Painting again

instead of packing...LOL...actually, I have most of the packing done...just gotta finish some last minute housework...have to come home to a clean house...I am having fun painting these ATC's...I have always enjoyed stamping them...and since I have started painting again...I am just loving these little canvases for creating miniature artworks...This one is painted on chipboard, basecoated off white, wash of tealish blue for the sky and brown wash for the ground...added the clouds and then freehand painted the little scene...

I enjoy painting paper mache boxes...I had this little round one and decided he needed to become a snowman, or at least his head...I love the carrot noses on snowmen...and also, wanted a tobogin instead of a black hat...I think it kinda has a "bogin" look...so i put a bogin on his nogin...

Close up of the details on his face...

I painted my snowman on a coaster, gonna turn this one into a little book...it will have dark blue cardstock pages...will be great for sharing snowday photos in...

Close up of the details on the snowman...

Painting while packing...

I should be packing...vacation starts Friday...oh well..the brushes were calling me...I painted this little chipboard oval with a wash of off white paint, then sponged on some green to make a mottled looking background...I painted some background leaves and then added the flowers and more leaves...

This is an ATC=Artist Trading Card, with a snowman just kinda freehand painted on...I kinda penciled him in, and then added the details....

This is a snowman painting I designed years ago...I used to do them on terra cotta pots of all sizes and sell them at craft shows...I even did them on a mailbox one time for a customer...I just stipple in my basic snowman shape, add some ground and a black hat...

Then just start adding details to them...this used to be one of my biggest requested Christmas classes and I always taught it in July...

More painting today

Scene on a coaster, that will be the cover for a book...

Closer view of the details...

Sunflowers and rosebuds on a die cut chipboard frame with an oval opening,

closer view of the details...

tiny terra cotta tray, basecoated off white, sponged edges, purple coneflower painted in the center and leaves around the inside...

closer view

Chipboard die cut circle,

Front of card painted with daisies

Small take out box die cut painted with rose buds

Painted Mini Book

I love to make mini books and using coasters for the covers makes it so easy...I painted the blue stippled edges on both covers, added the daisy painting to the front cover, sealed with waterbased sealer and used my bind it all spiral binding system to bind the book...I cut 12 pages to go into the book...this book would be a nice way to share special recipes with someone...they can be hand written or computer typed then attached to the pages...or use it as a mini scrapbook to share photos...