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Painted butterfly on collage

Painted ladybug on collage

Painted background

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I've been working on this painting of watercolor doodles.  This is about half of the painting.  The other half I haven't done too much on...

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Little Kitchen Watercolor Painting

 

This is my little watercolor painting of a kitchen.  Check out Paint Party Friday and Artists in Blogland and Sunday Sketches

Painted Journal Page Progression

The background started like this:

Water was added to soften the markers.

Collage elements were added:

Doodling and outlining to finish it off:

Here is another fun page I painted:

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Backgrounds

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Sunflowers

Sunflowers were the theme for Inspiration Avenue this week.  Sunflowers are also my favorite flower. 

I did two sunflower artworks for this challenge.
First, I painted a sunflower on watercolor paper.  Then, I made a couple of photocopies of the sunflower I painted in order to use them again.  I made an art journal page first, which I wasn't entirely pleased with, which you can see here at this previous blog post.    So here is the canvas I came up with, which I like a bit better.  I used that photocopy of the sunflower, and layered it on top of another photocopy of one of my watercolor paintings, this one.   I added some acrylic paint and oil pastels to integrate the two together.  I used some of the cute red Japanese tape on the sides of the canvas.  I also used oil pastels on the border and then smeared them with baby wipes.  I love the soft effect.  I will make a little tutorial at some point to show you how fun and easy it is.

And since I love sunflowers so much I'm going to share with you some really fun pictures I have.

First, here are the sunflowers from my garden from last year:

You can see how ginormous these are.  They were so beautiful, but they shadowed the rest of the garden and we didn't get a lot of good vegetables that year.  So, we scaled back the sunflowers this year and put them in the back row instead of the front.  I haven't taken a picture of them yet.  And my hair is super red there!

Here are some photos from my school garden.  I do Student Council at school, and with the kindergartners we planted sunflower seeds.  Each of them also planted a few sunflower seeds in a flower pot to take home.  They decorated the pot in my art class.  Here are some of our beautiful flowers.

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Red Configuration on Canvas

"Red Configuration" on Canvas, Watercolor paints and gesso (for the white) on Aquabord canvas, 2011

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Here is the painting that I just can't stop re-doing.  It's getting closer to being "done".

Sketchbook Playing

Greeting Card Collage

Mixed Media Journal Page

Journals and Painting in Progress

I've been taping together a lot of loose journal and sketchbook pages to make books.  Thanks to Kelly Kilmer's workshop I learned an easy way to bind pages together. 

recently bound books

a couple pages inside  "Cloudy with a chance of stars"  I love that phrase

some sketches, plus magazine clippings and paint.  I know these are a bit cartoony.

These are some animal drawings that I drew after a lesson on Carla Sonheim's workshop.

In progress painting.. I have been using drawing inks, acrylic craft paints, and prismacolor markers

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I've been working on a journal for Kelly Kilmer's journal workshop.  These are leftover papers from my stash and they have been taped together to form a journal.  So, next I will add further focal points, background and embellishments.  This is the very start to the journal. 

And then, I have this painting that is in progress that I'm not happy with and will most likely gesso over the flowers in the center.  ughh...  anyways. .. that is what I am working on.

This one is a watercolor doodle with black marker on top.

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Here is a mixed media collage that I had been working on a while ago and just yesterday
I added a few new layers of sections. 

two watercolor flowers on transparent paper.  I will be adding these to a collage at some point.

ink drawn flowers that I will add watercolor to after the fixative dries.  Then these will also be added to a collage.

And, remember those other two pictures that were in progress from last week?  Here they are with a few additions:

Owl added.  Sometimes I add things or change things up a bit and then after I do so, I'm not sure I should have done it.  This one doesn't seem balanced or interesting enough.  The empty space next to the giraffe on the left?  Or maybe the layout is too predictable? I don't know.

                                                More doodles at bottom.  Not sure if it helped the composition at all.