Dancing like lightning

Storm Challenge

 

A print of one of my paintings altered for my 8x8in journal

Freak Alley – Sponsored Street art

A few days ago my mom and I went downtown around 7 am for coffee and since it was nice and cool we decided to take a tour of FREAK ALLEY a Mural project in Downtown Boise Idaho.

Here is a bunch of photos I took with my phone that morning.

The Theme is Freedom

Coffee art

So I had seen pictures of art done with coffee, I am no where near as good as some of the artists I saw but I did have fun while sitting in the Dawson’s Downtown Coffeehouse with a piece of textured linen paper a waterbrush from my Koi Watercolor set and half an espresso, water and some espresso grounds.

Here is what I was able to do in 30 mins… pretty simple but fun

Coffee art

By the way I did not buy the espresso, it was given to me (hence being half a serving) so it does not count as going off my art supply buying wagon..lol

Want to do more of these paintings

These are a type of painting I did a while back, they are labor intensive but I love them, they are done with lines of puffy paint over a painted background to create a shiny yarn effect reminiscent of Mexican yarn art.  They take a long time to do and you really have to work 5 or 6 at a time since the lines have to at least set up a bit before you can go on to lay down more.

One thing I would like to do is have people commission me to do small portraits like the one below

I need to stock up on canvas board and more puffy paint soon.  Also they work best in a smaller format.

Self Portrait

Close up showing texture and designs in puffy paint "string" painting

a set of crosses I made using the same technique

Craft Projects for the Handfasting

I decorated some slippers with glitter puffy paint to wear with my dress

Poe is in the pic, his eyes are dark gold and usually photograph like this

I also wanted some nice short torches and I thought classic tiki torches would look BLAH and not really fit the spring backyard theme so I found some glass cattail shaped torches in red and blue so I bought 2 blue and a red and painted one of the blues purple (our colors) with glass paint.  The torches were $6 off so I saved nearly $20 on all 3.

one of the blue torches before painting

after 3 weeks it will dry to the point where we dont have to worry about it coming off.  After the Ceremony we will give them to Grandma to use in her yard.

Fresh painted torch (taken with camera phone)

all three torches

8×8 art journal pages

Scanned the rest of the finished 8×8 loose leaf Art Journal pages finally, I will try to scan more as I go and not do them all at once again.

(the Zentangles from this book are below)

2011 resolutions – warecolor wsh over white crayon on 140# watercolor paper and Gel pen

April 30th 2011 – Crayon on textured cardstock and pencil

Better man list – gel pen on cardstock

Big weight loss comparison – printed photos and gel pen on cardstock

Bloom and Flourish -collage over crayon on textrued cardstock

dec2010eclipse – watercolor pencil, micro sharpie on heavy cardstock

Distorted mirror – Metalic silver paper collaged over printed cardstock and gel pen

Me and My Dragon – Engagement Photo collaged onto pearlescent paper and metalic gel pens

Dream dress – colored pencil and crayon on textrued cardstock

Exercise – Micro sharpie over textured printed cardstock

Eyes in the Night – crayon on black cardstock

Screw up Fairy – gel pen on printed cardstock

First/last love – gel pen on printed paper

Holiday 2010 – a photo of our treetopper as a holiday card on cardstock with gel pen

I just dont see it – Gel pen and micro sharpie on card stock

It’s Impossible – collage and gel pen on cardstock

Mae West Bats – print out of vintage photo and blue gel pen zentangles

Mae West Liberty – print out of vintage photo, blue and red gel pen zentangles and quotes

Moments in Time – colored pencil on black textured cardstock with gel pen

No is not a bad word – Watercolor wash on 140# watercolor paper and gel pen

Reasons to lose # 1- 10 – Collage of watercolor washes on 140# watercolor paper with Gel Pens

Ribbons – gel pens on irridescent cardstock

I hate being sick – watercolor wash on 140# watercolor paper and gell pens

Stumble – Gel pen on printed cardstock

TIME – stickers and gel pens on cardstock

Some of my other art – Paintings

A small collection of may paintings old and newer