I'm a little bit ADD'ish when it comes to arts and crafts...
: )
So here's some of my old stuff... back before I entered the digital realm...
A quickie sketch of a lovely rose in it's final days...
charcoal, 2004
I learned to paint from books...
This I copied from Arthur Barbur's Watercolor: the Wet Technique
(ISBN 0-8230-5681-3)
watercolor, 1982
Can't remember which album cover I copied this from
(but I had a blast drawing it...)
pencil, 1985
All dressed up and nowhere to go...
(good thing I had my sketchbook!)
pencil, 1983
This didn't look anything like the man I was trying to draw,
but I liked the picture anyway...
charcoal, 1984
A beautiful decoy sitting on my Dad's bookshelf...
watercolor, 1981
Pysanka...
chicken eggs, analine dyes, beeswax
Faux Stained Glass... (mouse-over image)
(the materials came in a kit, but these are of my design,
customized to the windows)
Each pane is slightly different...
window cling material, simulated lead, plexiglass, 1999
A mosaic experiment... (mouse-over image)
Smashed dishes applied to an Ethan Allen bedside table rescued from the dump,
2005
Simulated leathering technique alternating with various sponge techniques...
colors were matched to wallpaper below chair rail
latex paint, 2006
A very fun decorating product...
(it looks hand painted, but it's not...)
tatouage, 2004
playroom floor... (mouse-over image)
oil based deck paint & acrylics, 2007
A little butler's pantry...
glass tiles, 2007
Another faux stained glass treatment...
glass paint, liquid lead, 2005
I went through a floorcloth and celtic knot phase...
canvas, latex paint, ink, 1995
I started this mural over 8 years ago... interrupted by the addtition of our youngest son... meant to be a folksy-style mural of all the places that we have lived, based on a color theory which uses a limited palate of six colors... I pick away at it from time-to-time, but we've grown quite accustomed to it being half sketched, half painted... Here's a link to the book that I used....
acrylics, started in 1999
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