Bluebird of Happiness

Recently an artist friend of mine graciously gave me a magazine

 with lots of birds and flowers  in it. 

 The Mag is called "Birds and Blooms" Beauty in your own Backyard

I really appreciated the gift

We both love to paint birds and 

she knew I would be inspired by the issue.

Well I certainly was.

here is my take on a picture from the Magazine.

My watercolor of the bluebird
standing on a fence post.

In the mag the bluebird has a wormy in his beak
Did you notice that?
I did not make the worm in my painting.

this is  140 lb  watercolor paper

Bluebirds are so beautiful

flowers and birds are summery sweetness
and I love painting them both

Yea, I know, I changed the white daisy to yellow ones
I'm a cheater,  LOL
Hard to do white flowers in watercolors
at least for me.
 I'm a newbie at this stuff after all


 Happy Trails to YOU!

Have a sunshiny, wonderful day!
KAT

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Watercolor Floral Fun

Pink-o-lucious Rose

Watercolor 

on 140 lb paper

mounted on a one in board that is distressed

I have just finished doing a group of watercolor floral paintings. 

Here's the truth!

 I haven't had a lot of experience at watercolor technique,

(Please don't be too very critical)

 as always... I like to experiment on my own and see what I can come up with. 

 I have been wanting to do something a little different

 than my thick, color intense palette knife style paintings.  

Although I will always go back to doing that palette knife stuff 

because it is such a fun way to paint. 

... and people seem to like my oil paintings with the textual palette style.

So here is the start of my new paintings.  

I began with 140 lb paper and neatly torn edges.

 I planned from the beginning to make these a distressed look, when finished.

watercolored paper is 140 lb 

various floral looks inspired by
daisy, lily and rose
some of my "girl-friends"

old fashioned rose mounted on distressed wood board.

tiger lily

I think the two tiger lily ones would look good together so i made them a similar shape and size

wooden boards left over from a different project are cut to different sizes
 to fit the size of the paper flowers

I painted them black first
then many coats of white,
 then a light violet blue
"Deco Art" -  Blue Harbor

a light stain of oak to seal the board and show the sanded edges more
I sanded the boards on the edges as you can see here

tiny nail on the corners to hold the paper onto the board
I also put a few dots of hot glue under the edges
The needle-nose plyers help me hold the little nail straight to pound it in each corner 

here you see the tiny golden nail
in the corner
I like how it looks

Finished product ready to hang

measures just 5 by 6 inches
perfect size for a pink o licious Rose

Sure was fun doing these watercolors
I plan to post the others when they are finished being mounted on the board and distressed also

KAT
or Kat's Nature


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brown eyed wild ones

I finished the oil painting at least for now. Have to get on to other things. I found this stuff at Hobby Lobby that you spray on the oil painting and it dries much much faster. Ahhhhh... good ole chemicals, can do anything these days. Lots to do to get ready for September 's Art Show. Ill die if I don't get into this show!. I haven't made anything real new in a while. The bark mixed media art is looking like the way to go for now till I come up with a different idea for my (let's call it) Whimsical Nature Folk Art. I'm

busy re-working the old birds . I'm adding texture to them all and making them much more detailed and colorful. Another idea is to make clay flowers and add them in with some of the birds as a mixed media art sculpture. I hope that turns out as good as I am picturing it being.

Here are a few photos I took over at the studio of the brown eyed susan painting. Thank you to Mike Haight for the inspiration from his photo (the photo at the end)