Category: February 2018

Wish You Were Here!

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Good Morning…Here are a couple of digital artworks from my archives. They were both hand drawn, then scanned and the patterns and color were added in Photoshop. I’m taking a trip for a few days, so I won’t be posting until Friday. Enjoy the week and see you in a few days.

Keeping in the theme of the Year of the Dog…Three Dogs on Vacation

How many times do you drive by a strip mall and wish the stores were ones you really wanted to shop in. Here is my list for “my personal strip mall shopping experience”.

Digital Sunrise

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Good Morning friends…I’m back to Procreate experimenting with the layers function. It is digital collage. The tree was originally a watercolor, altered in Photoshop. The background is tissue paper also enhanced in Photoshop and then combined in Procreate with the added dots for more texture. Have a beautiful day! 🙂

Playing with Paper

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Today’s offering is a combination of paper’s ready for the garbage bin. The background is torn paper glued together in no particular order. The woman is cut out from a catalog magazine. Once she was glued to the background, I painted her with several layers white gouache. When the paint was dry, I used Derwent watercolor pencil to redraw the woman and her outfit. All in all, a very fun art project.

Rock Painting

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I used to teach art to kids and a favorite art making project was rock painting. I was living in the desert at the time and rocks were everywhere, and right outside the Art Room. With some acrylic paint, the kids had a blast.

Here are a couple of the ideas I came up with.

Expand your Horizons

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One sure way to pick up your mood and see life on a brighter side…is make some art. My morning pick me up and warm up was originally painted and then altered in the Procreate app for the IPad.  Its going to be a good day.

Original watercolor

Color alterations and additions made in Procreate on the IPad

Crocheted Hamburger

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Twice a month I join friends at the Ventura Library and we either knit or crochet a variety of things. For several months we were making donuts. This month I took on the challenge of the hamburger…bun, lettuce, tomato, meat and cheese. I sewed a few beads on top to portray sesame seeds. I used cotton yarn because of the colors that were available. The 5 skeins were only $5.00, the price of a hamburger these days.