Watercolor My Granddaughter

Watercolor
An afternoon on Grandma's South Porch

Typography

Typography

Organizing

I did some cleaning and organizing in my Studio today.

During this cleaning and organizing, I managed to

loose my Good Scissors! UGH!!!!

Pen & Ink with Watercolor Barn.

Pen & Ink with Watercolor
my Brother-in-laws barn.

Pen & Ink with Watercolor

Pen & Ink with Watercolor.
photo reference
Bergadder
Rusty Handle

Bee Paper Bead Necklace

We are invited to my Brother in-laws house for Dinner tomorrow. I decided that I wanted to make a new beaded necklace to wear to dinner. I shopped my stash of paper beads to make this necklace. I made the beads from cereal boxes. I had the Bee pendent, and seed beads in my stash also. I don't remember where I bought the Bee, but I remember thinking at the time that it was a Great Find. I really like that way that my necklace turned out. I used 24 paper beads, and 75 seed beads.

2015 Art Journal

I bought a package of alphabet index cards at a thrift store for 25 cents. I have made them into a small Art Journal for 2015. Each card is 4' x 6". If I do a 2 page spread I can do a 8" x 6" journal page. I put the pages onto 1 1/2" rings so that the pages can be taken out while I work on the pages. When the journal is open the pages lay flat. I have made the front cover and I am looking forward to 2015 so that I can start working in this journal.

Pen & Ink with Watercolor Locked

Pen & Ink with Watercolor
Photo reference
Bobbie Cook
photo title Locked
Dip pen
India Ink

Pen & Ink my Husband

My husband
Pen & Ink
Watercolor paper
Zebra V.301 fountain pen.

Zentangle & Typography

Watercolor my Husband

Watercolor
My husband enjoying a Sunny
winter afternoon on our South Porch.

Paper Bead Necklace

I made myself another paper bead necklace. I used a cereal box to make the paper beads. I bought the cereal because the box was mostly an olive green color. I used 26 paper beads and 83 seed beads to make this necklace. I made the pendent using Graphic 45 paper. The Couture collection. I recycle almost every cereal box that comes into our house. I use the boxes to make covers for journals, paper beads, and mixed media tags.

Pen & Ink with Watercolor Apples

Pen & Ink with Watercolor

Photo reference

Lillian Bell

Windfall Apples

Pen & Ink with Watercolor

Pen & Ink with Watercolor.

When I finished this painting I decided to put a quote on the page.

I used a stencil for the letters.

While writing the word, (doesn't ) I made a mistake with the letter E.

I almost cried because this is a Pen and Ink page. I tried to correct the E by going over it with more ink, that did not work. I was upset of course because I have just ruined my whole painting. Then I tried correcting the letter E with a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, and it did the trick. You can still see on the painting where I had the problem, but it was way better then it was. You have to be sooooo careful when you put Ink on your page.

Zentnagle

Pen & Ink with Watercolor Coffee

Pen & Ink with Watercolor
photo reference
Bill Kuhne
Sunday Morning Coming Down

Pen & Ink with Watercolor Cottage

Pen & Ink with Watercolor

Cottage at Sissinghurst

photo reference

Nicola B

Pen & Ink with Watercolor Bird

Pen & Ink with Watercolor Bird.

Photo reference my knitting friend & prodigious photographer,

Nancy Blanchong.

Art Journal Page

The is a Prompted Art Journal page, for

the Krazy Island Family Art Group.

This weeks prompt is to use a Tag.

Pen & Ink with Watercolor Door

Pen & Ink with Watercolor.

Photo reference David Niblack.

title of photo Door in Stone.

Pen & Ink with Watercolor Stone Steps

Pen & Ink with Watercolor
Photo reference
John Robinson
He titled the photo Stone Steps

Turkey

Are You Hungry for Turkey?
There will be 14 here tomorrow for dinner.

Pen & Ink with Watercolor

Pen & Ink Door with Watercolor

Photo reference Alun Davies

The photo is titled Green Door

Pen & Ink Door with Watercolor

Pen & Ink Door with Watercolor

Photo reference Alun Davies

The photo is titled Green Door

Zentangle

Pen & Ink with Watercolor

Pen & Ink with Watercolor

Photo reference

My photo from our Summer vacation.

A Seagull at Leech Lake, Walker, Minnesota.

Pen & Ink birdhouse

Pen & Ink Birdhouse with a watercolor wash.

Photo reference

Carol Theologo she titled the photo Home.

Pen & Ink Old Door

Pen & Ink Old Door with a watercolor wash.

Photo reference - Cheryl Nielson

She titled the photo An old door, taken on the Island of Murano, Italy.

To paint the bricks I took a piece of plastic wrap and crinkled it up into a ball.

Then painted the bricks with the ball of plastic wrap.

Pen & Ink Window

Pen & Ink Window

with a watercolor wash

Photo reference

Muriel Neale

she titled the photo window in Provence

Zentnagle

Pen & Ink Frog

Pen & Ink Frog, with a watercolor wash.

The photo reference for this frog was taken by

my knitting friend and Fabulous Photographer

Nancy Blanchong.

 

Pen & Ink truck with a watercolor wash

I don't paint or draw trucks. This is my very first truck. It is a rusty old truck sitting on an old farm. I don't even ride in trucks very often. My husband owns a small truck, he just uses it to haul stuff, to the dump. So it is kind of weird that I would draw and paint a truck. This is a pen & ink drawing, with a watercolor wash.

When I saw the photo of this truck, I just had to draw it. The photo reference for this truck was taken by Joseph Honings, He titled the photo An old truck on an old farm.

Pen & Ink Queen Bee Mill

Pen & Ink with a watercolor wash.
Queen Bee Mill
Falls Park
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Pen & Ink Apples

Apples

Pen & ink with a watercolor wash.

I wash thinking of just making this one pen & ink.

But then while working on it, I smudged my ink. UGH!

So I gave it a watercolor wash, so that the smudge wouldn't

show up so much.

Pen & Ink Door

This painting is Pen & Ink with a watercolor wash. The reference photo for this painting was taken by Max Hemingway. He named the photo Secret Door. While painting this drawing with the watercolor wash, I wanted to make the bricks look more realistic, so my husband swept our driveway for me to get a bit of sand. While the wash on the bricks was still wet, I sprinkled sand over the brick area. I think that the sand did make a difference, and helped the bricks look a bit more realistic. I am happy with this painting.

Altered Glass Bottle

The inspiration for this altered glass bottle came from Mixed Media Artist Ilene Barrette McInnes. To cover my glass bottle I used torn book pages, a potion of the cover of the book, embroidery floss, 2 paper beads, 2 seed beads, & Mod Podge Antique Matt. I really like the way that my altered glass bottle turned out. :)

Pen & Ink Rooster

Pen & Ink Rooster with a watercolor wash. The photo reference for this painting is from my knitting friend, and Amazing photographer Nancy Blanchong. This is her very handsome rooster Geronimo.

Pen & Ink Window

I have wanted to paint a window all summer. Just a window. Not just any old window. I wanted a window with character. Everywhere we went this summer I looked, and looked for the perfect window. I could not find one that I really liked and wanted to paint. Then I found a web site called Paint my Photo, and that is where I found the window that I wanted to paint. The reference photo for this Pen, Ink, & watercolor wash, painting was taken by Ruth Archer. She named the photo, Seem Better Days. I fell in LOVE with the photo and just had to paint it!

Pen & Ink Still Life

Pen & Ink
Still Life

Zentangle Bird

Abstract Watercolor

Abstract Watercolor

Pen & Ink Tree Study

Pen & Ink Feather

Pen & Ink
Feather

Pen & Ink Pumpkin

Pen & Ink Dragonfly

Pen & Ink Cherry Rock Bridge

Pen & Ink
Cherry Rock Bridge
over the Sioux River
River Boulevard.
Greenway Park
Sioux Falls, South Dakota