My Little Bliss List (Remembering the things that made me happy this week, because it’s so easy to forget them.) Shine Brightly That’s the name of this painting… The night sky out here is amazing. It’s filled with stars. I love looking up at them. It’s awe inspiring. This city mouse turned country mouse will […]
Two Girls Two Girls is the result of this week’s Life Book 2016 lesson with Jane Davenport and Tamara Laporte. It really spoke to me because I am so comfortable with the mix or ‘jam’ as they called it of their two styles. We were asked to use limited supplies of our choice. I chose pencil, […]
From My Word Bowl – Week 4 This week, the words from my word bowl worked very well together and I was instantly inspired to paint a thoughtful, gentle face. Instead of reaching for a blank canvas or piece of paper, I instead looked through my “terrible” art pile. This is a pile of […]
I thought I’d let you know that, yes, I am still painting during all these wonderful artist interviews. I hope you are enjoying the features, I know I am. I painted this pretty girl last night. I think her hair was inspired by the howling winds outside my window. They are still howling this morning! […]
For my second face, I finally did the first week’s lesson of Life Book 2015, Beacon of Light. Of course it took on a life of it’s own and although influenced by Tam’s beautiful art, looks so different from the painting in the lesson. I’ll probably end up doing another or others. Believe in Yourself […]
When I realized that the 29 Faces Challenge February 2015 was already underway, I had to stop and evaluate where time had gone and what the heck I’d been doing that made me go through the whole month of January without getting paint on my hands every day. (I have done art, but it’s been […]
I kept it simple today, with this postcard sized mixed media, watercolor, acrylic and ink portrait. Wonder by Tori Beveridge I stamped over the first coat, then used a brayer to cover the whole thing with white acrylic, then I went back in and repainted. The word, wonder, was then added and I detailed with […]
So far, so good! I’m ten for ten! I am, however, a little behind in my 29 Faces, so today’s painting, I knew had to be a face. I used another advertising magnet as my canvas. As before, I applied a layer of gesso first and then got out my acrylics and painted this cute […]
Another mixed media piece. It’s 9 x 12, and started with lots of collage, which I then painted over using watercolor, acrylic, FC Gel Sticks and ink. Bubble Dreamer Photo of Bubble Dreamer by Tori Beveridge Thirty Paintings in 30 Days – Day 9
After yesterday’s fumblings in watercolor, I went back into my comfort zone today with a mixed media piece. Found Heart by Tori Beveridge It started with doodling and finished with acrylic, watercolor pencils, Faber Castel Gel Sticks, rub ons, stamps and ink on 4×6 watercolor paper. Thirty Paintings in 30 Days – Day 8
Imagine Possibility Mixed Media using watercolor, watercolor pencils, acrylic and ink on 4×6 140 lb cold press watercolor paper. (the photograph doesn’t do it justice.. it’s so much prettier with so many more layers of color and shading than you can see here) Thirty Paintings in 30 Days – Day 6
For this painting I decided to try simply putting some watercolors on to the paper and see what I saw in the dried paint, similar to the journal pages I showed you here: What The Paint Splatters Revealed To start, I wet the paper and added blue and a peachy red that I mixed. I […]