Monday, January 4, 2010

Happy New Year

I just wanted to stop by and wish everyone a great new year . I hope to be updateing this blog with new photos soon . I have been doing art journaling  so I want to post a few of my pages . I finally have a place to do art so I hope to have some new art pieces soon . Happy New year everyone
robin

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Its been a while

I just wanted to drop a line to say YES I am still here. We have had some changes in our life since my last post . We moved to our farm and hubby lost his job in June . So I havent had much time for art . As soon as my life chills out a bit I will find my art stuff LOLOL and hopefully get back to it . Thanks for stopping by .You can read about my farm life on my farm blog . The link is in the side bar .
Thanks
Robin

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

I have been busy.......

Here are some of my latest work . I have been busy learning . Its all about learning I think . Right now I am learning about faces and what works best for me. I have been taking eclasses with a number of different artist . if anyone is looking for good priced classes go to http://www.ning.com/ and put what you are looking for in the search window .

"Dream'n Marie"
a mixed media painting, watercolor crayons, acrylic paint, paper napkins, paper images, scrap book paper, fabric, stamping, stenciling and embellishments






"Queen of Nature"


Mixed media, watercolor crayons, acrylic paint, fabric. paper napkins,and embellishments .






"Angels watch over us " This is watercolor paper glue to a piece of 1/4 birch .mixed media. paper napkins, acrylic paint , watercolor crayons, and embellishments .







"Pretty paper slippers ". The pattern for these are the new issue of the Marie magazine put out by Sommerset magazine. Scrap book papers, lace, fabric embellishments , fabric flowers and jewels


"M for Marie"










A mixed media piece, acrylic, watercolor crayons,scrapbook paper, napkins,and stenciling.









" Friends 4 ever kitti. "This is a mixed media painting. Acrylic, watercolor crayons, stamping, stenciling, paper napkins, gesso relief, and embellishments ,

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Some more new work I have been doing

I have been busy working on swap ideas for my group I run with 2 friends ,Terry and Dove . The group is small but hard to motivate so I am hoping these idea might spark and inspire them .Here is the addy . Everyone is welcome beginners to season artist .
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alteredartofvisionsanddreams/
These are marble pendents, gesso pendent made on form core and bottle cap charms .











These are made from matchboxes .I call them my butterfly houses . You can see the inside holds tiny butterflies.










These are 4x4 canvas that I made shadow boxes using the back . I really enjoyed doing these . Thanks for stopping by.





















Wednesday, April 15, 2009

More new art






This painting like too . I call it "Girl with heart balloons " . She has alot of gesso relief on it. Which I really like the look of .






"Love"
This is 7 little canvas's that I glued on to a heavy piece of card stock then altered, painted and played with till I like it . Then I glued the whole thing to a piece of wood which I painted before hand
"Believe in yourself"
Again used 7mini canvas but this time I used the wood background as part of the
over all design.

New paintings


This one I really love . Its my "I finally got it "one . You know when you have been working to learn a new Tu but you don't seem to be getting it . I feel I am finally getting it with this painting . Its my lastest . It is called Princess Splendor.









This one is called "Dreams are wishes". I did this one for my "World of Whimsy" class so I was just really working on the backgrounds.








"He loves me ..... " This one was all about the dress LOLOL this one is also beeswaxs ,very lightly




"Alice" My Alice in wonderland painting