Butterflies . . . More Art Therapy For Me

"Dream"

mixed media on 6x8 flat canvas board

available on etsy

Thanks so much to everyone for all the amazing comments on my last post! It makes my heart happy to have so much encouragement and support here in blogland!!

This is my latest painting and I have to say I love it! The color palette is not typically what I am comfortable with but I went for it. I had new paper I wanted to use for collage with lots of butterflies. So I collaged the paper on and then used glazes of teal, gold, and yellow. I used bubble wrap with ink for texture and my crayons to color in the butterflies. I didn't realize until I had finished that those crayons made everything pop! It made me wish I had shaded my last piece.

Today I am just relaxing . . . I haven't had a late night out in forever! The concert was AMAZING last night!! I didn't want it to end! It was alot of driving but well worth it. Def Leppard and Heart rocked it!! When I was out and about years ago dating and doing the clubbing thing I don't know how I lived on such a lack of sleep! lol It will take a few days to catch up!

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend and creating lovely things!

xo

Texture Tuesday . . . Words

Its that time again friends!! This week's challenge was to use words on your textured image. I took this photo near our house. Beautiful wildflowers that I just couldn't resist. And of course I had to get a macro shot! They are super tiny flowers but I love how macro makes them look super big! I added a layer of Kim's "greyday vintage" and adjusted the saturation to fade the color a bit. As I was processing the image I thought it looked so dreamy and then thought it was the perfect word to add!

Here is the original image. . .

Check out the other amazing texture work over at Kim's blog! You can see lots of inspiration HERE!!