You Are My Sunshine!
This little creation is truly a mixed media piece! With collage, acrylic, and clay it is really a one of a kind piece.
Time out for Art is hosted by Zebra Designs and Destinations, check them out, they give me inspiration, maybe you too will be inspired.
Coffee in the Morning
Another masa painting on canvas. This is a fun technique I learned from my friend Helen Shafer-Garcia. It is perfect in its imperfection!
Thursdays Time out for Art has been inspired by Zebra Designs and Destinations.
Barbara’s Morning Glories
6″ X 4″ Deep Canvas
This is an interesting technique…..I covered a canvas with masa paper that had been put in water, and rung out. It’s a bit delicate when it gets wet, so care needs to be taken while doing this process. I put gel medium down first, then placed the damp masa paper on the canvas. I will never be smooth, and you want it to be crinkly. After it dries, I trimmed the sides, roughly sketched my subject lightly in pencil, and painted it in watercolors. These Morning Glories were in my friends backyard, and so beautiful I couldn’t help but paint them.
I learned this technique from my friend, and teacher Helen Shafer-Garcia, check her out she is a fabulous watercolorist.
Thursdays Time out for Art is inspired, and hosted by Zebra Designs, and Destinations…
The sky is blue, not a cloud around, a soft breeze is teasing the leaves on the trees like a feather on bare skin. There couldn’t be a more perfect day!
Hello, my name is Bleau, and I’m the Blue Bird of Happiness! I fly from tree to tree, lawn to lawn foraging for worms, and little bugs. All is well in my world today, my family has been fed, the wife and little peeps are taking their naps, and you can tell I’m happy by the way I chirp.
Meanwhile…
On a branch off to the side, in the back way…out-of-the-way in a rather shaded quiet place, is an old dark furry caterpillar.
“Humph!” Says this furry creature. “This is hopeless, why do I even try? I’m definitely not feeling it today! It’s cold, windy, dreary, noisy, cloudy, and gray. I haven’t any friends, absolutely no energy, my mind is foggy, I need a facelift, I could use a new lipstick, and the only thing I get called is, Yuck! What’s the point of living?” gag gag gag
Well Hello there…..
Some people call me Flutterby because, well…I flutter by! I’m a very large, and most beautiful Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly. I love nothing more than a warm sunny day in the park, where all around me are wonderful places to sit, and rest. There is even a pond in this park for me to drink from and shade for me to get out of the sun if I need to. When it gets really hot like today, without any breeze, it makes it hard to flutter around. I need to rest in the shade, and drink from the pond more frequently.
A Most Beautiful Tiger Swallowtail!
Many times the children want to play games with me, so I fly around while the children chase me with nets. They laugh, and scream with excitement, while I dodge, and dart all around the lawn. They think I’m the most beautiful girlie butterfly they have ever seen!
So far….I have won the game!
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We all have projects that have been started, and not finished. My studio is full of them! Word is that’s a trait of a mixed media artist, but somehow I don’t think it’s exclusive. When looking in my studio, it somewhat reminds me of a disaster area! I know where everything is (sort of). No […]
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While scrolling through Pintrest the other day, I noticed a picture of an entire journal made with Masa Paper, and it was fabulous! It got me thinking about all the things that could be done with this versatile paper, and how it could be incorporated into my blog? The artist that had created this wonderful […]
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