Princess Bubbles Creates

Open studios with Sandra Spagnuolo was so much fun yesterday!  We played with tempera paint pucks.  We added charcoal, we then dipped the whole thing into water.  Some of the paint and charcoal washed away.  We then worked back into the painting.  We were definitely not to get too attached to what we had done as it could wash away in the next step!  Lessons in letting go, letting the art flow.  Good stuff. This piece seems to be a bit dark to me although I do like it.  We coated our pieces with matt medium but that doesn't have to be the final step.  I will continue to work with this piece.  Maybe add some pencil crayon or something to lighten it up a bit.

Mary Lynn showed us how to weave two photos together last week.  She generously shared some of her photos with us.  She is such a good photographer!  I must say it was a little easier to cut into someone else's photos than my own.   This is a combination of a photo of stained glass and a photo of grass.  Pretty cool!

Not that it will look any different.  There is certainly a learning curve for working with a Mac!  I'm getting there with a little help from my friend Mary Lynn. Also with the  help of Mary Lynn I have completed my first iphoto book.  I called in Flower Portraits.  Pictured above is the photo I used for the cover.  I can't wait get the book!

This is another experiment from our play day last week.  We painted both sides of a piece of tissue paper.  We used a brayer to apply the gesso as well as the paint.  It gives you a really great texture.  Some tissue give more texture than others.

It is my intention to post on my blog every other day - my apologies for not doing that.  September has been flying by! I had a play day this past week with the usuals.  We enjoyed some art and some laughs.  Pictured above is some index cards we inked.  The plan is to make them into a small book.  I will post it when it gets done. It was fun to just let the ink fly.  

It is possible that I own every set of pastels made!  I don't know for sure but there is a good chance of it.  I got pretty good coverage with these Stampin Up pastels.  I also tried my sister's suggestion of using a baby wipe to apply them.  It works great!  Thanks sis!

Here is another journal page started with pastels.  Unfortunately, you can't really see the shimmer in this picture.  I didn't get the same vivid color as with the Pan Pastels.  Maybe I should add another layer of color.