Creative Colour Challenge

This month Louise Gale's Creative Colour Challenge was red and roses so I decided to take a photo of this red rose whilst at my mother-in-laws house recently.

And here's a red rose I painted in 2010...

Wednesday Workshop

At Wednesday's mixed media art workshop with Neil Elliott I worked on an oil crayon drawing with a wash over it.  This is the one I did, it's no masterpiece but a great first time practice learning experience...

Before the washes...

Neil gave me his demo painting.  SCORED!!!!  I nearly offered him the painting above in return!!  bahahaha

Painting titles: What came first?  The bunny or the chocolate egg? (or the dog and the potato?? - Dear Husband).

Love his batman mask and his boots.  hehehe

I did a practice girl at home over the weekend - her face is painted with Caran d'Ache Neocolor crayons  and the rest is in oil crayons with an acrylic wash over it. It didn't turn out how I expected tit to...

I also added some red to this painting as I felt it was too busy and that my eyes needed a soft spot to fall...better???

Previously...

I hope your week is going well and that you are getting up to some fun arty stuff!!!

Shell's Sunday Snippets

My week in review in pics:

Dolphins in the Swan River, Nedlands, Western Australia.

Kangaroos who live in my neighbourhood.

Sunday, mixed media

Confetti Trees - mixed media

Streetscape2

 

Jill - heArt Exchange gift for Jill

Notebook I received from Jill

Chorizo and prawns for Friday lunch with hubby.

Playing along with {tinniegirl} - {sunday snippets} A collection of photos from your week. No need for words. Let the pictures tell your story

Meet Sunday

Last Sunday I started a new girl after painting Saturday - I didn't like her hair so I decided to just paint the background and not collage it.  I've decided I'll do a few more in this style.

Sunday, mixed media girly collage, 57cm x 37cm

Saturday - I played around with her hair and her face....argh....:

Saturday, mixed media girly collage, 57cmx37cm

Previously:

Wednesday Workshop

Yesterday I attended Neil Elliott's Mixed Media Workshop and worked on my sewing pattern paintings....I love the texture they create.

And here's Neil showing us about using wax crayons with a wash over the top - love his illustrationy style...

This week I will prepare my watercolour paper with a couple of girlies on them for the workshop next week.

heArt exchange

Last month I participated in Louise Gale's Your Heart Makes A  Difference heArt exchange, creating a gift from the heart and sending it out into the world.

I sent a mixed media girly portrait to Jill, A Thousand Shades of Grey as during May I spent a lot of time creating faces.  This is a likeness of Jill, not a portrait/exact replication of her but a painting she will recognise as herself (does that make sense?).  I used texture paste for the hair, first time for me, and that has a great effect and must use it more often - needs to dry overnight and I lack patience.  The scrapbooking papers which I collaged on have words on them or butterflies as Jill is a writer.

Jill is much prettier than in my painting..

I received this beautiful notebook from Jill, which is just what I need to take with me to Squam Fall 2012 in September to write and draw in....

On the inside there is a wish/dream pocket to  pop your wishes and dreams into:

Many thanks to Jill for making the notebook and to Louise for organising the heArt exchange - love and hugs to you ladies.