Two New!! Who Knew? :)

Last night I finally finished one landscape and am very close to finishing the "reworking" of an abstract.  

The landscape is mainly a palette knife painting with a wee bit of glazing and a couple of small brush strokes where needed.  

I'm having the dickens of a time capturing the colors of the painting accurately. Maybe I need a light box or a better camera because I always have trouble anytime I include shades of purple in my paintings.  

When I finish with the photo editing of this one I'll list it on etsy.

 This small abstract isn't finished, but I know where it's going. It started out all done in acrylic inks, but I am adding acrylic paint to it in little spaces. Right now all the yellow you see is new, but I'll be adding more colors too.

 update.... almost finished  the tentative title might be "life" but not sure yet. 

He says "up", I say "across"

I  had a 4x6 stretched canvas that was a little bit loose, & my normal hot water/shrink it remedy didn't make it tight enough to suit me. So this provided me with the perfect opportunity to play without the guilt  of ruining a good canvas experimenting.  This is done in acrylic with one strip of teal artisan paper.

The work in progress.  At this point, I really like it.  side notes} I protect my kitchen counter & stove top with a black vinyl tablecloth  I picked up at the dollar store,(they were out of white).   My palette is made of paper plates covered with foil, when finished I flip the foil over & have a clean palette.) 

I turned the painting vertically adding just a few more accents & then called this finished. ((OH and to my surprise, the acrylic mediums I used, seems to have tightened up the canvas!))

My husband likes this vertical & while I really like it that way, I lean towards  horizontal. I can see it both ways.  Would you please give me your opinion as to which way looks best? 

a little bit of everything!

It's been one of those very long months that we all have when everything is hitting you at once.

my "net-book" stopped working needing an expensive repair, health problems, money problems, dealing with a major disappointment.... sigh.

But not all was a negative...

my friend Kim Collister was featured in

 Somerset Studio magazine!

I own some of her fabulous creations & was so

 inspired reading about her method for creating such artsy, encouraging tags 

that i thought i'd try my hand at them. 

Creating art is good therapy! 

 

I  mailed these out as a surprise gift for some 

very special customers as a little

 "thank you for your business".

~

Here are some new pieces I've done with 

the palette knife!

 i discovered that 

i love painting with the knives

and can't wait to do more!!

Blueberry Barrens

Abstract in Blue & Brown

Abstract Knife Painting

Dreaming of Spring

and

for something completely different...

....

the IA team had a "Mandalas" challenge 

a few weeks ago

that i couldn't post due to the pc trouble

so here are my belated & most feeble attempts

Oh!! I almost forgot to tell you,

though you probably have guessed,

i have a new laptop thanks to my hubby

it's my early Christmas and birthday gift!

Hopefully i will catch up with the IA challenges

and show you what i've been doing in my journal

but that will have to wait till later.

take care!