Texas Hill Country!!

June 31, 2013

Well hi, I haven't forgotten about ya'll.  Just had a few things to do after getting back from our mini vaca in Fredericksburg!  It was sooooo hot, but we enjoyed ourselves despite the heat.  We ate at the Hill Top Cafe, shopped, went to Wildseed Farms, and hit the Fredericksburg Brewery and the Sister Creek Winery. I would say we covered quite a bit in 2days, wouldn't you!  Will post a few pics below that I wanted to share with you.  There is one, of a 4x4 canvas that I saw in an art gallery on the main drag in Fredericksburg.  The closer I looked at it, I realized I could do that!! It was heavy bodied paint mixed with color in multiple layers on a white canvas, that's it!! I so wanted to see the asking price, but the store didn't open until 10 and we were ready to leave town as of 9:40.  So, a pic is all I got.  Anyway, see what you think when you look at it and compare to any canvases you have seen or done and let me know what your conclusions are!

I have been back in the crafting studio after watching Saturday's class #2 of Junelle Jacobsen's Wildflowers- Wild Art Summer online series.  I just love watching her!! I dreamed about new crafties I could make using her ideas all night.  So silly, but fun.  I got stuck on some card/picture holders I saw on our trip for sale in a shop, and it was another one of those I KNOW I can do that! kinda things. So, that's what I worked on today.  It uses a large wooden spool, which I covered with paper, trim, lace, etc, then put a paper clasp on top, which hold the tag or picture, and they are just adorable!!! Let me know if you have any questions and I would be happy to answer them.  Hope you enjoy the pictures and I will be back tomorrow with some more creations, this time, watercolor camping trailers and camping tents, oh boy, can't wait!!

Just Julie

Traveling Thursday!!

June 27, 2013

Hi all from the Hill Country of Texas!!  We drove, and ate and ate and drank today.  Covered a few hundred miles, and now I am pooped and ready to call it a day.  More shopping, eating and wine tomorrow and then will probably head home Saturday.

I will upload some pics when I return.  Am hoping to sketch and watercolor some places when I get back home, hard to do it when you are on the move all the time.  I plan on going to an art gallery I saw tonite on our way back to Hotel.  I spied some 4x4 mixed media canvases in there and they looked like something I could do. So..... anxious to see how much they are selling them for.  If I can, will take pics if they allow it.

Ok, nite everyone and stay cool. It is terribly hot down here, so the air conditioner is on full blast!

Just Julie

Wildflower Wednesday!!

June 26, 2013     It's a wildfl ower Wednesday!!

Hello there.  I started off today watching Junelle Jacobsen's Wildflower Wednesday.  For those of you who haven't discovered her blog, yesandamen.blogspot.com, you should really go there, quick! She does wonderful watercolor, mixed media, sketches and stories to go with them.  This is the 3rd online workshop I have taken with her and I enjoy it so much.  Which is interesting, because before taking her classes, I would tell you that I couldn't even draw a stick man!  Junelle breaks it down to manageable sketches and teaches you how to draw things simply and embellish your images with watercolor, paper piecing, mixed media, etc.  It is truly awesome.  Below you will see a small canvas I did of macaroons, love them and so does my dad. I will usually take him some homemade ones or store bought ones when I go back home for a visit.  Hope you enjoy the canvas.  I used watercolored paper that was used to practice making ribbons of color, and paper pieced the macaroons onto a little cake stand.
My  husband and I are taking off for a few days to the Texas Hill country in the morning, so I may not be able to blog while gone.  I will definitely let you know when we are back and will hopefully have some new sketches and or artwork or canvases to share.  Have a great rest of the week and wonderful weekend!!

Just Julie

 

Well, I did it!! I now have a blog.

I have been contemplating this for a while now and finally decided, with a push from fellow artist friend, to go for it.  Not sure how to do this, but will learn as I go. Don't know who I am talking to out there, so that's kinda scary, but exciting also.  Hope to make many new cyber friends and share lots of artsy crafty goodness. Stay tuned in the upcoming days for some pics, if I can figure this out!!!

Just me, Julie