Artist Renee Mak

Here's to my second week with Paint Party Friday !    This week I've been working on several things all at once! The most fun has been painting the assignment for week four of the free Strathmore Workshop I've been taking... I'm not quite done with it but will walk you through a quick step-by-step lesson of what I have so far...(just in case you still  haven't signed up yourself or don't have time)! The very first step is just doodling on your surface, anything at all!  I wrote about the color BLUE because I knew this piece was going to have a blue background and because I love it so much! Several layers of acrylic paint have been applied using  paint, stamps and stencils... My stencil is a recycled plastic doily and one of my stamps is the back of a Starbucks coffee sleeve! I added white for variation. After the blues dried, I stamped my piece with fluorescent  pink and orange paint using an old med...

Today, as I was working on my photos... trying to get used to Picasa, my daughter called. She's 18... and living in L.A. She's my muse... So to keep working and talking at the same time, I asked her... "what saying goes with the work "Beauty". I think she's so funny and this was the first thing out of her mouth... " Beauty is a rose on a stick ". Haha... I laughed so hard! And she kept them coming! "Beauty is smelling the flowers... even if they're dead." "Beauty is the way chocolate crumbles in your mouth when it's dry." SERIOUSLY funny to me... And so I laughed and created these special images... in celebration of my Muse! I feel a trip to L.A. coming on!