My teabag art for today

My teabag art for today.  This was an unused teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with black ink pen and prisma watercolor pencils

My teabag art for today is another mixed media piece.

My teabag art for today is another mixed media piece.  This was a used teabag and I have quite a bit of trouble getting these Nerada teabags apart.  The seams are sealed and I usually tear them so badly I cannot use them but this one just ended up with a hole on the side so I glued the tag to the back behind the hole.  This was painted with watercolor, gouache and prisma watercolor pencils.  Details added with black ink pen and posca pens.  I added a ribbon bow.

My teabag art for today

My teabag art for today.  This was a used teabag primed with clear gesso and painted with watercolor and gouache.  Details added with black ink pen, prisma watercolor pencils, posca pens.

My teabag art for today.

My teabag art for today is a mother, son and his dog playing with a ball.  This was a used teabag primed with white gesso and painted with watercolor.  Details added with Prisma watercolor pencils and black ink pen.

My teabag art for today is an Angel

My teabag art for today.  This was an unused teabag left unprimed.  The background was done with my gel press plate and some stencils and acrylic paint.  Then the figure was painted with acrylics and I applied some stars that were punched out of glitter paper.

My teabag art for today is another Abstract

My teabag art for today is another abstract.  This was painted on a used teabag with Acrylic paints and then silver leaf was added.  I also used a Stabilo All pencil for the black outlines.  Liquitex irredescent medium was added to the circles.

My teabag art for today is a whimsical girl

My teabag art for today.  This was a used teabag primed with white gesso.  She was painted with watercolor and gouache and details added with posca pens, white gel pen and black permanent ink pen.

Just finished another Watercolor painting of the Cape Smoky Lighthouse North of Sydney, Australia

Another pen and ink watercolor painting completed.  This is of the Cape Smoky Lighthouse North of Sydney Australia.  My paintings are for sale on my facebook page.  For pricing and shipping information please go to my facebook page Dkjartoriginals .

My teabag art for the day is the Ponte Vecchio in Florence Italy

My teabag art for the day:  The Ponte Vecchio is a medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common.  

Boy what shops it has!  There is so much jewelry on display it makes your head spin.  I love this place!  This was painted on a used teabag with a gessoed background and painted with gouache - a black permanent ink pen was used for the details.

A new watercolor just completed of a pair of Ladybugs titled "Lady Luck Too"

Have you ever had one of those days when you see something or you go somewhere and the inspiration hits you to paint something?  Well, that's what happened to me today.  This is being done for the Doodlewash April 2018 challenge - paint something you loved as a kid.

I happened to be in the garden at our house and I had a ladybug land on  my arm.  I love ladybugs.  The are so brilliantly colored and those distinctive black spots so perfectly shaped on their backs always amazes me.  

I was told as a child that if one lands on you, you should hold perfectly still, make a wish and then let it fly off and your wish will come true.  LOL, well I am not sure that is true but I still get great pleasure out of them landing on me.

So, long story short, I decided to paint a ladybug (or two) in watercolor.

I have to be honest though, this painting started out as a 5X7 and I hated the bottom two inches of it so much I cut it off to make it a 5X5.  I show it as an example in a 9X9 frame with a mat.  I'm particularly happy with the leaves on this.  I wanted the blue background to be more opaque so I painted it with white gouache and then dropped in indigo and green and let them mix on the painting.  I love the effect.