An umbrella for scribblepicnic

I had to join in this week's scribblepicnic because I love umbrellas. I have added them to my art off and on from the beginning when I was painting just falling ladies. Umbrellas have symbolized a safety net of sorts for me and I am not entirely sure why, but on top of that , I just think they are pretty! (I have a ton in my art inspiration board on Pinterest). So here's this week's girl and umbrella....

 

  And here's a close up before the final details were added....

 

Then, As I was writing this I thought I would look for some of my early water colors with umbrellas that I mentioned and I found this from 2012...... pretty much the same coat and everything! I had totally forgotten I had ever done this one!

And then I found two more old ones.... my art has changed quite a bit since I did these....

 

 

 

Happy paint party friday

Happy Paint Party Friday a day late.  Lots of alphabet pages to show today. I may even have them all done now, I just have to gather them all up and check as they are now scattered throughout 3 different sketchbooks ...

 

 

      I have been sick again, another stomach bug, like last month.  I hope that is done for the winter,  it was No fun at all. So Still feeling like hibernating a bit, and staying quiet and still. 

But I hope you are all well. 

A glimpse in my sketchbook

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Day 21 AEDM

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Day 7 of AEDM

I know I didn't post this weekend for days 5 and 6 but things get busy on the weekends.... Too many pets and people in one house maybe. But I did create, you'll just have to trust me on this one. 

For today I was looking through my sketchbook and I just didn't like the lettering from this page. I try not to paint over my own stuff much, but if it really bugs me I see no reason not to cover it up. 

And I had this little pen sketch on copy paper and it suddenly seemed to work together so here's the new page in my sketchbook/art journal.

5 things

Another busy week.

Here's 5 things that made me happy...

1. Going in to work early for some overtime let me see some amazing sunrises!

2. Going for rides with my son, I got to see some wonderful animals.... Deer, a bear just outside of town about 30 yards from a woman having a yard sale who never even knew it was there, bunnies, Hawks, cardinals, and this 

heron.....

3. Harvesting all this from my garden! My daughter is juicing 3 times a day while she quits smoking and will probably juice this all up in no time. She's made it over a week now so I am proud of her!

4. Searching through fabric for a new project. (I know... The voice in my head says "another new project! You haven't finished the last projects yet!") but I am shushing it because it is fun to plan, and technically it is not a NEW project if it has been rattling around I my head for over a year.

5. Playing in my sketchbook just for fun. I had no plans to do anything with this piece, I just wanted to practice more monsters, like I have posted the last few Sunday's to "Sunday sketches", but This time I wanted to start with random water colors instead of with a sketch, to see if that would change them up a bit and trigger some new ideas....

More monsters for Sunday Sketches

Not sure, yet, if these are the final sketches for the fabric or not.

I don't think so. 

I want them to be more lovable somehow.

A monster who is still a monster but one you truly want to find under your bed, that is what i am shooting for. 

I hope I will know when i get there....

5 things

Busy few weeks lately.... 

So here's a list of 5 things that made me happy....

1. Rain after so much summer without it.

2. The smell of wild phlox (true wild phlox) on my desk at work.

3. 40 years with this man... We celebrated our 32nd anniversary this week! This is us in high school...

4. Made a little pouch for my gift cards and credit cards out of my own fabric. It took only 2 8x4 pieces and 2 4x4 pieces and fleece for lining.

5. More alphabet kids painted.

A color wheel of sorts

This is the Daler-Rownwy travel watercolor set I use all the time....I use the one brush that came in the set for EVERYTHING!

I have been meaning to for quite some time, but I have never taken the time to paint up a color wheel with it... Until now.

I wanted to see how some of the mixes would work, and to have a reference when I went to mix certain colors, especially violet as there is no purple in the set. 

So I traced a heart over and over on two pages in my sketchbook, then painted the colors straight from the set down the left side and across the bottom. 

Next I sprinkled salt in each while they were still wet to get an interesting texture.

Then I started mixing colors, equal parts of each, and lightly labeled the numbers of the colors mixed (example: 2+3) since I no longer know the names of the colors in this set. I tried to be neater than usual to get a true mix of the two colors. As you can tell from the looks of my paints, I don't normally worry about what colors get mixed in, I prefer to mix colors right on top of the paint instead of obsessing about keeping the colors pure. It seems to work for me and doesn't end up looking muddy as much as you might expect.

I like the end result and might try doing one up for a fabric like this, or wait till I get photoshop back and use this itself for the fabric, once I can manipulate it a bit so that I can get a repeat with it that will work.  We shall see...