Sage and Sepia

This is the last week challenge at Summer Of Colors hosted by Kristin. Kristin, thank you so much for adding more creative spark into our lives this summer with these great color combo challenges. I experimented with so many new colors which I would never have dreamt of doing in my everyday art.

This week's colors are Sage and Sepia. This is my first girl on canvas with a face. Her dress is almost this shade of green and the butterflies are a shade of sepia.

   

I'm also posting these two acrylic paintings that I did. Though there is no use of sage here, both the paintings have used lots of different shades of brown.[Please, click on the pictures to see better]
I found the tutorial for these two paintings from a wonderful book named Little Landscapes by Priscilla Hauser. It's a great book for those who love step by step tutorials. 

I'm also linking these projects to PPF and Art Journal Everyday
Stay Cool everyone and wishing you all a great weekend.
SusaN

She Art

I am so thankful for the change in weather. Today I was able to take the children for a walk, atlast.

As for art, these are two of my favorite She Art girls that I did on canvas. I was inspired to do the backgrounds of both the pieces after watching the very talented Junelle Jacobson's work here and here

Wishing you all a great weekend. Sharing my art with PPF and Art Journal Everyday
SusaN

IA Challenge

Last year I did two great online workshops, The Art of Wild Abandonment by Junelle Jacobson and Christy Tomlinson's She Art-1. This favorite piece of mine was done  after these two classes. 

Clotheslines always remind me of my home in India

 

 

 

If you want more details about these classes go here.

Linking this page to http://inspiration-avenue-team.blogspot.com/   

 

A new Challenge

I had so much fun doing the background of this page. It has got many layers of book pages, paint, stamps and even some stencilling.  I did a She Art Girl on top of all that.

 I wrote the quote on masking tape. The quote is part of a new challenge at Artists in Blogland. It says, " Good friends are like quilts, they age with you yet never lose their warmth."

You can see the details of this new challenge here, http://artistsinblogland.blogspot.com/

I'm also linking this page to Art Journal Everyday.

Thank you
SusaN

She Art Girl

Last month, I had signed up for Christy Tomlinson's She Art-1 class. The making of the background was not a new thing to me but of course you can watch tons of techniques in building many layers to your page in her videos .But I've always wanted to learn to create those pretty girls/ladies and it was so much fun dressing them up and trying new hairstyles.

I wanted to share with you all this little girl whom I created in this class.   

 She is my first 

 

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."- Auguste Rodin

 

And of course I plan to make many more of them. If you love this girl I'm sure you should try Christy's  class http://christytomlinson.typepad.com/ . She teaches how to create girls in different kinds of dresses, the modern and the vintage and so on.

 

Thanks for checking

SusaN