Winter Weather Christmas Cards

More fun with winter scenes for Christmas cards

Christmas cards

Working on traditional and landscape Christmas cards today.  Used the arches paper that is not my favorite so I could get better detail.  I usually use arches rough for my landscapes but need more detail for the cards.  Hope you enjoy the water color paintings.

Night Sky

Learning to use water color paints for a night sky.  First try with moon glow.

Return to painting and my blog

After a long break from painting due to a injury and a busy life I will be working to again paint and share my journey with paints. Last year my husband and I took two water color classes and I have painted with water color paints for over a year.  I prefer to paint with oils but having less clean up and dry time is a bonus when painting.
at the present time I am painting small landscapes that can be used for Christmas cards.  I have also included in this Christmas gift idea mini canvas's and easels.  Take a look below to see my newest painting.  

A Christmas card

Using Acrylics on vacation

I purchased some nice hard board canvas books and painted while on vacation.  Our last trip I used the open acrylics for a longer drying time.

I tried a  painting using a bit of my tips from oil painting. 

This was painted with  a dark wash and then added color.

The canvas board works well since I do not need to worry about it moving and

slipping because each board is attached with glue on the boarders of the pad.

Water life painting

Trying to use acrylics and oils gives me a challenge.  I never seem to be able to create the results I want with the acrylics.  The flow of the paint and the mixing on canvas is harder for me. 

I have learned that if the painting is not to my liking it can be changed with the flick of a brush.  Just add gesso and cover the area and repaint the surface similar to how a oil paint would be scraped from the canvas.  Do Over is easy and can save paintings you would normally not finish.

This is the acrylic version and the whole picture was covered with gesso and repeated to achieve the picture I really wanted on the canvas

Night paintings

Todays Painting was a first for me - practice painting of night time with snow.  The reflection of the flash takes away some of the effect of the night sky but it is still visible.  Getting the right mix of color for the background was my challenge.  This was on a black background and was wet on wet with oil paints.  Learning to mix the white and grays was a bit of a problem but finding a picture for this painting would have decreased some of the challenge but it was interesting for my first night painting