Mandarin Orange Monday #12

I am entering this watercolor in this week's Mandarin Orange Monday challenge. I am new to this challenge, but I do use orange quite a bit in my paintings.

Art Work for this Week

The jar was a deliberate sketch but the girl was a phone doodle. Both were colored later with watercolor paints. These are my entries for Paint Party Friday.

The 3 Muses - Bird

My entry for the Three Muses challenge this week is a digital piece. The background was the entry I used for last Fridays PPF challenge. I did a bit of altering via Photoshop Elements. The bird scene is a freebie from Dover. The tree and the maple leaves are digital brushes. 

So Artful Challenges - colors

Purple, fuchsia, lime green and turquoise is the color combination challenge for So Artful Challenges this week. I just laid down those color inks on my craft sheet and placed my white sheet of paper over it to absorb those fantastic colors.  It does look like a Magic Garden, which is the alternate theme.

PPF - 9-21-12

This week has been incredibly busy with medical visits.So for Paint Party Friday I fell back into dropping inks on a wet sheet and blowing the colors around with air from a drinking straw. Then after drying the sheet, I found areas that looked like flowers and leaves and outlined them in white gel pen (photo 1). To finish off this piece, I went to my Photoshop Elements and inverted the colors (photo 2). It may be a while before I can visit around, but I will definitely see what the other Paint Party Friday artists have been up to. Please forgive my meager offering this week. 

And here is a shoe I've drawn in my sketchbook. Maybe another painting in progress.

Misty Autumn Glaze - TIO

Here is a camera shot of my tag for TIO, where we were given a "recipe" for the challenge: tag, real stamp, mists or sprays, autumn colors, glaze of some sort. I started with a plain white cardstock tag, punched corners, sprayed with malachite, mulberry, and bronze Moon Shadow Mists, stamped with distress inks using my maple leaf stamp, and then adhered some punched out oak leaves that had also been sprayed with Moon Shadow Mists. The two light color leaves were treated with Crystal Effects glaze.

One Stop - Let's Bake a Cake

One Stop challenge is Let's bake a cake! I have drawn and colored with my water soluble crayons a birthday scene with cake and balloons. This is my entry for the challenge.

Paint Party Friday

My painting project this week consisted of using Moonshadow sprays. Some flower punch outs, some butterfly punch outs from Merrie and some plastic mesh also from Merrie were used as masks for the spraying. The sheet is the normal computer paper size. Below that is a man's card I made from part of the paper I made. Below that is a doodle I did, which I painted digitally. Another look at the homemade background paper can be seen in the post before this one. I am entering my painted paper and doodle in the Paint Party Friday challenge.