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

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...

What a Wonderful World This canvas was created for Tracy Weinzapfel's Mixed Media Mondays  March Creative Dare . The challenge is to create a piece of artwork illustrating one of your favorite song AND to incorporate a button. I took a day off of work today and spent a good portion of it at my art desk playing in my paints and working on my canvas. One of my favorite songs is "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong.  I am always in awe of this wonderful and beautiful world we live in, so that is the song I picked,  ....and f or the button portion of the challenge I used little tiny red buttons for the roses. I'm thinking I should have used some modeling paste  or artist cement  to build up texture in my tree.  Oh well, I'm not going back to rework it. It really was a challenge to photograph once I finished, because I added just a tiny bit of Perfect Pearls  and even though it looks great in person,  it doesn't tr...

What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday? Good morning everyone!!  I'm up and at it, getting kids off to school.  I can't believe that it's been a full week since I sat down at my desk...but it's been a busy (and rough) week and I've been productive in other ways. I actually spent some time at my desk last night playing with DecoArt Americana paints and a canvas. It was very relaxing and I even remembered to snap a picture to post over at Julia's Stamping Ground for What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday?   You should check it out and play along! I do have to say it was a bit of a challenge though, as both of my Quality Control Officers, Sneakers and Momma, kept walking across my desk to check on my progress.  Luckily I managed to keep them from putting little cat footprints on my canvas. I have something in mind for Tracy Weinzapfel's Mixed Media March Creative Dare and I'm hoping that I can translate my vision to canvas.  So f...