The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist: Marlene's Round Robin Painting

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Marlene's Round Robin Painting

As I promised, here is one more painting from my ACEO Group Round Robin Project. The one on the left is Marlene's start. On the right is the finished painting after we all added something.

A lot of small detail went into most of these paintings. Notice the cheese, the tiny spider/web and the bird in the nest. I will post more as I get access to them. I have photos of the finished paintings, but I am having trouble getting good pictures of the starts. Such fun!!

2 comments:

Anne Huskey-Lockard said...: I could never do this.....I couldn't SEE to do it! :)

XXOO!!!
Anne; September 30, 2009 at 3:05 PM
Marlene said...: Thanks Audrey, I also posted this on my blog (lol) I did post all of the steps to the picture.; October 1, 2009 at 12:33 AM

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