deli paper.

A Rose

This was another artless week except for the little

bit of mixed media Saturday, which I will show

at another time, and this watercolor rose,

which I painted because I was feeling guilty

about my lack of art lately. I am posting this

for Paint Party Friday.

My heart goes out to those affected by

the horrible high rise apartment fire.

I can't imagine how a building can go up

in flames so rapidly, trapping all those people.

Mixed Media Again

 I'm still in the reading mood, not painting.

In our mixed media class we started painting backgrounds

for the Art Abandonment Project. I probably won't be leaving

my "art" anywhere for people to pick up but I did do the painting.

Here is what I painted for my background.

I then cut two pieces from this and glued them onto

some advertising cards I had gotten in the mail.

(see lower center and left of the above photo)

At home I added the scraps from magazines and gel pens and got 

these 2 pieces of give-away art for the Art Abandonment Project.

Thanks to Eva and Kristin each week for providing

this platform for artists to show their works at

PAINT PARTY FRIDAY.

Journal Pages

Since watercolor class doesn't resume til July,

I have been working with acrylic paints in my journal.

"This world is but a canvas to our imagination." Henry David Thoreau

I finished up this spread from last week, adding stronger colors and captions.

This was what I did in mixed media class Saturday.

"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection." Michelangelo

Thanks to the hard work of Kristin and Eva we can

share our work each week on Paint Party Friday.