Paint Party Friday & Colour Me Positive

Colour Me Positive Challenge

I worked on my week 4 Colour Me Positive challenge, including the not very good self portrait. I play a game sometimes, going through the alphabet and thinking of a positive and good feeling word for each letter. That is what all the writing is in the background, I went through the alphabet two or three times.  I can tell tho that I am not in as good feeling a place as I was a few years ago, by the words that come to mind. (I don't always use the very first word that comes up). Acrylic background, everything else is color pencil. I'm linking up to Paint Party Friday, hop on over and see some great art from all around the world.

Rustic wood signs

I also made a few rustic wood signs. The laundry signs were by request and I will make some others to sell. The chicken signs were for me, but again, I am going to make more for sale.

The are made of old oak pallet wood and acrylic paints, then clear sealed.

Sketchbooks

So now I have two sketchbooks going at once. The plain one I bought last week that I have just been doodling in in the evenings.

This is last nights doodle, just random pictures from magazines, done with a fine point black sharpie marker. Besides faces there is a horse and a bird in there.











This week I have discovered a new challenge, Colour Me Positive.  This is a weekly challenge with a word, idea or quote to work with. It seems a lot of the participants are into collage and mixed media. Those aren't my strong suites, but I might try out some ideas. I decided to use the rooster sketch book my daughter brought me for this one.

Colour Me Positive week 1

The theme for the first week was Gratitude and what are you grateful for from 2015. There was a quote which I used. "When you look at life through eyes of gratitude the whole world becomes a magical and amazing place" Jennifer Gayle.

I used my new fine point sharpie marker and a little acrylic paint. The pages aren't thick enough to take a great deal of water without buckling so I didn't want to get it too wet.

The second weeks prompt is out and it is Brave. Perhaps I will be brave and use more paint and color. I am still thinking about that one.