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

What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday Watercolor Play Had some time to play this week, so I dug out my inks and took on  Sandee's Challenge at Frosted Designs    to create a painting using inks and pipettes by Ranger . No brushes involved! Free and Loose!  What a fun little challenge! ...and on Monday night I decided to paint along with Tracy Weinzapfel and Mixed Media Monday . My painting didn't follow along in her direction, but I had fun flinging watercolor splatters and  listening to and reading the chatter going on.  Love Monday nights! The stamp is called Cityscape and is by France Papillion for Stampotique . I won this from France a while back and I love the little funky buildings! They have so much personality!

Happy Birthday Tracy Weinzapfel! May has been a special month at Mixed Media Mondays with Tracy Weinzapfel  as we have been celebrating her birthday with a month of fun! My gift to her was this 10 x 10 inch canvas and just as promised in the sneak peek in  this post , here is a look at the completed project. A list of the products I used will be at the bottom of this post. I started out by spreading on a layer of  101 Artist's Cement Light on my canvas and impressing it with  stamps and bottle tops, etc. to create texture. Next I started adding layers of paint. ...with each layer adding a bit more depth and dimension to the canvas. Here's a little closer look at a portion of the canvas showing the texture created in the Artist's Cement and some of the layers of colors.  Several more layers of color were added after this shot was taken.  While layer of paint were drying on my canvas, I cut a heart out of a heav...