For One Moment - Little Snippets of my Life and Art...

Welcome to the Mixing it Up loves Cottonwood Arts blog hop! This is a closed blog hop just for the members of the   Mixing it Up Every Day Face Book group so that we can get to know each other better. Having said that, if you are not in our group, please feel free to leave a comment anyway and come join us over on Face Book. We would love to get to know you better too. Sandee Setliff  Tiare Smith Woods  Martice Smith II  Tiffany Goff Smith  Anna Ely (that's ME!) Cat von Hassel-Davies Terri Sproul  Sharon D. Estes  Betty Guffey Richardson Tommy Jo Vilello Anderson Melissa Willard Edwards Donna Simmons Lueders  Jean Marmo  Tamiko McCurry  My initial background was created using blue and green Derwent Inktense Blocks  to create a wash on 140 lb watercolor paper. I used an old gift card and heavy body acrylics to scrape in green for the grass and milky white and blue for clouds in the sky.   ...

Pear Study #3 In acrylics...

Pear Studies #1 and #2 My poor, poor neglected blog.  It's been so very long and I should hang my head in shame.  My only excuse is that is has been a very busy couple of months... I know...I know...that isn't any excuse. All is fine on the home front, summer break is over  and my youngest heads back to school for her Senior year tomorrow and hopefully I won't neglect my little blog. At least I've been able to carve out some time at my art desk,  although I haven't blogged about it. This week I p ulled out my acrylics and did a couple of Pear Studies. It all started with a YouTube video that I watched by Bob Burridge on the Cheap Joe's YouTube channel on How to Paint a Pear Quick and Easy. Then Betty Franks, Mystic Tulip Mixed Media posted some Pear Studies that she had painted following his video.  She posted a couple of videos of her own explaining how she created one of her little paintings. ...after that I just had...

It's been many years since I dug out my encaustic waxes to play but lately I've been hearing them call my name.  It was a rainy day yesterday and I decided it was the perfect time to play. These are all done with encaustic wax blocks and an encaustic iron.  I've had mine for years, but I went searching the internet and found this distributor here in the United States.  http://www.encausticart.us/main.sc I don't have but about a dozen colors and some of the blocks are getting small, so I know I'll be putting together an order soon! These are done on Encaustic Card  and then sealed with and Encaustic Sealer both of which are available on their website, along with the iron I used. Sorry I didn't take any step-out pictures.  I was having so much fun I forgot until I was all finished playing.  OOPS!! I call this one Stormy Sea ahhhh....the joys of owning a cat.  I see I managed to get a cat hair in it.  Sigh... ...

Taking it back 10 Years My Handsome Fella with the Wild Hair.   Stacey - 9 Years Old

Throwback Thursday Tori - 2003 7 Years Old

Mariah 2002

1958 - Roswell, New Mexico Madelyn, Ivy and Anna

In the Heat of the Summer Had a go at acrylic finger painting today in my Art Journal today. I used the Week 14 Prompt for the Journal 52 Project  - Rain or Shine - which was to create a page about weather or your favorite season. It also meets the Week 7 prompt for The Documented Life Project which was to draw a shape and repeat it multiple times. I call this one "In the Heat of the Summer" I've had a whitish page that's just been sitting in my art journal.  I say whitish because it was a page gone wrong that I covered up with gesso.  The original color was a green Silks glaze and it wasn't quite dry when I covered it in gesso, so it tinted the gesso just a tinge of green.  I had taken different size bottle caps and twisted a bunch of circles in the wet gesso and had left it to dry. I've looked at it several time and wondered what I was going to do with it and so when I sat down at my desk today and opened my journal to that page, I decided I...

Grow Where You are Planted Took some time to doodle and play in my Mixed Media Journal. I doodled with Montana Paint Pens and colored with Inktense Blocks and Twinkling H2Os. ...and here is a couple of pages I did last week.  I had fun sling watered down acrylic paints!

Colorado 2006 Family Vacation 2006  I think my hair must have been freshly permed because I still looked like a poodle!!

Art Journal Fun Took a little challenge on one of my facebook groups to use a painting by Donna Downey for inspiration.  It involved creating a background and then covering most of it up with black.   THAT was the hardest part...covering up all the pretty colors and paint layers on the back ground. Here is a picture of the completed page. ...and then some of the process. (WARNING - PICTURE LADEN POST!) I started by applying layers of acrylic with an old credit card. Then I started adding more colors using stencils. ...then a bit of stamping. Then I dug out some rub-ons and scattered them on the page. It needed some more pop, so I used the tip of my finger and added some bright red circles. Some doodling and dots and little bees.. (Although the bees don't really show once it's finished.) Decided on circle and flower placement... Then I started adding black paint.  I didn't didn't lik...