Painted Papers

This week instead of painting flowers or faces I painted background papers to use for greetings cards. I started with brown grocery bag paper, soaked it, scrunched it, soaked it and scrunched it again. After flattening it out  I applied various shimmery and bright colored acrylic paints. I used a brayer lightly to connect the colors so that no brown bag showed. Too much brayer-ing and the colors would turn to mud. While the paint was still wet I dropped mini beads, glitter and glitter glue onto the surface. I sprayed them with hairspray to set the PearlEx I also added to the paints. The tan that looks like bag color is really a pinkish brown, formed by mixing a pink acrylic paint with a rust color one. I used too much paint. Next time the paint will be thinner so the colors are more distinct. This technique was borrowed from the blog of Sally T - HERE. I am posting these for Paint Party Friday challenge.

Garden View

These are my watercolor paintings I did this week for Paint Party Friday week 46.

I used photos as my launching off places.

Li'l Redhead's Valentine

Here is my Li'l Redhead holding her valentine card.

I am entering this in Mandarin Orange Monday challenge.

Li'l Redhead is a child I invented, based on my lovely redheaded

granddaughter, who is now 24. Li'l Redhead will always be a child. 

I've made many different paintings of Li'l Redhead through the years.

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Painting for PPF and TAW

Here is my watercolor of an older lady.

I am entering her in Take a Word - Wrinkles.

Here is a young woman dressed for winter.

Both of these were made while watching reruns

of Castle and NCIS on TV this week. I am having

trouble with my knee and I am limiting my trips up

and down the stairs. My art room is upstairs so I am

doing these in a journal using my pan watercolors

travel set. It is a challenge to make anything worth viewing.

I am entering this post in the Paint Party Friday challenge.

Word Art Wednesday

Water, wherever it is found, is so refreshing.

I love to hear the water rushing by as I fly fish.

Here is a watercolor painting I made a few years ago

of a lady flyfisher. I have digitally added today's scripture

and will enter this into Word Art Wednesday challenge.

Mandarin Orange Monday

Sketch of woman with orange hair done in my journal.

I'm entering this in Mandarin Orange Monday. This is

painted in watercolors.

Here is an early morning view of my backyard last week.

Watercolor Doodle in New Journal

Here is a watercolor that I doodled while watching TV.

I used a pad of mixed media 90# paper. Because the 

paper has no "tooth", the application of paint felt very

different from normal watercolor paper. I will use this

for making a greetings card. I am entering it in the 

Paint Party Friday challenge week 44, year 2.

Word Art Wednesday

Here is my entry for the 1/9/13  Word Art Wednesday Challenge.

I started with an ATC I had made some time ago,  

scanned it to the computer, and enlarged it to card

size. I digitally added the red border and the heart.

The scripture was also added digitally.

"Create in me a clean heart, O God, and

renew a right spirit within me."

Psalm 51:10