Iris #3

Iris #3 for Day 8 index card art.  ITs wonderful that the buds have now bloomed but they are making me sneeze.  They look lovely outdoors too! 

You can’t see the sparkle in the cobalt green paint but it’s there! Gouache and watercolour.

Cosmic Brownies

I wanted to ask him if he was 7 yrs old but thought I’d best not.  He said he bought it because it was so cheap!!  He wanted to know if I wanted one! No thanks, not my idea of a treat.  This is the first time and this will be the last!

Games from the tiny green caravan Part Two

It’s June so I’m back to making art on index cards.  I took a class by Tansy Hargan and liked it very much.  My last project I used cool colours in my sketchbook and then tried it again here with warm.  I used markers for this.  I have a huge cheap kiddo set and used the 20 warm colours that were in it.  The original project was completed using watercolour and gouache and using a brush.  I found I enjoyed colour mixing better than using markers.  Good to know!  I do like the results but happy to be finished. 

Games from the tiny green Caravan

This page has taken me many mornings to complete.

I’m taking an on-line class with Tansy Hargan (found her on IG and she has a website).  I wasn’t sure I was going to like this lesson but I ended up enjoying it so very much!  I’m normally a representational artist so this piece was super fun.  I chose green as a nod to her work and the name of this class.  Besides we are well into the green grass of spring.  This is a mix of watercolour and gouache.  I was thrilled that I found a few interesting shapes as well besides circles.

First time for everything

My hubby went to visit with “the boys” so I had a visit with our family in the big city!

This actually happened and so it seems the old adage “real life is stranger than fiction”.  

I am short on time again so I tried to make this into a cartoon.

Peacocks

I really must stop complaining, one day it’s “poor me” and the next day it’s YIPPEE!! 

No one is as surprised as we are to see this couple of peacocks back in our yard.  Funnily enough, I thought I heard their call yesterday when I got home from town.  I looked around, checked the trees too and only saw a crow.  Then this morning voilà these beauties have returned.  

Oh yes, this is the first long weekend of summer, Victoria Day long weekend that we call May TWO-FOUR long weekend (A 24 is a case of beer).  I’m not a big beer drinker but I did go to the liquor store yesterday to beat the crush of people. 

Cardinal Pop

I love our Cardinal, really.…I do!! I love to see him so much in the dead of winter for his bright red feathers in our monochrome landscape.  What I don’t love is his poo dripping down the side of my car.  I think this is a young one who has finally matured because we haven’t had this problem for two years.   

So I had to go out and buy some bandana’s to cover the side mirrors.  I threw the ones we had in the garbage because I thought he had given up on the practice.  Perhaps not, perhaps this is the off spring of the last one we had here that did the same thing!  

Now I’m looking at this I didn’t finish my train if thought.  If you’re wondering what that mass if dark green, my parking spot is in front of this cedar tree.