Mixed Media Sunday Share

I've been working on some mixed media canvas' and this is one I thought I would share with you today.  I used the typical supplies like paint, both acrylic and watercolor, gesso and mat gel medium and some random bits of scrap paper and permanent markers.  Some of the not so typical items are from things around the house,  the stars (cereal box) shapes covered in tin foil then painted with gesso and sprayed through a piece of shelf liner.  I also was able to emboss the tin foil with some fun swirls and marks, they don't lay completely flat so they also add a bit of dimension.

The glow circles around the stars are a combination of the end of a paper towel roll and a soda bottle cap.

My houses are constructed from some of the postage I have been saving from this seasons wedding, graduation and baby shower invitations.  They all had pretty stamps.

This is a new type of art for me and I have been having a lot of fun with it.

Thanks for stopping by to take a look.  I'll talk to you again soon.  I'm going to link up with a couple of challenges I found that looked like fun.  Check out their sites here:  One little word and Mixed Media Monthly Challenge.

Friday Flip

Friday again! Hope your week was great.  Here's another peek into my art journals.  This time I was playing around with water colors trying to get comfortable with different kinds of media.

Now my mom tells me that when I was little my first word was not momma or daddy it was "uh oh" and I said it for everything.  Then the big day came when I added a second word to my vocabulary my choice, "bird".  So I guess it's not that surprising I like to draw birds and bird related images and collect pictures of them as well.  I also like to photograph them, but I'm still working on getting good at that.

Birdhouses are a particular favorite and I have several scattered around my studio just waiting for the day when I have a tree to hang them on.  I used a photograph that I took at a bio-park for this picture. I just keep practicing.

At least you can sort of tell what they are:o)  Thanks for stopping by, I'll talk to you again soon.