another card from a painting

Sometimes a painting takes on a new life. I will be honest, I was not thrilled with this as a painting. It was experimental and very fast. But I scanned it and printed it on my DYING printer (another story for another day). Once printed, I went in with some inks and a sponge to add more color. Then I took a fine marker and drew around the flower. I love it! I love the lower left with the out of focus flower. Over all, this is much better as a card!

happy crafting!

art adventure

 

Here is another pastel painting of a poppy.

poppies in pastel

6" x 8"

 I then brought this into a photoediting program and made it very moody and dark...

It is amazing how fast time passes. I log onto my blog and am so surprised that four days have passed since I last posted when it feels like one or two.

I thought I was supposed to be bored when I was laid off and unemployed? No way- I am immersed in things that I finally have time to do. Time is a gift and I was given that gift the day I was laid off of my job. I was not able to leave that job on my own- it was just too lucrative for me to do so...the only way for me to go was for them to let me go...which they finally did.

Now I have time to redo my bathroom- strip the wallpaper, repair the drywall, paint and decorate. I have time to make 'real' dinners...slow cooked with love and real potatoes (not instant mashed!). I am painting much more. I have discovered that I actually like shopping! I have never been a shopper. Looking back though, I either had kids in tow or was harried and tired, as it was at night after a day at work. Weekend shopping was no good- too many crowds and I was eternally thinking about laundry that had to get done and a house to clean before Monday morning rolled around again.

Anyway...this is a painting I just finished for my bathroom project. I may add one more layer of an overall color to knock back some of the whiter colors, not sure yet...but here it is. It is more about color than anything. These are the colors I am using. The walls will be a creamy pale white(hint of yellow). I am stuck with a forest green counter top at the moment as I do not want to rip out and redo that, so I am using earth fall colors, which are my personal favorite colors.

poppies continued

this one is more about the background - using an semi-opaque color with a transparent color.

wacom drawing # 2 - poppies

poppies, 5 x 7, pastel on paper (digital)

I am getting the 'feel' if the tablet a little better. It's very different than a mouse. With a mouse when you reach the end of a page, you just life up the mouse and put it down and continue. Not so with a tablet- the area of the tablet corresponds with the area on the screen- so you have to draw to that area- just like on a piece of paper- so it's easier to do in that it's much like drawing/painting, but it's harder as I have been using a mouse for years and it's hard to learn a new way.