Tinted Lady

Several days ago I used Sheer Heaven® to transfer some images of women to watercolor paper. This was fairly rough textured paper instead of the smooth surface recommended by the makers of SH. After transferring the images, I noticed that a good bit of ink was still on the SH. I decided to use it instead of throwing it away. This ATC is made with one of those spent SH images, which I later colored with pencils on the rough side. I placed the rough, painted side against the background so that the smooth side was up. The background behind the figure has been embossed with gold powders. In the upper left corner is a small experiment. I used Golden soft gel over a printed picture and let dry overnight. Yesterday, I peeled off the paper and then rubbed the residual paper off the back. This little corner is but a small piece of my gel transfer material.

Volunteering

Today I started a new job. I'm going to be spending one morning a week volunteering at a local nursing home helping with activities. When I filled out the application, I had in my mind that I would be helping with arts and crafts. Today I wrote letters, chatted with some of the residents, met a lot of the staff, and helped pass out lunch plates and juice. One of the residents has the same interest in women mystery writers as I do, and we have read lots of the same books. That was fun. Another one, a man, has taken up sketching since he has been a resident. His works look a lot like colorful Zentangles. I have some black and white ones on my Wordpress blog. I told him about mine and plan to take them in next week. I think he'd enjoy doing that. I'm looking forward to next week to see what's been planned for activities then.

ATC for Swap

This ATC was made using Sheer Heaven® to transfer the image to the watercolor paper. I threaded yarn through her hands to show her working with wool to fit the scripture shown. This ATC is for a swap with the Christian Paper Artists Yahoo group. I love that Sheer Heaven for transferring images. See what I did with the used SH on my 360 blog (see link in my blogroll).

Iris

Here is a watercolor that I made a few months ago.

Background for Card

Well, thankfully we escaped any damage from the storms that came through in the night. The lights flickered off and on for a short time, but everything is sunny and clear today. DH has gone off to play golf (in this wind!) and I am delighted that my computer is still working. This is a background I made on a piece of double-sided card stock. The green side is the back. I put down blobs and streaks of gesso on the yellow side and let it dry overnight. Then I took some golden yellow and some yellowish green acrylic paints and lightly dabbed across the surface. I will probably use this for a greetings card although the width is 2.5 inches so I could get 2 ATCs out of it. I'll just have to see what it says to me later on. I wish you could feel the texture on this. Really neat.

Storms

I hear thunder and I know that we often lose our electric power around here. If no new posts appear for a few days, think of us here in the dark and cold and without water (we have a well).

Barn

This is one of my older oil paintings. I used to do a lot of barns and old wood paintings.

Fun New Art Supplies

I am so excited! My order from Create For Less arrived and I am having so much fun experimenting with the new Paper Accents® papers. I got glossy white, which I have used in making this card, and a variety pack with several grays, blacks, and whites of different finishes. I also got Rubber Stampede® mini ink pads in some gorgeous colors and some Urchida Wet Looks® clear embossing pens. The card was first misted with some alcohol inks. Then I used rubber stamps and my new inks. I love the high gloss finish to this card.