I sent this to my secret pal today, practicing my brush painting techniques.
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Gothic lettering
Another secret pal greeting went out today. I believe I skipped posting a couple because I forgot to take photos. This time I remembered to take one before I sealed the envelope except I ended up mounting the mini art on a metallic brown paper too. Must be loosing my memory. lol More colored pencil work and this time some italicized gothic for the art quote.
Framed!
Last weekend I picked up the pastel bird I brought to Michael’s to get framed a couple of weeks ago and hung it up in the second bathroom near the shower. I was very happy with how the custom framing turned out. Three mats really make it look finished.
Chinese landscape
I found a lady through the San Antonio Calligraphy Guild who teaches Chinese brush painting in San Antonio. So Sunny and I have been going every other week or so to take a class after Sunny’s therapy dog work at the Blanco Library on Monday evenings. The teacher likes us to take home a “product” after every class so she has us paint greeting cards.
It’s nice to have so many cards at the ready to write on for my pen pals though I wish we would get to practice painting larger. I did sign up for Henry Li’s online workshop starting July 16th so I’m hoping that will be good for practice. If you haven’t seen his You-tube instruction videos I highly recommend them. They’re the best free instructions I’ve found.
Colored pencil greeting
Sent out another secret pal greeting this week. Hopefully she likes this one. It was inspired by a photo I took during last year’s visit to Port Aransas. We saw this guy at the UT Corpus Christi Marine Science Institute.
Drawing with colored pencils on colored paper is a fun challenge and creates a different look than using white paper.
