http://michelleward.typepad.com ~ go take a look...very Fun!

...a few transfers from the first day monoprints...

onto watercolor cards and paint!

...while in this "transfer" mode, i just had to try out one

of my "ta da" paintings, transferring it onto a watercolor card..

"ta da"!!

this one was what was left from the first transfer,

so i just had to use it again...it's a card!

...so...day "3" from the first monoprints, showing text on some of them.

these are going to make some great card, tags and collage pieces.

Such continued fun!

MUCHAS MUCHAS GRACIAS, MICHELLE!

Pulling more Prints! See Michelle"s blog address on previous post...

today, i also printed some script on the flowers from yesterday...they

turned out so pretty.

this has been a blast, michelle...again i thank you for the jumpstart, the possibilities are just endless!!

it's not over yet for me, i'll say!!!

and jane, i know you are going to do some GORGEOUS colors and "pieces"!

got the brayer out and continued from yesterday...the colors used here were, titan buff and pyrrole red...so fun!

i used cobalt teal and van dyke brown, and then some white gesso on some of them

the colors i used here are: cobalt teal, van dyke brown and light portrait pink

emelie...funny that you should mention, printing out the prints...

changing their colors...HERE THEY ARE!

and then i did make a collage out of them, after i cut all of them out...

i'll put up pics soon on that part!!! i just love how great minds think alike...xo

Michelle Ward's Crusade # 39..Pulling Prints

...ooh...want to have some quick fun???

go here-http://michelleward.typepad.com

you can find out what her next crusade idea is till may 1st!

last night i cut out a few flower shapes from some tyvek...

then...

i thought i'd try to get my brain going this fine saturday, so

i jumped in with only the very first stimulus michelle suggested,

simple monoprints...then took a snooze, so i didn't get any further

for today!

but...this was such fun, and she was right...it starts you thinking

in all directions...i now have a start for some cute bookmarks and such!

and...i plan to stamp some printed words on some of them...i did already

cut some up for collage..and then...and then...you get the idea!!!

She emerged like a flower, passing all the ladybugs!!!

~You can enlarge all the photos, twice~

collaged a background...then painted her face and neck...

made some fabric paper for her dress

chose, cut, ripped and sewed on her garden dress

(from the fabric paper)

i painted some dried fern leaves for her hair...

sewed some pretty flowers so she'd have a garden,

to pass through...

she emerged...

finished, without her "words"!

"Getting Arboreal" with julie prichard...

our flowering plum tree...makes the best tart plum jam!!!

our real plum tree...lots of plums, this summer...yum!

down the road from us, is an old farm house...the

forsythia in their yard was beautiful, all of march!

Invent Your World

Invent Your World
Originally uploaded by artwand13

...ooh...paint, pens, ink, hand dyed cheese cloth, papers and dried flowers for wings...oh, how they all flew and GLUE, too!

FRIENDSHIP

i just have to say...go in closer for a texture view...

..this was an interesting process for me...

the foundation was from not wasting paint on another background

paper...paint, light molding paste, one impression made, i started to put it back on the gloppy paint i had going on...wait...i lovvvve these colors, i lovvve this look...LEAVE IT ALONE AND LET IT DRY!

then the painting itself came fairly easy. and i liked the look of lefty there with the foundation peeking through, but thought...hmm ...it's such an unusual color and started to paint her face some more...wait...LEAVE HER ALONE, JUST go FOR IT! do you like it...hmmm...no....i LOVE IT!...

then put the paintbrush down!!!!

lots more went into the process of this than said here...i wanted to share SOME of it.

then a decision on words, no words, collage dresses, dried flowers???? decisions, decisions....

then after having such deep and wonderful conversations with joanne rose (http://joannerose.net)

the words finally came!!!!!!!!

listen, hear, stillness and whispers...

then last night (whew) it's getting lonnnng here...

i was thinking about friends that are tangible and friends that are met in cyberspace...

how fortunate we women are in sooooo many ways...like our friendships, and how we can confide and love one another, appreciate and learn from one another...UNCONDITIONALLY!

XXOO...this painting represents some of those grateful feelings about the truest and lovliest of friends...be they tangible or cyberspace...they make such a wonderful, tremendous gift in our lives!

maybe i should put a title to it..."our blessings"??!!

..."soul sisters", with a little color change (computer)...

they are groovin' now!

"Thankful for the colors of my life that take my breath away"

P1080822 "Thankful for the colors of my life that take my breath away"
Originally uploaded by artwand13

this was such a delight to do...i started before i went to work one day...froze my paint...and continued today with paint and sewing...she is feeling the spring air!!!!

Enlarge to see the texture!!! and thank you for looking!

Random pretty things...

...just imagine not seeing the sun much at all this winter...

and then waking up yesterday to a bedroom filled with pink...

so pink, i sprang out of bed, ran outside and captured some pictures...

the sun took an hour to come over this ridge...so very stunning

and AWESOME in my sight...

i decided i just had to share and share!!

More pretty pink skies!

ooh...pretty swirly blue and white paint...dive in, eh!!!!

ah..zee leetle winsome winch...or wanda winch...no no not witch!!!!!!!

Collage Entertainment and Joy with my sister, Carolina Moonshine! XOXO

okay...here are the words, carolyn..

yesterday...i started out to "kinda copy" this picture i liked...

so i gathered up ephemera...you know the drill...ribbons, musical notes,

fabric...oooh i love gathering colors of different species together...

i THINK more than the creation outcome!

it took on a different life to start creating when the various materials were gathered...totally and extremely and i am glad about that...i'm almost afraid to say how i put it together thinking it might spoil it's mystery, sooo...simply, here it is...

i know i know, my recent faces are beginning to look the same...

it's funny how one starts out looking at some other face and when you are finished you say....

wow or hmmm ...where in the world did this one come from...what a wonderful mystery!!!

and so now i have to work on making AT LEAST some subtle changes....

hmmm....this should be most interesting!!!!

BE SURE TO ENLARGE THE PHOTOS FOR A CLOSER VIEW

New and improved from "the blues" on same post as Today!

THE BLUES

i had another dream, right after the one about the

"ta da" girls...and so i got out paints the very next morning...

this is not the painting i dreamed of but they

are the exact colors...blue and dark brown...

be sure to zoom in so you can see a little of what

MIGHT be peeking underneath!