A Gift and Gift Tag

I created another painting/drawing/collage for a friend of mine who recently had a baby. I also used a little quilling and collage on the gift tag that I made to go with it.

This isn't quilling . . .

. . . but I wanted to show off the project that I did for my friend who is having a baby this month. I painted the canvases with acrylic to match the fabric my friend is using in the nursery. Then I drew the animals with permanent marker and cut them out from tagboard. I glued some foam in between the animals and the background, so that they pop out a little bit.

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!