New Sketch

Took a little time to do some sketching last

night

Up-cycled clothing

I am getting ready for summer shows!  First one is in  two weeks.  This year I'm making skirts and dresses!

Tamara LaPorte"s Rainbow Mermaid class

 If you love online classes.  Check out the link below! You can get Tamara LaPorte's Rainbow Mermaid class just by donating to Charity Water fund.  Help to make sure everyone on earth has clean water to drink and you will have new art to create...What a deal! Such a great cause!   Here is my sketch of this sweet little mermaid.....I'm on vacation for another 10 days, so I will finish her when I get home!

 http://www.willowing.org/2014/04/30/water-art-soul-a-new-mini-course-available/

Waiting for the storms to pass!

My hubby and I are visiting family and friends in Mobile, Al. Being from upper Michigan, the spring storms that just past through were quite an experience!  Yikes!  Heavy rain, high winds, thunder, lightening and alarms going off warning you of flash flooding and tornados!  I'm used to snow!
So I did some sketching  while we waited for the storms to pass .   The background on the colored photo was done with alcohol inks before I drew on it.
...Today the sun is shining!!!!

Great Hair Day!

This painting was inspired by an online class with Natasha May  http://natashamay.blogspot.com/  that I took last year.  Her hair is done with gelli print papers!

LB2014 with Ania Dabrowska, Finnabair

This is what I did in LB 2014 this week.  I did not finish a lesson with Tamara LaPorte on spray inks a few weeks ago, so I decided to used the face I drew for that class in this weeks lesson by Anna Dabrowska...what an amazing class!

Gelli Plate Art Quilt

I do love playing with my gelli plate.  I recently painted  fabric and made  an art quilt.  It may look familiar because i did the same design in paper last year.  I have also made a throw pillow usinging my gelli plate to create the fabric first!

She believed in giant butterflies

Sunset in the Imaginary Flower Garden!

Yesterday I painted some canvas fabric....I used masking tape to section off some areas, so I could do some color blocking. I had a background that I made a while back, so I thought I would challenge myself and used the painted  tape, that I removed from the fabric, to create some flowers...I had to add a few paper scraps for three of the flowers, because I ran out of tape... and the circles are masks from a gelli plate project! 

It was inspired by Carla Sonheim's class on LB2014.  Making it was such fun!

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