Another Fun Art Play Day

Another art day with Laura at my house.

First we played with alcohol inks on glossy

cardstock, blowing the inks with air through

drinking straws. Then we switched over

to watercolors. The first 3 are mine and

the last one is Laura's. I still haven't got

the hang of painting birds yet. I think I 

can paint but not draw very well. That could

be the problem. Anyway, this is my

contribution to Paint Party Friday.

Foam Board Painting

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Last Saturday in the Mixed Media class, Jo gave us each

a 12"x30" piece of foam board to play with. I have done

an acrylic paint rendition of a skirt a friend wore to church

a couple of weeks ago. I tried mainly to capture the colors

and think I got pretty close. My painting looks much more

like the skirt than I can make it show up on my blog.

Below is the skirt. This is my entry for Paint Party Friday.

I think I could have put more dark green in my painting,

but at this point I could easily ruin it by overworking it.

I'll probably just leave it as it is.

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Art for Paint Party Friday

This poppy was done by looking at the example

in the book by Wendy Tait called Watercolour Flowers.

She had tracings of her flowers, which I did not use, but

she encouraged new painters to use them. I followed her

step by step instructions and came up with this poppy.

This is a background that I made in the class I take

on Saturdays, taught by Joanna. I used part of a

newspaper flyer to do this, first coating it with gesso.

I made this Christmas card using stencils

and acrylic paints. It has lots of shiny areas.

These are my entries for Paint Party Friday.

Altered Book Plus

I did a little work in my altered book this week. I have

about half dozen double pages to go till it is done.

This quote by Busch says:

"Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say the unsayable."

Thanks to Jo for the neat quote.

And here are a couple of watercolors I made.

Visit Paint Party Friday to see some really wonderful art.

Watercolors this Week

 This is a flower I did on Thursday

while doing art with art friend Laura.

I should probably stick with flowers since

my birds look like comic book characters.

These are my Paint Party Friday entries.

This is what Laura, my art pal made today.

She has just started playing with watercolors so I was

so proud of her for this beautiful flower.

In real life the petals have more red in them

but I couldn't adjust the color without making

the green really weird looking.

And finally 2 more I did while watching TV tonight.

Entry for WAW

This beautiful scripture text was given to use

for this week's Word Art Wednesday entries.

This is a painting I did last year.

Watercolor Fun

This is the watercolor I am using for Word Art Wednesday.

This watercolor was done Wednesday while Masayo

was visiting and learning to paint with watercolors.

And lastly for this week, a little flower I did

Thursday night. I'm loving this painting flowers.

Visit Paint Party Friday to see lots of paintings.

Word Art Wednesday

I haven't entered Word Art Wednesday in a long time.

I love the idea of using scripture in my art so I am placing

this in this week's WAW challenge.