Crafts: Painting

  • Watercolor Flowers And Leaves Painted Within A Circle, To Use In An Art Journal Or Just Because!

    Watercolor Flowers And Leaves Painted Within A Circle, To Use In An Art Journal Or Just Because!

    Take my word for it, once you paint one watercolor floral or leaf pattern within a circle, you won’t want to stop! In my case, as I’m thinking that these will be glued into an art journal that I’m making as a gift, I used mixed media paper which is much lighter weight than watercolor…

  • Watercolor Iris Cutouts With Stems

    Watercolor Iris Cutouts With Stems

      After creating some pink watercolor flowers on gold wire stems, I just loved the results too much not to give it a try with another kind of flower, and irises came to mind. I’d like to give it another try while actually looking at some reference, but this initial attempt was just fine and…

  • Watercolor Flowers With Wire Stems For Shavuos Crafting

    Watercolor Flowers With Wire Stems For Shavuos Crafting

    I have been enjoying painting watercolor flowers lately, which means that there are successes as well as pieces that might have some successes and some failures on the same page. But actually that is a good thing because then you can cut out those lovely flowers from the rest of the not so great page,…

  • Painted Watercolor Feather Cut-Outs For Crafting

    Painted Watercolor Feather Cut-Outs For Crafting

    Painted watercolor feather cut-outs are so fun to paint and make great decorations for any occasion, or to use as part of craft project truly any time! It is true I painted these for the Jewish holiday of L’Ag B’Omer because one of the symbols of the holiday is the bow and arrow, and arrows…

  • Watercolor Flowers In Pattern Can Be Lovely Art!

    Watercolor Flowers In Pattern Can Be Lovely Art!

    I have been using watercolors as my painting material lately, and finally got around to checking out a floral watercolor class by Yao Chung that I’ve been wanting to try for years on the instructional website creative bug, which I quite recommend. So I dove in and created this all-over floral pattern which is basically…

  • Simple Watercolor Trumpet Vine Flowers To Cut Out!

    Simple Watercolor Trumpet Vine Flowers To Cut Out!

    These simple watercolor trumpet vine flowers to cut out are just as sweet as can be, what would you use them for? Using watercolor to make simple florals that you can then cut out to use for scrapbooking, art journaling or crafting is just so much fun, quick to set up and requires minimal supplies.…

  • One Stroke Watercolor Flower Petals and Leaves

    One Stroke Watercolor Flower Petals and Leaves

    Watercolor is a wonderful medium to explore as it requires minimal materials, can be done with little set up and the results can be quite beautiful. One can use large puddles of color and big brushes, or go for something more delicate……you can layer colors or create blotchy backgrounds in one go. There really are…

  • Watercolor Art For Loose-Bound Art Journal Pages

    Watercolor Art For Loose-Bound Art Journal Pages

    Hello watercolors! It has been quite a while since I’ve touched any paint, so I decided to wade back in with baby steps by starting with watercolors, (mostly those in a tube) and then using those watercolors to make a new loose leaf art journal which I’ll be using to count the Omer, the 49…

  • Watercolor Floral And Botanical Cut-Outs For Art Journals

    Watercolor Floral And Botanical Cut-Outs For Art Journals

    This year as I count the 7 week Omer period, on the Jewish calendar, I’ve decided to work on two things as I create a brand new art journal dedicated to this important period of time. Can you guess what they are? Well one, yes of course is watercolor botanicals meaning leaves and florals, and…

  • DIY Snake Fold Journal For Counting The Omer!

    DIY Snake Fold Journal For Counting The Omer!

    I’m re-posting this from last year because it really is a great one, and now that Passover is over it is time to get serious about counting the Omer with art! Okay, yikes, I thought I spotted this journal as I was cleaning for Passover, but now it is not where I thought I saw…

  • Recycling Pyramid Crafts For Passover

    Recycling Pyramid Crafts For Passover

    With Passover starting in just one week, the pressure is on, at least for those of us responsible for cleaning our homes (and at the very least our kitchens) from top to bottom, albeit with help from the husband and teens, phew! I don’t think I’ll have much time for crafting other than some origami…

  • Cardboard Passover Pyramid Craft

    Cardboard Passover Pyramid Craft

     Hoping to make a bunch of cardboard and recycled cardboard pyramids this year, but for now, reposting this from the archives to give you a head start! With Passover arriving this coming Saturday night, now is the time to fit in some last minute crafting in anticipation of this wonderful holiday, and possibly keep the…