A Day with the Kids and Paint

After spending about an hour looking at all my High School Art work the night before , we all decided we wanted to try to paint like I did one where you put lots of paint on the paper and then blow with a straw. 

I could not remember the type of paint we used, but thought it was tempera , we used watered down acrylics and discovered it was harder to blow through the straw to get the paint to move so we left out the straw and just tilted the paper and blew that way , we had fun just the same .

Sarah decides she wants to use a brush  

   Waylon blowing hard with the straw

After awhile I decided to use some muslim fabric to use up what paint was left because I did not want to let it dry up.

                                  I will either use them for art Quilts or cut them in squares for a table top.

Bradley and his work looks similar to mine. 

This is the construction paper I used under the fabric to paint on , and the results ! well different to me... kind of looks like sky and water.

Window Painting

This is a window that I had started working on last year and never did finish it , I have it started by drawing and coloring on paper to see how it would look and used it as a guide too .
I started to paint it and was not happy with the results , I did not take a picture of the paint work yet , Hopefully soon I can get back to it and finish it for Mom..I wanted to hang it up on the outside of her house over the patio area..
The design came out of a Quiltmaker Magazine and is part 4 of a series of  quilt patterns .This one is called Bunny Patch by Lynda Milligan and Nancy Smith.I could make this quilt in no time but painting it is hard to do on glass.

Old Barn

Several years ago when my nephew was still in collage ,he came home for a visit while I was at mom's .We both agreed to get together and paint the same object and we decided on the Old Barn or Shed  in his folks yard , I am thinking the barn is a good 100 yrs old , the photo of it is the front of the barn and the painting is the back of it . as you can see the barn is falling apart .I hope they can fix it as I hate to see old buildings being tore down.

Also I used the drawing -painting on my header for this blog .We used pencil and watercolor paint , then later on I added the black ink for detail work .I don't know what Jason did with his but his painting was different from mine as all artist never paint the same way .

Window Painting

This is one of Tina's windows I painted for her ,she gave this one back to me when they had to tear out the windows 2 yrs ago. I now have it hanging on my living room wall . One day soon I plan to re-do the frame with a crackle paint . I have not decided on the colors yet  .

Spring Fling Pirate Boat

I am a member of the community center of K-Ville ,I have mentioned this before  . We had our annual Spring Fling yesterday  . The theme for this one was pirate theme ,we had decided to have a boat partly for display and partly for taking pictures of the childern with a pirate  .
The wood part of  the boat was donated  & cut by   Shane Bennet, I painted it and added the details with cardboard   & etc.
I had to paint the rails ,anchor, captians steering wheel and water out of card board and then cut them out with a steak knife ,it was like a mini saw for me , then I had to figure out how to put them on , I have a stapel gun and thought that would be the quickest way .... wrong the staples were only size3/8th and should have been 1/2 or 3/4th .so I ended up using hot melt glue and fencing nails . ,The mast is made from a 2"x 2 " ten foot aluminim pole and a 1 " x 2" wood for the yard pole . putting that together I left for my husband Royce  . then I wrapped rope around that in places to look like a pirate  ship mast and added the sail made from a sheet that Mom donated ,then I added the little black flags Daisy Bennet gave us  . I also constructed a crows nest for the top  .
 As you can see Sarah and the boys Waylon and his friend Thomas helped to set it up on friday to make sure it was going to stay . Sarah is always wanting to help her PaPa .
 The Spring Fling turned out good with lots of happy kids getting their pictures taken with the pirate ship & pirate  .

Window Paintings

About the same time I painted my Mom's Mural in her kitchen my sister Tina asked me to paint some windows in her sun room.
So I painted 2 sets of windows ,that has 4 window panes in them ,that means 8 different pictures  .I do not have all 8 pic's on here ,the ones shown are the favorites , Tina painted each window in white ,then I did the rest and loved painting these  .The windows were in front of Gary's Mom's room and a couple yrs ago they had to take them out and redo the wall with shelves for her.So now she has only 2 of these hanging up in her room .She gave one to me and the other is in storage  .
  The one of Flowers I painted for the fun of it and did a crackle finish on the frame .I had it in a yard sale , the pastors wife saw it , she was going to buy it from me, and asked me to hold it for her, but her birthday was the next week ,so I surprised her & gave it to her and she now has it hanging up in her Dinning room .She has done so much for me !
I have alot more windows  to paint ,I plan to get to a couple this year .
I will be showing the other window painting in another post .

Under Water fishing game

I am a member and Historian of K-Ville Coumminty Association and for 2 years I ended up planning the events with our President , we needed new games for the children , the old fishing game was of cloth , dull & boring ,so I asked a group of men if they were interested in helping us make some new ones , our friends Jim & Lee furnished the wood ,Royce & Jim put them together, I painted the bi - fold  boards to look like underwater scenery ,  and here you see Chloe & Sarah helping , but of course they are just using water ,but they loved every minute of it . Both Girls love to draw and paint on paper though and are very good at it  .They seem to be taking after their Grandma !!

Chicken Coop Painting

One day Mom & I were out walking around her property ,at the time she had an old feed shed out back ,I found the chicken coop door and feeder in that shed ,I had an idea as soon as I saw them . So I took them up to the back porch and told her I wanted to paint a picture but did not have anything to paint on  ,she asked what I needed ......I said  anything that will be weather proof that I can put behind the door. Mom found a plastic tablecloth that she did not want ,  I cut the correct size and painted the rooster on it, mounted the painting on the back .Then painted a hen with chicks on the feeder .They are now hanging up on Mom's back porch.

A few months later when a rooster died she saved the tail feathers for me , I put those in the painting ,then found this drift wood she had and put that on top of the frame .

Mom used to have alot of chickens & roosters but gave them up as the cost of feed was getting to be too much for her to handle  .

Metal Butterflies

These metal Butterflies belong to my neighbor Tracey,she came to me and asked if I could repaint 3 of them . I said sure , They were plain and faded ,just 2 colors, no detail , so I got out my Birds & Bloom magazine and found the moarch butterfly ,so this is how they turned out .

 I liked them so well I went to Lowes to see if they had any metal ones , they did ,but my gosh the cost was way more than I could afford . Maybe I'll find some at a yard sale one day.

Tracey has them hanging on her wooden fence and look good from the road .

Window Painting of Barn

I was on Craig's List one day when I saw an ad that a woman wanted a window painting to go into her new home  .I wrote to her and told her I have done several,she was interested in western or country , so  this is what she chose .I had never painted one where the picture continues to the next window pane ,so this was a difficult project but love the results .My sister Tina gave me the window out of her house where they had replaced the old to new , I scraped off the old loose paint on the wood frame, repainted with a green under coat and then used the crackle paint to finish the old look.The woman was very happy with the finished painting.