I started with a piece of cloth and painted it with gesso. When dry, i sanded the gesso.I Then I created a large stencil and stenciled the yellow flower. I painted the rest of the pieces in multiple colors. I made 2 other sizes and used them to create the smaller flowers, one which I…
My piece, i will meet you in the garden, was started with a ripped paper collage of blue green and gold paper. Then I painted navy blue over a mask made from the flower stencil provided. The sky of the picture is filled with golden eyes drawn with marker and accents sewn into the paper.…
This is my Luna moth flying over some flowers at twilight. I used various torn papers; Japanese, dictionary and a map. I glued them to mat board and gave them a white wash with gesso. Then I use watercolor paint disolved in small spray bottles to stencil the flowers and the leaves. I used acrylic…
I first started with a zendoodle drawing incorporating the stencil into the design. I then "zendoodled" the still life and water-colored the drawing. It was then transferred to fabric with an ink jet printer onto cotton cloth, where I free motion stitched over the surface. Buttons were sewn on for added dimension.
Watercolour, Acrylic paints and hand cut foam stencils — trees far and near, gate, and large yellow and red flowers.
Flip side of Kinder-Garden
My original artwork is 8×8 and is a double-sided piece (I had it weighed at the U.S.P.S. and it weighs exactly 1lb). I have shown the stencil in its original form on the flip side of the canvas. I was inspired to create a "dream" garden window where I painted the stencil using acrylic paints over the Mylar and…
“A Global Garden” was created in the spirit of international sisterhood—for ourselves and our planet. Six kokeshi/matryoshka-inspired type cloth dolls smile at the world in a display of international friendship and creativity. I used pencil to draw the doll shapes on unbleached muslin. Using Lumiere paints (first discovered at Create! in Chicago at Melanie Testa’s…
Trying to avoid getting carried away while creating this, I decided to err on the side of simplicity….less is more sort of thing. The large flowers are cut from recycled beer cans…the other flowers are watercolored or ink colored…except for the musical flowers which were cut from "photo-layered" paper I created by in my printer.…
