Marika Makes

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Just a water color or two

After all the weirdness of the past few MSED bird posts I decided to do something that I wanted to do. This first one is an attempt at capturing the beautiful peonies that I inherited from my sister. (I really want to take a class on technique.)

This one is a "Tangle Pattern" doodle. The foreground pattern is called Oke and the background is called Hybrid. If you would like to learn how to draw these patterns and many more check this link out.
http://tanglepatterns.com/

I use and alter a lot of the patterns on this site when I draw.

MSED: Bird a Day #19- Floating Bird

Today's bird (or I should say last night's bird) was a collaboration between my daughter and I. She makes these really cool containers for plants and other things with old pop cans and when I told her about the challenge she offered me a can in progress and said, "Maybe you could do something with this".
So here's our floating creation.

Isn't the girl lovely? *sigh*

It's a swan, I think. It's made from a LaCroix can; a really bad tasting carbonated coconut drink.

With a flame!

At dusk.

I had so much fun playing with my daughter that I didn't mind getting all those mosquito bites. (Including one on my lower lip; how does that happen?).

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

MSED: Bird a Day #18- Truck Trash Hummingbird

My son's truck looks like a 4 year old has been living in it for months. The floor is covered in juice boxes and gummy candy wrappers.

Boy, if you are reading this, clean out your truck and lay off the juice and candy. You'll rot your teeth out. Love Mom. xo

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

MSED: Bird a Day #17 - Rubber Glove Cockatiel?

I can't even say what the goal of this was supposed to be. I am almost too embarrassed to post it, but it is more shameful not to have a bird to post at all! Fail!