I've got the Painting and Embossing bug today!!

Well this afternoon I broke out my paints and embossing gun and went to town. I made 3 Dia de los Muertos inspired paintings!! Embosstastic!

This first one is a lime green calavera on a bright tomato red background. All the decoration on the skull is embossed as well as red swirls and marigolds in the background.

This one is glitter metallic mania. I'll have to say I have a slight obsession with glitter and metallic paints so I used them BOTH!! The background is black metallic with irridescent glitter paint on top. It looks beautiful in the light!! Too much you say NEVER!! I also used pearlized white for the skull and metallic paint for the designs. On top of that...yes their is more, I embossed the designs. It was really cool because as I used the embossing heat gun the metallic paint started to bubble up and created amazing texture!

This one is the first one I did, they are actually in reverse order in which I did them. This one is more realictic, a skull from profile view. The background is stained brown, black, and copper with gold glitter on top. I also embossed swirls using black and translucent powder. It looks shiney and wet. On the skull I painted various sugar skullish designs and embossed some of them!!

These beauties are all for sale on my etsy!! Check it out

one more new item

Here is another painting that I recently added to my etsy shop!!
It is 6 inches by 6 inches, on wood. The paisley in the background are embossed and the sillouettes of the birds are painted with s shiney varnish!
It's called A Paisley Sky is for Love Birds

Art Party Tonight!!

Molly and I had another art party tonight!! We had to pick up some more supplies for VBS and we got a quick pick me up coffee and tea and we got to work. We are going to participate in this art giveaway/sale called Pikaproject, have yall heard of it?? It's really cute, artist that sell goods on the web can submit 12 works of arts mainly small prints, cards, paper goods and the Pikaland group makes packets out of them, they have a few givaways and the artists recieve a packet and they sell the rest cool huh? Well we need to make 12 things I don't think we got any of those accomplished but we did make 2 pretty cool works of art!!





the crime scene, since moving home our art parties have become a little cramped


Molly feeding Diego a paintbrush


Molly's amazing henna hands holding a coffee cup http://specsandwings.blogspot.com/- her blog

her close up, a little blurry we didnt have good light

my sushi owlie painting, not a good pic I have to say, I used alot of metallic and it didn't show up to well I need to take a better one in better light, but it will have to do for tonight

more of the scene, notice the gummy bear-like dog toy

and us, we missed a bit but that was ok we kept having double chins in the ones of our whole face
I would love to hear comments!!

I think I had salmonella!! And more painted pottery

Yes... I think I had salmonella contracted from a tomato, the symptoms seemed to match exactly!! Weird. Well anyway I have some more painted pottery to show you, these I did for fun for myself...

Here is a cute tall mug with a tree with little olives growing out of it!!

Sorry for the messy pictures!!

I think I am going to make a set of these

my goal was a vintage look

so I used dark brown and a mustardy yellow for the inside

I think it turned out pretty cute, ut us a soup mug if you coulden't tell

New Items Comming to my etsy shop!!

Well I deceided to expirement with the shrink plastic some more, I did the rings and they seem to have gotten a pretty good response so I thought what about earings, necklaces, and more the possibilities are endless with this shrink plastic. Here are some items that are going to be showing up on my etsy soon. P.s. I signed up for a storque listing on Friday, which is an advertising mechanism for etsy. My shop will be featured on the storque page on the etsy site for 24 hours on Friday the 23!!

Owlie Dangles

Rainbow Heart post with dangles

green apples post with dangles

shrimp sushi dangles

red apple post

shrimp sushi tiny post

diamond tiny post

heart with wings dangles

Octopus dangles

california roll sushi necklace

A little time for painting

I was off of work a couple days ago and I had a little time to paint! I decieded to make another one of my pooing paintings with white painted over. I used watercolor insead of acrylic underneath the white, and added salt for cool effect! This time I decieded to do a spider web attched to branches, I think it turned out pretty well. It is for sale on etsy if you like it. It is called Unexpected Beauty

this is what it looked like before I added white

I love the effect that the salt has on the watercolor!!

Sometimes I think it is almost too beautiful to put white over it!!

and some details...