A fun contest!

I belong to this women's online art group which is absolutely wonderful! It is a ning group started by an amazing artist named Millande. 

One of the members decided to host a contest and we were to use her sketch and make our own version of a painting with it. I am posting the original sketch here with a watermark across it so you can see the sketch but if you would like to join in please go and join the community (if you are a woman, sorry guys) and you can download the sketch yourself. The creator of the sketch is Kimberly Moore and here is her sketch.

What I did was throw it into photoshop, copied the arm and pasted it in again. I then flipped the "new arm" horizontally so that it looked like a left arm. I also added a flower into her hair.

 

I collaged some designer papers on, as well as collaged DP flowers on for the bouquet and the hair. I then painted over them with fluid acrylics and used a soft charcoal pencil for the shading and outlining. I also used a sharpie marker for some scribbly detailing and sealed it with 2 heavy coats of Krylon spray for a nice matt finish. My kids teased me because she has two different eyebrows so I said...   "The lady who does her eyebrows waxed them poorly!"

XO

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Roberta

Found this awesome video...

...on Millande's blog and just loved it so I am sharing it. Funny I have just entered this stage with my daughter. Gives me a new perspective.

Born to Learn from Born to Learn on Vimeo.

Hope you enjoy!

xo!

Working on some new stuff...

Just popping by to post a little preview of some stuff I am currently working on. I am working on a line of artwork for children's rooms using my digital images you can find on my SITE. I have a technique I use to transfer the image onto my canvases and I am going to be doing a little tutorial on how to do it.

Here is a little close up of the texture that I applied to the canvas using Golden Moulding Paste. Love that stuff. 

I'll be back soon to post all the pictures from my art installation at the Library Allard in St. Georges.

Have a great week!

xo

Times they are a changing...

Well, I haven't been around here much, I know. I have been waylayed by cards and stamps. I am a fickle girl, prone to taking flight on a breeze. An amazing opportunity fell suddenly into my lap just before Christmas. I was selected for a public art installation at a local library. I want to share with you my journey through a 25-16"x16" canvas installation.

I was collaborating with a wonderful local artist, Denise Prefontaine. Of the 25 canvases, 17 were mine. The remaining 8 were Denise's, the 8 silk screened canvas with the quotes on them.

Here is a little slideshow of The Story Garden:

This photo slideshow generated with Smilebox

This experience really made me realize that I am missing something, I veered from my path with much to learn from and grow with along the way but now it is time to return to my dreams. Do you ever have those moments when you really feel like you can fly? You have so much to share and you feel like you're gonna burst! I am there. I have been sorting and organizing and changing my office back into a studio (it kinda became more of an office over time). I hope soon to be posting some new work, have started moving in new directions, and am intending on sharing some step by step photos as well.

Thanks for sticking around even though I haven't been around much. 

XOXO

Jesus in my window

So I looked out my window one night and in the condensation on the glass I saw an image. I did the best I could to photograph it as this was hard in the dark. I then threw it into photoshop to "carve" out what I saw in the window. What do you think?

Lightning storm

I am posting this one for Corry. For those of you who have not visited my card blog lately I wrote about a storm my friend and I spent an hour and a half photographing last night. We got eaten alive by mosquitoes just standing there pressing our shutter buttons over and over. My poor friend Lori lost all her pictures when her cf card malfunctioned.

A bit of my photography

We spent the weekend out at our camp in the Whiteshell and I had my telephoto lens on my camera. I decided to do some tight photos with it and sat down in a thicket under some trees and got some really beautiful shots. I love composing close ups like this with a telephoto lens as it looks like you are up close to your subject but you are not and if you include some of the surroundings they add a soft dreamlike appearance as they are mostly out of focus.