Paint Party Friday!

Paint Party Friday & Sneak Peek Friday is here again!

I only got to paint once so far this week and

went a little crazy with dots!

But I also got to spend time painting

with two fabulous sisters and

 working  a bit more on my happy garden painting.

I'll post about the sisters another time but share

my happy garden today.

I don't think I've shown the textural elements of this 

painting yet… but it really shows up with the bright colors

I just added.

The letters and numbers are made with molding paste

and one of my favorite stencils.  I just put the 

stencil down on the canvas, used a putty knife to

layer a coat of molding paste over the stencil

and then lifted off the stencil…

leaving the raised images!

They run along the top of the painting above the flowers.

There is also a fleur de lis on the upper right hand corner made the

same way.

I like the progress of this happy garden so far and am looking 

forward to seeing how it turns out!

Thanks for visiting and reading about my art…

happy painting everyone and

have a fabulous weekend!

xoxo