Beautiful Lilies – These two Lilies were buds when I received a vase of flowers from my son and girlfriend for my birthday and it was so nice to see these pop open, they are such a beautiful color. I decided to paint a close up of them. I’ve been capturing photographs of the beautiful color of trees on our walk and although Lilies are not a Fall flower, these colored Lilies reminded me of Fall.
Happy Creating,
Vicki
These Mums have lasted the longest of the bunch I received September 13th. I love, love, love, (yes, three loves) painting with beautiful colors and I love the color of these flowers! I thought they’d be pretty painted as if they were in a terracotta pot. I painted the pot as if it had a little patina on it knowing these were complementary colors and thought that would look nice. I was excited to paint this as I think it turned out to be a nice Fall picture too.
Color, beautiful color. I’m so glad I made color charts. I painted for about a year not having my color charts and struggled to find the right color I was looking for in my paintings. Now all I do is find the color I want and see what two colors I need to combine to make that color. I The top and the left of the chart will tell me. I still am amazed at all the colors you can get by just having about 18 tubes of paint. I actually have another big color chart with different colors also, but couldn’t fit it in this picture. I used an artist sponge (shown here) to dab and add the look of patina to the pot.
Happy Creating with lots of beautiful color,
Vicki
This is the second painting I have finished from the beautiful flowers my son Jonathan and his girlfriend Molly gave me for my birthday, September 13th. I had divided the flowers into containers and having fun creating the paintings. In this painting I made the hydrangeas a little bluer, and painted some a lovely lime green as they were. I added a few golden rod and changed the Ball jar at the last minute from the one that said wide mouth to one that said Mason.
Hello Everyone, I had so much fun celebrating my “milestone” birthday September 13th, and all that week actually and received so many beautiful flowers. I have begun to paint my first vase of flowers. These red roses were actually among a bunch of several other beautiful flowers I received from my son and his girlfriend. I split them up into four vases and having fun painting and creating. Milestone birthday you ask? Well I only feel about 40 years old! Hope to be around for a long time!!
I am using a rubber cement eraser to take off the masking fluid. The masking fluid helped save my highlighted areas after I applied paint in my vase. The highlighted areas will give the vase that look of glass.
Happy Creating,
Vicki
One day Tom and I were photographing this beautiful swallowtail in our garden. I don’t recall ever seeing such a beautiful butterfly flying around our Queen Anne’s Lace before. These beauties bring me so much joy. Golden Rod has just popped up in our garden for the first time, and I absolutely love seeing cat tails by ponds, lakes, or by the side of the road. I thought the combination of all of that with some rocks that I absolutely have so much fun painting would make a nice painting.
I also added geese flying because I think composition wise it added to the painting. I think this would look nice with a wooden or black metal frame. Hope you too are finding and enjoying so much of God’s beauty.
Happy Creating,
Vicki
Hello Everyone, I love it whenever I see Goldfinch in my garden and wanted to paint this bird. My inspiration of the flowers were taken from photos I took on our trip to Frankenmuth, Michigan trip last year.
Let’s see, I just painted a Bluebird, now a Goldfinch, hmm, so many birds I have in mind to paint. Hope you enjoy my paintings and they are inspiring for you and you too can enjoy a little bit of God’s goodness.
Happy Creating,
Vicki
Hello Everyone,
I’m so excited to show you this video as it has my bigger Watercolor paintings I do between my “Let’s Paint” series, “Make a Card with Vicki”, and projects I work on with the materials I have in my craft room. Hope you can take a look.
Happy Creating,
Vicki
Hello Everyone, I wanted to capture Day Lilies from my garden in a painting, as they only last a day or a little after that.
The color of these lilies in our garden stopped me in my tracks, so rich in color. We are also enjoying pink and orange lilies. So much to be thankful for. What flowers are you enjoying in your garden?
Happy Creating,
Vicki
I love bluebirds. Some are so fluffy. I added a fence and tree. One day I will just paint birds with little around it, as I love painting animals and birds.
I also want to paint landscapes, glass, more flowers, more animals, etc. etc. So many beautiful things to paint. I feel so blessed to enjoy and paint just what is around me and use photos of what I capture on my past adventures, walks, and trips. Hope you too can take time to enjoy the beauty around us.
Happy Creating,
Vicki
Hello Everyone, I am so excited to show you these cute little trinket boxes I made out of my materials in the craft room and boxes I’ve had for a long time.
“Project 24-2”, my second project I’m doing since my Spring cleaning! I love taking materials I have in my craft or art studio to make gifts. Having them organized in a couple places and making a list of the projects helps me to know exactly where they are and what I plan on doing with everything. Sometimes I know I will have changes, like thinking I was going to make necklaces, but changing my mind and making trinket boxes for my granddaughters!
Happy Creating,
Vicki