one other one

I actually made another card for a friend before I made the card for my mother. My friend turned 50 so I wanted to paint something with a five and a zero.

It was a quick card and it is cute. On the back I wrote: Welcome to your 50s! plus a few other things about growing together yet separately.

She is big into gardening so that's why the new plant with roots. It somewhat like when someone turns 50. Roots are fairly established and the person is still growing. 

something new

 A few weeks ago I was wondering what type of card I would make for my mother for her birthday. Last year I painted her a daffodil and she loved it. Well this year I wanted to do something different than a painting.

At Easter, I bought my standard (so it seems) yellow 💛 and purple 💜 tulips. Costco had a decent sized bunch so I bought a bunch for myself and another bunch in pink 💕 for my friend I was seeing for Easter dinner. 

As many may know, I like dried flowers a lot and like drawing them. This year, I didn't do that; I didn't even make paintings of the tulips this year, I simply enjoyed them. When they were beyond their prime, I thought I'd pluck their petals off and dry them and that's when I thought of what I would make for my mother's birthday card. 

I took the petals, flattened them while allowing them to dry, and made new "flowers" out of the petals. I really like how it turned out! I need to sort out the background a bit more; the leaves are okay; I feel they could be better. She loved the card! She was showing it to her friends on her birthday. And the card even arrived to her on her birthday; perfect!

Since I had a lot of flowers, I have a lot of petals. A friend of mine hasn't been feel well these past few weeks so I thought to make her a get well card in the same fashion. I realized as I was typing this, that I didn't sign my work (I didn't sign her card). Weird!

Either way, this is the other card I did. It also doubled as a thank you card since she's been helping me with trading.

 I took a side shot of this one to show the 3D portion of the petals. I like this one too. As I was returning from the mailbox, I said to myself that I really enjoy multimedia. I have thought of other ways to do things like this and I think it's something to explore. 💛

Thanks for reading. 

eve

Here it is: The eve of my birthday once again. 

What have I done this past year? I feel like it's quite a blur in many ways and at the same time it hasn't been. I did do more hiking than I have done in recent years so I was taking more photographs instead of drawing and painting. Some really lovely hikes shown below. 

Galetea Lakes

                                        

Frozen Lake

I have done a few artistic things prior to now and I have not posted any of them. I made a few holiday cards back in December. I made snowmen primarily, as well as candy canes and jiggle bells. All around, they turned out well. Below are some of the ones I made. The snowmen evolved from the ones I made in 2019 (which were similar to the one that is top centre).  I like them both and both were easy to paint yet I like the new ones because they are looser.

What will my 2021 year bring me? Who knows! I look forward to finding out.