Another Original....By Me!

Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone is having a wonderful week! Here in Wisconsin we are in a major heat wave.....hot and humid! I like hot...but not humid! Guess that means it's a good time to stay indoors with the AC and craft!

Today, I want to share my final project from my summer art class. We had to either do an achromatic (black & white) or monochromatic (black, white, and one other color) painting. As you can see I went with the monochromatic and used my tube of magenta paint. It's so awesome mixing just one color of paint with different hues of white, black, and gray to see what you can all get for a color. Of course my topic was flowers....because I feel that is the only thing I can draw decently! lol! I was scared to paint...but after this project...I think paint and I are slowly becoming great friends....who knows maybe I will paint something on my own in the future!

I also have a card to share with you that I made for Embellish-Online. I wanted to make a card with the fun and bright American Craft Backyard Collection papers without using any stamps....I almost succeeded until I used my small "hello" stamp for the tag. The flowers and butterflies are cut out from the Buzz paper and I used some wire for the antennas on the butterflies. The flowers and butterflies are pop'd up with foam tape.


Card Recipe:
Stamps: Hello Stamp is for $1 bin somewhere
Inks: Momento Tuxedo Black,
Papers: American Crafts Backyard Collection
Tools: EK Success border punch, MS tag and leaf punches
Embellishments: May Arts 1/2" Ric Rac, May Arts 1/4" satin ribbon wire that I got from my mom! (Thanks mom ;)

I'm getting all excited for my Copic Certification class! I leave Saturday with class on Sunday....Woo-Hoo!!! I best make my hotel reservation today!

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More of My Art!

Hi Everyone! Hope you are having a wonderful beginning to your weekend! Mine is super busy! Yesterday I spent all day getting my laptop fixed.....it did have a sassy virus!!! Now it is all better! Although having to get it fixed didn't help me get my 9 online assignments and 2 online exams done...thank god we have a desktop I can work on....although I did miss my laptop! Now she is back home and ready to rock and roll again! Yippee! I can type again when I am on the internet....what a wonderful feeling!

Today, I have a friend's wedding...so I am getting all prettied up by my sister at her new salon she just started working at! Love my personal stylist! Then Sunday I have to work on my painting for my next Art assignment..I can't wait to show you that one! I hope it turns out as good as what I have planned! I am not too good with paint! But practice does make perfect right?! ha ha!

Here is my second Art Class Assignment. We had to use black stonehedge paper, come up with a drawing that had to do with nature, incorporate our fun elements we are learning and then were only allowed to color with Prisma Pencils! I loved being able to use color finally!!! I do have to say this one is definitely getting framed and going into my craft room (when we build our house!) I used flowers as my inspiration (because they were easy to draw...lol)!

A close up of the upper half of the drawing:

And a close up of the lower half:

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Only 2 more weeks of school left and then I get to blog hop and see all of my friends! Miss you all!!! I definitely am counting down the days when I get to come and visit you!

Happy 4th of July!

I hope everyone is enjoying their wonderful 4th of July weekend! Today I am heading to my hometown parade! My brother is home for the week so he is putting his new truck in the parade! I can't wait to go and take pictures (of course I will share some with you too!) Things have been so unbelievably busy here with school! Most days I get done working on homework at 10PM, go to bed, and wake up to go to school for 9am and study all day again! But in 4 weeks I will have 9 credits out of the way so that will be good! There is a light at the end of the tunnel! I am really enjoying my 2 Dimensional Art Class! It's a lot of work....but so much fun! I was one of those people who said "I can't draw" but after our first assignment I am starting to retract that statement!!!

I thought I would share my first original "Kim's Creation" with all my friends here! For our first assignment we had to create a 7" x 9" piece of artwork only dealing with circles, triangles, and lines. We were only allowed to use a black and white prisma colored pencils. I thought this turned out so aweseome! I can't wait to hear your feedback! And here is a close up of my work that shows you all the different shading elements that I have used!

I can't wait to get back to stamping....but in the mean time the drawing is a fun break away from my craft corner!

If you get a chance hop on over to InStyle Stamps today! Virginia is having an AWESOME 4th of July Blow Out Sale! You dont' want to miss it...there are LOTS of stamps on sale!

I miss you all and can't wait to come and visit your blogs soon!

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