Snow Girl's Gift

 
I decided to create my own Christmas cards this year. I love snow people and this sketch really seemed to sum up the joy of a recieving a great gift. I also enjoyed coming up with the little snow creature for the snow girl to be getting as a present. In my first drawing it was a bunny, but it seemed to be looking rather hungry gazing up at the carrot on her face - I could almost picture the next panel as a gory scene... so, I changed it to a kitten with little twig whiskers and I can imagine her naming it "snowball". I never did a pen drawing of this picture because, I wanted it to be more of a painting. I came up with the final sketch then painted it with watercolors and used pen and ink to add details at the end.

Lola Watercolor

Painted me a pretty pooch! I was doing my Watercolor Workout class for the Marysville Art League and couldn't decide which of my pets to paint and I remembered that my bro-in-law's sister has the most beautiful brindle dog that I always thought would be really fun to paint. So, I painted her instead! I love how it turned out and it makes me want to paint more pets :)

Amandolin Kitchen Logo

I created this lovely logo for a lovely woman who makes lovely cookies! I hand painted the mandolin with black acrylic paint then scanned it into photoshop for cleaning and coloring. I then finished the logo in Freehand and voila! A handpainted logo - that is music to my ears.

Visit Amandolin Kitchen's website to see some beautifully artistic cookie decorating:
http://amandolinkitchen.com

Veggie Bags

For Christmas this year I did a series of vegetable paintings on white denim and then turned them into bags and filled them with goodies to give to friends and family. Here are the paintings - I painted with acrylic then heat set them with an iron so they would go through washings when needed. Doing this project, I've realized I really, really enjoy painting vegetables a lot and probably need to do more veggie projects in the future.

Watercolor Workouts

I've been teaching some watercolor classes at the Marysville Art League this summer. Here are a few of my paintings from "Watercolor Workouts":

Art Hanging in Gallery 264 at the Houston House

Not sure why I haven't uploaded anything on here lately. I think I got busy with a lot of things and just got out of the habit of updating my art blog. But, it's never too late to get caught up! Here are some pics of my salvaged cupboard door art being displyed in Gallery 264 at the Houston House in Marysville, Ohio. They are both woodburned and painted with acrylic.

The Marysville Art League has been doing some amazing things in our community lately - they offer lots of classes and put on art events and if you are interested, you can visit their website to see classes I am going to be teaching there as well.

www.marysvilleartleague.org

 

Mamapalooza T-shirt

Probably would have been nice to get this up before the event... but, this is the t-shirt I painted and donated to the silent raffle. If you'd like to learn more about Mamapalooza Columbus and Mom-driven, Mom-celebrating events in Central Ohio go to the facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Mamapalooza-Columbus/313253943877

Or visit the website at: http://www.mamapaloozacolumbus.org/