German Mill - posterized

German Mill - posterized
Originally uploaded by hastingshall2

I used the Photoshop Elements software to make a digital picture of one of my oil paintings. My original painting was made from a photo we took on a trip to Germany a number of years ago and was shown on my 360 Yahoo blog for September 18, 2007.

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First Grade Art

Long ago and far away back in the dark ages first graders were taught not only to read, write and do numbers they were also taught important skills such as sewing. One of the projects required of my class was to make by hand a doll and something else. Here is some of my first school artwork. I suspect I had a little help but most of the hand sewing on these lovely pieces was done by a six year old.

Colored Doodle

This wild bit of art is the result of a phone call I got night before last. My talky friend kept me tied to the kitchen phone for over an hour. As usual, I began to doodle. Then I realized my brand new set of 30 Sharpies was within reach. I found a photo that was not a good image in the desk and started covering up the image with Sharpie colors. This is the result. I would say that it is very close to being a colored Zentangle

Uncle Robert and Leslie

This greetings card is made up of an alcohol ink/magazine page background. The reversed image in the foreground is a transfer I made of a photo - vintage 1930. My Uncle Robert is standing in front of his car, parked by the old home place's porch. He is holding his baby brother Leslie. Just a few years later Robert got to travel. He was in the U. S. Navy stationed on Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay during World War II. Leslie didn't travel much as he died at age 13, but he was a very unusual young man. Leslie had many talents including building a crystal radio from scratch. I also remember that he could play the Jew's Harp and do puzzles. He was a hard worker and assisted his parents in maintaining their stall at the Farmer's Market on weekends. Here is the picture I did the transfer from.

Easter Sunday

My mother's grandfather's sister, Eliza Belle Weir, a Canadian born in 1855, married John Reid, a Scot. Auntie Belle was a character, a society lady, a poet, a Robert Burns fan, and an artist. She held Bobbie Burns teas and sent out hand-drawn and -inscribed invitations. Every holiday and every important family event was an occasion for one of her hand-painted cards. I am fortunate to have a number of her cards. Here is one entitled Easter Thoughts. The shape of the card is the pansy. I put a blue card behind it to make it show up better.

Jesus said in Luke 19:10: "The Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost."
Have a wonderful day!

My Sisters

Happy Easter to my sisters! Wish you were here.

Time Flies

This is a greetings card I made. I can make it into a birthday card or a missing you card or a thinking of you card, depending on who I decide to send it to. Some of my cards are made especially and only for a certain person. Some of them are made to be adapted to a suitable person later on.

Backgrounds

Here are some backgrounds I made today using acrylic paints, luminiere paints, gold buff-n-rub wax, and some Pearl-Ex mica powders. The scans don't do justice to the sheen and the iridescence of the luminiere paints and the Pearl-Ex. I'll probably them for greetings card backgrounds.