zinnia

These are so pretty in my garden, just had to paint more of this flower, the zinnia.

I cut the image into a circle, mounting it on a red card, that I put dp on one edge and used the same dp for the strip under the gems. Gems always add a fun design element.

I like the flower with the red background it makes the flower pop.

I used red, light yellow and burnt sienna to paint the zinnia.

cosmos

These pretty pink cosmos I painted using magenta and white, the brush used was a filbert to get the nice rounded petals.
the foilage is thicket and fresh foilage greens.
Yellow light and school bus yellow are the centers.
Highlightiing the center with white and thicket.
It's mounted onto green cs
And then mounted on the handmade dp.
I just love the colors, so fresh and summery.

zinnia and marigold

The zinnia are painted with red and yellow. I used a zigzag stitch to mount to the card.

the marigold I used orange and yellow paint. I mounted them onto the card using eyelets

also using the eyelets for an accent on the card front.
Both these flowers are in bloom in my garden, so I have the subjects right outside my door.

daisies and violets

Here's the daisies I painted the other day. The card sketch is from Sweet Sunday Sketch by

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I also painted these violets. Like I said it was a painting kind of day.

Enjoy your weekend!

a day spent painting

On this rainy day I spent my day painting in my studio. I'm working on shading and highlighting in my paintings. I used the same colors as the lilly of the previos post. Yellow light, white, yellow citron.
I have some daisies painted, I'll post them when I mount them onto cards.

my first creation from my lovely studio

I picked a lilly from my garden and painted what I saw.
I used yellow light, yellow citron, white and true burgundy acrylic paints.
The paper is watercolor paper.

Nick's First Communion

This is my brother Nick with Mom and Dad at his first communion back in June 1960.
I mounted it and put it in a shadow box frame and it now hangs on the wall in my studio.
Special memories!

my studio is complete!

Now for the fun part of creating!

Hope to be posting some art work soon!