Keji morning... new ATC

Keji morning, 2.5" x 3.5", watercolour on watercolour board.

I'm not too thrilled with this one, but they can't all be fabulous, can they? The eagle in the sky wasn't s'posed to be there, but morphed out of a drip of dark grey paint that happened at the very last moment. I had fun doing the wet-in-wet washes for sky and water.

Last Light, Petit Passage... a new ATC

Trying to catch up on my ATC project, I made this last night and finished it up this morning.

Last Light, Petit Passage, ATC 2.5"x3.5", watercolour on watercolour board.

celtic whale #2

Celtic Whales #2

watercolour, ink, and metallic gel pen

ATC size, 3.5" x 2.5"

whales ATC

ATC size, 2.5"x3.5", watercolours, micron pen & gel pen on Reeves watercolour board.

so I'm really into the ATCs...

Copper on blue spiral fragment

gel pen and acrylic paint on mulberry paper

2.5" x 3.5"

Water lily

coloured pencil on textured cardstock,

2.5" x 3.5"

Gold leaf Relief Knot ATC

Gold leaf relief knot,

gesso and gold leaf on (three thicknesses of) acid free cardstock

3.5" x 2.5"

I wish you could touch this! The fun thing about this series of ATC's is that I can try new techniques on a small scale. I had a lot of fun building layers of gesso to make this knot three dimensional. It's not as smooth as it could be, but I rushed it because I wasn't sure if the idea would work. Next time, I'll use thinner layers of gesso, and sand down the final layers a bit, if need be. Still, I was thrilled with it. It's so tactile, and I made sure to give it a couple of light coats of Kamar varnish so it can be touched.

Miniature paintings

Here are three ATC's I've been working on lately.

I wasn't going to post them here before they had reached their destinations, but they've all been mailed, and I don't have to say who's getting what. ;)

Blue Heron, coloured pencil on textured cardstock

Illuminated R, acrylic and gold leaf on canvas, mounted on heavy cardstock

Peggy's Cove, acrylic on canvas, mounted on heavy cardstock

(cliche Nova Scotia ;) )