Cat butt

I'm trying to draw here young lady!

printing

I purchased a small table-top print press, and have been experimenting with that for the past week, along with other printing techniques.

 Acetate printing technique with layers of other carved stamps on top of watercolor.

                                                                 The original sketch

 And a gouache/pencil eye pattern drawing.

Some experimental printing

Trying out different printing techniques to create some valentine cards. Basic block printing and acetate printing

gold leaf heart with vintage key

busy making some jewelry for Valentines day. This one is done except for the chain, I need to buy some more brass chain. When its done it'll be up on the ol' etsy shop

Drips

Watercoloring in progress

Ink brush/watercolor sketch

Trying to pull myself out of this current art funk- playing around with ink sketches and watercolor. In progress. Also to save time I have been taking all these photos with my phone.

Dramatic changes

Looking very different as the white spaces go black

Mixed media in progress

Whoops

So my Thing a Day challenge failed miserably. I unfortunately got sick in the middle of doing it, and was in no way able to make things, nor would I want to give out gifts that were covered in evil germs.

I am not phased by my failure and will re-attempt this another month, hopefully with better results. Until then you'll just have to settle for some plain ol artwork and crafty thing posts.

People who entered the contest have been contacted via email. If for some reason I didn't email you and you did enter the contest, please contact me again, as your entry must somehow have gotten lost.

A Thing a Day Giveaway Day 13

 

Welt felted fiber bracelet! Beautiful fall colors. Wrapped in copper wire with copper lobster claps. I like this bracelet a lot. I think you should have it.

 HELLO! I have ambitiously decided to make a thing a day for the month of September! AND THEN I AM GIVING ALL OF THAT SWEET STUFF AWAY! Jewelry, art, assorted crafts, and more!

The rules are as follows:

*To enter you have to share/repost something from my various sites. My blog, twitter, tumblr, etsy shop, Flickr. You can share this sweepstakes, another post I've made, a tweet, etc.

 *You can enter AS MANY TIMES AS YOU LIKE EVERY DAY.  Or you can just enter once if you don't feel like doing all of that. The contest ends on October 5th. That means you can enter on any giveaway on any day in september until october 5th. I will notify the winners by mid-october by emailing them.

*In each day you have to share a different post. For example, you can't just tweet a hundred times about one post (no one likes spam!) You can however post the same thing through different sites. If you wanted to share todays giveaway, you could tweet about it, facebook it, tumblr it etc and those would all count as viable entries. You could also tweet about other posts in my blog, items in my etsy shop etc through various social media and those would be viable entries.

Like: You could post about todays giveaway on facebook. Then you could also post about another blog post on facebook. And you could post stuff from my etsy. I Hope this makes sense.

*Then just let me know where you've posted! You can leave a comment here on the blog that links to where you have shared, or you can email me at MARIESSAD@GMAIL.COM. Make sure to leave an email address where I can reach you to let you know if you've won!

If you have any questions (this may be a little confusing) comment or email me and I will get back to you about it.

THANKS AND GOOD LUCK!!!!!!

EASY WAY TO ENTER: Simply copy and paste this onto your blog or other social media site (then tell me about it.): "This craft blog is giving away a beautiful handmade thing every day for the month of September! Go to www.mariessad.blogspot.com to enter!"