Paint Party Friday

Progress on that canvas I recently posted...here's a reminder....

I'd dripped, poured, patterned...all the good stuff!

Evolved into this.....

Another Tree emerged......

Adorned with handmade paper "lanterns"...if you look closely, you can see a bit of the Chinese newspaper that was incorporated a few layers ago....

It's a large canvas...I wanted to take advantage of the natural sunlight for a photo op, so outside we went.

Another close up sharing more details...

Possibly complete?

Have a few other ideas for...MORE:)

Happy Paint Party Friday!

Hope you'll share too!

More is More

Starting a new canvas.....

Greatly inspired by the dynamic duo of Lynne Perrella and Anne Bagby's workshop....

Contemplating the next step....

And am so excited to see where this canvas takes me....

RejuveNaTioN!

Just Home from a long weekend workshop.....Travel Journal Fodder...Can you Guess who the Hosts were?

A Little Bit Closer...

Latest Pieces in Progress...A Little Bit Closer...

Great Fun With Acrylic Pours, Stamps, Poster Paints, Sakura Pens, Etc....You get the picTure:)

A Different Kind of Palette

All gardening is landscape painting.
William Kent

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Luis Barragan

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.
Martha Smith

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Walt Disney

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
David Hobson

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.
Phyllis Theroux

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.
Jean Anouilh

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
Dogen Zenji

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
Roy Rogers

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
Oscar de la Renta

To dwell is to garden.
Martin Heidegger

Hope You enJoyed My Garden Tour!

More Later:)

Mixed Media Palms

Linking up to PPF to share my latest Works In Progress....

Oodles of layers on these 5 x 5 gallery wrapped canvases...

Each has a special message along with handmade papers embellished on the sewing machine...

Loving the breezy, balmy tropical feel....

And Happy Palettes!

Come share your art with Paint Party Friday!

Get Inspired!

Got to take some time to post some of these yummy colors I'm surrounded by....

Just a quick step into the garden....

Where I've captured some vibrant hues...

That I hope will INSPIRE you....

To CREATE....

With color...fearlessly.....

Happily.....

Freely......

With Lots of Layers....Drips....

And imagination!

:))))