Summer Project Continued

I decorated this wooden bin for an auction to support a local children's museum. I first primed and painted the box. I used a combination of a couple of different blue paints with some green and white. I then added some designs with yellow and pink. On top of the paint, I cut out and glued on seaweed and clouds using decorative paper. I drew fish and bubbles on drawing paper with colored pencil, and then cut those out and glued them on. I created a quilled paper design on one bubble on each side of the bin. I added a clear coat over everything. The finishing touch was to glue clear acrylic coasters over the quilling to project the designs.

Summer Project

I was asked to decorate a storage bin for the local children's museum (The Maine Discovery Museum in Bangor). They asked a variety of local artists to turn the wooden bins into works of art which they will auction off in November to raise money for the museum. I had my little baby boy on July 20th, so this is the only project I have completed this summer!

Slow and Steady

I have mostly been working on some greeting cards, but I have found a little time to continue with my trees. It is going to take A LOT of leaves to finish this the way I want it, so I think I will just work along at a slow and steady pace and not worry about when it gets finished. I decided to focus in on just one tree for now, so that I could see the progress a little easier. I like that I have been able to build up two layers of leaves for added dimension.

Autumn Trees - continued but not finished!

I made quilled tear drop shapes for the leaves. Some are made with one color and others using two. There are a variety of different shades of green, brown, red, yellow and orange. More leaves to come!

Autumn Trees - Work in Progress

It was too nice of a day to stay inside, so I took my drawing materials and a tray table outside! I started with simple and unsophisticated drawing materials: blank index cards and ball point pens.



I created three different trees and then combined the drawings into one.