Canvas 7x5

This is a young lads version of the quote

This is a young girl version of the quote

I have been working with 7x5 canvas. Not very large but I do like the size. I have used a popular quote as I thought this would be really good for a positive image for a young person to have in their room. Too many children of all ages & both sexes are suffering with negative body image and I just thought this would be a fun way to have a positive msg displayed and hopefully in their subconscious as well. I am putting these in PPF Have a wonderful wkend Dxx

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Penelope's Dream.

Hope you're having a wonderful BH Monday in the UK.  I was busy this week with this 7x5 inch Canvas this is for a gallery show where all canvases will be this size. This is the first time I will be putting my work in a gallery & I haven't done any Steam Punk in such a while I thought I would give it ago.  There is a real enamel pocket watch face on there along with lots of watch parts I have even wrote a little story to go with it and aged it with distress inks lol

Penelope’s Dream

Hans was an inventor of amazing engineering standard. He wanted a little girl. With his skills he brought her into being as he had long wished to test his creativity on something much more complicated that anything static & lifeless. Indeed he wanted to create something with a mind of its very own. Penelope became his greatest accomplishment. A darling little girl with a wonderful mind (even though clockwork) here lay the genius of Hans the engineer. However, after many years in each other’s company and when Hans was then very old, Penelope asked what would become of her and Hans told her that she could do anything that she dreamed of.

Penelope dreamed of travel, she didn’t want to travel in the modern steam train or motorcar, she wanted to fly in the air. With her extraordinary mind she created with help from Hans a hot air balloon that would take her all around Germany and on to France. There she saw the delights of boutiques and how the women of France dared to dress. She grew sad that her small frame would never develop into a beautiful shapely woman that all would look at. And she had nothing but time in front of her to spend creating but never really being what she so much wanted to become.

I hope you enjoyed the little story that accompany's this little canvas I enjoyed letting may imagination take flight with little Penelope & her creator Hans :)  I also just found this challenge at Unruly Paper Arts and it's all about 'Gears' and we have to vote on what think is the best entry, There is going to be some talent on display (I am first up)  So I will have to see who else joins in, it's bound to be tuff competition. As it's the 1st of the month you may like to join in with ans art Journal challenge over at Journal Journey's There is also a link in the side bar. I hope you have time to leave a comment. Thank you for stopping by Love Dawn xx

Canvas 8x8

Hello again, hope your warm & safe.  This is another canvas using a quote I used in my last smaller canvas, I thought I would go bigger. This is the truest colour to the painting the others with the bad light look a little bluer than it is.

I took these two photos outside. I may add the white dots around the hearts, but I'm not sure as yet. I don't think it's completely finished now I look at it again, so I may have to add a few more tweaks. I am also including this in PPF  Have a lovely week. Dawn xx

5x5 Canvas

Hello, It's been a busy weekend, I hope your mothers, or you as mothers had a very special day. I was looking in my art journal and found a few pages I really liked that I thought I would like to make into paintings to sell in my Folksy Shop I am slowly getting some items together to pop in there. I just hope they have an audience lol.

As the title suggest this is 5x5 inches (including frame) I love this quote it remind's me about family and why we are here, and that we will go on and be together again. This is a comforting thought to many as well as me.

Final photo of a real close up of this lovely heart. Family are always in our hearts first and then our minds I feel. I used lots of fresco paints and lots of various stamps then drew heart shapes on book pages. Stuck them on and then uses Neo2s to colour them in. Finally I stamped the quote (one of my own) and did a little doodling. Thank you for looking. Love Dawn xx