FINISHED PAINTING

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Step one: Create a sky with clouds.

Step two: Make some hills.

Step three: Establish where the tree lives.

Step four: Branch out and give the tree attitude.

Step five: Add high lights and low lights and details.  This is the hardest part.

Step six: Add some polyurethane and done!

Big canvas like 30x40 or something.  I used craft paint for some of the colors.  Big mistake, the craft paint is dull compared to the bright professional acrylic paints in tubes.  The polyurethane fixed the whole problem and made everything shine and sparkle. 

MURAL PAINTING MADNESS!

This is one of the things I've been working on this past month.  HUGE mural at Venture Kidz Day Care Center.  The hall is 60ft long and I will be painting both sides.  The tree above is the first named "big tree", real creative name, I know!  All the colors were picked for me...I may try to pick my own colors for the next trees.  We'll see if I can get away with it. 

I was "OUT TO LUNCH" for way to long. BUT I have tons of work to share.  I'll try to get on my blog more often and start posting regular like a good blogger. 

NURSERY DECORATIONS

I helped my Sis-In-Law with her nursery awhile ago.  The butterfly, dragonfly, moth painting is pen & ink and watercolor.  My favorite medium to work with!  Then we stuck a bunch of vinyl cling decorations on the wall.  Above the door I painted an owl.  LOVE OWLS!  I think I'll make a few more owls up there and get rid of the vinyl clings.  They don't match the owl.  Anyway, it was a fun day.

WEDDING PAINTING

Painting I did for my Brother and his new wife.

BOWLING PIN FUN!

Alice (left) Me (right)!

The Mixed Media III bowling pin auction was a blast! Lots of great art and friends, beer, live band great atmosphere.

These are some of my favorite pins. Mine is on the left! I love the middle monster one.

Alice won the bid! She has my pin now. Paul was so excited about this event.

MIXED MEDIA III BOWLING PIN AUCTION

Okay here it is....I was so nervous to paint it, then I was nervous to glaze it. Now I'm nervous to take it down to the auction and go to the event and see what other artists think and will anyone bid on it and will people laugh and jeez I'm insecure! :)

The most frustrating thing about the process was when I glazed the pin and some of the glitter smeared around. If I knew better I would have glazed the glitter parts first, then glazed the rest. I was afraid I needed an even coat of glaze but really the glaze blends okay. There, a "glaze lesson" for you!

By the way, the tree I submitted to be picked for the auction is on the poster above. Twice! It's the one with the pink balls. Also my name is on the poster as one of the artists. Kinda cool!

RAT MEETS DRAGONFLY

This Painting was done for my BIL at Christmas time. It took about three days to complete. The original painting was this same red background and branch but a raven or crow sitting on the branch. My BIL's girlfriend told me ravens and crows are back luck in her Vietnamese culture so I had to rethink the animals. Mark (BIL) was born the year of the rat and Minh (BIL's girlfriend) loves dragonfly's. Rat Meets Dragonfly was achieved!

I think it turned out okay....a little more "cute" than I would have liked but most of my stuff turns out that way. Not edgy and odd which is what I try for. I guess I need to embrace the cuteness? :)

Painting is 3' X 4' acrylic on canvas