Prismatic Lotus

 Just playing with the prismatic technique with the lotus and twinkling H2O's!

 "The lotus perfectly embodies the spiritual path, rising up through the murkiness of worldly experience until it reaches the surface of the spiritual realm and becomes, vibrant and pure, free from all attachment."

Twinkling Butterflies

butterfly on mixed media paper

I am having the time of my life painting with my twinkling h2o watercolors! Thanks to Dion Dior. Look at these butterflies! I can tell you before my version of a butterfly was sloppy and more spread out. I like how she taught us to overlap the wings. 

ATC on card stock

Part of our color lesson is to make ATC's. I love ATC's as you know and even have a group where we send them to each other in the US and abroad. I added some zentangle into this butterflies wings.

ATC on card stock

 I love the polka dots on this one's body

the start of a twinkling watercolor butterfly with no pen outline 

  I tried to see if I could mix the colors in the wings but the mixed media paper does not let them blend so easily. The paint just absorbs into the paper. 

twinkling butterfly blending

The colors blended much better in this butterfly because it was on very good mixed media paper in the Stillman & Birn Beta Series notebook. I will work on outlining these later today. 

Happy Arting!

Chandra

Mixed Media with Twinks

       

A bird is looking into the daisy. 

 The peacock feather is beautiful!

Daisies

A leaf and other abstract shapes.

Purple daisy.

The whole picture! Not finished yet.

Finished.

A fun mixed media piece using stamps, painting with twinkling h2o's, stencils, words, pen, and textured foam prints.

When the sun shines you can see so much of the world in all it's beauty. The light reflects special color on every living thing from birds to flowers. What is it that you see? Do you really look at the beauty the sun brings every day?

Chandra

Twinks ;) Fruit Magic

I love my class in Twinkling H2O's! Check out what I've been creating.

pear magic

grape and apple magic

fruit magic

This is the first time I've painted fruit and done watercolors. I think they are growing on me. I've learned a lot about the colors and shading. I'm not sure I have shading down yet but it's a good try.

Happy painting,

Chandra