More Miniature Paintings!

I am working on some free artwork for my friends, and I just finished TWO more paintings today!

The first is for my cousins who wanted a fairy like those of Cicely Mary Barker. I'm not really sure I captured the same spirit of Cicely Barker's fairies....

She's a dandelion fairy!

The second painting is for one of my high school friends. She told me she loves my creature drawings and since her son will be old enough to appreciate them soon, she'd like one!

So of course, I had to oblige!

Future Construction Worker

I have to find one of those dump trucks before I have kids! It's the Tonka Dump Truck, but when I was a kid they were all metal. Which meant that you could sit in them and race down the driveway. MY FUTURE CHILD NEEDS THIS.

I just see this griffin making engine noises as he pushes his blocks around :D

Cheers!!
Red

PS. If you're interested in a painting, I can make that happen :D
Leave a comment and I'll see what I can do!

Free Miniature Paintings!

I asked my Facebook friends if any of them would be interested in some free artwork! I want to do more artwork but I don't want to make stuff just to shove under the bed or into the closet. So, I figured this would be a good way to branch out!

A couple of people responded (including one of my cousins) and I've finished the first piece!

One of my high school friends requested a painting of the George Washington Bridge in New York in an impressionistic style!

This is what I came up with:

Acrylic on 7x5 inch art board

I'm not sure it's particularly "impressionist" but, good first attempt?

I found a photo to reference here. So as you can see, no, the city's not supposed to be on fire ;)

Cheers,

Red



Christmas Revisited: Snow Bunny

Last Christmas I made a knitted hat and scarf for AV's sister.

Pretty standard winterwear :D

The hat is a beenie style and the scarf is a super long skinny scarf, maybe five feet long?

Cheers,
Red



How I did it:
Find some yarn! I used the super cheap tie-dyed acrylic kind.
     Scarf - knit two, pearl two, repeat 4x. Continue to your desidred length
     Hat - follow the pattern in this excellent book!


I STILL cannot figure out how to get my photos to stop getting rotated TT_TT

Christmas Revisited: The Martini Man

AV's dad is known as The Martini Man; he creates and shakes his own martinis. He even has a website! When we set up the website, I designed the sweet logo!

Click through to go to the website!

 But the fun doesn't stop there...

For Christmas, I made a set of special Martini Man martini glasses! I bought a set of four martini glasses from Target (or maybe it was Walmart?) and used bakeable glass paint.

Ta-da! Color-fast and hand-washable!

Each glass has a different color base. There is actually only one line of color which then reflects up through the stem.

The Martini Man logo is painted on the outside of the glass so it will be seen as the drink level shrinks!

Cheers,

Red

How I did it:

Clean and dry glassware

Using Pebo Vitrea 160 glass paint, paint designs normally.

Let dry completely.

Bake for 40 minutes at 325 degrees F

      Put glass in oven

      Turn oven on to 325 degrees F

      Bake for 40 minutes

      Leave glass in oven as oven cools

      Take glass out when it is at a safe handling temperature