birds and bridges

Here are a couple more pictures I have painted recently...

 8.5 x 11in

2.5 x 3.5in

These were both really fun to paint!

(but especially the bridge...)

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I just finished writing a short story, so I might post that after my mom edits it... 

glass bottles

Had fun painting these glass bottles.

:)

flowers and birds

 So here are a few more paintings...

Some pink flowers,

tiny Hydrangeas,

and a couple birds.

There are still a few more to come!

:)

& more pen drawings...

So I'm finally back with that cat I told you about.

:)

I like it.

It turned out pretty well.

Especially the paws.

Sadly, the scanner cut them off a little. 

 On the whole, my best cat yet, however!

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Then I tackled a dog.

Turned out looking a little too much like a...
 teddy bear?

But still cute.
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And lastly, a forest/river scene.
This was done on an "Artist Trading Card" sized piece of paper, so it's pretty tiny.

I have a couple watercolors to post about too, 

so hopefully I won't be absent for too long.

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pen drawings

We have libraries again!

So I took advantage of ours, and got out:

 Painting Your Favorite Animals in Pen, Ink and Watercolor

Pretty neat book. 

I took a fancy to the pen drawings, and decided to copy some of them.

Here are my results:

A rabbit...

And a bird!

I drew them both with a Sakura Micron pen (0.30 line width). 

I enjoyed drawing them so much, that now I'm working on a cat!

I've tried many times to capture a cat's personality, and have never succeeded, so we will see how this one turns out...

and more paintings...

Just a few watercolors from recently.

A tiger..

 

Not quite realistic, but cute, all the same.

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A duck swimming...

I liked the idea for the water, but I'll need to work on it a bit more before it looks quite right.

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And my personal favorite,

 a duckling in a cup!

(seeing a theme?) 

I'll try to post again soon!

:)

shoe makeover

Sorry about the lack of posts...
we have been traveling, and I let the blogging slip.

:(

Anyway, I am back with another post!

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So....my mom just gave me an old dress of hers. The fabric was beautiful! 

and...

I had this OLD pair of canvas shoes.

 Let's just say they looked their age. Which isn't saying much.

They were practically falling apart.

So I decided to try covering them with fabric, a technique which I saw a while ago.

I cut two scraps of the old dress, one for each shoe. 

Then, I pulled out the old faithful Elmer's glue and started in, coating the whole shoe with glue, sticking the cloth on, and coating some more.  Then I cut edges and folded the fabric into the shoe's hole.

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 After a night or two, they finally dried. 

 :P

Yes, these shoes won't hold up long in the rain. 

Actually, they didn't hold up long just walking around on a sunny day. 

But if you used Tacky, (which I didn't happen to have) it might be a different story!

(you can see in this picture how dirty and old the shoes were...)

Anyway, they were fun for a while.

If you ever need a different colored pair of shoes and don't want to spend the money, try this!

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