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| Buddy by Marla L.Niederer |
My son adopted two
kitties a little over six months ago.
They are both absolutely adorable and my son Jason sends me pictures of
them and their antics frequently. So I
decided to paint one of them, named Buddy, from a picture that Jason sent. The pictures make me smile and I hope the
painting I did brings a smile to your face too.
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| Graphite sketch by Marla L. Niederer |
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| First layer of watercolors by Marla L. Niederer |
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| Second layer of watercolors by Marla L. Niederer |
Since I am still
having difficulties with my right arm I painted this predominantly with my left
hand. I started out with just a graphite
pencil. I then added several layers of
watercolors. I kept adding layers until
it felt done to me. I am working on
learning when to let a painting be and stop before overworking it.
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| More layers of watercolors by Marla L. Niederer |
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| Even more watercolor layers by Marla L. Niederer |
Here is the completed painting of Buddy.
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| Buddy by Marla L. Niederer |
I thought I would
also share with you what else I have been working on the past week. My husband gifted me with a Cricut Maker
machine about a week ago. If you are not
familiar with the machine, it cuts, scores, embosses, foils, a variety of
materials such as paper, kraft board, cardstock, matt board, vinyl, fabric, chipboard, leather,
very thin wood, and foam. It really is
quite an amazing machine. Getting it to do all of those amazing things is quite
a learning curve for me though. To use
the machine you need to become familiar with its software, learn how to
download and upload svg files, amongst other things. I didn’t even know what a svg file was before
last week! Luckily there are all kinds of tutorials out there and plenty of
free svg projects to try out while learning.
I came across Jennifer Maker on YouTube and she is such an excellent
teacher. I watched several of her beginner tutorials on using the machine and
was able to set up the machine and make my first cut with it the first day I
had it. She shares a large amount of
projects for the machine for free also.
I downloaded her Layered 3D Christmas ornament for my first Cricut
project on day two. On day three I decided
I was going to create my own design. I
learned that it is going to take more than a week to learn how to create my own
designs using the Cricut Maker Lol!
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| First cut with my Cricut Maker machine |
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| Project designed by Jennifer Maker created on my Cricut Maker machine |
So I plan to
continue to learn how to create with it and play with its software for
now. Hope you are also enjoying a
creative week and I’ll leave you with a picture of my view from my studio from
this week.
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| Outside my studio window |
You can find out
about my self-study classes by clicking on the picture below.
I will be teaching
The Goddess online starting May 11th on AforArtistic. You can find out more by clicking on the
picture below.
You can find out
about the Little Lion Art doll I have for sale by clicking on the picture
below.
You can find out
about all the free tutorials I offer by clicking on the picture below.
If you want to find
out more about me click on my picture below.
Until next time…….
warm hugs,
Marla
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