8 x 10 Acrylic on wood
I have always admired Frida Kahlo. I love that she is strong, beautiful and unique in her ideas and art. I have always felt that there should be some Frida in my home, so it seemed only fitting that I create a portrait of her to hang on my walls. She fits perfectly in my home, with her colorful and striking style.
Theme word for Illustration Friday this week: Garden
Watercolor and Pencil
We are super excited about spring/summer fruits and vegetables! They are the best. Strawberries and tomatoes are two of our favorites. We are preparing for a small garden, hopefully it will go as planned. If not, we have our local CSA and a community garden. At the very least, we can say that we finally have our compost started.
Happy Wednesday!!
I have a theory that, sometimes, art needs to sit awhile before it can really sing…
Well, way back when, in my early college days, I took a lot of photography classes. One of them was a mixed media photography class where we made gum prints, sun prints, photo transfers and the like. It was a really fun class. This old print was something I made. It involved some kind of emulsion that was painted onto paper and a large 8 x 10 negative that we developed. This particular print was actually a discard but I kept it anyway in hopes of making something out of it later. Sixteen years later I stumbled across it while looking for other old photos and was immediately sidetracked with the task of finally doing something with it (I really should be doing a million other things right now).
I used water color pencils, water color paint, colored pencils, stamps and ink. It reads:
Sail me on a silver sun where I know that I am free.
Show me that I am everywhere and get me home for tea!The Beatles, “It’s All Too Much“
I think I’m going to frame it and put it in my kitchen, since I love both tea and a good Beatles song.
Happy Tuesday everyone!
This illustration (for illustration friday, word: choose) represents my younger self and my younger husband (15 years younger). I think I chose him, he thinks he chose me, but really it was instantly mutual. And honey, I’ll always choose you because I can’t imagine anyone else making me laugh as much, making me as happy or loving me as much as you do. (Now, you didn’t think I’d make it through an entire Valentines day post without a little bit of sap did you?)
And these are for my little guys. I had a craft date with a new friend today (we had so much fun) and I made the one on the left. When I got home I made the one on the right which is on a different type of cardboard so it looks a bit brighter.
These were the responses from my little guys:
Super-E: “Thanks Mom, it’s cool” Turns around and walks off. (what do ya expect, he’s 6)
I-guy: “Thanks mommy!!! I love it, I love it, I love it!!” while twirling around and looking at it lovingly. Wow, didn’t expect that kind of supreme cuteness! We immediately headed into their room and hung these up by their beds.
The night wasn’t complete without heart shaped pasta for dinner and wacky cake for dessert (recipe courtesy Pink Chalk Studio) Thanks Kathy, it was soooo good!
Hope everyone had a love filled Valentines Day!
The colorful flowers were strangely exciting.
A quick one for Illustration Friday ~ watercolor and ink
Just barely getting this one in for Illustration Friday.
Musical Mermaid with sparkling scales. Pencil, watercolor, colorful fineliner pens.
The theme for Illustration Friday this week is trick-or-treat.
Watercolor, pencil and micropen
Happy Halloween!
~Regina
Watercolor
I am still recovering from a three day stint of H-E double-toothpicks at the other place I occupy a lot of my time. I’d love to go into details, but that’s all I can say about that.
Anyway, I tried finishing up my prizes today, but I was so tired that I was sewing zippers on the bottom of bags! I mostly seam ripped. Argh!!
So, instead I’m sharing these two paintings. The IF word for last week was wedding and I got to thinking about it and realized that I never shared these paintings that I made for my sisters wedding last year.
The first one was used as invites and the second for thank you cards. I scanned them, added words digitially and then had them printed out. They turned out really great. Someday I plan to have them framed so that I can give them to her. Can you believe I haven’t done that yet? Slacker through and through. She’s been married for over a year now. I’m missing her now and love her oh so muchly!
After this weekend, I will officially be a part-timer. YEAH!!! I am going to make a huge effort to do at least one IF and one Inspire Me Thursdays every month. I miss it.
Tomorrow: E-mails to my prize winners (I haven’t forgotten) and finished prizes!
