Earth Angel...

Earth Angel, 8x10 folk art painting on canvas board using acrylics, pens, pencil and mica glitter.  Have a great weekend everyone!

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Paint Party Friday...A Sweet Little Painting

Happy Weekend and Happy Paint Party Friday! This week I took a short break from altering dolls to do a sweet little mail art swap in the True Free Spirit workshop taught by Mindy Lacefield. The style is primitive and childlike, the swap theme was to make a piece of mail art in the TFS style on cardboard, seal it with beeswax and mail it to your partner in an altered envelope. So much fun! I love how the natural beeswax gives a dreamy look to the finished art. This little painting is 8 inches long by 3 1/2 inches wide on cardboard.

If you would like to see what else I've been up to this week...here's my post from Haunted Humpday for this week, another cute but creepy doll bottle....AND...my big announcement, I am hosting a Haunted Halloween Doll Challenge (click to see post) this year! All doll art is welcome but it must be haunted/spooky in keeping with the Halloween theme. Please grab the challenge button to add to your blog and take a look at my left sidebar for other fun Halloween art events. I hope you can join me!

Have a great weekend and thanks so much for stopping by! xo

Paint Party Friday & SOC...Charcoal Gray and Pale Pink!

Welcome to Week 4 of Summer of Color! This week's color combo is Charcoal Gray and Pale Pink...love love love this color combo!!! I made another canvas from Megan Suarez's Whimsical Girls Workshop just for this week's color combo. This is a 6x6 chunky canvas with collage, acrylic paints, Copic markers, inks, pens and pencil. I love drawing these big eyed whimsical girls!

I'll also be linking to Paint Party Friday later in the week!

Thanks so much for visiting and be sure to visit Summer of Color to see all the rest of the fabulous artists! xo

Paint Party Friday!

Happy Weekend and Happy PPF! Something a little different this week, a paperclay ornament for the June project for the TrueFreeSpirit workshop. The paperclay face is from a mold I made of a vintage elf doll, then added it to a paperclay base. Added the wire hanger, did a little more sculpting, some paint and glaze, then embellished with silk flowers and ribbon. So cute!

Have Fun! xo

Paint Party Friday...Art Amateur

"The Art Amateur" by Kim Smith 2013

Something a little different for this week! I had this canvas prepped with black gesso for a workshop project that I have no idea what it was for anymore. I decided to do this mixed media painting with collage, acrylic paints, pens, inks and glitter but wanted to keep the background dark and simple. Not easy for someone who always wants to add layers and layers! The woman is a black and white photo that I tinted with pens, inks and acrylics...the collage images are from Itkupilli. I really loved doing this one!

Happy Weekend and Happy PPF!

Paint Party Friday...

Happy Mothers Day to everyone in the US and Happy PPF! This week I switched to something a little different, one of the Art Eye Candy workshops by Rachel Panagarry. This face is from her template, then the details are painted on mulberry paper/bristol paper using watercolors, pencils, acrylics and pens, then collaged onto a mixed media background on canvas. No beeswax on this piece, the mulberry paper for the face gives a soft look. I also coated the entire piece with spray fixative when I was done. You can also find an inexpensive tutorial called The Magic of Mulberry by Rachel on ClothPaperScissors!

Hope you have a great weekend and to see more great art please visit the Paint Party Friday!

Paint Party Friday...

"She Dreams Deep" by Kim Smith 2013. Please do not take painting images without permission.

Happy Weekend and Happy PPF! I finally made myself do a mixed media painting this week for Mindy LaceField's TrueFreeSpirit workshop. It's a year long workshop with a project every month. I adore Mindy's style and was very excited to learn more...until I went to paint and realized I was so worried about making a painting that would look like hers that I eventually convinced myself I couldn't do it! I did a few sketches but just couldn't get past the block when it came to painting. So this week, I just decided to Do It! And 'She Dreams Deep' is the result. I am very happy with how she turned out and am looking forward to my next painting in this style.

And for you to download and play with, here are two Gelli Plate Print backgrounds I also made in the workshop...Click on each pic then right click to download. Have Fun!

To see more great art, please visit PaintPartyFriday! xo

Paint Party Friday...Dreaming of Owls

Happy Weekend and Happy PPF! I am taking Juliette Crane's How to Paint an Owl 2 workshop and this is my painting from lesson one. It's called 'Dream Owl' and I find it very challenging to make the sheer layers of color but found this workshop has really helped me loosen up.

I wasn't able to quite capture the loose dreamy layered style that Juliette has perfected but I'm getting there!

This painting is the very first owl I made in Juliette's first How to Paint an Owl workshop a couple of years ago. My style has definitely become much more complex and layered. I just love owls and I seem to be seeing them everywhere lately!

Hope you have a great weekend and be sure to visit PaintPartyFriday to see more fabulous art! xo