Diane

Hi DMarla. Welcome to GT’s. I think you will enjoy the chat and information here.

-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'

Thanks so much. I loved reading your flying flowers post.

Diane

-- My icon picture is a painting I did from a photo from by garden.

Hello and WELCOME to GardenTenders!!! :-)

-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI

Thanks GrandmaT. We are the same age and I too have had to scale down on my gardening but still enjoy getting my hands in the dirt.

Diane

-- My icon picture is a painting I did from a photo from by garden.

hi :)
Welcome to GT!

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Hi Diane Welcome to GT
Would love to see some pictures of your garden.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

Greetings and welcome to GT, Diane!

-- Living on the square...Metro Detroit

Thanks and Hi Debbie, (I know you from Lumber…), and thanks also to Bon and Damocles. Bon, I don’t have a digital camera or IPhoto or the like to alter my photos so I have to upload by photo disk so I don’t do it much. My icon is from a painting I did of a hydrangeas bush that was in my garden, I did it from photo. My garden was getting too much sun for it so I donated it but it is near by enough so I can still enjoy it.

I don’t have a big garden, it is just a strip along the side of this apartment building. It is different each year except for the perennials. I have started planting in a problem area, weeds, rocks and poison ivy roots, which makes it almost impossible to plant especially since I am very allergic to poison ivy.

This year we have a lot of beetles so the plants are taking a beating. I don’t know if my cone flower is having problems because of the beetles or what the problem is, it has centers but no peddles, so I will be digging that up hoping the problem is that it doesn’t have enough room to grow.

Diane

-- My icon picture is a painting I did from a photo from by garden.

Well Diane, don’t worry about posting pics … granted we all love to see pics, but if you don’t have the right equipment … then … we certainly welcome your conversation, knowledge and laughter. So again, welcome to GT … glad you have joined!!!

-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI

GrandmaT, thanks.

-- My icon picture is a painting I did from a photo from by garden.

Here is a better view of my flower painting as well as a few more. The landscape one is still a work in progress: http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/Artist/workshop

Diane

-- My icon picture is a painting I did from a photo from by garden.

An excellent painting. Well done. ... and welcome to the Garden Tenders.

-- jroot

Thanks Jroot for the welcome. Thanks for your comment on my painting, it isn’t often I get such a nice comment. Usually people say nothing or they mention they like the colors. So I appreciate you telling me.

Diane

-- My icon picture is a painting I did from a photo from by garden.

I noted your comments in the lumberjock’s forum:
I am not a woodworker but enjoy other’s projects. I have this painting I’d like to put it’s image onto other objects, one being a wood box I just bought. Is there a way to do this? I think I may of seen something like this recently, some tranfer type thing but I don’t know how it works.

I am an acrylic painter and I do crafts as well.

I recall working on a table that had been severely damaged about 30 years ago. I carefully glued a print onto the top of it, and then covered it with many coats of sprayed laquer. The table came back into my possession in the 1990’s and I have it in my bar area. It has developed nice crackling, and looks like a fine antique table from italy.

I would think that a similar approach should work for you, especially with the paintings being acrylic, which are water based.

P.S. I really like the painting of the hydrangea. The detail work is very good, and there is evidence of layering going on. Unfortunately, a lot of inexperienced painters rush the work, and thus don’t get the layering of the paint to get the really amazing effect that “makes” a painting spectacular.

-- jroot

Diane, your paintings are just beautiful … you truly have a gift … hope you continue to pursue it.

-- "A beautiful garden is a work of heart" -- Royal Oak, MI

Jroot, thanks for telling me how you did a table, it sounds beautiful. What kind of glue did you use to attach it to the table? What I have in mind now is putting my hydrangea painting onto a wood lamp base I bought. It won’t be an actually painting just a copy onto card stock.

My hydrangea painting is my second painting, the frog one is my first. I find I can’t get the effect I want unless I layer and also I’m a new painter so I have to try things many times before I find what works. I don’t love working with acrylics though because of this need for an area to be painted many times but I have no interest in trying out and using oils.

GrandmaT, Thanks so much for saying I have a gift. I don’t do much painting because each painting takes so long and I’m so inexperienced. The two unfinished paintings I now have are not finished because in short I didn’t have a good photo source or I took little from the photo I used. I am learning when a photo will work or not work. It has been a hard lesson with these two paintings because I’m not sure they will work out.

Diane

-- My icon picture is a painting I did from a photo from by garden.

Hi Diane and welcome to GT! :-)

For collage on wood and other medium, you can use “Podge” it comes in mat and and gloss. You can find it at Michael’s!

And your paintings are great! Even though you say you are inexperienced, you show much talent! And patience!
Painting flowers from a picture is one of the hardest thing to do! When I first saw them, I thought that they were pictures!

Keep the brush going and share with us!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

Eklectic, thanks for saying my paintings are great and look like pictures.

Thanks too for telling me about the Podge. I tried it once, I had all kinds of brush strokes in my finished project so I don’t know what I may of done wrong, let me know if you have some idea on that? I was using a regular painting brush, is there some other kind I should of used? I won’t be using Podge again though, I just can’t deal with the smell of it or any strong smells so I don’t know what I could use as a sealer.

Oh, your outdoor nursery is so cute. I will be looking at your other project you did as well.

Diane

-- My icon picture is a painting I did from a photo from by garden.