Apple Blossoms & Golden Finch

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art, bedroom, birds, canvas, craft, destress, fine art, flower, flowering tree, golden finch, guest room, hobby, home decor, home making, paint, painting, postaday2011, relax, relaxation, stencil, tree

Rainy Saturday
I’ve been extremely stressed recently, on top of work, two weeks before the end of my course, my professor decided to extend the class! Can she really do that? We’ve stalled on our home projects. There are still walls to be painted and boxes to be unpacked… I often forget how much painting relaxes me. Painting canvases, not walls…  played around with the idea of flowering branches and birds. I played around with a silhouette idea, but didn’t like it for my walls. The inspiration has to hit at just the right time.

Blossom Detail

Today, while checking out a local community yard sale (during the pouring rain), I saw a cute stencil. Now, I’d never stencil flowers and birds on my walls (and I was quite harsh about the ones on the walls when we bought our first house), but I saw a cute stencil and thought that it would be great as a painting. For 25¢, you can’t go wrong.

Quickly after we got home I was playing around with the stencil. I was going to use it on my canvas, but it had three layers of stenciling craziness and the result would become a mess. So I looked at the image on the packet and used the images to guide my painting.

I rummaged through an unpacked box to find my paint brushes and acrylic paints. I kept my blank canvases handy, knowing that I’ve been itching to paint. I still need to spray it with a clear coat before Hubster hangs it on the wall. This is what I created…

Apples Blossoms & Golden Finch

This painting is perfect for my guest room, It’ll tone down the green walls and matched the bird-cage theme.

What did you do yesterday???

Button Art – Heart

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art, button, button art, canvas, craft, home decor, interior design, paint, painting, postaday2011, Valentine, Valentine's Day

Happy Early Valentine’s Day Everyone!

Hubster & I always make homemade Valentine’s for one another. In lieu of a Valentine’s Day card for Hubster this year, I made a perpetual Valentine for our home. Now I just need to get him to hand it up…

Valentine's Button Art Heart

I started by painting a base coat on a blank canvas and blended a few shades together. Then I used a darker paint and stenciled it over the base color. Last, I glue button on the canvas in a heart shape and I wrote him a special note on the back of the frame. The brown and blue match our bedroom decor well (colors are a bit off in the picture).

I’m also working on another button art panel for our living room (not a heart though)…

When is the last time you made or received a homemade Valentine?

Riverscape Painting

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art, canvas, decor, decoration, fine art, home decor, landscape, Monet, paint, painting, riverscape

Hubster and I have several blank walls in the house. Other than photographs, we have no artwork on our walls. The bare walls have begun to nag him more and more. I looked through paintings at many stores, generic art that doesn’t go with our style.

On a whim today, I purchased two canvases (I haven’t painted in years). Hubster had ruined my good brushes using them to paint the trim in the house. He has no clue when it comes to art. I decided to paint a river landscape for the bathroom. It’s the only girlie room in the house, using Monet inspired colors (I do have big plans to redecorate the bathroom when we add another bathroom in the next year or so but then the new bathroom will become the Monet bathroom).

Riverscape

The bright sunlight washed out the vibrant colors just a bit in the picture I took. What do you think of my painting?

Detail from Riverscape