A little green bottle

I tried something new this time: I swirled paint around the inside of the bottle - instead of painting, or daubing it, on the outside. It's taken a long time to dry, and I'm not entirely convinced that I like the effect. Ahh well, it may grow on me.

I tried it with two bottles. Why? Because after squirting paint into the first, and swirling it around, I found that I'd used too much. SO: the next bottle jumped in to finish it all up.

(These are two bottles my husband found on the beach. And when he saw them, he was pretty sure that I'd enjoy painting them :)   I think they were brandy bottles - clear and colourless, and just about 7 inches or so tall. They're a little concave at the back: just right to slip into your back pocket, and fit nicely over your bum? That kind.)

To state the obvious: this one's painted with a rose, rose-buds, and little-bitty leaves, in metallic acryllics - white, black, and a touch of red.

Metallics never photograph well - with or without the flash. It's either the camera or the photog  :(

A little bowl of roses and rosebuds

This will be a Chinese New Year gift, for my sister-in-law. Chinese-new-year red roses and rose-buds. It will be filled with jelly-bubbles and a daun pegaga (Asiatic penny-wort) plant. If I have the time, I'll update this with a picture of the bowl with the plant happily growing in it :)

As usual, I've photographed the bowl from all around - so I will remember how it looked, and see how I can improve on my roses! Yes, there's always room for improvement.

A Valentine heart?

Something I did last week, over the long weekend for City Day.

Hearts and roses are everywhere. And the red, red, red of Chinese New Year is kinda stinging me eyes!!!

So, I thought: How's about a heart of rosebuds and little-bitty leaves?

And there it is, above.

None of the stuff I've done are really original pieces. I've scoured You-Tube and downloaded loads and loads of images and been to hundreds of websites and looked at the work of really good artists.

So, like all beginners, my work is usually an attempt to reproduce something I've seen somewhere.

It seldom looks the same as the original, because I am a fledgling, and wobbling on my new-born fingers!

But, if anything you see in these pages remind you of something you've seen somewhere else, it probably does! And to those who have inspired me, I say thank you.

You call these roses?!

I love the idea of tone-on-tone, and this is my first attempt at it. I'm still a little confused - as can be so plainly seen - and I've mixed my leaves up, and my curly-cues are not as curly and as cue-ey as I'd like them to be :(

And of course, I just had to try my hand at roses. I mean, if you watch the people on You Tube, you'd think they were the easiest flower to paint. Just a little shell here, a little shell there, and voila! Roses.

Yah right.

And below is how wrong they can be.

Actually, after miny-miny-miny attempts, I had to leave this to go do something else. Otherwise, this too, would be history!!!

Again on perspex , I have a white sheet in the back so that the piece can be viewed.

Roses are hard to do. See the close up and don't laugh. Please. You should have seen the first ones. Believe me, these are the improvements!

Also, I need to note that rose buds should not be or seem to be as big as the rose itself :(

Every day, I learn a little more!

(click on the image for a bigger pix)