Art Work – Page 6

Posted in Art Work, and Reviews

Brand new to Etsy is a wedding registry. Very cool idea. If you've poked around on Etsy, you know you can find wedding rings, custom wedding dresses, purses for the bridal party, invitations, hand decorated shoes for the bride and her bridesmads, and much, much more. You can also find just about anything you could imagine for the wedding, the reception and for the home,
Here's the link for the registry.

I had a chance to paint for a wedding from an Etsy customer and it was great fun! A bride contacted me for a series of miniature paintings as gifts for each member of her wedding party. She and I worked out what she wanted and I got to work. What a creative and personal idea she had and I loved being a part of it!

For lots of information and ideas, here's the wedding page at Etsy. And if you are on twitter, I see lots of excitement at #etsyweddings

And lastly, there are lots of real life Etsy weddings to read about here

April 27, 2012

Kathy

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Monarch Butterfly Wall Hanging

Posted in Art Work, and Sewing: Finished Bags & Pouches

Sometime ago, I found the most beautiful Monarch butterfly wing fabric. It was a little remnant that I fell in love with. Unfortunately, that was all there was left …..just that little remnant. Just enough to make a border for a small quilt or wall hanging. I've had an image in my mind and finally got to work on making that image a reality. Below is the butterfly painted on lavender cotton.

I used a heat sensitive pen to sketch out the butterfly, then painted it with Jaquard acrylic fabric paints. You can see the butterfly wing fabric on the lower right. Below the border is sewn on, it's sandwiched with batting and a backing, pinned, and ready for quilting.

I used free motion stitching and mimicked the fanciful flitting that butterflies do as they move from flower to flower. The border is quilted to loosely look like a the monarch wing. Here is the finished wall hanging:

That is all there is left of the butterfly wing fabric. It turned out exactly as I had pictured. : ) You can find this at my SibStudio Sewing shop.

March 30, 2012

Kathy

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Daffodils on Glass

Posted in Art Work, and Peeking Behind the Easel

I just love seeing all the daffodils in full bloom around the yard. I used them as my inspiration for my newest wine glasses. I used a rough sketch drawn in my sketch book last week and looking out my window as my guide for painting.

And here they are –

I enjoy the challenge of painting on glass and treat the glass as if it was a canvas. Glass paint is a bit sticky and takes some convincing to lay smoothly on the ultra smooth glass surface. Once I build up 3 -4 layers of paint to create an opaque surface base, then the fun of painting in details and adding colors begins. These cheerful glasses will bring a touch of spring all year round and can be found in my Etsy shop.

March 12, 2012

Kathy

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A Patch of Cone Flowers

Posted in Art Work

There is a house nearby that has the most beautiful patch of cone flowers. They grow on a raised mound, surrounding her mailbox. Her mailbox is next to a stop sign, so you get a just few seconds to admired all those lovely flowers.

What is fun about this patch of flowers, if you are in the passenger seat of the car, you look right into the patch of flowers instead looking down at them. So for a few seconds at the stop sign, you get a child like view point into the sea of flowers. You could touch them as well if the windows are down. That is the image I had in mind for this painting – a few seconds glimpse into the cone flower patch.

You can find this small painting, matted and ready to go at my Etsy shop.

February 28, 2012

Kathy

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New Drawing

Posted in Art Work

Here is my newest drawing:

I used one of my reference photos of a bouquet of flowers. These three mums were nestled together basking in a ray of sunlight. Mums are such a blast to draw. The petals are so varied with dark shadows and bright highlights. I used 2B and 4B graphite pencils for this drawing. It is matted in black and can be found in my Etsy shop.

Category: Art Work

Etsy Wedding Registry

Monarch Butterfly Wall Hanging

Daffodils on Glass

A Patch of Cone Flowers

New Drawing