Mix It Monthly - A Funny Hat

Wow! It's cold here in South Carolina! Here is a picture of our thermometer at 10 degrees yesterday morning on our covered porch. It did get colder than that. The wind chill made it feel like 10 to 20 below zero! Now that is cold for South Carolina. They said we have not been this cold in 20 years. I remember 20 years ago when we had friends from Florida visit. They could not believe how cold it was and this year it was colder than that year. I am glad to see our two poor horses survived the cold and look forward to it getting warmer as the week goes on.

 

I finally had time to do some art yesterday while I sat in my warm house. Thank goodness the heat and power were on at our house! I did a butterfly princess. She loves her butterfly hat that I made her for the Mix It Monthly challenge. In fact, she is tickled pink! The colors we were to use were orange, hibiscus, and violet. My sister gave me new watercolors for Christmas and the colors are so vibrant for water colors, especially that wonderful orange! The butterflies are stamped and cut out and colored with hibiscus and violet. What a fun painting this was to do! Do you think that she might look a little like Miley? That was not intentionally but just the way it turned out.

 

Winter Greenery Postcard

My online art group, AAWA (An Affair With Art) is doing a postcard swap and the theme is Holiday/Winter Greenery.  This include Christmas trees, mistletoe, holly, poinsettias, wreaths, etc.
So when I saw this post of a Christmas wreath here on a blog called My Watercolor Journal, I decided that is what I wanted to do for my postcard. I hope that you will look at her lovely blog and enjoy her beautiful posts and tutorials.
I did 6 of these postcards to use for some of my Christmas cards too. I don't think mine are as pretty as her wreath turned out but I do like it. It was fun to do and I hope you enjoy looking at it.

A Tassel for my online Art group swap

My online art group AAWA (An Affair With Art) is doing a tassel swap. Jeri wanted us to do fibers, chain,lace and beads. I did use a metal thimble that I put copper embossing powders on. I was unsure if I wanted to use it or not but could not find a large bead cap in copper so I did decide to use it. I also used a bead that one of the members of AAWA gave to me as a little giftie.  I have been saving it for something special and could not think of anything better to use it on. I found the elephants at Big Lots and thought that they would make a good last minute addition to the tassel. I wove ribbon into my chains. I used the darker jewel tones that Jeri wanted us to use. I hope Yooper likes it!

Mix It Monthly - Owls

This is my art journal take on the Mix It Monthly Theme of owls. I think of wisdom when I think of owls so I added this quote. The colors that Conny wanted us to use were the red, green and mustard yellow. I hope you enjoy seeing my wise old owl!

 

Mix It Monthly - 2nd Canvas - Graphic pattern and Children

I did this canvas just for fun but realized that it would fit into the Mix It Monthly theme also because it has the correct colors and it has graphic pattern in the woman's dress. I found this picture in a magazine and just adored the sweetness of it and wanted to paint it. I did the dress of the woman in white and then did a stencil with lace over the white to give it the pattern. I wanted the woman to look like a bride. The little girl is just so cute! The canvas is mixed media. There are old book pages and writing underneath but you really don't see them unless you know they are there. The painting is water colors and acrylics. I named the painting "Flower Girls".
So here is my 2nd painting for the month! Wow! Didn't know I had it in me!

Mix It Monthly - November challenge - Kids and Graphic pattern

Over on Mix It Monthly (here), the challenge for this month was to do a painting of a child, to do some pattern and to use sea blue, pale pink, and green colors. A friend asked me if I had done paintings of my family and I realized that I have not. So I found this picture of my 6 year old Grandson.  I thought that it would be perfect with the pattern in his shorts, the tree for the green and the sky for the pink and blue. This is the best fun I have all month and I am doing things that I would never have done otherwise if it were not for this challenge. I hope you enjoy seeing it.

Conny over on Mix It Monthly has the honor of being one of the teachers in the Soul Food art class. She is giving away a spot in the class on Monday 11/11 here. If you'd like to win a spot in the class just go to the link and leave a comment.

Fleur De Lis Postcard

 

This is a Fleur De Lis Postcard that I did for a swap with my online art group, AAWA (An Affair with Art). I hope Sue enjoys it. I got a new little tool that has dies that creates the embossed Fleur De Lis and I had some little Fleur De Lis "buttons".  My friend, Jean gave me the die cuts in another swap with our group. I love all those die cuts and have really made use of them.