Good Wednesday to you all! Hope you are having a good week. So far so good in keeping myself to stick to a proper schedule of blogging at least once a week, woo to the hoo! I've been so busy in getting the drawing done for the upcoming June Auction over on the Femme Thou Art Collective Face book page, that I've quite left behind my other projects for the moment. I've never been apart of an auction before, so I'm equal parts nervous and excited. I have until this Sunday to have it done and up, and I'll be posting it here with a little link as well.
Anyway, I feel a little sad that I've just left the last end of the short story unfinished in the editing stage, and, still have put it up for you wonderful people to read just yet. Once the auction is over for this month, I'll get right back to it. The poor prince has just been left to sit quietly on the sea, I am a cruel writer.
As a thanks to you all, my bloggie buds, I took some time out to quickly paint a "Thank You" picture....as, well, a thank you for waiting and always sending me honest and cheerful comments. I truly admire all of you....you are the butter to my bread. So thank you!
I know it's not much, but, I had some extra coffee grounds laying about in the cupboard. They were too small to even make up a small cup, so, I brewed it and set about painting with it. This is my second venture into painting with coffee...it always smells super nice for a few days when it's done. I added some dark brown to the coffee to help darken some areas and taking a separate tiny paint brush, started brushing in white for highlights. The coffee removed some of the ink I had laid down earlier, so, I had to add those back in after this was totally dry. I also used heavy Arches Paper to avoid too much paper wrinkling. Later, I dragged this onto CorelDRAW to clean this up a bit more and to smooth out some stray lines. I would love to turn this into a journal notebook cover, but I have no idea how to do that. *laughs* Something new to learn! To the Library!
Psst....I hope you enjoy the new banner. Felt like a change was needed.
Wishing you all a creative weekend ahead. Cheers!
The new banner is phenomenal!! The color just pops off the screen....truly gorgeous!!
ReplyDelete...and what you do with coffee makes me want to forego my daily cup and get a paint brush....almost...I'm sure my efforts would be far less stunning than yours....especially without having had a cup in the first place...haha!
Hugs aplenty, Dear Erin!!
how fun that you painted with coffee
ReplyDeletesometimes i do that and also with red wine... nice earth tones
this is lovely as is your banner. fun that you try so many new things!