Paint Your Own Art and PPF

Today is Paint Party Friday. You will find the link to your right, on my sidebar.
I am loving doing these children's illustrations on 52 Weeks Illustration Challenge. Some of my earliest memories as a child are of me sitting at the kitchen table drawing with a humble lead pencil, and an exercise book or a piece of butchers paper from mum's shopping, that I would de-crinkle , flatten out, and use.

This weeks theme or prompt word  was "growth".
I immediately thought about a pregnant belly, having grown 6 myself, it is one of my favourite times of life. I loved being pregnant. Here is a new mum, in thought, wondering how her life will change. I went away from my usual circle, but think I maybe should have done it still. Oh well. You live and learn.

I also thought it would be nice to show you how to make your very own piece that you can frame and hang up in your house.

I copied a generic peace sign from the internet. Then I held it up to the light, put the paper I was painting on in front and roughly drew where I needed to paint.

 I used water colours to draw leaves and flowers and filling in between. 

I then sticky taped the outline to the painting and using a craft knife, cut out around the shape. 

And there you have it.
A simple little thing to frame. I will be on the search to find a frame just for this. I am quite happy with it.

I thought I better start to live up to the name of my blog and create the peace sign. 




And now, some of my favourite paintings from the past little bit. I did a course at Willowing, which many of these came from, and which I thoroughly enjoyed, it was a Fairy Tale course, thus all the Fairy Tale characters.

                                                                      My own

Tamara's lesson from Willowing

           A lesson from the Willowing course

A spin off from the lesson from willowing.

My own design, this is actually Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter.

                                                Red Riding Hood, lesson from Willowing course.

                                                 Goldilocks and the three bears, my own design.

                                             A little piece I did...

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Let me know if you give my little peace sign a go.
And, I am definitely looking forward to seeing everyone elses paintings for PAINT PARTY FRIDAY.

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Until next time
Lots of it
Mandy
xxx