Watercolour Lines

This is one of my assignments I had for my watercolour course I'm taking on line through Daisy Yellow Art.  I had to do it twice because I misspelled one of the words the first time….grrrr….  But it was good practice.

Quick post today - thanks for visiting.

Joan

Watercolour Mandala

I have been doing some arting….but I've also been getting stuff ready for the Fort Saskatchewan Trade Fair - so I'm behind on my posting.  Here is a quick peak at a mandala I did earlier this week on one of my watercolour backgrounds.

Off to do more chores - thanks for visiting

Joan

Doodled Quote Duo

Got a bit of doodling done in my quote book yesterday.  Whenever I come across a quote that I like, I write it in the book in pencil, so when I have more time I can go back and doodle the page.

This book is also a book I grab when I'm painting to put the leftover paint into - creating backgrounds for future quotes.

Hope your day is going well.

Create something everyday.

Joan

Collage and Tangle

For my office at school this year, I bought this awesome calendar which has large "collaged" pieces on each month. The huge sundae is the main element from January - I've put it into my big "paper bag" book on a page which I had already added pink and purple paints to.  I added the rest of the collage pieces  this weekend and now it's ready to doodle on.

There wasn't a whole lot of time for arting this weekend, and that's why I like my little books - one is designated for practising zentangles and the other is a quote book.  This particular zentangle, which is called "Etcher" was inspired by a dashboard of a car I was in on Friday.  I added a few more lines - but this is a fun one to do.

Hope your day is going well!

Create everyday!

Joan

Samll Tangles

I only worked in one little book last night.  I call it my Tangle Book - 6 X 6 - and I'm only practicing, or collecting, zentangles in it.  I guess my butterfly doesn't really count for that because it is a Stampin'Up! stamp (which I love!!!!) stamped in White ink and  enhanced with zentangles around it.  It was on the paper when I bound the book - back when I wasn't sure what I was going to use the book for.

The second is a straight entangle - called "cones".

I've woken up expecting to get a lot of different things done today - we'll see how it goes.

Create everyday!

Joan

Working on Watercolour

I signed up for an on-line watercolour class through Daisy Yellow.

The first exercise was to work on blending colours.  I need more practice!  These rainbows are my first two attempts.  Then I did the one below.  For my rainbows I need to use a bit less water and a bit less paint.  

Create everyday - learn something new!

Joan

Mandala Garden...

Monday night I painted some circles in my water colour paper book that I bound over Spring Break.

Today at lunch and this evening I added the beginning of a Mandala garden.  Not sure about the one little "oops" in the middle of the page.  My head wasn't quite right at lunch time!

This will be continued!!!!

Joan

Spring has Sprung!

It's  been a bit of a progression - and a few Ooops!'s along the way - but I think I'm done with this.  I've used  all Stampin'Up! materials on this canvas - except for the paper napkins that I've mod-podged on.  

I covered the canvas with the Newsprint DSP and then used an Aqua-painter and re-inker for the background.  There are circles and flowers stenciled on using the left overs from a Paper Pumpkin or a piece of card stock with flowers punched out of it.   I also stamped the little honeycomb using a stamp from a Paper Pumpkin - and embossing powder.  The doodling is free hand of course.

The letters are from my stash of left overs from die cuts with my Big Shot.  I keep all the left over letters in little boxes so I can grab them when needed.  I painted each letter with white Gesso - and then spritzed them with a green - it's hard to see though.  I had to colour the first three letters black because of a major ooops - 

Finally - I added some leaves and punched out flowers as well as some paper napkins. Butterflies and some patches of glitter are the final touches.

Hope spring has arrived in your corner of the world - we still need rain and warm weather for the leaves and flowers to appear - but there is that promise that they will appear.

Have a great day!

Joan

Collage and Doodle Flowers

I got a wee bit of work done on the weekend…. One more page done in my "Show Book".  I tried to keep it simple and grungy.  I've used a stencil with white gesso paint and one of my retired stamps (Weathered) with red paint.  I added some crackle paint, but it didn't crack - so I'll have to try that again.

The circles on this background were painted at Emily's birthday party - I was inspired by the colours her sister was using - so used the same ones.  I think the hardest thing with doodling these flowers is to come up with a variety of designs.  It shouldn't be too hard - but I struggle with it.  Guess I just need more practise!

Thanks for stopping by!

Joan

New Addiction

I learned a new book binding technique from Emily Lagore's daughter, Karly.  They both came over yesterday afternoon and walked me through the first number of steps.  I finished it up last night because I just couldn't wait until morning!  It's a book filled with watercolour paper - I'm so excited to start experimenting with watercolour.

Here are some photos of a bit of the process….I will probably be using this technique from now one - it takes a bit longer, but I like the results of not having string along the outside spine of the book.

Have a great day.

Fly High Butterfly

This has been a work in progress.  I started with a layer of varied papers on a small canvas; added some paints and a layer of tinted holding paste.  (I used some of my Stampin'Up! reinker to change the colour of the molding paste).  I stamped on some honeycomb bits from a Paper Pumpkin stamp.  The Swallowtail was stamped onto a window sheet using Staz-On black ink and then cut out.  I placed it on the canvas so the wings extend beyond the edges - and I love being able to see the background through the butterfly!

I added some glitter gel pieces that I made a number of weeks ago and finally attached an old clip-on earring that belonged either to my Grandma or to my Poppa's sister.

The words are from a song sung by Nicole C. Mullen (a number of years ago) - one of my favourite Christian artists.

Fly High!

Joan