Midweek post

Hi Everybody!

Hope your week is going well. It's cold, grey and wet here, so I've been dodging showers during my walks, but I still get out enough. I'm not complaining though, we badly need the rain. During the long drought last year a lot of damage was done, and the earth needs bountiful supplies of water to regenerate. But a bit more sunshine here and there would be great!

Today I have an 8" by 8" canvas to share. It was given 2 coats of gesso and then painted with Deco Arts Titan buff followed by interference gold and turquoise. The colours don't show up well on the photos. The flowers were collaged with a napkin and then given a coat of clear varnish after I had added some colour with distress oxides. I added some glass pearls and German gold glitter - both from Viva - to the centres. The cherub (LaBlanche) was painted with the same colours and then sewn to the canvas with gold thread. This took a long time as my fingers are still making problems:

For Wendy's 'sea-world' challenge at Tag Tuesday I have another tag, made using one of my own pieces as background. The bubbles were stamped with a stamp from Ryn Tanaka and white embossed. The fish and mermaid are from Serif and were added digitally:

I am linking to Paint Party Friday, hosted by Eva and Kristin.

Some photos from this week.

A peaceful evening scene at one of the lakes:

Misty mornings:

Wayside flowers:

I love this house;

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!