Hi, HAPPY NEW YEAR, and welcome to my blog:
I hope everyone had a great holiday. I certainly did, but, as usual, I ate, drank and partied more than I should have...but, I did have a wonderful time! Now, all the decorations have been put away, the tree has been taken down, all the sweet snacks have disappeared from the fridge, and I am settling back into a normal routine. Quite frankly, I am ready to have an organized, calm life again.
Prior to Christmas I finished some ornaments, and I would like to share them with you.
The first two pictures include Icy, Flake, Chill and Noel. The other character in this group is Believe, and he is posted in my November 30 post. These characters were designed by Jamie Mills-Price, and can be found in her book 'Christmastime 6', along with a lot of other wonderful projects. These ornaments are done on wooden cutouts. I did all my basecoating with acrylics and also a lot of the decorative dots, bows, leaves, etc. All the black areas - the hats, 
penquins, etc. are filled in with a Faber Castell brush pen, and the rest of the pieces are done in oils (all the shading, hi-lighting, etc.) I painted the backs of all the pieces and added snowflake stencils. These ornaments were a lot of fun to do, but, there is a lot more work than what meets the eye!
I found this little angel - I don't know who the original artist is - and I decided to make her into an ornament and use coloured pencils. So I started with a wooden heart, glued mi-teintes paper on, traced my pattern, then did all the work with coloured pencils. When I was done, I found some acrylic paint that matched the colour of the mi-teintes paper, painted the back of the ornament, and added white snowflakes (I used a stencil for this). This is the first ornament I have done with coloured pencils, and I am sure I will be doing more.
I think this ornament is funny - all the snowmen hamming it up in the woods. With the exception of the ornaments on the tree, everything is done in pen and ink with oils. It is a very quick project to do - did not use a pattern...just starting inking in trees and snowmen. The 'snow' is applied with sno writer, and the glitter is glamour dust. A very fast (and silly) project.
One of my granddaughters is right into Strawberry Shortcake and the other is crazy about Minnie and Daisy. So I decided to do them each an ornament as part of their Christmas presents. The ornaments are wooden cutouts. I sealed and basecoated the mittens, traced and inked the pattern, then used oils to rouge the colour on - I used acrylics for the Christmas tree decorations. To finish them off I used white oil paint for the 'snow', then sprinkled glamour dust on all the snow. I am pretty happy with the way they turned out - my grandkids loved them!
This year I will be holding winter art sessions on Monday evening and Thursday morning beginning the week of January 9 and running until late February. So, over the next few months I will have lots of new artwork to show you.
I have a few ideas about new projects I plan to work on, and, after taking a Christmas break, I must admit I am anxious to get started on some new pieces.
Thanks for visiting my blog, and please check back in a few weeks
Joan
I hope everyone had a great holiday. I certainly did, but, as usual, I ate, drank and partied more than I should have...but, I did have a wonderful time! Now, all the decorations have been put away, the tree has been taken down, all the sweet snacks have disappeared from the fridge, and I am settling back into a normal routine. Quite frankly, I am ready to have an organized, calm life again.
Prior to Christmas I finished some ornaments, and I would like to share them with you.
The first two pictures include Icy, Flake, Chill and Noel. The other character in this group is Believe, and he is posted in my November 30 post. These characters were designed by Jamie Mills-Price, and can be found in her book 'Christmastime 6', along with a lot of other wonderful projects. These ornaments are done on wooden cutouts. I did all my basecoating with acrylics and also a lot of the decorative dots, bows, leaves, etc. All the black areas - the hats, 
penquins, etc. are filled in with a Faber Castell brush pen, and the rest of the pieces are done in oils (all the shading, hi-lighting, etc.) I painted the backs of all the pieces and added snowflake stencils. These ornaments were a lot of fun to do, but, there is a lot more work than what meets the eye!
I found this little angel - I don't know who the original artist is - and I decided to make her into an ornament and use coloured pencils. So I started with a wooden heart, glued mi-teintes paper on, traced my pattern, then did all the work with coloured pencils. When I was done, I found some acrylic paint that matched the colour of the mi-teintes paper, painted the back of the ornament, and added white snowflakes (I used a stencil for this). This is the first ornament I have done with coloured pencils, and I am sure I will be doing more.
I think this ornament is funny - all the snowmen hamming it up in the woods. With the exception of the ornaments on the tree, everything is done in pen and ink with oils. It is a very quick project to do - did not use a pattern...just starting inking in trees and snowmen. The 'snow' is applied with sno writer, and the glitter is glamour dust. A very fast (and silly) project. 
One of my granddaughters is right into Strawberry Shortcake and the other is crazy about Minnie and Daisy. So I decided to do them each an ornament as part of their Christmas presents. The ornaments are wooden cutouts. I sealed and basecoated the mittens, traced and inked the pattern, then used oils to rouge the colour on - I used acrylics for the Christmas tree decorations. To finish them off I used white oil paint for the 'snow', then sprinkled glamour dust on all the snow. I am pretty happy with the way they turned out - my grandkids loved them!This year I will be holding winter art sessions on Monday evening and Thursday morning beginning the week of January 9 and running until late February. So, over the next few months I will have lots of new artwork to show you.
I have a few ideas about new projects I plan to work on, and, after taking a Christmas break, I must admit I am anxious to get started on some new pieces.
Thanks for visiting my blog, and please check back in a few weeks
Joan
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