A gift of Aqua Bronzes and The Sparkly Podium

Over Christmas, I received some art related gifts. One of these was a set of three Aqua Bronze painting mediums.
To see how these would behave, I decided to make a painting using all three. What better way than to paint the bottles themselves?

First we have the bronze Aqua Bronze

then we have the silver Aqua Bronze

and the Gold Aqua Bronze

finally, the finished painting - The Sparkly Podium

I love these mediums and can see where they will be very useful for adding highlights to paintings. I'm looking forward to using them again, soon. 

Tea With Mollie

I can hardly believe its been almost a week since my last post!
Hope this painting makes up for it - my version of a Mollie Jones demo on Painting Friends ( you can see Mollie's version HERE)
Mollie is a wonderful artist and person, always ready to help. I've named this painting for her, as a homage.

Tea with Mollie

A Special Gift

I had a gift arrive from my friend Marie in Texas.
It is the most beautiful silver leaf.
A real leaf, dipped in silver. Just stunning.

Tomorrow I will post the pics of our tree and you can see it in place.