Where did the Time go this Week?

It seems impossible that it is time for Paint Party Friday

again. My, how fast this week has flown by. Thanks to

Eva and Kristin for hosting this amazing party each week.

Here is what I did in Monday's watercolor class.

And here is another phone doodle:

Last Saturday we worked in our journals in Jo's

mixed media class at A C Moore.  Here is what I did:

Today Laura came to do crafts with me.

We made a lot of die cuts for her to use in making cards.

Then we painted. 

These are our intuitive paintings.

Laura's

Mine

A  watercolor I made today.

Hot, Humid Weather!

When it's too hot and humid to be outside, having a

place and the time to do art is a lifesaver!

This week's watercolor class was not a success for me.

I saw a few of the other students just taking off on

their own, not trying to follow the photo or sketch

that the instructor provided. The sketch was done in

very light pencil and copied so it was undecipherable.

The photo didn't look sharp to me but it may have been

my eyes. I made an attempt in class. Then I came home

and made mine into a pen and ink plus watercolor,

instead of just the watercolor painting.

class photo

sketch provided by the teacher

Here's as far as I got in class:

And here is what I finished it up as when I got home:

And another gladiola painting for a birthday card.

Then I did a few mountain scenes:

My luncheon turned out to be a big success with the

ladies loving their bookmarks that I had made.

Sorry I missed last week but I really was too tired

to visit so I decided to skip the party at Paint Party Friday.

However, here is one last watercolor done in last week's class.

And a phone doodle from the call from my

sister in Arkansas. 

Happy Paint Party Friday!

Join us over at Paint Party Friday. Kristin and Eva

work hard every week to give us this blog

to show what art we have been doing.

When I saw our class project in the Watercolor Class Monday,

I cringed. It was an animal we were painting. A ram. The main object 

of that lesson was getting the wool to look soft and fluffy.

Other than that and the phone doodle below, I didn't do much

art this week except for making greetings cards.

The kaleidoscope  painting below was something

I created in my mixed media (acrylics) class for my journal.

She wanted us to design a mandala. Since I am not

"into" mandalas, I am calling this a kaleidoscope image.

kaleidoscope image

phone doodle

 I did make a load of bookmarks for my Bible study ladies
who will be coming to my house for lunch in a week.
Here is what I made. They were very labor intensive,
much more than they appear to be.

And finally a WIP of my daughter-in-law's. She is making
this steppingstone for a wedding gift. She poured the
cement and embedded this silver picture frame of a
car and the "jewels". She is going to draw a bride and groom
inside the car and put their first names on the steppingstone.

The temperature's so HOT!!!

This week has been a scorcher and today is over 100° F.  After a few

errands outside, I have now sequestered myself in my airconditioned

house, trying to get the muse awakened.
So far, all I want to do is read.

I broke down and bought a hand operated Big Kick
die cutting machine. Here is a card I made using it.
The cardstock is glossy so there is a glare.

You have to enlarge it to see the Happy Birthday.

Then on Monday I had watercolor class. Here is what I did.

And now here are a couple of spreads from my new journal

that I am working on in mixed media class.

These are my entries for Paint Party Friday. Thanks to all

who visited my blog last week, even those who didn't

leave a comment.

Paint Party Friday

This is the joint effort we did in the mixed media class. I finished it up.

This is how it looked before I finished it.

This was the watercolor class project this week.

Laura came to do painting with me. This is her watercolor background.

I painted the lilies while Laura was here.

These are my entries to the Paint Party Friday.

Mostly Acrylics this Week

The Saturday mixed media class taught by Jo is doing

joint acrylic paintings on wood panels. This has

been around the room a couple of times and has

arrived back to me. We will still be working on

these when we meet on Saturday.

I painted two small canvases which I thought would go

above my sofa flanking the large painting. However,

I like the little ones on my mantle so they may never

see the other wall.

The jardiniere was hand painted by an ancestor in 1898.

And lastly, a little sketch I did a while back.

Visit Paint Party Friday to see some really great art.

Watercolors for PPF

Valerie-Jael has given me permission to paint from her photos.

Here are two watercolors I did from her recent photos

to bring to Paint Party Friday, hosted each week

by Eva and Kristin.

Lily for PPF

This has been a relatively non-creative week. I did

do a watercolor painting of the lily that was in the

bunch of flowers I had bought for myself.

Below is the watercolor lily.

Then I tried to do the lily with oil pastels, a medium

I am completely baffled by.

This is a sketch with digital coloring via Photoshop Elements.

Next is a photo taken from my kitchen window.

 

Here is a photo to show how kids had fun in 1937.

I am the child on the far left. My sister is next to me.

My uncle Leslie and aunt Anne are on the right

And an old digital piece I made some time ago.

Lastly, I helped out in the children's Sunday School

with the craft activity last week. I took my embossing

folder and Texture Boutique embossing machine.

None of the children or other teachers had seen this

done before, so it was a really big hit. Here is the

results of our efforts.  I'm joining the artists at 

Paint Party Friday with this post.

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