With Love From Mary

Art Prints, Blank Cards, Scripture Art

[marybraz]

Soft colors and lavender are soothing just as kind words are soothing and like honey to the soul; bringing comfort to the bones. This design would work well for a Christmas card or for a New Years card. http://etsy.me/2eUJsZ6

[marybraz]

This was a lot to fun to paint. I’m hoping it will work for a Christmas design.

[marybraz]

Painting a gardenia in watercolor is hard. It’s been said by watercolor artists who know and I agree whole hardheartedly. This is my third attempt since I’ve begun this watercolor journey and I am finally pleased with a gardenia painting. I used a cutting from our own front entrance so I had lots of fragrant models to choose from. I’m delighted I can offer this design to my Etsy shop for sale.

[marybraz]

There’s so much going on in this photo and I want to share. I’m enjoying taking time to lay vellum over the pencil drawing before I start the painting. That’s a pen and ink trip in itself. But I’m really excited to be making my own sketch book. I have requirements! I don’t want to put it together until AFTER I’ve painted. Then I’ll stitch it up myself. That way I don’t have to tear it apart if I decide I want to scan something. Plus the size is critical. It has to fit onto my scanner. I have taken photos of my paintings instead of scanning, but scanning is so much better. It’s all time consuming but I don’t care! I’m learning so much. Most of all I enjoy using pen and ink on Arches paper! HAVE A GREAT WEEK EVERYONE!

[marybraz]

I love Lobelia. It just makes me happy. It emerges every year in the spring on it's own after a long, wet, dreary winter; greeting us with fresh tender sprouts that emass into blooms of bright blue. What's not to like? I've been carrying around a wish to do a botanical type painting of lobelia for about a month now and I am excited to offer it on my Etsy site in the frameable size of 4X6 inches! Most of all, I'm excited about the process I've discovered of reproducing my original paintings into Giclee form and onto the very same Arches, high grade watercolor paper I used to paint the original painting. The edges have been hand deckled, by me. Arches is a professional grade paper created with the art of watercolor painting in mind. Their paper is perfect for watercolors because it doesn’t absorb water very quickly. We can blend colors without worrying about it drying too quickly. The cold-pressed paper, meaning not hot-pressed, is the most versatile and popular texture. It has a semi-rough surface.