Painted easel

[...] We all scream for ice cream!!! I mean, really. Who doesn't like ice cream?!  Here's a tasty little mixed media piece I started a few weeks ago and finally finished [...]

[...] dear family battling cancer. 8.5x5" Mixed Media   I thought this worked well with Illustration Friday's theme of heights--prayers to God high above. [...]

[...] A quick sketch for Illustration Friday's theme of Hitched.  5x7" Red China Marker [...]

[...] on top of it. It's not much, but at least it's something. Quite appropriate too for Illustration Friday's theme of Hurry, since it took me less than 10 minutes to complete! 8x5" [...]

[...] The topic for the week on Illustration Friday was "tall". I don't have a lot of experience with this word as I am only 4'11& [...]

[...] mantle. There were lots of steps so I'll be breaking it down into a few posts. They are all in acrylic paint. Step 1. I started with gessoing an old canvas that I had already made two paintings on, so [...]

[...] it more texture I guess. But really it has enough, right?! Once the glue was dry I used some acrylic paint (no brown this time) and painted over the paper and enhanced the ice cream cone. I wish I had [...]

[...] and my circle stencil and headed to the living room.  I found this old page with acrylic paint I was using up and decided to draw on top of it. It's not much, but at least it's [...]

[...] I like. Just makes it stand out a bit. I'm very pleased with it. And it's refreshing to have a new painting hanging! [...]

I got inspired at church to create a painting for our mantle. There were lots of steps so I'll be breaking it down into a few posts. They are all in [...]

[...] Can you identify what's original and what isn't?  9x12" Magazine Collage [...]

[...] example I made for them. I love the marks and texture it creates on the plane white paper! Magazine Collage and Nevr-Dull, 10x6"   [...]

I am currently working with some of my students on composition and they are finding it more challenging than I expected especially since we've been ta [...]

Can you identify what's original and what isn't?  9x12" Magazine Collage [...]

[...] This is a little something I did while out of town with limited resources. The background is Neocolor crayons with water dripped/washed on top and a sharpie design of cloud banners inspired by Julie. [...]

[...] something in the art world. It is featured on the cover of the latest issue of the Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine and I have seen various artists reference it on their blogs.  I finally made one [...]

[...] 't take any between step four and five because I made quite a few adjustments. We have a reddish brown leather couch so I added maroon stripes on the yellow circles and added black outlines around the [...]