48 Weeks with Donna Downey - Week 12

It's the middle of April and I just finished the last lesson of the first quarter and it feels great to have finished the first 12 lessons without giving up even if I am running a little behind. Here's Donna's:

I wasn't feeling the flowers - just not my style and last week's was flowers, too so I decided to go in a different direction using the same techniques.

I used a Jane Davenport profile stencil and a Stencil1 bird stencil and I'm pretty happy with it although it ended up more orange than the other colors although some of that is from  my poor photography skills. There's more variegation in the colors ranging from light yellow to dark purple. When the weather gets nicer, I'm going to try taking the photos outside as I think they will look much better in natural light.

48 Weeks with Donna Downey - Week 11

I love the colors in this week's lesson. Here's Donna's:

The background is paintable wallpaper along with some book pages and a couple of photos. Here's mine:

The photo is a little out of focus but I don't feel like retaking it since I've already started on the Week 12 lesson. I still have problems with the flowers and stems but the process is getting easier. I don't love the way my lettering turned out but again, it's all part of the process and figuring out how all these products work and gaining confidence.

48 Weeks with Donna Downey - Week 10

I got stalled for about a month on this one, mainly because I got really sick with an upper respiratory infection and had absolutely no energy to work on it. Here's Donna's:

She does amazing things dripping paints - when I do it, it often becomes a real mess. Part of it is because she uses a lot of fluid acrylic paints and I have more heavy body acrylics so they just don't drip much. I can't justify replacing all of my paints so just make do the best I can. Here's mine:

I thought about working on it further but at this point I am so ready to move on...especially since I'm about 2 weeks behind. Not that it's a big deal as there's no expiration date on the class. I just want to get to some more lessons and that's what I'm going to do.