Now I cant stop painting.... all done inspired by Gut Art the class Im taking.

Hosting the class is my favorite girl Mystele, I adore her paintings.

I love this one.. Follow the wind.. 

Love the expression in her face.

This one is lovely too, she is sad waiting for someone to come home, maybe she is waiting for her love... Come home soon...

The first one I made was .... I carry my home with me....

Hope that you like what you see... more to come

Have a beautiful day

Namaste

Where there is love there is life...

I love to play around with my paint.

I did start this one yesterday, took it with my to my job and continue working on it while my students were making their own art.

It is a little dark but that is because I did use ink and as you might know the ink is coming through all other colors. It was a turquoise one.

Im so happy with this one, love it....

I did color the fishes she is holding with a golden color but it does not show here.

Have a beautiful day

Namaste

What a wonderful home made cat...

In my paper maché class on Tuesday I was working on a large bowl, I did forget my camera at home so I don't have any photos.

When waiting for the bowl to dry I made a little cat.

To day at home I did not have any paper maché so I did use a self dry clay to finish of my cat.

I think this is going to be a perfect cat for all my birds... maybe I should make a birds cage so the cat wont catch all my birds. 

I was working on my christmas girl as well, I finished painting her so now I can have her hanging on my wall during christmas.  You can see my christmas girl dressed in red. 
This is what I have been doing last weeks working with paper maché. The girl dressed in blue is a doll I made of fabric and paper clay. 
Have a wonderful sunday.
Namaste

My painting makes me a little sad..

I was asked to paint a painting. 

A girl, a mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister, a friend, a teacher, a beautiful person died, she was young, to young to die.

From the moment I was asked I knew how I wanted my painting to look like but was not sure that the people who asked me would like a painting like that.

 The day before I had made sketches of few paintings and the first one was the one I wanted to paint.

I don´t paint for people, I paint for myself, hoping someone else is going to like my painting and if they buy, I´m very happy.

I did start.

And I did paint.

I did not stand up for 5 hours, I wanted to finish my work, so I would have time to make another one, very different, If they did not like my painting.

I worked two more hours in the evening and then the painting was ready.

I was very happy with my work and I so hoped they would like my painting.

They did, they loved my painting.

They gave it away to the girls coworkers.

They loved my painting to.

Hope you like my painting too.

Happy PPF and Happy Thanksgiving to all of you.

Namaste.

What to do staying at home with a flu...

 Last week I was sick, staying at home, having a flu.

I was to sick to sit and paint so I moved over to my sofa.

I love to sit in front of the TV with my Neocolor and my watercolor paper and just start drawing.

I did start drawing one bird, then another.

I had to make background so I did draw houses, mountain and just kept on drawing till I was happy with my drawing.

Then I only needed one fine brush, water and my Neocolor.

    

The next day I did want to draw again so I started drawing an owl. When taking Life Book 2012 Juliette Crane was one of the teachers and she was teaching how to draw an owl.

I love her style of drawing and painting. 

Now I´m back to work, have had a busy week but now it is weekend.... love it :)

Have a wonderful weekend and a happy PPF to all of you.

Namaste

My doll is done and a wonderful girl bought two prints from my Etsy shop :) :)

It does not happen often but it did happen now....

Im sick, having a flue.

I hate being sick and not able to go to work, especial now when we, all the teachers and the staff are having a friend week at work and Im missing everything.... Im sad :(

This week I did sell two prints from my Etsy shop. It made me so happy because I have not been very active there, always forgetting to add new things out there. 

But now Im going to add new items in there as soon as I have made them :)

It would make me very happy if you would take a visit one day, just to see what I have there and maybe share my shop with your friends.

After sewing my doll, filling her up and adding the clay I painted her black, I found it a little strange but after adding other colors I saw how cool it looked. 

Here you can see how se look, kind of like her face but Im going to make a new skirt, think it will look better if I make her wear skirt in bright colors.

If you missed my last post you can see it now because there Im showing the process of making the doll.

My ETSY shop

Have a wonderful weekend where ever you are and a happy PPF

Namaste

From my Paper Maché class

 Im taking a paper maché class here at home. I go there once in a week for three hours.

Our first assignment was to make a lady. That was not hard for me, Im used to making or painting ladies.

We did start making shoulders, then we made the head. I had to make mine with a long neck.

The hair was made with silk paper but the body with newspapers. I made her a neckless, that I made with wire and silk paper.

I made a beautiful dress for her with collage paper I have and started working with her face by adding white silk paper.

Before I had to add a wings to all my ladies but now Im not finished with out making a bird.

I love this long legged bird whispering some secret in her ear.

Now it was time to start painting. I took her home, I wanted to be in my studio, having my things around me to get the feeling for her face.

And she is done, what do you think? 

I might add some colored flowers to her hair, but just a little dots here and there.

In the next class I made this one. LOVE him...

Have a beautiful week and a happy PPF (S) Im always so late posting ...

It is friday again..

Last weeks I have made these 3, love each and everyone of them.

they are painted with acryl on canvas.

As you know then Im taking classes all the time and in these paintings I can see the technic I have learned from few of my classes and I love to see how I mix all of them together to make my own style.

I love little birds so I had to have birds in my painting. It is always the same type of bird but with a different decorations.

I have one more canvas like these so Im going to make one more, have already made the sketch for it.

My paper maché lady is not ready yet. I have brought her home so I have her on my desk and se is ready to get her face done.

Now I have diary for year 2014 ready for sale as well as I have sketchbooks and notebooks.

when Im not painting Im knitting or crocheting. This time Im making some squares for 

´Lily´ - love in the language of yarn. 

A beautiful project for the children in Syria. 

  

I bought me a new book, it just arrived but it is a beautiful book from Mindy Murphy Lacefield, I highly recommend it if you love to look at others art, she also shows us the way she creates her girls. 

Hope you all have a beautiful weekend and happy PPF to you :)

A new painting from the Life Book, week 33.

This week we had Mindy Lacefield as a teacher at the Life Book.

I love her style and it looked so easy when she was painting but I had to struggle for hours until I was happy with mine. 

It was as always layers by layers and it was meant to be childish painting.

It looks like she is lost in the big city, trying to find someone to carry her heart with her :)

Have a wonderful weekend all of you and a happy PPF to all of you.

I did take a class with Mystele my favorite girl..

As I was looking through my groups I found a wonderful class with Mystele and it was a free one.. not bad..

The class was about how to use Chalk Pastel ... with Gesso.

First I tried to make one but it was not working so I did try again.

After talking to Mystele I started slowly, using a good brush trying to avoid 

making a mess.

And it worked...

Im happy with the one I made and I have started on another painting using the same method.

This one is almost done..... I have to work a little more on the colors..

For me it is difficult to make a lady with small or tiny hands or a big head, 

Im always trying to play with my paintings.... 

Tell me what you think...

Have a beautiful day all of you and a happy PPF to all of you :)

My long legged bird.... and more..

I love to make long paintings like this one, before I have made 

some birds on a long canvas and I love them.

I did make a new angel, love making angels.

This weekend I went to the capital and bought me some more canvases. 

I bought some small with frames and I also bought some bigger. Now I just have to come with an idea what to paint on them. 

For the frames I have to make more birds, the other I made are all sold out. Thats tells me to carry on making more of them... 

Have a beautiful day and happy PPF to all of you :)

29 faces in September

My face nr. 1 in 29 faces.

Im taking a part in a new project, called 29 faces. In September we have to paint and post 29 faces. How much fun is that going to be. I did start making my first one today and I have 3 more to make so I wont be behind.... Love project like this.. 
This is my first face, almost done, want to add a little more color to her clothing..

Postcard swap... New York and more....

Last week I was on a trip to New York with my family. We stayed in Long Island for two nights with a family and then in Manhattan for two nights. 

We did have a very nice time both with the family and then in the city.

Just before we vent I made these postcards for a postcard swap I was taking part in.

Im always late posting here but someone has to be the last one...

I went to Michaels in Staten Island and bought a little art stuff, they did not have Golden gel so I have to get it later but I bought so cheep stamps, one dollar each some of them, here in Iceland I have to pay dollars 20 or more for each. 

I did not find it easy to find magazine from Stampington but I found two Somerset Studio and one Cloth, Paper, Scissors. I was going to buy Journaling but I have to order it as I did not find one.

Happy last PPF friday...

Hope that Ill be on time next time..