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

Summer of Color...Week 2!

It's week 2 of Summer of Color and the color combo this week is Orange & Hot Pink! I made this 6x6 affirmation card for a challenge in the TrueFreeSpirit workshop using the colors for this weeks Summer of Color combo, worked out perfectly! I made this from cardboard, with acrylic paints, Dylusion inks, stamps, stencils and pencil. Please visit Summer of Color to see all the art for this week! xo

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