Donna Downey's Blog, page 72
March 20, 2013
inspiration wednesday + video
sometimes keeping it simple just feels cleansing!
love the way todays inspiration wednesday turned out...the colors, the pop, the freshness all feel good to me.
watch this weeks video:
supplies used:
inspiration journal
GOLDEN absorbent ground
Twinkling H2O's
lemondrop
apricot nectar
pink azalea
vavoom
raspberry wine
african jade
teal zircon
H2O's paint pallette
watercolor brush size 20
liquitex gesso
mini tags
alphabet stickers
tiny attatcher
March 19, 2013
yoga & painting...
for the past 6 weeks i have looked forward to my tuesday mornings with my friends susan & laura
we have painted, talked about life, sex, coconut oil (don't ask), relationships...we have learned a lot about ourselves, breaking down the walls and painting intuitively.
they embraced the process and created these beautiful pieces.
we decided we did not want the fun to end
susan is a Yogi (teaches Yoga) and we all thought it might be interesting to see how these two processes merged. after...
March 18, 2013
collage monday
something about the turquoise, yellow and red combo that is making me so happy. i added an entire sheet of jenni bowlin alphabet stickers, pulled out some of my oldie but goodie rubber stamps to thow into the mix and if you look really close you can even see the making memories mini alpha sticker fames.
{GOLDEN fluid acrylics, stencils, india ink, collage pauge}
this week keep on layering in your journals until something inspired you!
March 17, 2013
a little HARLEM SHAKE (downey style)
if you havent heard of the Harlem shake, they are calling it "the new Gangnam style" dance. its really silly really, but kids being kids, mine love being silly.
heres a little "Harlem Shake" from the downey 3
happy st. patricks day!
March 15, 2013
CANVAS CREATE 2013 - MARCH workshop now OPEN!!!
march/Canvas Create 2013 - dimensional collage
embedded layers of texture and color, this months Canvas Create
workshop offers a lesson in building a mixed-media dimensional collage. learn how to build in neutral layers of acrylic paints in defining the textures of the tree, expose and highlight shadows using oil pastels as well as using values of color to create a more cohesive 3-dimensional design.
no drawing or painting skills needed.
after purchasing your work...
March 14, 2013
inspiration wednesday + video
yesterday was crazy! i wasnt feeling inspired...wanted to ditch inspiration wednesday altogether, but got myself together and went for it. it was later than usual for me and i knew i would be posting later.
THEN...i finished recording at about 2PM, removed the card from the video camera, plugged it into my reader as i always do and a message popped up in imovie, "you have 1.6GB of memory remaining on your hard disk you may need 36GB to download all your files"
WTF?
no joke, filled the com...
March 12, 2013
help me reach my first milestone...
the goal: 50,000 facebook fans
i am almost at the first milestone of attaining my goal: 50,000 facebook fans
when i reach 30,000 and then on every additional 10,000 fan milestone achieved, i will be doing a FREE online video workshop as a thank you for your support and helping me achieve my 2013 goal of reaching 50,000 facebook fans
anticipating the first 30,000 fan milestone just on the horizon, i want to know what you would like the first FREE workshop to be...
here's what you have to do....
March 11, 2013
collage monday
i struggled with this weeks pages...just didnt go the way i imagined and then i finally resolved myself to letting them go the way they go...needed to just let the process take me the way it did
there are lots of embedded layers in here including lots of jenni bowlin stickers that make up the starts and circle textures underneath.
this weeks message, "be brave every chance you get". my reminder not to give up!
{supplies: A4 moleskine, golden paints, assorted stickers}
March 8, 2013
finally, ART in my home...
about 2 months ago (right after the holidays) bill and i decided that after 12 years of BEIGE walls it was time for a clean new change. Up until this point i never had any of my art hung in our home...i think the beige walls in contrast to my bold use of color really clashed. so we painted the walls in 75% of the house grey. my house is a very open floor plan and if you paint one wall you gotta paint them all. (this may be why it took 12 years to change the color, lol).
NOW there is ART on th...
March 7, 2013
meet the ARTISTS...
from calcutta, INDIA find out more about Mou on her blog
from naples, ITALY find out more about Lory on her blog
from ontario, CANADA find out more about karen on her website
from montpellier, FRANCE find out more about karen on her blog
and her french magazine entreARTistes
well i guess you know where to find me, lol! 
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