Friday, August 31, 2012

Paint Party Friday - Mountain Ash

Welcome to Paint Party Friday, thanks to Kristin and Eva for hosting!

I was inspired by a recent photo of a mountain ash tree in bloom that I took while on a walk.
It's done in acrylic on cardstock (8.5" x 5.5").  It's a greeting card.




I just found this interesting article where this 84 year old woman did her own portrait on an Ipad...it looks fantastic! Go have a look!

22 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lovely and delicate. Well done, Christine!

Gloria Baker said...

Beautiful Christine!

Valerie-Jael said...

Gorgeous card Christine! Valerie

Netty said...

Very pretty art card. Happy PPF and enjoy the weekend, Annette x

Adam said...

pretty

Anonymous said...

I just knew we would see this subject, beautiful Christine, have a wonderful weekend!

AguiLeon.com said...

beautiful nice art

Carolyn Dube said...

Love the way the orange flowers pop!

Marji said...

I love Mt. Ash trees. They say around here that the more berries they have on them the harsher the winter. We're loaded this year. Happy PPF

Alicia C said...

love your trees! love the colours in particular - and I see you have an awesome blog button now! it's really cool! and wow. the 84 y.o. artist... awesome. ODn't know if I could do that with that machine!

carol l mck said...

Lovely Mountain Ash ~ very expressive and textural ~ always love your simplicity of style that says so much ~ (A Creative Harbor)

Mary C. Nasser said...

Such a pretty painting, Christine.
♥♥♥
Happy PPF!!
Mary
Mixed-Media Map Art

SM said...

beautiful

Icy BC said...

That's pretty painting, Christine!

Tracey FK said...

This is lovely ... it almost looks Asian in feel... reminds me of cherry or peach blossoms... xx

Martha from ilove2paint said...

Sweet! I miss my flowers, it's been so hot all my plants look tired :o/
Happy PPF

Giggles said...

Beautiful, love the depth and color!!

Hugs Giggles

Natasha said...

A beautiful painting, love the colours. Gorgeous.

Lynn Cohen said...

Lovely painting of flowering tree!!!

I went to the link/article, but take umbridge of the thought that I must compare myself to what this lovely woman did on her ipad.
I agree her work is quite lovely and well done. I also believe people of all ages from small children to the very old to all those in between can be good artists...so I guess I am wondering what's the big deal? Perhaps she is a fast learner as far as doing it on an i pad is concerned. Happy for her. She did well!

HPPF on Saturday!

Christine said...

Right you are Lynn, what's the big deal? I'm jealous because I haven't tried the ipad!

wednesday said...

How lovely. The vivid colors against the soft sky are just beautiful.

Daniele Valois said...

very pretty. and yes, that woman did a great job!!!