More faces

Love watching Nika Rouss' YouTube channel, she inspires me! ...and I am still learning to draw faces, practice will eventually make perfect!

Canvas Work

The canvas was calling to me on this one, I used everything mixed media that I could get my hands on! I'm not sure I like it, but it's growing on me...

The Grungier the Better

Love the grungy look, and when I got to this episode, I got really excited! Love the blue and brown combo, and then to get to the glazing and grunginess of it, it turned out awesome!!

Donna Downey Inspired!

Another one from Donna Downey's Inspiration Wednesday... wasn't sure how this would turn out...

Love using the textured joint tape and texture paste!

Didn't like it until the end result, which is when I start liking it :)

Back at the Blog!!

Decided to update my blog finally!  I have been working on Donna Downey's Inspiration Wednesday again this year, even though I never finished last year's, haha! But I love her work so much, so I really copied the heck out of this one, and love the way it came out!

Inspiration Wednesday!

So I decided to take the plunge and join Donna Downey in her Inspiration Wednesday 2015 class! Every other week this year, I'll be doing her challenges in my art journal (and may I add that her homemade journals are beautiful!!!)

I started out following along closely, using gesso, super heavy gesso and molding paste.  I also deciding on using a few things from Club Scrap!  One was the flower stencil on the enclosure on the front page.

Adding my choice of Golden Paints and some glaze (which I'd never used before and absolutely love!)

Added a few embellishments and another cool stamp phrase from Club Scrap...

Here is the finished product!

I'm going to enjoy getting my mojo back and creating with this talented lady!!!!

Finished another one, finally!

I've been working so much lately, but I finally found time to finish a canvas. It never ends up the way it starts, but I'm happy with this one.

Blue Poppy!

This was my color palette choice for today, wasn't sure where I was going with it.

Then I decided to check out some of my FaceBook groups and found a woman who did an amazing job with a blue poppy! A blue poppy? Loved it! So I decided to try it and it came out awesome!!

As you can see, I can never just leave it alone, so I decided to add raindrops (glossy accents) and love it even more. Now that I can paint a poppy after a year of practice, lol, I may need to try different flowers.

Still Thinking and Hoping for Spring

I decided to just add color to canvas and see what I could see in the paint...

It ended up looking like poppies, so I went with it!

...and one last Donna Downey "Inspiration"

I used everything from Gesso, to Acrylic Paints, Sharpies, Distress Stickles and Liquid Pearls.

A Little More Donna Downey

I love just putting color on canvas....

...but adding the finishing touches really brings it together.  Thank you Donna Downey for another great tutorial.

Donna Downy Inspirational Canvas

This was my piece on Donna Downey's 40,000 "likes" on Facebook, when she gave away a free video.  This is how it started for the background...



...and this is how in ended up, I may need to do more of these, I love how it turned out! I added Dyan Reaveley's sprays to finish it off.

A few things I've been working on...

I decided to get creative again this week, and am looking forward to the weekend! Getting my paints out, and ready to get messy again.  Here are a few paintings I've done with inspiration from my online gurus, hope you enjoy!

I decided to use a stencil with squares, and create texture with paste.  Adding the flowers at the end, I love texture!



This is a small Stampbord tile, and I used Alcohol Inks.  The technique was blowing with a straw!

Mixed Media on Canvas

A mixture of acrylics, oil sticks, masking tape, netting with inspiration from Donna Downey.

Canvas Create 2013 January

I'm now taking Donna Downey's Canvas Create class and here is January's canvas using Rigid Wrap, definitely going to do more with this stuff!  I made it look like Donna's because I loved what she did.  February's is coming out in a week, stay tuned for that one! I'm sure it will be great :)

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Mixed Media Creations

These are my most recent creations of Mixed Media ... Having a blast with canvas...hope you enjoy!

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Canvas #4

A little morbid but I love it! Loving the eyedropper tool ... And you can see how the painting progressed ... definitely not how it started out.

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Canvas #3

Canvas #3

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Canvas Day 2

I'm really getting into this! I love how it's so messy and turns into something that grows on me :)

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Canvas Day 1

Decided to try a Donna Downey canvas create class. This is my first try, not bad. Definitely going to take her monthly 2013 classes. Glad I tried it! Can't wait to work more on canvas!

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