My artwork explodes with color. I am inspired by everything that enters my path. I take photos of flowers, leaves and color combos I see in nature. I also collect swatches of my paintings, fabrics and papers to create inspiration flair trays and color boards. Gather your favorite color combinations and create vignettes to hang on your wall or paint in your journal.
Color palette swatch cards made by placing small collages of color swatches in baseball card holder.
Eggplant, black, gray and lavender.
Spring fling palette—lime, yellow, pink and orange flair tray.
Place color-coordinating dyed fabric swatches inside plastic sheet protectors and hang them on a bulletin board or wall for inspiration.
Turquoise, black, fluorescent pink and fluorescent orange.
Rust, purple, aqua and orange clipboard inspiration palette.
Place needlepoint canvas under a photo and rub with sandpaper to alter a photo. Paint circles with a bingo dauber. Brush doodles with India ink.
Use a large envelope as a surface. Paint with kids’ foam blocks dipped in paint. Print five squares. Cut a heart stencil and print it. Roll bright green paint onto the canvas with a brayer.
Roll out black paint on Plexi with a soft rubber brayer. Scribble into paint with a skewer. Write words with black dimensional paint. Place paper over painted Plexi and pull a print.
Cut apart a strawberry basket to create a stencil. Paint through a basket stencil. Draw a circle. Paint red with the tip of a flat brush. Draw with a black pen. Write ten words.
Draw a Girlie Glam face. Spray through stencils. Paint on muslin fabric. Create a circular stencil with a hot glue gun.
Turn paper stencil masks into collage embellishments and gift tags. Cut a leaf shape. Decorate shape with dimensional paint. Draw with a pipette filled with India ink. Cut out a feather shape. Stamp with a rubber stamp using paint. Sprinkle glitter. Collage stencil to painting.