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A class demo to show design and placement..freehanding
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Susan and Kathy
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Everyone..what a super group
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A quick face demo...turned into a mermaid
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Donna's wonderful dog painting
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Micky's painting in progress
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Donna and her dog painting
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Terris' lovely garden, painted from a pic of her own garden
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Kay's rosy floorcloth 20008
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Kay's roses, up close...not finished yet...she will still add small flowers and highlighting...
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Kay freehanded this runner on Kreative Kanvas to practice my rose method
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This is Taylor's Koi floorcloth. (my floorcloth is in the background). Taylor is a teenager with a lot of natural talent and just starting to learn decorative painting.
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The NH Group! Back Row, left to Right
Terri, Linda, Barbara, Donna, Susan, Gina, Kathy and Terry. Front row...Me and Micky
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Micky's painting for her neice
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Terri's boxes and sign
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My class demo "How to Paint Glass"
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Donn'a fabric painting on her Jeans
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Kathy's Doggie Portrait of her baby
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Kathy's first animal portrait...amazing
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Micky and her husband painted this sign for their den.
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Micky....friends are being married at this castle...the pic is a wedding present
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My Demo for the evenig...puppy on a pillow, sorry it's a bit blurry. Barbara won this in the usual class night drawing.
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Kathy's doggie in progress...
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Barbara's start for a Box with Fenway Park...she's a Red Sox Fan..
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Micky, starting a doggie portrait
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Micky's Owl and Pussycat canvas finished..
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Susan's start to a Doggie portrait..
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Donna's painting of a doggie, Mario. This painting is gift for a bride and groom who share this little dog.
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This is the beginning of a painting that Micky is doing for her daughter in law. She painted a similar one and everyone loved it.
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This is a very tiny Slate that Terri is painting....not finished yet, but so pretty...
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Terri's wonderful boat. Several people have asked what special technique that she might have used. The main thing is to keep all of the brushwork in the water...horizontal...it waves up and down but is basically on a horizontal line...the sky is painted in the same way.
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boat again, painted on slate
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Susan's pretty Album in progress
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Micky's painting "Hey diddle diddle"...so give as gift...
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My evening Demo...Yellow Iris on Water color paper
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Terri, Painting on Slate (not completed yet)...a Gift for her son (a sailor). You can see the book she used as inspiration, and the pattern she made at the right top of the picture.
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Kathy's glass painting
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Glasses again. Kathy is letting them dry upside down because the bottom is painted. You can see the little "gold" dots in the centers.
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Kathy painting, and you can see the little picture Micky brought with her to use as inspiration.
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The start of Micky's Owl and the Pussycat painting on canvas. The was a bit of a joint effort, but she almost finished it in one evening.
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Owl and the Pussycaty in progress
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More progress. I taught Micky my method of making a simple graph, then blocking in the subject is a sort of Grisaille style using two colors, then fillling in the main colors shapes, it worked up so quickly...we were both surprised...I'd start each step, then Micky would finish that and work until I got back to her for the next step. Fun!
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Micky with her painting.She still has lots of little details to add. What a wonderful fun time" we" had..splashing the paint on!
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Susan's Paperweights
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Barbara's Birdhouse
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Micky went to a seminar, and brought this back to class to finish....so pretty
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Susan's wine glasses, not finished
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Donna's Eggs, small painting ...sorry for the flash glare.
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Donna's again. Dandilion Buds in a cola bottle...tiny painting....love it...
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Kathy D/s mailbox...so pretty
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My demo, finally finished
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Micky's painting completed...so pretty!
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Barbara's Tea Cups. Painted with Folk Art Enamels on plain cups and saucers purchased at the Christmas Tree Shop.
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cup with Butterfly
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Kathy's Angel. She painted at seminar in Dover and came to class to finish up.
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Angels in a group
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Terry's Visor. Painted on plain white visor...for a friend for a gift.
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Terri's little table
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Drawer, painting to match wallpaper in her bathroom...
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Table top, faux marble treatment
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Micky's on canvas
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Barbara's box with vase
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Donna's paintings (one night!)
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Terri's in progress
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Susan's hand mirrors, finished
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Donna's peppers, amazing
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Barbara's again..so pretty
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Donna's carry on
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Donna's mini paintings
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Gina's birdhouse, palette and inspiration photo
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Susan's Mother's day mirrors
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Terri working on mini mural project
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My Demo for the night. It was inspired by some designs by Sherry Nelson and Melanie St. Bernard. I sketched it first, then sideloaded shadows around the drawing, the added washes of color and sideloads. All the white in the flowers is the background showing through.
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Wooden Shoe, painted to look like Delft.
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Donna's painting of her Dog Lilly...it's called the Lilly Lisa.
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Susan...wanted a mono chromatic look and wanted to practice "dragging" a background.
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Micky's poppies, full size (sorry the right side is clipped off a bit.
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My Ornament (Folk Art Enamels)
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Ornament again
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Linda's Waste basket finished, with gloss varnishs to look like pottery.
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Painting the inside white. She will varnish the piece with a gloss varnish to make it look like porcelain.
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Barbara's table
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table closer
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closeup of faux florist gift card, painted on the table
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Donna, a doggie she painted on her work table
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Barbara painting table legs
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Barbara's table, early stages
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My Koi pond, almost done
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Donna painting her wonderful pond.
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Koi pond demo, painted on floorcloth canvas, not finished yet but but I'm enjoying painting fish!
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My demo for the week, Invasion of the Fairies, A window with fairies peeking in. Painted on water color paper.
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Gina's olives and grapes on glass and tile
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Part of Thursday Group. Left to right, Micky, Susan,Me, Donna, Barbara and Terri. Edit
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Demo, little fawn, inspired by Sherry Nelson design
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Gina's tile coaster
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Gina's lemon
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Micky's seashell tile
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Micky's again
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Here is a
picture of my petlovebird (Baby)
photo taken by a friend
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Gina's tiles, painted for use as coasters
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Terri's cupboard
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Me...Barbara took this with my camera....after I finished the evening demo for the new DVD
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student project
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My demo pansies
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My Demo for the week...lilies...I was working out a method of painting them in three strokes...
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My demo ..painted a paper mache' box blue..then used the same blue and white to paint the roses.Then finally a darker blue (midnight) for some shading.
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This week's demo...a box that I showed my "dragging" technique, then decorated.
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How I cut a chip brush for dragging
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A yellow box that has been dragged with burnt sienna, then white.
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demo for the day,I did this demo to show how I plan,and freehand design a rose border for an irregular shape, also wanted a valentine pattern that could be left up year round...it's about 12" square.
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Santa. This is my demo for this week. He is a little larger than life size. Painted on watercolor paper. The lesson was to teach how to get a smile, showing it in his eyes.....without showing a mouth..
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My demo for the week. Freehanded a French style panel decoration. I use this a lot on Amoire doors, etc. If I do two doors I just reverse the design so it's a mirror image.
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This week's painting demo...a sort of cartoon little girl to show how to get a "young" look, shape of head, placement of eyes, proportions, etc.
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Little mermaid demo finished (names went in hat, Linda won. This is about 2'x3' painted on watercolor patper.
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mermaid face, close...camera flash sort of faded it out..
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I painted this in class as a 30 minute demo.last week on water color paper..using my projector as an aid. Micky won the draw for it...the lion face is about 24" tall.
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After painting murals all week..I decided to do a demo on canvas, for the class. I used a projector and painted these zebra's. They are about 30" high. Everyone put their name in a hat. Terri our hostess won it.
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Linda is painting a window mural for over her kitchen sink. She is allowing me to use her as a model for step by step instructions...thank you dearie!
START OF WINDOW MURAL...find a photo of an open window, trace with fine Sharpie Pen onto plastic
transparancy sheet (available at staples).
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This is an office quality projector (mine was from a yard sale). Tape plastic sheet to projector, tape canvas (or other surface) to wall. Your drawing is "beamed" at the wall. You can make it the size you want by adjusting the projector.
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Go over the projected image with pencil or brush to transfer the image to your surface. Linda's surface is canvas that she painted with Gesso.
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With painters tape, carefully cover any of the areas that are to remain white. Burnish the edges down with something smooth, so that the paint can't get under the tape. The next step will be to paint the garden scene right over the tape. The tape will be removed at the very end to reveal the white window frames. More next time......
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paint basic landscape right over the blue tape, leaving edges of canvas white.
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Lind'a window in progress...there will be an overflowing ivy in the bowl...
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Linda has a lot of blue in her kitchen and the blue pottery planter matches her decor, so will fit right in.
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Linda's window, almost done. Linda lives on a lake but has not "view" over her sink. The woodwork in this matches her kitchen woodwork.
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enamel painted mirrors
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My demo for the week...painted on watercolor paper. This was to show my method of blocking in a design then finishing it with highlights and shadows.
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Cottage finished. This was painted during l/2 hour in class. I paint my demo's now are done without advance planning, so my class can see how I solve problems and my methods of designing.
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This was Linda's week for the demo surface, so I demo'd the lily of the valley on a box she brought in all prepped
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My demo at the beginning of class was on this napkin box rather than paper
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