Ceramic

Two plates, about 7 inches across: Say it with PURPLE!

The background is painted in a mottled purple/pink, in metallic acrylic paint. Then, I did some doodles on them with dimensional paint. The whole design is then glazed in a light purple.

a close-up of the dimensional-paste designs

A ten-inch plate, off white. Pen-and-ink doodles:

Recycled glass: Old bottles

First off, my Bombay Safire bottle. The sweetest blue, with scroll-work in white dimensional paste.

I'm going for a dreamy look here - faded roses, in pink, with forget-me-nots. Soft, soft, soft colours.

An old, old friend of my husband's visited us, and his lovely wife fell in love with this one. I hope she's enjoying it :)

Bronze dimensional paint, on a bronzy-brown bottle:

One of my favourite flowers - a field of red, red poppies, on a wine bottle:

A tequila bottle - with dimensional paint in bronze:

Silver doodles on black - now living with my sister :)

Black doodles, on a pale, pearl background - also living with my sister now:

Bronze dimensional paste, on two wine bottles:

A new art: Brushed embroidery, in white, in stark contrast on a green wine bottle :)

A close-up of the flowers:

A friend kept this bottle for me, because she liked it's shape. She's right - it is so pretty! I painted it a faded gold, and did brushed embroidery on it, in off-white dimensional paste.

Brushed painting, on fabric

These are two cotton cushion covers, measuring about 16 inches, by 16 inches:

Black acrylic paint, with white highlights, on olive-green background.

From Facebook . . . .

I posted a picture of my work on Facebook, on Donna Dewberry's official site - because I wanted to share my work with fellow-one-strokers. I am always shiverry when I do this, because I don't want to be killed-with-kind-words from good souls who feel I need encouragement.

I wasn't prepared for the kind response I received - so I wanted to keep the page here, where I can come back to it on days when everything I paint goes pear-shaped, and I wonder why I ever started painting at all!!!

From Facebook:

I was so happy to see that Donna herself had dropped me a line :)

a string of roses

I wasn't very happy with the single rose I'd painted, so I thought I MUST go back to my one-stroke roses with a vengeance!!!

And I did! :)

Here they are, all strung in a row, on a deep blue background. I've decided that I like this one - and it's going up in my bedroom, which thus far, has escaped being invaded by my art!!! :-|

It was hard photographing this piece, because I'd forgotten to do it before I varnished it :(

So, with the flash, it was over exposed, and one side of it completely disappeared. These pix are taken without the flash, without too much light - because even natural light bounced off the surface and messed up the shot!!!