Witches in fiction 2016: Kindness

I began this painting a while ago, but didn't finish until very recently.

This is called 

'Spring Witch'

The flowers floating from her make me think about how we need to scatter kindness.

Although my favorite season is Autumn

I feel like we all need to keep Spring in our hearts and surrounding us.

Have you ever helped a stray?

Planted flowers or brought food to a shelter?

To me that is magic...kindness is magic.

It keeps your soul nourished.

We need to sow these seeds of Spring..emotions of love and care,

in order to help, not only the planet but each other.

A special thank you going out to the wickedly clever and beautiful Magaly.

Leave a comment and you get a chance to win a smaller painting of this witch

made to your specifications:)

Flowery Frida

Hello

Hope everyone has been doing great!

I've been busy

painting, gardening, trying to get healthy:)

(that's a whole other post)

I'm sorry I've been away so long.

I have a little project to share.

Let's turn Lulu into Frida Kahlo!

 paint a Lulu doll beige

 black for the hair

add  facial features (don't forget the uni-brow)

I painted her with an off the shoulder blouse

using plum & pink acrylic.

create the skirt part by hot gluing four flower petals folded over.

paint white glue over petals then add clear/snow glitter.

add any type of artificial flower to her arm for her to hold.

Her crown is created from the center of the flower

 which was painted pink and glittered.

The 6x6 canvas is one of my favorites,

it's so thick and compact.

cover the the canvas with a pretty scrapbook or tissue paper

using regular white glue.

attach the lace border last.

finish with a coat of clear acrylic spray.

Supplies

Lulu doll

Acrylic paint in

beige, black, red, purple, pink, white

pink, clear/snow glitter

white glue

hot glue gun & glue sticks

6x6 canvas

artificial flowers

scrapbook paper or tissue

you can find the Lulu doll

and more amazing things to work with 

at Lisa's art fire shop.

visit her lovely blog and Rit dye studio for

a ton of inspiration!

Thank you for visiting, 

Ill be by to catch up with you this week!

Hello!

Hello!!

is everyone ready for tomorrow?

I don't really do a big thing here..

We'll dye eggs tonight and hide them for Helena in the morning.

but that's about it.

The weather has been nice lately, not too warm, yet.

Some Easter Sundays are so hot.

And one time it snowed!

Weird huh?

I have a few little spring-y pics to show you in the spirit of Easter.

 

busy bee.

I don't have a forest of roses to show you but I do have some that have bloomed

(I'm pretty excited about it)

Here's a fun thing to do...

Any yellow flowers work well..

 

 This is the bentwood bed I made..

This is an old iron cot that had been in our back yard hidden away in a corner, covered in spiderwebs.

The head and foot board are made out of old mulberry branches.

I painted it all brass colored and added tin stars.

the jasmine I planted should wind itself all over the bed eventually.

I'll take pictures once that happens.

 

Petunias...

 The pomegranate is blooming too:)

I also have a winner (finally) for my four year anniversary give away.

It's Maggie from the Mag Rag

congrats Maggie!

okay, I have a couple dozen eggs to boil right now

so I better get going.

I hope everyone has a beautiful weekend!

(Don't eat too much chocolate!I did that once and I'll never forget it!!!)

Spring birds

How are you today??

I'm doing well...other than a little back pain, I've been working

outside, outside, outside!!

Spring is definitely here! 

It's breezy in the low 80's

& I have to be out there.

That's the main reason I've been away..

You see not long from now 

the temperatures will be holding steady at

105+

so....taking advantage of this cooler temperature is a must.

Yesterday I sat out in the tiny "backyard"of my gypsy wagon and

created a little project using some of

my awesome Lisa Kettell products.

It's simple and it's a little tribute

 to this beautiful season.

Supplies

unfinished china doll head  

6x6 canvas

paper mache bird box

hot glue gun/glue sticks

acrylic paints: black, navy blue, medium blue, dark pink, light pink, orange, peach

oil pastels:dark brown, green, light pink, fuchsia, peach

red lace trim

Directions

paint canvas dark blue

add a bit of light blue for interest.

using the oil pastels, draw branches and flowers

paint china doll head peach, add facial details and hair color

cut the top part of the bird off

paint dark pink, orange and light pink.

Hot glue china doll head to bird body

add lace trim

hot glue to the canvas

paint feet on with light pink paint.

There's a lot of different things that can be done

with this one...

she could be a raven for Halloween, or a dove for Easter

her body can be covered over in sheet music

or she can placed in a little cage...

there's endless possibilities1

I hope you try this out & have loads of fun.

Visit Lisa's blog and artfire shop 

for a happy inspired day:)