Layers of Color workshop

Thanks everyone who sent me messages of congratulations on our new baby, Desmond!  He is doing very well, sleeping a LOT and I am steadily healing. 

I still have a LONG way to go to get my strength back up.  A simple trip to Target just completely exhausted me yesterday.

I have not had time to make art since Desmond was born, but I have been watching some of the videos in Stephanie Corfee's online workshop.  She is so talented!  The workshop is jam packed with so many ideas it will take me all year to work through them I'm sure.  And, each one, I just want to create multiple artworks based on the lesson. 

The artworks in this blog post were made based on one of her watercolor lessons.  When I photograph my watercolor pictures I have a hard time making the pinks not look washed out and strange.  Any suggestions? 

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Welcome Baby Desmond!

Hi!  For those of you who are friends with me on Facebook, you probably have seen some of the baby pictures.  Desmond was born this past weekend!

Desmond Arthur Beckett was born on Saturday, April 19 at 9:47 am.  He weighed 10 lbs 6 oz!  The c-section went smoothly and even though I was SO nervous beforehand, the doctors and nurses were very reassuring.  After I realized that I actually was not going to feel any pain during the surgery, I started to relax.  We came home from the hospital yesterday and everything is going fairly well.  I'm recovering well and I'm off my insulin from the gestational diabetes.  I'll have to have tests later to make sure everything is completely back to normal. 

So far, Desmond is pretty easy-going.  He's had some moments of freak outs trying to learn to feed, but otherwise he's been sleeping pretty well for a newborn.  I don't know if we're more relaxed or if he's actually a calmer baby than Daria was but it seems to be going a bit easier. 

Happy Dad and baby

A little unsure of the carseat

Proud sister (Daria, 4 years) and Desmond (1 day old)

Me, Daria and Des on day 3

Om nom nom

Daria trying to breastfeed her doll.

Art Journal Flip-Through

Here is a flip-through video of my most recent art journal!  I hope you enjoy it.  All of the pages can be seen on this blog or on my Flickr account.


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Waiting

Still no baby!  Just waiting...  It feels like the baby should be here now, although I am only about 37 1/2 weeks.  The last ultrasound had the baby measuring about 8 lbs 12 oz already.  This is going to be a big boy!

Last night I made some of these watercolor backgrounds.  I started watching Stephanie Corfee's workshop videos and she starts out very similar to how I do my watercolor paintings.  I'm looking forward to the rest of the videos.

NEW FAVORITE CHEAP PAPER!

I picked up a watercolor sketchpad called Kid Made Modern from Target for under $3.  The paper is 7.5" x 9" which is perfect size for sketching and art journaling.  I was SO impressed with the quality of this watercolor paper.  For kid's watercolor paper, it is pretty darn good.  My plan is to buy a few of these pads and bind them to make my own art journal.  The three smaller paintings in the background were painted on this paper.

Vintage Valentine Collage

Guess what?  I actually managed to finish an artwork and blog about it!

Someone locally contacted me about participating in art show about LOVE and I thought this would be the perfect motivation for me to use some of the vintage Valentines cards in my stash.  Since that initial couple of emails I haven't heard anything else about the show, so who knows if it's going to happen or if that opportunity is gone.  Either way, it was a little kick in the pants to do something creative!

I used scrapbook paper cut into shapes, outlined in black doodles and white dots added.  Strips of tissue paper and paints were added as well.

These flowers on the right side were from an Instagram photo of a bouquet of flowers my husband sent me one year on our anniversary. 

 

A clown riding a pig?  I had to use this in my collage!

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