Artist Renee Mak

Happy Valentine's Day art lovers!  Hope you enjoy this digital art...  created from one of my own original painted backgrounds, photographed papers and flowers,  and a vintage photo of my mom.   Feel free to share with your  own special Valentine or  on social media.  Be sure and check out more fabulous art today... I'm linking up to Paint Party Friday ... so enjoy!  xoxo Commission requests warmly welcomed! Copyright protected... artist Renee Mak & Fuss It Up! Designs

As an artist, I dream of someday having  an agent represent my work internationally.  So when I heard of a design contest sponsored  by one of the industries top agents, Lilla Rogers... I just had to give it a try! Through the process, I created a dream-like playground filled with magical chalk drawings and hopscotch! It's called, Hopscotch Memories. I've always loved good design and mixing traditional elements right along side of whimsical styles. Bright colors and textures are also a must  for anything I create.  Below is an original pattern created in my studio from acrylic paint and a hand made foam stamp. This became my color palette! To get started, I created "inspiration boards" in photoshop filled with fun, whimsical elements I might want  to use in my journal cover design. I also played with patterns and colors... putting things together that I normally wouldn't think of... this really gets the cre...

What's on your desktop today? Because Sunday is one of my most favorite days I took some time to play on my doodle pad with a photo of some of my favorite  people! {the center one is the original shot} Not quite sure how it will come out but this is my work in progress... hope you like it! Have a super day! P.s... To enter to win an 8" x 10" heart print, leave a snapshot or description of what's on your desktop in a comment below. Doesn't matter what it is, just keep it nice... it's Sunday, after all!   Three winners will be chosen!!! xoxo

Gotta love Psalm 23... it always seems to fit! Happy Sunday. xoxo *original design by Renee Mak copyright 2013

Have a wonderful last day of July 2012!

Digital art is so interesting to me lately... and so I've been learning a few simple techniques  and creating simple designs! All feature my original artwork and photos  I've taken with my camera... the vintage photos  are my family. Some, like the one above, will be used for  greeting cards. Others have doodles I created on my Bamboo drawing pad. This scripture above is Psalm 23... I had lots of fun taking pictures of wild flowers and  then using them! So... what do you think?  Have you experimented  with your images and created original digital art? Let me know!  And in the mean time... happy painting!!! xoxo

Renee Mak Original copyright 2012 There are days when simply knowing "his faithful love endures forever" is enough!  Today is one of  those days. xoxo