Saturday Post Number 17

This is hard to see in this size ATC/ACEO, but it is a collage of a flowering bush in front of a wall with a gate.  It looks better IRL.  It was an experiment with crumpled tissue paper and watercolor.  Didn't turn out very well, but I learned from it.  About the TimeCat......it should be either over or under the Friends and Followers area.  By the profile.  I will try and figure out what I am doing wrong.  

Number 16 on a Friday

The Boat house

This is another of my ATC/ACEO practice pieces.  I want to do a series of Small Seasons.  I have finished the set for Fall and this is one, of those.  Next will be the Winter series, since I have lots of snow to look at right now.  It is freezing out and there is plenty of snow piled on everything.  I think I will start with a bird house I missed taking in for the winter.  I will put it up on here as soon as I finish it.

Post #15

Here is my fifteenth picture post, since I started numbering them.  This is an ATC/ACEO of a coming storm over a farm. It is in watercolor.  I grew up watching storms brew over the Central Plains.  Towers of clouds mushrooming above the windmill were a common sight over the farm we lived on.  Many of these clouds held hail, hard rain and even tornadoes.  It could be a hot sunny summer day and in an hour become threatening, dark and errie.  We headed for the basement or storm cellar many times.  I remember one storm that came and passed over us.  Later, it formed a funnel and hit a nearby town.  We went to see the damage and felt lucky we weren't hit.  Growing up on that farm was the best!  It was like "The Little House on the Prairie" everyday. Tornadoes, heat, locusts, wind, dust and blizzards would all be in the book.  Along with days just being a kid.

Redo #14

This is a page from my sketchbook.  I put the pencil in the photo so there would be a way of telling the size.  These were all for the WDE all done for one week's post. If you look down in the old posts, you will see the finished one I posted.  Each of the finished works were 2.5 x 3.5 ATC size.

Guess I pushed a wrong button and posted the title without the post.  I need to put more posts up to learn how to work this composing screen.

#14

number # 13

Guess I missed the Midnight Hour!  I was watching football and forgot to post so I will do another in the morning.   This is a warped peacock..done in Painter 10.  I am working on a painted version(s) of it.  I am not happy with how the acrylic paints are behaving, so I might not finish them.

Number 12 New Year

Happy New Year....

This is my first post of the year 2010 and the 12th in my series.  This is a painted and then warped flower.  I grow it and call it African Daisy, but it might have another name.  I also used ink on the petal edges.  I can't seem to decide what I want to do until I am doing the painting.  Wish I could tell what to expect at the start, but I can't.  I always wonder if it is good enough to post.