Simply Sunday "Summer In Bloom"

Summer is in full bloom. Hot days filled with water activities, travel to exotic places, romantic get a way's, weddings, camping trips and hikes on trails or maybe just long walks soaking up all that nature has to offer. Or is it staying cool indoors sipping ice tea until the heat breaks, then going outside? Enjoying the evenings barbecuing and then star gazing. What ever you are doing make sure you take time to put some entries in your journals. Capture the summer in bloom with your camera, draw or write about it. Then when you are done link your post up here so we can come visit~ I would love to see what summer has blooming for you~
Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne.
~Barry Cornwall

Mixed Media on Wood Work In Progress

just starting with the molding paste
laying my cut out girl on scrap papers to see general direction
Waiting for the molding paste to dry / glued on flowers (more goodies getting glued on when dry)
close up adding molding paste
It began with this ~ *notice the girl at top right ends up being a fairy on left side

Oh, I must say I could see my hubby saying those chicken legs on her head! lol Not the look I was going for on my mixed media artwork. But I wasn't going to toss her in the whatever pile yet. So I thought I would share the journey of experimenting with you and post final pictures soon so you can see the end results of my mixed media piece. To start I sketched her out and then used colored pencil to define areas of my painting. Truly unhappy with her hair I decided to use molding paste to try to recover my dislike. I love the idea of adding texture to other elements of the painting too. Mind you when I played with the papers I didn't end up covering all the wood and didn't intentionally rip and sand some of the paper but that is what happened. So I let the organic flow just keep happening. I am glad I continued to let it happen. I used scrap papers, dried flowers, German cut paper, collage girl turned fairy from Artchix studio, cotton lace, golden wings, acrylic paints, colored pencils and molding paste. Do you ever work on something determined to see it to the end even when it starts out not going well? Or do you toss it in or paint right over the whole thing? Patience~ more pics to come soon I promise!
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. ~Ornette Coleman

Exotic Woman In Acrylic Paints

Here she is all complete my exotic woman. How I have always loved the inspiration from other cultures when creating art. The colors, clothing, jewelry and of course the landscapes of places they live in. Right now my pomegranate bushes are just starting to bloom. I love the color and vibrancy they have and how exotic they look. I decided to take my woman and surround her with pomegranates as exotic as she is. She is done in acrylic paint with very few touches of color pencil and then I did the photo collage in a photo program. I hope you are inspired to go create something exotic in color or from distant lands~
I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures. ~Christina Aquilera