Merry Christmas!!!

Hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday Season.

acrylic on canvas

60th Wedding Anniversary

Last weekend I was in Connecticut celebrating my parents 60th Wedding Anniversary ~ what a blessing.

Mixed media on Arches watercolor:

Happy Valentine's Day

Today's post is a Valentine's Day card I made for my parents.   For the hearts I used watercolors, gold embossing powder, glaze and glitter; and glued them to foam to raise them off the paper a bit.  The background is watercolors, Unryu paper, Golden matte medium, shimmer acrylics and acrylic paint.  Thanks for stopping by.  :0)

Simon Says Stamp challenge:  Young at Heart http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/

Happy Autumn

A little pumpkin card painting on Arches 140 lb. cold pressed watercolor paper.

Shell Watercolor

In between crafting cards and sketchbook painting, I continue to work on watercolor skills through Anna Mason's online tutoring.  My painting below was done on Arches Watercolor  Hot Press ~140 lb paper.

Mandala Card

I'm taking an online course with Dion Dior on using Twinkling H2O's, and this card is my interpretation of one of her lesson plans.  It's an abstract Mandala but my husband thinks it looks like a roulette wheel, lol.   I used 100# paper to frame my painting; the paper is called Whip Cream and I ordered it during the Paper Temptress summer sale.

It's difficult for me to capture the sparkle of the paints, but there's a bit of twinkle throughout the painting.

Thanks for stopping by ~  Ann  :0)
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Strawberry Watercolor

Lately I've been determined to improve my watercolor skills so I'm taking online instruction from Anna Mason.  Her site is called Watercolors with WOW in case you're interested in watercolor painting;  I've found her instruction very helpful.  I chose to paint a strawberry for lesson one, and who would think that this could be so difficult, eeeeekkk but it was.  Fun, but required much concentration for me, hopefully with time it won't be such a brain strain.  Here's my painting:

My watercolor was painted on Arches 140 lb Hot Press paper, hot press is new to me, but I like the smooth surface.  Thanks for stopping by!  :0)