Red White and Blue Christmas

A new Christmas Card for 2016! This was fun to do.  I painted it earlier with acrylics and the basket had sunflowers so I switched it to Gifts. I guess I will always love Bicycles!
If interested in cards for this year, let me know as soon as possible.

Flower Pedal-er Day 26

Flower Pedal-er

6x6 Oil Painting

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Today, I am just barely making it!  We had birthday lunch for our son and granddaughter, and when they went home, we had to have our Sunday nap!  Anyway, I can see some problems with it, but here is the yellow bike! Now is time to worry about Day 27!
This Month has gone by pretty fast!

Made in the USA

Made in the USA

In January when I went to Tyler to teach, I also visited with my aunt in Avinger. She had several old bikes sitting around, and I love bicycles. This one was down at their cabin sitting by a boat. I took some close ups of different parts of it, and I love the way the light was hitting it.
I used kosher and table salt to make the rust.
I couldn't decide what to put behind it because I knew the boat wouldn't work, so I dug through some papers to find a design that I liked. I just drew in the shapes from the paper, after first putting down a yellow wash. Then I was able to paint a lot of it negatively leaving the yellow showing through. It has several glazes of other colors along with some turquoise and orange splatters.