Happy Hippo

A happy Hippo going for a refreshing dip on a sunny day. 

I usually don´t  paint animals but I could not resist this cute face and had to give it a go in watercolor.

I am sharing this with Daily Paintworks and Paint Party Friday.

Foto reference from Paint My Photo.

Roses

I had some time to make some bookmarks. 

Roses are one of my favorite flowers.

 A Pink, Green and Gray color combination.

I used Art Journey stamps with watercolor and finished them off with pen and ink.

A few more detail shots.

If you would like one of these rose bookmarks,,,,leave me a comment

and  my assistant will pick a name next week and send one to you.

I am sharing this with the Art Journey Design Team.

Exploring Line 2

 My second exploration of Line.

Watercolor background. 

 Black ink.

Blue and white gouache.

These will be used as bookcovers for some handbound books.

Exploring Line

Exploring Line

 Straight line, wavy line, dotted line

Fat line, broken line, skinny line

I am sharing this with Paint Party Friday and Mandarin Orange Monday.

Out My Patio Door VII

I have a bad case of spring fever.  Who wouldn´t after so much snow.

 The snow is finally almost all melted.
I cannot wait until the view out my patio door is spring-like.

The sun decided to shine today and I was admiring all the shadows from the trees.

I was thinking that I will eventually start painting these shadow patterns

 in my sketchbook.

Then all of  a sudden I looked up......

 It´s a bird, it´s a plane...no just another helicopter.
You never know what might fly by.....

I really thought that by now I´d be sharing fotos of my tulips or something,,,,anything that
might resemble spring.  No such luck. Winter just does not want to go away this year.

I am sharing this with Sweet Shot Tuesday, A Piece of Heaven and Outdoor Wednesday.

A Sea of Thanks

Some of my new stamps.

These fish are swimming in a sea of thanks.  

I tore wavy strips of some of my Gelli Plate paper and glued them onto the card fronts.

Stamped some of the Art Journey fish and seashells and added some script and thread.

  

I was lucky enough to win this little jackpot from Godelieve Tijsken´s

stamping blog.  She included one of her handcarved flower stamps for me too.

Thanks a lot Godelieve!!

I am sharing this with the Art Journey Design Team blog.

Easter Nest

Handmade Easter nest for this year´s decorations.

I had my niece over last week and we made these nests.

We had a fun and sticky afternoon gluing these nests together with paper

we ran through the shredder.

We also started on some vases and small candle holders while we were at it.

See a short tutorial from Claudine Hellmuth here.

I am sharing this with Clever Chicks.

Hope you are all having a relaxing Sunday.

Happy Easter 3

 

Happy Easter!

Atleast the Easter Bunny got it right this year.  He must be doing better this time around than

he did here.

I hope he was hopping through your neck of the woods.

Have a nice Sunday.

Paper Fun 9

I am at it again with Paper Fun....splashing and throwing the

paint around painting bookcover papers.

You can see some of my previous Paper Fun here.

I am sharing this with Paint Party Friday.

How is your weekend going so far?  What have you been painting lately?

Out My Patio Door VI

 The joys of winter as seen out my patio door.

 A nice sunny winter day.  

I used these three shots as part of the collage in my header.

I hope you are enjoying winter.

I am sharing these fotos with

A Piece of Heaven and  Sky Watch.

Lemons

I am busy trying to finish up paintings started way back in 2012.

Seems like ages ago already doesn´t it?

This is a shot of the lower half of a much larger watercolor lemon piece.

I hope you are having a nice Sunday afternoon.

I am sharing this with Paint Party Friday.

Small Joy

A quick little card....

I am sharing this over at Stempeloase. This is a brand new quote stamp

from Hero Arts.

Wishing you a good weekend!