The
summer-like weather is coming to a brutal end starting tonight…..and to add
insult to injury, they are predicting two days of rain. The farmers have been
working like crazy trying to get their crops off and this is not what they need
right now. Joe had to cut the grass yet again today and I did some of the fall
clean up. Cleaning up in the fall is no where near as much fun as planting in
the spring! I watered the garden too which Joe thought was a waste of time
seeing it is calling for rain but I figured if I watered today, we won’t get
rain; but if I don’t, we will…so I’m trying to buy the farmers some more time.
Joe’s cousin
who brings us all the organic veggies is looking after the fund raising auction
at their church. Last year I donated some Christmas stockings and some other
things to them but this year I decided to donate two small slate paintings and
a mixed media piece. They go to a small country church with a small
congregation so I don’t mind helping them out.
Here are the
two paintings.
Nothing too
complicated but cute and I hope someone buys them. They are irregular in shape
because they are broken pieces of slate that a friend of mine gifted me. They
were painted with acrylic paint and then a couple coats of varnish were brushed
over the top to seal them.
And then this piece I just finished last night:
The cousin
also brought me some wood pieces left over from carpentry jobs he did and he figured
I could “do something” with them! He can’t believe what I do with odds and
ends. I decided to use one of his pieces and give it back to him – but altered!
So this piece is about 4” wide and about 13” high. It is indeed a mixed media
piece. Lots of layers of cardstock, stencils, stamps, paint and ink. Then the
tree branches were added at the top by mixing up stencil paint and paint and
spreading in on over a stencil and letting it dry. The tombstones, ghost, bats,
and owl were Sizzix dies and the haunted house is from a Quick Kutz die. I
wanted the owl to be sitting on a branch so I took a piece of brown cardstock
and ripped it into a branch shape, painted it dark brown to match the other
branches and twisted it into shape. Then the owl was glued to it and then all
glued to the wood. Not sure if this is anybody else’s cup of tea but hopefully
someone will buy it.
That’s all
for a Thursday,
Cheers
Violet
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