NEW CANVAS ... GARDENS ... WHAT ELSE?

HI BLOGSTERS,

I'M BACK AGAIN WITH A NEW CANVAS THAT I CALL REFLECTION.

I DID THIS CANVAS USING ACRYLIC PAINTS AND ACRYLIC MARKERS. IT TOOK ME A FEW WEEKS TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO FINISH IT!

 THESE TWO PHOTOS ARE OF MY MARIGOLD GARDEN.

THIS IS MY LAVENDER PLANT, GOING ON THREE YEARS OF BLOOMING. I'VE BEEN MAKING LAVENDER LEMONDADE AND IT IS REALLY DELICIOUS. YOU CAN GET THE RECIPE FROM DOING A WEB SEARCH.


WELL, GUESS THAT'S ALL FOR NOW. I WISH SOME OF YOU WOULD COMMENT OR ASK QUESTIONS. IT WOULD REALLY BE GREAT FUN!

TATA ... DEB

BACK AGAIN ... GONE TOO LONG ... DOODLE ART AND MORE

Wow ... I've been gone for about a month. I just had a lot of things going on and some distractions, like getting a new computer and getting used to the new operating system--plus navigating things from my old computer to the new one. It's an all-in-one desktop computer. I really love it. The screen is 23" ... huge!

I  have a canvas in the works, but I only have my first layer on it. I have to come up with an idea of what to do next, but sometimes it is slow in coming. I'll show it to you when it's finished.

In the meantime, a good way to keep your hand in the creative game is to doodle. You never know where your doodle art will lead, like this page in my art journal:

 

 

I had just taken a workshop on lettering from Julie Fei-Fan Balzer (balzerdesigns.com). I did the letters first, then connected them in alphabetical order. Then I colored it with gel pens and Sharpies. I started it on my husband's birthday, as you can see. It was a lot of fun, as most of my unplanned stuff usually is.

 

I have another piece of doodle art to show you, but I can' figure out how to load new photos using my digital camera ... so it will have to wait for now.

 

There is something very new ... I have seven pieces of my art (like shadow boxes, etc.) in a gift shop for sale. The store is in Vineland, New Jersey and is called Robin Hope Designs Presents: The Sky's The Limit. It's on Landis Avenue in the Amish Market. You can find Robin on Facebook. It's like a little mall. So that's exciting for me!

 

Now, I just have to figure out how to put a watermark on my photos to show ownership of the art. I'm trusting that readers will respect the fact that I'm the creator of the art on this blog. And I thank you for that!

 

Until next time ... have an artful adventure!

 

Deb

 

 

 

 



Oops ... I lost my last post: "Looking Out" canvas!

Dear bloggers ... I accidentally overwrote my previous post with this canvas, so I'm re-posting it.

Now I'll tell you how I created it: I made the girl/woman using the Microsoft Paint program. The rest of the piece was created using gesso, newspaper, various acrylic paints, a toilet paper roll, an empty tape dispenser roll, a swirl stamp, and acrylic sealing spray.

Ta-ta for now!

Deb

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Doodle Art & One More Thing

Hi bloggers.

This is a short post to show you some doodle art I completed recently, and a birthday card that I made for my father-in-law for his birthday.

When you're in between projects, it's good to stay in the art game by doodling. I started this doodle weeks ago and finished it this weekend. It was fun to do. I colored it with mostly gel pens and used a black Sharpie for the large black sections. I might frame it in a clear frame or just insert it into one of my art portfolios.

 This is the birthday card for Papa Pierro. It is embellished with pieces cut out of tissue boxes, the gold foil from a sardine can, scrap paper, and small stickers. Mixed media artists find uses for things that most people put out in the trash!

Well, that's all for now. I wish you much peace, hope & love!

Deb : < )

Where is my muse?

Hi blog viewers--I'm back after not posting for what seems to be a long time.

I've been going through a dry period in which I haven't created much art. Guess I have just had too many other things on my mind and they're interfering with my creative process.

I'm still reading other artists' blogs, watching artists' videos on their blogs and YouTube, and reading art stuff.

One kind of artsy thing that I've been doing is playing around with a program on Windows called Paint. What you create here is saved as a bitmap file (bmp extension after file name). Do you ever play with Paint?

Below are what I've created on Paint. You have to keep scrolling down since I haven't figured out a way to crop the pages so they're smaller ...


 

 




 



 




 































I still haven't figured out how to make the images fill the page. Check out Paint if you have it on your computer. It's kind of fun, to me, and it keeps me creating in some way.

I hope you like my images!

See you later,
Deb

Modern Art

Hi everyone. I'm back!

I have an artist who has inspired me to create more modern looking art. Her name is Jane Davies at janedaviesstudios.com.

I finished this piece a few days ago and I'm very happy with it. I still haven't been able to think of a name for  it, though.

I applied gesso to a 14" x 18" canvas.

Then I painted on several acrylic paint colors: orange, bright metallic red, cobalt blue, and orchid.

Next I used a round piece of plastic that once had tape on it, turning it in the wet paint to make the circles.

Then I glued on two pieces of metallic paper that I cut and scrunched in my hands (using gel medium).

After that, I used a fork dipped in white acrylic paint to make the wavy lines across the painting.

I let the piece sit for a couple of days because I knew it needed more detail.

When I finally decided what to add, I did the zigzags with white paint and put dots of all the colors I used on the zigzags.

Then I flicked white paint over the entire painting to add a spattered look.

Finally, I used all of the same colors (except white) on the sides of the painting to give it a finished look.

Also, I applied mod podge to seal it.

I had a lot of fun creating this piece. In fact, I'm going to do more modern collages.

I'll  keep you posted!

WHAT SHOULD I NAME THIS PIECE? I NEED SOME  HELP!

Until next time, take care ... Deb

Art Journal Page and Clown Assemblage Art

Hi blog viewers,

I want you to know that I appreciate that you view my blogs even though you don't comment. But I wish someone would say something! That's enough of that for now.

I created this piece of assemblage art last week. It took me quite a while between painting, gluing, and drying time. Sorry about the change in font, but I just pasted this from some other document and I don't know how to change the font in blogger (yet). Anyway ... For his head, hair, nose, and shoes I used Crayola Model Magic, a modeling material that can be air dried.  I used recycled wooden pieces from an old shadow box that I bought in a thrift shop. I painted them with acrylic paint and covered everything--including the face, hair and shoes--with Mod Podge. And … I used super glue to adhere everything together, even to adhere the paper clips into their holes for the arms. For the hat, I glued a large sequin and a rubber whatchamacallit together and stuck a fake flower out of the top. I used markers to paint the face, and a piece of wire ribbon for the part of the costume that goes around the clown's neck. It was fun to make.

I may change the arms to pipe cleaners or something else. If I do, I'll
re-post the photo. The stand was something that I recycled from who-knows-what.



This is a page I recently did in my art journal, based on a garden I planted several years ago. There's acrylic paints on it, torn paper on it, a doily on it, and the photo of my garden on it. I thought the colors went really well together. As you can see, I call it "How did my garden grow?"

We had a few inches of snow last night. We're lucky that we didn't have the blizzard that Boston and other New England, USA areas got!

How is the weather where you live?

Til next time, see you soon--Deb