Jo's Art

Monday, June 17, 2013

Next Series of Seed Packets.

I have created a few more Seed Packets by request for the members of Fine Arts ATC's. These are the latest and some birds that were done for the challenge of "Birds". All were done with pen and ink and water color.

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Greeting Card for Helen M. as part of the PDU Faux Finish Exchange. Here's the watercolor card that I painted for her. The card I received from Helen has a beautiful Origami red butterfly and is pictured in my last post.

Saturday, April 27, 2013

A few more ATC's to add to the list. These are mostly done in watercolor, but a couple, the "One Pink Rose" and "A Daisy A Day" are done on a faux rusty metal on watercolor paper, then painted with acrylic. Also, I did an exchange with Helen M. from Australia and on "Faux Surfaces". I'll include the pictures of our exchanges of paintings and small gifts. As usual this was a great Painting Exchange from PDU (Paint Down Under).

Mirror Lake

Twilight

Stormy

All Mine.

Spring Lilacs

Dusk

Tulip

Yum Strawberries

Watermelon

One Pink Rose

A Daisy a Day

One Yellow Apple

The Old Tree

Zing Zen

The following are the PDU Exchange gifts between Helen M. and me. Helen sent me a beautiful Place mat (wood) and coaster with Australian flowers, a beautiful embroidered hand towel and a darling Russian Doll nailfile. Also a lovely handmade card.

My gifts to Helen in return were a wooden plate with roses, a nailfile and tweezers, R.C.M.P. coasters, a dreamcatcher fridge magnet, a set of brushes and a Canada postcard with an indian on it. I also painted a watercolor card and forgot to take a picture of it.

The enlarged photo of the plate allows you to see the faux tarnished metal background as well as a closer look at the roses.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

CREATIVE PAINTING LAS VEGAS 2013
Here are some of the creations that I managed to finish at the convention Feb. 24th to Mar. 1st. It was a really fun time meeting up with old friends and making new ones. I did an oil painting, watercolors and one Acrylic (which I haven't quite finished yet and will show later).

This Gardenia was painted with Claudette Bryant Garcia and was a 4 hour class. Watercolor. The size of this one is 11" x 15", in the mat, it's 12" x 16".

The watercolors are done with Sue Scheewe Brown and we did several within the 4 hour class. It was steady going, but was a very informative class and I loved it!

More Sue Scheewe Brown watercolors in the same class.

This one is an oil with Robert Warren and took 6 hours to do this one. The photo doesn't do the colors justice and they are all on the "Pinkish Brown" tones. Size is 12" x 16"

Entangled Butterfly class was with Janice Miller and again in watercolor and inks. This also was a 6 hour class and we had to work really hard to finish it and the tangles on the mat. Can't wait to get this framed. Size is 11" x 14".

This was our brain teasing warm up for the Entangled Butterfly class. We were told to write out name and incorporate it into a tangle. Here's my try. LOL

This is a 12" x 16" watercolor painting again with Sue Scheewe Brown and was a delight to paint. I have to mat and frame it yet, but I'm sure it will be much more impressive that way.

The convention was so much fun and I managed to hit the outlet malls between classes. Did well there! I picked up so many neat ideas and tips on the Trade Floor and in the classes, that I can use in other creations such as ATC's, etc.