March Photo-A-Day Highlights

Here's some of my favorites from the March Photo-A-Day challenge...
https://www.facebook.com/groups/photoadayosd/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Studio Sunday!

I spent some time puttering about in the studio today... mostly waiting for stuff to dry! I found out about a 6x6 canvas project... http://www.roco6x6.org/6x6x2013_intro.php Not sure if I'll be able to make the deadline or not, but we'll see how it goes.

I started out by making a star in glue on my canvas... I've done this in watercolor to act as a resist, and wanted to see if I could do a similar effect with acrylics.

It took forever to dry though, so I ended up speeding up the process with a hair dryer. In the meantime, I decided to do the same thing on a couple tiny canvases I had lying around, and a spread in my new Moleskine sketchbook.

The glue still wasn't all the way dry yet, but I decided to paint anyways. I quickly learned that the glue wasn't going to resist the acrylic anyways...

So I just started playing around with some texture... I'm going with a black, brown and white palette for this, trying for a dark chocolate/caramel effect in the end, with some metallics for emphasis.

After sponging on a little more black paint, I added some strips of torn foil paper with cut-out stars... There will eventually be more stars (of course!) and a quote cut up and placed around the edges of the center star, which I will have to paint on top of my background.

To be continued!

Studio Sunday!

The Inspiration Deck is almost complete! All I have left to do is take the cards off the freezer paper and stick my name tags on the back.

I made a few extras for myself, and I separated those from the freezer paper already with great success! The double-sided tape did come off the cards easily, thankfully. All in all, I'm really pleased with how they turned out.

Here's a few close-ups...

 

And here's a finished set! Not sure what I'll be up to next... check back and find out!

Studio Sunday!

Still working on the Inspiration Deck... http://www.insearchofdessert.com/?p=8428 I'm determined to get it done by next weekend, and so far I'm on schedule!

Today I spattered some metallic acrylic over all the cards, and then printed and cut out the quotes that I'll be gluing on next week.

More to come next week!

February Photo-A-Day Highlights

Here are some of my favorites from this month's One Story Down daily photo challenge!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/photoadayosd/

 

 

 

 

 

 

More to come next month!