I have been in Florida for the last month and just returned a couple of days ago - we had a wonderful time, but it was a shock to come back to this cool weather!
Now that my vacation is over, I am ready to get back into painting.
Our winter art sessions finished on February 20, and I have several interesting projects to show you.
The first piece was designed by Sherry Nelson, and can be found in her book Painting Garden Birds. Sherry's instructions are for oil paint. Sue decided to convert this piece to coloured pencils, and she completed it on 11x14 mi-teintes paper. When she finished the pic she sprayed it a few times, then added some blue oil paint to the background. There are a lot of colours in the female cardinal, and, I think Sue has done an incredible job on this piece.
This is a Christmas ornament, which was done by Ginette mostly in pen and ink with oils.....although the actual basecoating was done in acrylics. I do not know who originally designed this piece. Ginette decided to do it using a 4 paned wooden window, which is approx. 5x5". The snow at the bottom is white oil paint sprinkled with glamour dust....I love this piece.
This piece is called Evening in the Foothills, and was designed by Mary Owens. It is a pen and ink with oils project. Monique decided to do this on an 8x10 wooden board. The board was prepped by whitewashing it twice, then spraying with a few coats of Liberty spray. The project only used three colours of oil paint. The finished piece turned out lovely.
Nicole did this project on a large canvas (do not know the size) in oils. The original designer of the project was Arlene Beck, and Nicole found the picture in a 1993 decorative painting book. Nicole started by applying some Texture Crackle to the canvas, sanded it, sprayed several times, then started to apply her oil paint. This was a big project, and it turned out great.
I did this project a few months ago and posted it on my blog at that time. Guylaine liked the piece and decided to do TWO of them! The design is by Tracy Moreau and can be found in her book Trendy Textures. This project uses some different techniques...Texture Crackle, stencils, Texture Glass. Guylaine was very happy with the results, but, after doing two of them, I'm sure she was glad when they were finished.That's it for now - I still have lots of pictures of projects the girls did in our art sessions, and I will keep posting them from now until our art sessions begin again in the fall.
Over the next couple of months I plan to do some silhouette work (pen & ink with acrylics and oils), and I also plan to work with texture, stencils and image transfers. I have some projects lined up and I am anxious to get started...I will post them when finished.
Thanks for visiting my blog - hope you enjoyed it.
Joan
