You decide

    I am not sure what to call this painting, is it supposed to be a type of duck.  I tried out some new things with this.   I used watersoluble oil pastels, a new box I have had for awhile.  I used them two ways, one to put the color on as I would regular OPs and then "painted" with water over them.  The second was to put a blob of color in a spot then to use water to spread it.  After both of those methods, I used some opaque watercolors to define details.  I had trouble making details with the water/oil pastels.
    I like trying new things and ideas for the WDE on Wet Canvas.  It is easy to do a trial run using a reference and only 2 hrs.  If it fails no big deal, if it turns out good then it is nice. This used parts of 3 references.  The duck from one, the wall another and the swirly background the 3rd. 
    You decide is it a fail or pass?   I will post it and see what the people on WC think.  Either way I will own up to it.  LOL

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.