Wyncia

Butterfly Greeting Cards: Multi-Media

Watercolor lessons and experiments produce plenty of colorful practice sheets. This season I have been creating butterflies for greeting cards. I paint a background onnto the cardstock. The butterflies and catipillars are cut from the practice watercolor sheets. The figures are mounted on vellum that is mounted on the card stock. The muted background set off the insects.

Finished for now

Just here to say that I came to Kauai to visit with Maggie. Now that I am here, I have the gift of time and mental space. I am very grateful for the quiet. I finished some work on an water color I started in January. The image is wildly flawed, in part because I lost the eye and color I was using when I started' but fair enough done to head for Waimea for views ans walking. 

I may be art teachable...

No joke! I am stitching and knitting; layering and painting, with no basic art training. There really is knowledge about composition, color, brushes, and all sorts of things that can make it more possible to get your desired outcome! Wow!!!!

In the competent hands of water colorist Alice Carol of Lafayette, Colorado, I am beginning. I managed an almost completed still life in my first lesson.

Not too bad for day one!

Here's one of Alice's still life paintings:

  Nice work!

And along with the guidance, Alice offered delicious Yorkshire tea, wonderful stories, and petting rights to her dog and cat.