Another 30 min special

Swamp in 30 minutes or less.  Another of my posts for Wet Canvas's WDE.  I need to check my camera settings.  This looks better real than the picture.  Life keeps getting in the way of my plans.  I never get to do alot of the projects that I want to try. 

Not an ATC!

   I like blue glass and decided to try and do a 30 min painting.  It is about 4 X 6 and I used pen n ink and watercolors.  I am trying to not over work my paintings and to not pre draw them, either. This one is sorta lopsided and that is another of my "try not to do' habits.  I tend to write in a up to the right penmanship, if there aren't any lines on my paper.  Maybe I can "cure" both of these habits at once!
   These flowers must have been dyed, they were an odd shade of blue.  

One of my favorite

This is one of my favorite flowers, viburnum?  It has a pungent sweet smell that can be overpowering, but I like it from a distance.  I made a mess of my attempt at ink and water colors for this one and it was a failure.  I will post when I find where I stashed it!  So, you can see how bad it is.

Close Up

Tulip close up, is the title of this ATC.  I tried lots of ideas I wanted to try out on these ATCs of flowers.  This one is one I considered a good idea that worked!

Box of posies

I took a picture of this window box a couple of years ago and decided to make it into a painting. It is an ATC I did for myself.  My husband and I had spent the day on the John Deere Museum grounds where this window was on the visitors center and were leaving when I spied this beautiful box.  I think I will do a bigger version of this one, soon.

Pansies ATC

Pansies are one of the flowers I like and have never been able to get them to grow in my yard.  But, they do make very nice pressed flowers and I have alot of them.  This is on it's way to another of my trading peeps.  Hope they like it.

Sail Watchers

Saturday we did some sail watching from the comfort of a nice, warm and dry club. This is the harbor in Chicago and one of those small sailboats was my oldest grandchild.  She was one of a bunch of high schoolers out in the cold Chicago weather having fun.  Not my idea of a great idea, but she likes it and it is fun to watch.  Small sailboats look like they are gonna turn over all the time, but that is what the crew are actuallly intending to do...yikes!  And bailing is another "fun" thing to do in a boat that the crew does alot of.  We enjoyed our day and were happy to see our grandgirlie's boat placing in the Top Ten in both races we watched. Being raised in Kansas doesn't encourage learning boating sports, so I had no clue what all is involved in sailing.  Now, I have an idea what is involved and am learning some of the jargon.