Day 4 World water color month. Family Moments

For the prompt Family moments, I chose this photo that my daugnhter took  of her husband and her son Noah. I printed the photo to help with my sketch. I also added a grid to the photo to aide in the sketch as well. I took artistic license to eliminate elements from the photo.

 It was here that I realized I forgot to add feet for Noah. So I sketched them in. 

There was more that I wanted to do with Noah' s face but since I used cardstock instead of watercoloring paper, I had reached the limitations of what I could do before the cardstock started to break down. My husband is always saying "The enemy of good is better." I decided to leave it at good.

My second family moments project was inspired by my sisters, daughters, mom,, my double aunt and double cousin. 

The butterfly reminds me of my sister who is on her way to being a monarch butterfly expert.  The jar of paint brushes is for me and my sisters. All of us love art, we just have our own unique skills and styles. The camera with flowers, represents the passion for photography that my sister, cousin, aunt, daughters and I have in common. The music is for all of my family who is very musical. And lastly I painted a bible to represent our faith.  

To give my watercolor project that little extra I added metallic rub. Since I painted it with water. I think it counts. 

Started out as a primary colors watercolor study and turned into a mixed media card.

I challenged my friend Pam to watercolor with me today. 

If you are a Splitcoast Stamper member go leave her some love HERE.

We went to pinterest and searched for "primary colors" and "water coloring" and the result lead us to this eye with primary colored tears.

19 incredibly beautiful watercolor painting ideas. #11 eye filled with primary colored tears.

We each sketched our eyes and watercolored them. We listened to our art when it said "make us mixed media"  She added a stamped sentiment and sequins. I unashamedly stole those ideas from her. Or I should say "with her blessing " I borrowed her ideas.

The sentiment on mine is from STAMPlorations Trendy Butterflies.

The other stamping is from a retired STAMPlortions set called mini mixed media. I photocopied a page from my J encyclopedia that happened to be about JAZZ. I usually use the page from the encyclopedia but they have an aged look This time I didn't want the aged yellow look to detract from the watercoloring of the eye and tears.

Day 3 World Water Color Month- Primary Colors

Day 3 Primary Colors

How I interpreted this challenge was to use only primary colors on my palette. I then did mix the colors to get  green and brown. There was one exception to just primary colors. I did add black for the face of my cardinal and for the eyes of the cardinal and the parrot. (Sorry that my camera doesn't like taking photos of pencil sketches)

Day 2 of World water color month Delicious food

One of my favorite things about summer is the fruit. Today when I went to Aldis, the strawberries were $.99 a pint. So I bought several pints and I washed cored and froze them. Well I didn't freeze all of them. Of course I left some to be consumed this week. I put some in a bowl and took a photo of them to use as a reference for my painting today 

 Using a pencil I sketched the bowl and berries.

I want to share what I used to watercolor with. You don't need to spend money and have expensive watercolors to make art. Although I would love to have those. But saying you NEED those is an excuse. I used cheap markers

I scribbled onto my acetate folder and sprayed with water.

I hope I have inspired you and encouraged you to just create and don't let excuses of lack of supplies get in your way.

World water color month July 2019 day 1 Sunny Days

Last month was a month of CASEing the STAMPlorations girls. It really stretched my creativity by trying to match the very varied styles of all the STAMP girls. This month I am continuing to stretch by doing World Water Color Month.

DAY 1 Sunny Days.

When thinking about what to paint to represent SUNNY DAYS my mind went to how the sun looks shining through the leaves of the trees. One of my earliest memories is from when I was supposed to be taking a nap. I think I was about 2 years old. I was supposed to be napping but instead I was looking out the window at how the sun looked shining through the leaves of the elm tree outside my bedroom window. 

This is my first try I liked the color and I like the way the water spots look, but I really didn't like how the branches were too heavy.

Second try I liked the color but there wasn't much contrast (highlight and shadows) It felt too flat.

 I liked this next one but it too felt to flat and I wasn't thrilled with the colors.

 I think this is my 2nd favorite. There were more shadows but I didn't think you could "see" the sunlight. 

 This one was my favorite. You can tell it was done by a beginner, but hey at least I'm beginning. I tried to leave more white space. That was really hard. I think I would still like more contrast and I think I would add some deeper richer colors. Especially for the shadows. 

 I have several friends who are doing this challenge as well. When I do challenges, I don't like to see what other's have created until after I am done because I don't want to be influenced. I want my art to be my own. I will say that when I saw theirs my first instinct was to start to compare. Of course then insecurity came in and self doubt and fear and I didn't want to share my paintings. Then I reminded myself that my art is my journey, and their art is their journey.It doesn't matter that we aren't at the same place. That gave me the confidence to share my projects. Hopefully when I am further down my art journey I will look back and be able to see how my art has grown. I hope I have inspired you. Comments are always appreciated and welcomed.