Less Quilting and More Whatnot

Quilting has been put on hold for awhile, as I'm pursuing other artistic avenues.  I'm still doing Skillshare classes and having so much fun with them.  I'm learning so many fun new things.  Since I only signed up for three months (for 99 cents), I kinda feel like I need to view as many classes as I can in that time.  But I've also been doing some watercolor, especially baby roses.  I've found inspiration from antique Guilloche items.  There are many that are hand decorated with tiny roses, so I've been copying them in watercolor and practicing and practicing painting them.  Here are some practice sheets.

Then I tried drawing some shapes to paint inside of and this is what I made.  I really liked the way they turned out.  I did some china painting 20 some odd years ago, and these remind me of that.  I never got very good at doing the baby roses when china painting, but always wished I could have.  I had to quit the china paining soon after my 2nd child came along.

Lastly, I die cut some shapes out of watercolor paper, to paint roses on.  I love the way they turned out.  I'm not sure what I will do with them, but they're so pretty anyway.  The smaller one is only about an inch by an inch and a half or so.

One of my Skillshare classes was on ink drawing.  We started with making little wildflowers and leaves, then ended up doing wreaths using the flowers and leaves.  I loved making the wreaths and drew one on watercolor paper to paint.  Here it is.

I'm working on learning some hand lettering using brush pens and it would be perfect for writing some words inside of the wreath.  Of course, there's a learning curve to any kind of hand lettering, so it may be awhile before I feel ready for that.

So there you have it.  I'm keeping busy and having fun learning new things.  My quilting projects will wait for me to get back to them eventually.  And what does it matter if my granddaughter has to wait another year or so to get her quilt.  She's still young....