Another Moon

Moon

My challenge in 2016 is to paint/create more since I always feel too busy so art comes last. I found a site called Illustration Friday where they post a word on Friday and artists create work inspired by the word all week posting them on the Illustration Friday site. Last week the word was Soar. This week it's Moon. My challenge to myself is to make art each week to post on the site. Of course I'm posting 2 hours before the deadline. I discovered that if I didn't play Words with Friends obsessively or check Facebook continually, I actually do have time to create. Hmmm - maybe I have time to clean the basement too...... nah. 

Winter Freeze

beauty in a frozen landscape

Winter Freeze

 

Soar

Happy Birthday

Happy 18th birthday to my wonderful son Aaron. 

Scholar, baseball player, french horn player, writer, math whiz, kitty lover, kind and funny, friend to many and all around good guy. 

I'm proud to be your mom. 

Love you

Blue Bird on a Green Leaf

watercolor

Printed Poinsettias

I used these tools and tempera paint to make these printed poinsettias. Cut sponges into leaf shapes and use a clip clothes pin as a handle. The small sponge can be used to make leaves or small flowers. The background color was applied with the last sponge or a brush and white paint finished the flowers.