Girl Tribe and My Troubled Watercolor

I think I've finished my watercolor, but I think it is ruined by the pigment spots in the water. Is there any way to rescue it? I may have to start over and not use the offending Ultramarine or figure out how to use it without it settling like that. I was planning to use this for the exhibit I have a spot in for the month of November. Does anyone have an idea if this is salvageable? At any rate, for what it is worth, here is the finished product:

Here is some art by my Miss K who spent Saturday evening and overnight until Sunday late morning with her sister, Miss Z at our house.

In my Artful Journal class,  the next assignment is to do some Word Art. I used to do quite a bit of word art using Photoshop. As a matter of fact I sold a few pieces and I have the originals to show you. What do you think of this kind of art?

I think the assignment for the class was to make a journal cover and to do it by hand using watercolors, so I have to do some thinking and decide what I will do. When I have it decided and put it together, I will share it with you.

I am driving up to my Mom's tomorrow and staying until early Saturday morning. I am sure to have a great time and hope the weather cooperates and that I get lots of pix of gorgeous Fall color. I will be taking my computer and hope to have things to share with you while I am gone. I will be taking my journal and some watercolor supplies so will have no excuses for not being creative.

For now, I will leave you with a lovely smile from Miss Z:

Reminder:  I will be drawing for the My Memories Suite 2 digital scrapbooking software around midnight tonight. Get your name in here if you want a chance to win.

xoxo

Word Girl, Bird Sketch and More Patterns

Today my sister, Kathy, celebrates her 62nd birthday. Happy B'day, Kath! I don't know quite how to tell you this, but I think you might now be classified as elderly. tee hee hee

The shoulder/arm are still very painful, so when the doctor's office opens I am planning to give them a call and see if I can get in today. I don't think my doctor works on Mondays, which is a drag, but I don't think I am willing to wait another day to see if I can't get some real relief for this agony.

Some time ago as an exercise in a class through one of my Yahoo! groups, I made a picture of a girl with words. I so loved my silhouette of the girl in my wood art that I decided to use her to do another.

The words are from the poem, "Be the Best of Whatever You Are", by Douglas Malloch from a book I found at a thrift shop. I really like the look of this kind of word art.

I also like the more traditional word art that you can find online sometimes or in craft shops for use in scrapbooking. They are more like this:

I also attempted another bird. I know this comes as no surprise to those of you who "know" me because I really love drawing birds.

He's not my best ever, but I like him. I need to work on the extended wing and I think his tail feathers might be better if they were longer and more tapered. But, for now, he is what he is!

I am also working on a Christmas themed post card swap with a member of a Yahoo! group, but because she may well read this blog, I am not going to show it to you yet, but I will show you the ATC backgrounds that I made by "mopping" up the palette from my Kraft sheet. I am participating in a bird on a background ATC swap through ATCs For All and thought these backgrounds were perfect for that purpose.

 And because I never seem to be able to get through a day without making patterns in Photoshop, here are a few more:

 

 

 

I'm off to get another mug of coffee and put something in my stomach so that I can take some Ibuprofen. Then I need a shower and I suppose I'd better give the underarm area a trim if someone is going to be looking closely at my shoulder/arm.

See you tomorrow, hopefully with an answer to why I am hurting so much for so long.

Bye!