Cedar Chest after, End Tables before, and my new Saturn

Erie County Fair Entries 2014

In the Photography dept, category is Snow, Frost, and Ice:

In the Photography dept the category Digitally Altered:

In the Painting dept, Still Life section: 

And in the Landscape section of paintings:

july 4th hollowfest

Local band playing solo of Whitesnake's Here I Go Again. Loved it. Need to see more live music.

Shabby Chic Kitchen Table and Chairs

This is my first up-cycled project. Furniture from thrift stores and Annie Sloan Chalk Paints-Old White and Coco. Complete replacement of chair cushions. French/beachy feel. All distressed except for the table top, which has polyacrylic on it for protection. Took 2 months for me to do, not sure on the hours, but each chair maybe took about 8 hrs and the table took maybe 20 hrs. Just guessing since I just did it leisurely. :D

Chairs Before:

Chairs During:

Chairs After:

Table Before:

Table During:

Table After:

FINAL:

New creations

Redoing furniture with DIY chalk paint

Before:

After:

Peppermint Pattie Painting

Fourth in my candy paintings. One of my favorite candies--cool, dark, and low calories and fat too! One square foot, acrylic paint...exhibiting in my living room.

IDK why, but this site is automatically turning up the contrast on this photo, so it's not accurate. Very frustrating because it is making the background look like a mess when it's really smoother and darker in real life...

Tootsie Roll

Another candy painting. I'm learning how much I love the painting part and not the drawing part of art. I am doubtful of my representing the light and shadows accurately. But I just bought a book on Amazon that should help (Color and Light by John Gurney). Until then, this will have to do. But I do like it. I plan to do at least one more candy and hang them all together. So far there's a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, a Snickers, and this Tootsie Roll. Next I will do either a Peppermint Patty or a KitKat.

Some of the steps in making this painting: