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Day 38 of TaLent
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When painting the heart, I noticed one of the little vignettes had the most wonderful coloring. I've tried to duplicate it, but paint flows differently when you try to cover a larger area! How's this for a new color scheme? A photo posted by Heather Hajek Eddy (@rhymeswithmagic) on Mar 27, 2015 at 9:47pm PDT
Day 37 of TaLent
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Ha ha! I'm now caught up with my back-blogging. This is a real post from today! I'm still loving the watercolors, but it has been brought to my attention that I do a lot of little houses. There's nothing wrong with the little houses - even from the people who brought it up - and I'm good with them, but I think the time has come to give myself a few other things to work on art-wise. I gave my curly book away at Christmas time and have wanted to make a new one for quite a while now. And now is when I finally started one. I think I need to make a tutorial of this! Day 37 of #40daysofTaLent A photo posted by Heather Hajek Eddy (@rhymeswithmagic) on Mar 26, 2015 at 6:00pm PDT
Day 36 of TaLent (because the 40 went out the window in the harsh glare of Catholic Counting)
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The heart that I made earlier this month was at the top of the in-progress pile on the dryer (just go with it). The blue smudge had been transformed into a wash around the entire heart. It still looked weird, so I added a line-vine. Still not enough. Martha Stewart says that more is better, so I decided to put that advice to work with this vine. It's more vine! I didn't see this one coming... Day 36 of more than #40daysofTaLent . A photo posted by Heather Hajek Eddy (@rhymeswithmagic) on Mar 25, 2015 at 10:15pm PDT
Day 35 of 40 Days of TaLent
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I noticed that my numbering of Lent days isn't matching up with when Easter is. Upon mentioning this to my Catholic friend, Liz, she told me that Catholics don't count Sundays in the 40 days. That was news to me. And it's not like they get the time off as a cheat day. So... I will be doing all the days of Lent and it will be 46 days more or less. And we'll pretend we don't notice. Or that Catholics can't count properly. Getting there on day 35 of #40daysofTaLent A photo posted by Heather Hajek Eddy (@rhymeswithmagic) on Mar 24, 2015 at 9:34pm PDT
Day 33 of 40 Days of TaLent
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I love Geninne Zlatkis' art and have coveted (in a good way) her art supplies. I think it's a projection of my envy for her focus and talent, but who has time for psychoanalysis, right? Anyway, I saved up my money and bought a paintbox, just like hers. After all, if I have the same art supplies, I will have some of the same mojo, right? (Who says master's degree Mormon librarians can't be superstitious?) Anyway, I got out all the tubes of paint I've bought and saved and used over the years and sorted them into color groupings and tossed the so-dried-out-that-I-can't-use-them-anymore ones. Then I made a little color chart of all the ones I had left so I could put them in order and choose which ones to put in my new paintbox. It holds 48 half-pans so I figured I wouldn't need more than that. How wrong I was. (Someone is a little promiscuous with her paint-buying.) ANYHOO, I chose my favorite 48 (I will NOT tell how many other colors I had that there wasn'
Day 32 of 40 Days of TaLent
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I'm trying a square layout for a quote. It feels funny not posting a painting, but I only have a little bit of time in the evenings and I get sleepy before too long. Tonight is just a picture of a draft drawing... Un-obvious progress on Day 32 of #40daysofTaLent . A photo posted by Heather Hajek Eddy (@rhymeswithmagic) on Mar 21, 2015 at 10:38pm PDT
Day 28 of 40 Days of TaLent
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Why, yes, I do use my washing machine as a table for my painting. And I take pictures at night. Under a fluorescent light. I need to start scanning them! Trying out a couple new color palettes on Day 28 of #40daysofTaLent A photo posted by Heather Hajek Eddy (@rhymeswithmagic) on Mar 17, 2015 at 10:28pm PDT
Day 25 of 40 Days of TaLent
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I love this scripture and have kicked around ideas for making a set of folded books with the words. It's much easier to create a quote in watercolor! On the table for Day 25 of #40daysofTaLent . My favorite scripture... A photo posted by Heather Hajek Eddy (@rhymeswithmagic) on Mar 14, 2015 at 10:26pm PDT
Day 23 of 40 Days of TaLent
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I used to do calligraphy and quotes years ago. With all the beautiful modern calligraphy/script being done now, I want to try my hand at it again! I've forgotten how much I like doing lettering! Day 23 of #40daysofTaLent A photo posted by Heather Hajek Eddy (@rhymeswithmagic) on Mar 12, 2015 at 10:00pm PDT
Day 21 of 40 Days of TaLent
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Here's a detail of the larger picture of all the little houses: Day 21 of #40daysofTaLent A photo posted by Heather Hajek Eddy (@rhymeswithmagic) on Mar 10, 2015 at 10:47pm PDT Oh, look! Houses! Original... Day 21 pt. 2 #40daysofTaLent A photo posted by Heather Hajek Eddy (@rhymeswithmagic) on Mar 10, 2015 at 10:48pm PDT In progress: A photo posted by Heather Hajek Eddy (@rhymeswithmagic) on Mar 10, 2015 at 10:49pm PDT
Day 20 of 40 Days of TaLent
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Slowly, but surely, these things get done. It's like reading - sometimes you can't read just one book. I can't work on just one painting! Day 20 of #40daysofTaLent A photo posted by Heather Hajek Eddy (@rhymeswithmagic) on Mar 9, 2015 at 9:48pm PDT On the proverbial table. Day 20 of #40daysofTaLent pt.2 A photo posted by Heather Hajek Eddy (@rhymeswithmagic) on Mar 9, 2015 at 9:49pm PDT