Using Deli Papers

After receiving Susan's wonderful gift, which included some deli papers,

which I had never seen before, I decided to go online and watch a video

of someone actually painting on them. The one I chose was by

Marilyn J. Rock and it was in two parts. I followed most of her technique,

even to having a spare sheet to wipe paint off my tools onto. She called the

second sheet a serendipity sheet. I did some stamping on mine and also used

a bit of Perfect Pearls. Both the original and the serendipity sheets will be used

as background papers for my greetings cards. This is my entry for Paint Party Friday.

I also worked on drawings while I had craft friends over Wednesday. Below is

what I did. The sunset looked like it could be "beautified" with Photoshop

Elements, so that is what the last piece is.

Giveaway Prize! from Susan

Susan had a giveaway on her blog and I won one of

the most fabulous prizes. Not only was the gift wonderful,

the wrapping is hand-decorated/painted paper and is a

special gift all to itself! Thanks so much, Susan.

Hibiscus in Water Mixable Oils

A gremlin got into my computer. When I painted Valerie's 

hibiscus last time, it was in watercolors, not oils as I had said.

You can see the watercolor version HERE.

 Here I started another painting using Valerie-Jael's lovely

hibiscus photo (with permission). only this time it IS in water mixable

oil paints. Below are the steps in finishing it. There is a bit of

camera distortion in the final photo, and I decided it needed a touch

of pink to balance on the right. This is my entry for Paint Party Friday.

Happy Paint Party Friday, y'all!

Word Art Wednesday

I am using a background made by smashing leaves and flowers

between two pieces of watercolor paper. The pounding was done by me a

few years ago and kept on file on my computer for uses such

as this. I have used Photoshop Elements to make this digital

card to show this wonderful scripture and to enter 

word art wednesday challenge.

WIP and Doodle

I am doing another painting of the hibiscus but changing the

locations of some of the leaves.  This version is being done

in water soluble oil paints. From now on, whenever I say I

am doing something in oils, it will be the water mixable kind.

Almost all my regular oil paints have dried up. The background

color is a very dark green, not black as it looks here.

That is a copy of Valerie-Jael's hibiscus photograph above.

She graciously allowed me to use it.

Here is a phone doodle. I can't remember who I was

talking to, but the message must have been scary!

Below is where I cleaned it up and colored it using

Photoshop Elements. These are my PPF entries this week.

Pure playing with PearlEx, Perfect Pearl and other stuff 

got me this background…

Using an online program, I got this:

Using Photoshop Elements, I came up with this:

Word Art Wednesday - Old Barn

This is an old oil painting I did  that I have digitally

added this week's scripture to for WAW.

Hibiscus in Watercolors - Paint Party Friday

This is my one biggie for the week. I started it Monday

morning thinking I would work on it a little bit each day.

However, I got so caught up in the painting that I went on

and finished it that day. I am entering it in the PPF challenge.

For some steps I took in painting this go HERE.

I used one of Valerie-Jael's photos with her permission

as my jumping off starting place for the 9"x12" painting.

Word Art Wednesday

This is an old oil painting I did and have hanging

on my dining room wall. I have digitally added

this marvelous scripture for the WAW challenge.

And here is another painting, a watercolor, to illustrate

the same scripture.