Pencil Drawing Website!!!

I found this website this morning, it has tutorials on it that you can open in pdf!   Cool! 

Diane Wright's fine art

Here is the other blog were she had a lesson on...that is how I found her website!

Artinstructionblog! 


Here is another one!  On Diane's website she recomended him...so here it is!

Mike Sibley Fine Art

Some New Projects!

Placmats!

I did these for my Mom and Dad's 20 Anniversary. We had some pink roses from the bush out side that matched great. So here is what you need to make these placemats!

To make One-

Two sheets of card stock
Bright pink paint
White paint
Dark green paint
Brushes
Contact paper
Regular tape and double sided.

Step 1

So you need to over lap and tape the to sheets of card stock; the tall way. (The back) Then flip it over the front, to the over lap, and use double sided tape to secure down. (I didn't do this and had to do this after painting. So I thought you could just do it before.) Now you are ready to start painting!


Step 2
You can do the stripe down the center first.(If you mess up bad you don't mess up what you have painted already!) So for that stripe you just use the pink and white, blending the colors so one color is on each side. Yes you just go right over the over lap.

Step 3
Then the roses...that way you can then place the leaves around them. Then you can let the roses dry and then do the leaves! I don't have a video of the rose yet...maybe some day!

Step 4
For the leaves I did the green, and white. with the white blended in the middle.
Here is the link to my lesson for leaves! http://sarahgpaintings.blogspot.com/2009/03/lesson-2-leaves.html


Step 5
Then for the last step-After everything has dried, you can put the contact paper on! I just did it on one side. (you could do it on both) Leave about an inch or more around the edge- then fold over. For the corners, cut out squares in the corner of the contact paper, then fold one side, then the other and so on. Here is a example.

Smooth out the contact paper..You Are Done!!!!!!

Here is the one I did!

Our table setting!

A While ago I painted a picture that was like this on card stock. Then I painted that same print on this piece of baked clay!

Tip for today-

Have fun trying to paint on stuff like- blank cards, wood plaques, or anything! But if the surface is slick, you may want to use enamel paint. For a card it might not matter, but for something you want the paint to last and not come off, enamel paint is for that!

P.S. I need to get some enamel paint. I want to try to paint on glass.

I have been painting in our school room, (office). I like to open the sliding doors in the back of the picture, then I can see into the living room, and watch tv. That way I am not shut in a room all by myself.

My painting pallet! Kinda cool after you get done painting!

Fun Projects!

This first one I did is on a oval wood piece from Wall-Mart. Then an easel to put it on.

Then this card. It is a three fold card, with a hole cut in the second fold, to allow an opening.- I used just three brushes, 3/4 flat brush, small scruffy, and a long script liner. You could do any kind of flower in on the card too. This is an easy way to make a beautiful card!!!!

This is a photo frame that I got at Wall-Mart also. It makes a Great Gift!

-Sarah-

Tip For Today:

Lighter far away - Darker as you come up close

Sooner Schooner!

We are Oklahoma fans! I didn't use a lot of one stroke painting...some though- double loading to shade on the covered top, and the wagon box. See, you can be creative and use some of your One Stroke painting knowledge, for other stuff. Go Sooners!
-Sarah-