Paint Party Friday - Week 52!!

A full year of Paint Party Friday is complete! Wow!!! What a year! More painting was accomplished this past year by me, than in any other year of my life!

Many thanks to my partner in PPF, Kristin, and to all of you who have visited PPF and especially my little blog and provided so many warm and wonderful words of support and encouragement. T H A N K   Y O U !!

This week I painted many more dots but I still am not finished this darn pointillist painting I set aside last year.  I will eventually finish and show it after I add yet more dots........

I also came across a quote made me laugh - by Winston Churchill - and decided to paint an art journal page about it! (Bizarre things inspire me sometimes...)

Painting - pre-writing

"We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glow-worm."

Winston Churchill

What about you - are you a glow worm? I might be sometimes but not consistently enough. (And also funny - Thursday's Full Moon was the "Full Worm Moon"! Talk about timing! lol)

I also thought I would try a monthly spread/agenda for March a la Kathryn Wheel. I used four leaf clover post it notes over a painted surface for the pattern, then painted over them and added definition. Not so sure what I think of this little exercise - I will see at month end if I use it and want to try again...

I hope you have a fabulous time at the party! I thought I'd leave you with some drinks and treats I "created" over the past two years...     ;)
Enjoy!

 

I'll be by over the weekend to visit all of you lovely partyers! Have fun!!

Paint Party Friday - Week 51 - A New Art Journal

Hi Paint Party Friday Partyers! I hope you had a great week!

This week I managed to succesfully finish Ayala Art's 29 Faces in February Challenge. Yay! (Want to see the 29 faces I created?)  And I was a little too pooped out to do much painting...   :(

I still managed to do a little painting (though not on canvas). For a while now, I have been wanting to start a few new small art journals. Yes, plural. One to play around in with miscellaneous thoughts and notes, and another for quotes. I haven't started the quotes one yet but I have several quotes talking in my head that want images and paintings, so soon I will get going on it.

I started playing with circles, and this is where it took me....

Painting - pre-writing

Painting/Journal Page with some ink added for definition and writing...

Some one I met years ago said: The quality of your life is determined by the questions you ask yourself. And this page is starting to think about those questions. I will likely write more for myself later.

Hope you got lots of painting done that I can visit over the weekend! Have a great time at PPF.

(Can you believe it is already March?!! Where does that time go?!)

29 Faces in February - Successfully Completed!

First, thank you very much to Ayala Art for the great 29 Faces in February challenge! It was definitely a challenge and a stretch but now 29 faces exist in my sketchbook that didn't before. It was very enjoyable, I tried a number of experiments and I think my face sketching ability has improved as a result. 

Thank you very much!

This is my last face, one of my faves and the final in my scientist series. 

Wernher von Braun by EVA

These scientists were inspired by this special issue of Discover magazine - interesting people and interesting faces. In addition to it acting as muse, I finally finished reading the issue! (A year old now...)

Here are 3 collages of my February efforts:

The Scientist Series

 Every Face

The non-scientists (or so I presume...)

(double-clicking should enlarge these...)

I haven't been able to visit everyone who participated every day (or even most days) due to time and frustration with word verification, but I will try to over the next few days. From what I did see there was AMAZING work done by this group! Wow!!

29 Faces in February - #28

Ayala Art's 29 Faces in February challenge is almost complete! Here is my effort for today...

Not quite Daniel Craig...

One more to go! Have you kept up with the challenge?

29 Faces in February - #27

Watching the Academy Awards last night, with a magazine by my side, I attempted to capture one of the actresses nominated for Best Actress (Best Female Actor?)

This is Rooney Mara - the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. How glamourous she is! And how very different she looked at the awards ceremonies compared to her role in the movie!

This face is for Ayala Art's 29 Faces in February challenge! Only two more days to go!

Sunday Sketches and Days 25 AND 26 of 29 FACES

Time for Sunday Sketches with Sophia of Blue Chair Diary! And since I have continued to work on my face sketches for Ayala Art's 29 Faces in February, I actually have something to show this week...

First up is another in my Scientist Series:

Marie Curie by EVA 

This next one I sketched just using watercolours but no pencil - but I really messed up the amount of water and damaged the paper where I was trying to add shading.         :(          Oh well - this is all a learning experience!

I'll be dropping by throughout the day to see your sketches. Have a great day!

Paint Party Friday - Week 50 - Winter Fields finished!

THANK YOU for all your comments last week about how to finish off my landscape painting. I really appreciated them all - so many great ideas!

I added a little blue to the snow and silver to the Moon and the trees to the painting. Here is the final finished painting:

"Winter Fields" 

Left Side

Right side

And I started a new painting - very much still a WIP (work in progress) though...

I am also still working on Ayala Art's 29 Faces in February challenge and this is face #24 - another in my series of scientists...

Stephen Hawking by EVA

Hope you have a great time at Paint Party Friday! I look forward to visiting you!