Fun gardening
331 creative works found
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Child professes innosence while sitting in the mess he’s created.
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sweet an colourful….we live in a different-coloured world :)
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Sales of this Design? – 12 sales so far :) / / One Spring Day Ladies Lace Up Keds Shoe at Zazzle / One Spring Day Childrens Slip On Keds Shoe at Zazzle / Spring Posy TShirt / Spring Fairy TShirt ‘Friends Series’ card by Karin Taylor One Spring Day is a mixed media production (ink, pastel, charcoal, acrylic) on canvas textured paper. I have also used a variety of found objects, including lace and ribbons…and an especially beautiful gold paint for the wings which were underpainted first to created texture. On of my favourite paintings, my heart and soul went into this piece…two sweet little girls in darling dresses hanging out in the garden together….what could be nicer.
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Pen and Ink on Bristol. This image is copyright © of WWW.OPTIKMASS.COM
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a wee bit of fun here … having a laugh :-)
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Hearing a trilling sound coming from my garden I went to explore with my camera in hand. Expecting to see a cricket or frog responsible for the unique sound I was delighted to find it was in fact pixie laughter as this delightful character swung on a rope through my garden.
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/ One Spring Day Ladies Lace Up Keds Shoe at Zazzle / One Spring Day Childrens Slip On Keds Shoe at Zazzle / One Spring Day Card / Spring Posy TShirt / Spring Fairy ‘Friends Series’ Spring Friends by Karin Taylor Spring Friends comes from a detail of One Spring Day which is a mixed media production (ink, pastel, charcoal, acrylic) on canvas textured paper. I have also used a variety of found objects, including lace and ribbons…and an especially beautiful gold paint for the wings which were underpainted first to created texture. On of my favourite paintings, my heart and soul went into this piece…two sweet little girls in darling dresses hanging out in the garden together….what could be nicer.
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acrylic on canvas
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smiley bouncy ball. just thought it looked good
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Wave Hill, Riverdale, Bronx, now a magical New York City Botanical Garden park. From an inspiring, memorable walk all over, and then back to Manhattan … on my daughter Ajida Morgan’s birthday, May 2, 2004. March 2009: On display in THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING free art exhibition & performance event, at Made With Love Organics bakery/café, 530 Jersey Avenue, Jersey City, NJ near Grove PATH subway station – OPENS 9a-10p, Friday, March 6 !! / - part of the JCFRIDAYS day of free art & cultural events in Jersey City, on the first Friday of every quarter … 6 March 2009, 5 June, 4 September, 4 December 2009 … / FREE and Open to the Public, BYOB, barrier free, family-friendly, 9a-12:30p OPEN MIC; 1-2p Dave Lambert, The Fuzzy Lemons ; 3-7p CHILDRENS EVENTS Jennifer Mitchell face painting, The Balloonatic fun & more; 7:30p David W Jacobsen song ; 8-10p Brendan Kibbee Jazz ... Spread the word! Copyright© Jim Legge info@JimLegge.com
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1st Challenge Win - I Can't Believe It!! and Two New Features - Thank You!
by Glenna WalkerWhile going through bubblemail, I’ve just learned I won the “Color Select Fun challenge in That’s Entertainment! (Fun & Recreation Photos…
While going through bubblemail, I’ve just learned I won the Color Select Fun challenge in That’s Entertainment! (Fun & Recreation Photos) group Challenge Win Features Sunday Night Sunset in the group Cards for Everyday Garden Song in the group Weekly Theme Challenges Thank you to all those who voted for my winning entry in the challenge and also to the wonderful hosts of these amazing groups for featuring my work! Glenna
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120×200 cm canvas. It took me weeks to finish this work , glad now it is out for the first time to be seen on line. Details
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Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844 This is a collage of all our tulips that have bloomed in the past few days ~ hope you enjoy tiptoeing through them with terri … FLOWERS
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Irish Artist, Patrick J. Murphy, was born, lives and creates in Belfast and has painted and exhibited for over 15 years. He studied Art and Art History at Belfast Institute of Higher Education and has a B.A. honours degree from Liverpool John Moores University, England. / His work has appeared in the U.S. TV shows “DIRTY SEXY MONEY”, “TWINS”, and “WITHOUT A TRACE”. Work also appears in the movie “MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS”. Artwork provided for the books: “REAL GUNS”, published,Interactive Press,Australia,2007 (available from www.ipoz.biz) and, “YOU’RE MY WOMAN BECAUSE….” published,Redrock Press, New York,2008 (available www.redrockpress.com) Current exhibitions at the ARTPIC GALLERY, HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A, the SQUARE DEAL GALLERY, PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A. Previous exhibitions include the: AT6 Gallery, FRANCE. Agora Gallery, New York, U.S.A. Karen Taylor Art Gallery, London, ENGLAND. Greenlane Gallery, IRELAND. Work also on exhibition at… / www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery / www.fineartamerica.com
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Just having some fun in photoshop!
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Original copyright illustration by fatfatin.
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I took this photo in the Boboli Gardens, which is located in Italy. I like the light that goes into the leafs and the fountain in the background. If you have the time, please comment on it. / I am an amateur and any constructive critique shall be appreciated. Thank you
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On a day out in Valkenburg, a small town in Zuid Limburg, a province in Holland, we saw this witch, smashed bang into a tree. Oh, so sad….. LOL! TOP TEN PLACEMENT in the Fall/Halloween Challenge in the ‘Knick Knacks Group’ 20 October 2009 Camera: Kodak DX6340 ZDC
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Picking pumpkins in a pumpkin patch. Shot with Nikon D5000
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Grace (6) and Reilly (10 months) playing with our puppy, Belle, on a lazy afternoon… tried to follow a watercolour tutorial and have definitely learnt some new things. Had a lot of fun along the way, too. Post processing in Photoshop CS2 Placed first in a challenge in the PhotoManipulators Group – thank you very much!! Featured in Children – the Power of Raw Emotion / —October 2009 -- thank you!
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....is so darn difficult to shoot – she won’t keep still for a SECOND. However, I did my best and here she is. She delights me daily with her antics and her magical character entrances all who come into contact with her. My daughter, Grace (6), dressed in the beautiful bougainvillea that flourishes outside my bedroom window, which continually calls me to take photographs of it. Having said that, how many bougainvillea pics can you possibly take before everybody is bored silly? (and I’ve done quite a few…) So I thought I’d do a different take on bougainvillea, although I’m not great with photoshop. Post processing done in photoshop cs2, also used Topaz Clean and Topaz DeNoise. Featured in Childhood / —October 2009 -- thank you very much!
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The merry-go-round in the Jardin des Tuileries gardens in Paris.
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Fall Festivites - Volume .1 Fun With Clay
by Carrie GlennWell, It’s that time of year ag…
Well, It’s that time of year again…it’s time to say goodbye to Fall and officially welcome in Winter (here in the United States at least.) I hope this Fall was full of many rich and wonderful creative endeavors for you. This Fall I took a break from some of the traditional painting I do and got my hands dirty! I held a small clay workshop and I had a blast creating clay garden art. This is a great project to do alone or with a group of friends that like getting their hands into things and that love decorating gardens. (Make sure if you are doing this with children they are well supervised) How To Make You’re Very Own “Leaf Face” Clay Garden Art What you will need: A nice colorful Fall leaf for inspiration 1 box of Laguna Ovencraft Clay Some Clay Tools (Household items do just fine, i.e. toothpicks, nails, X-ACTO knife, / kitchen knives…get creative, there are lots of things that work great as clay tools) A clean surface to work on, like a wooden board, or newspapers on a table Acrylic paint and a few paintbrushes A good sealant, like DecoArt’s “Triple Thick Brilliant Brush-On Gloss Glaze” A garden stake, shepherds hook rod or get creative and use a real stick (you will use this to attach your garden art to) A small dish of water A oven and a few days ☺ The best part about this project is that you get to start by taking a nature walk to look for good Fall leaves! If you don’t have any trees in your neighborhood, take a little Fall drive….or take a trip to your local park. I’ve also found grocery store parking lots seam to have a plethora of leafy material, at least where I live. (What you have no leaves at all? You live in a desert wasteland or a frozen tundra?? Okay…just use the image of mine as a reference or google one ;) (Are you incredibly visual? Hate reading text? Click Here to bypass all of that and watch a movie instead) Otherwise….uuhumm…shall we proceed? Once you’ve snagged your beautiful inspiration, get all of your supplies out and get into that clay! Start by cutting the amount of clay that you will need to shape into your leaf, about the size of a large cube of butter or so. Use your hands to shape the clay roughly into the shape of the leaf you are trying to re-create. Make sure the amount of clay you have is large enough to fit your actual leaf onto it. Now take your leaf and press it onto your clay, use your fingertips to press the veins on the leaf onto your clay, so that it will make an impression of the leaf on your clay. Take an X-ACTO knife or sharp kitchen knife and cut out the edges of your leaf on your clay. Use the edges of your leaf to guide you as you cut out your shape or you can just eyeball it. Just get the general shape of your leaf cut out, you can define the edges of it later. After you get your shape cut out, take a toothpick or a nail and carve and define the veins of your leaf into your clay. Take another small amount of clay and form it into an oval shaped ball, rolling it in your hands. It should be about one inch or so in diameter. Start shaping your leaf face, using your fingers to create indents for the eyes, nose and mouth area. Use a clay tool, like a nail or toothpick to dig out the eye sockets and define the nose area. Take two more small pieces of clay and shape them into two small balls for the cheeks. If you need to, wet the area with water with your fingers to smooth and attach the cheeks; then blend them into the face. Make two small spheres and a small snake like shape out of your clay and attach them to the face of your leaf head to create the nose. Use one small sphere on either side of the snake like shape as nostrils and the snake shape will become the bridge of the nose. Use your fingers or a clay tool to attach the nose to the face. A toothpick works great; using a rolling motion. Also a small amount of water works really well to adhere the clay to itself and a toothpick is perfect to create nostril holes in your leaf heads nose. Use and X-ACTO knife or a kitchen knife to make definition on your leaf face. Cut a slit for the mouth, lines for wrinkles and eyebrows. Cut an almond shape in your clay face for each eye socket; hollowing out the area for a clay eyeball. Create two small spheres for each eyeball, and use your fingers or a toothpick to insert them into the almond shape cavities you created in your leaf head for the eye sockets. Use a clay tool to make a hole in the middle of each eyeball. This gives the illusion of a pupil once it is finished and painted black. Finish your clay face by defining it with your tools, shape the eyebrows, make crows-feet face wrinkles and define the lips. Shape and work on the face until you are happy with it. Remember there is no right or wrong here, just what you like! Take the clay face in your hands and hold it looking at its profile, cut off any access clay, making the shape of the head a half circle. Score the smooth side of the face, as well as the area you want to attach the head to. Wet the scored area of the clay with your fingers and attach the two pieces of clay together. Once you have attached your face to the leaf, smooth the area around the face with your fingers, until the two pieces become one. Now define the outside edges of your leaf, using an X-ACTO knife or a kitchen knife, as well as the veins of your leaf with a toothpick or a nail along with anything else you want to highlight. / On the back of your leaf, you will want to attach something to hang it up with, like a picture hanger. This is easy, just score the area you want to attach the picture hanger and use a small piece of clay, moistened and laid over the hanger. (You will see an example of this later on, on the finished product.) Finally, carve your initials on the back of your creation along with the date and set it aside in a safe place dry. You will need to let your clay garden art completely dry before baking it. This can take up to several days. Keep your creation in a warm dry place; you will know it is dry when it is no longer cool to the touch. Follow the instructions on your Ovencraft clay and you can’t go wrong! Once your clay creation is completely dry, you are ready to bake your magnificent garden art! / Use a standard kitchen oven (no microwaves). An adult should oversee the entire, one-hour, baking period. Set your oven at 350 F, and follow the instructions and warnings on the OvenCraft carton. (Excessive temperature can generate irritating gas and smoke that should be ventilated from the room immediately.) After following the instructions on the Laguna Ovencraft clay, and allowing your clay creation to completely cool in the oven, it should be a spotted reddish color and hard. You are now ready to paint your clay garden art!!! You can use anything on your Ovencraft clay that you can use on wood, i.e. varnish, lacquer and paint. Okay….now the really exciting part for me…_the painting_! Grab that gorgeous leaf you picked up on your, oh so serene nature walk, and absorb the colors and textures. http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/art/size:large/view:main/4351058-1-26-image.jpg Have a good time painting your leaf, remember there is no right or wrong…just enjoy yourself! I used Liquitex Basics acrylic paint and mixed colors like green, yellow, brown, black and white. Let yourself flow and create the color scheme that draws you the most. Another tip, I used a darker color in the veins to give it some depth, but a lighter color is also really cool looking. Experiment! After you have finished painting your leaf garden art, allow the acrylic paint to completely dry. Once your paint has thoroughly dried, it’s time to seal your garden art! I used DecoArt’s Triple Thick Gloss Glaze, but you can use any type of sealant, from matt to gloss that works with the type of paint you used on your project. (Always use oil based sealants with oils and polymer/water based sealants with acrylic) / If your garden art will be exposed to various types of weather, I would suggest a thick sealant, like the “Triple Thick” gloss. If you use the “Triple Thick” sealant, allow 24 hours time for it to cure and make sure you seal your entire leaf, including the sides and the back of it. !http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/size:large/view:main/4351175-1-30-image.jpg The final step is to attach your leaf face clay garden art to a garden stick or metal Sheppard’s hook. I actually got a small metal rod at a local hardware store, bent it with pliers and used florists wire to attach the clay leaves to the rods. / For an extra special little touch, I wrapped my metal rods with grape vines and secured them with the same green florists wire. The beauty of this project is there are no “right” or “wrongs”. Be creative and use your imagination and perhaps you will invent a whole new way to display and enjoy your very own leaf face clay garden art! “Thank you so much for enjoying this project with me! I hope you have had a wonderful Fall and that you are gracefully entering into this Winter season.” – Carrie Glenn Want More? Well…Okay! / Enjoy this video presentation of “Fall Festivities, Volume .1 Fun With Clay”
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Trying my hand on macro photography and it seems to be a lot of fun even though I’m not sure about it.
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