I'll be Face Painting in Mars this Saturday!

Come and see me at the Spring Shopping Extravaganza this Saturday, 1:00 - 4:00 pm at Mars United Presbyterian Church  (232 Crowe Ave, Mars, PA 16046)

 

It is a charity event collecting clothing donations for Pittsburgh Dress For Success Organization (http://www.dressforsuccess.org/affiliate.aspx?sisid=107&pageid=1)

So bring your like-new business attire, “scrubs”, jewelry/accessories, and grooming items to donate and check out live, interactive demonstrations with fashion jewelry, organizing, body slimming, home décor, glamour tips, anti-aging, and more! Plus face painting, nail art, cookie sampling and photos happening on the spot! And info about local family-friendly music concerts!

I'm really looking forward to it and hope to see you there!

Mural in my son's room

I'm so excited my mural in my son's room!  I'll show you some of the stages here...

I forgot to take a picture of just the border before I started the landscape, so there was quite a bit of work before this:

Then I added the beanstalk (Jamie wanted jack and the beanstalk in the mural), the tree, and blocked in the cottage:

Then I added the leaves and the birds's nest:

Next comes the cottage, the castle in the sky:

  and some birds in the nest:

And here we have the complete picture!

New Page on Wall Murals!

Check out my new page on Custom Murals and Home Accents:  http://danellesdesigns.blogspot.com/p/custom-urals-and-home-accents.html 

I just painted this on my niece's wall yesterday:

Owl Canvas finally rescheduled!

Let's shake those winter blues and get painting!  This is an beginner-intermediate class. Bring your own canvas and paint is included. Please bring your brushes, sponge, plate/double loader, water basin, paper towels, graphite paper, a pencil and a table easel.  Canvas size can be either 15" x 30" (used for the sample) or 12" x 24" (if you want a smaller painting).

Owl Canvas Class
Where: Danelle's house (205 St. Leonards Lane, Cranberry TWP, PA 16066)
When:  Saturday, March 23rd, 1:30 - 5:00 pm
Cost: $35

Please contact me at danellesdesigns@hotmail.com or 724-772-9712 to reserve your spot. 

Two generations of artists

There is no doubt where I got my artistic talent from; my mother.  My mom has been painting these fabulous birds on plaques using acrylic paint this winter and has over thirty of them done so far.  We visited two weeks ago and she asked me to add some of my flowers to a few of her plaques.  Boy, was I nervous!  It turned out to be such a wonderful afternoon, sitting and talking with my mom while she watched me paint.

My two favorites are the first two plaques in the picture below:

I showed my mom how to do some easy pine branches the One Stroke way...

I added pine to the two cardinals below.  The adorable woodpecker in the middle is all my mom's.  I told her she needs to teach me how she did the tree bark the next time we get together!

Isn't my mom an amazing artist!

Snow Day

Today is a snow day and we went outside to build a snowman.  It started as a traditional snowman until I started carving away at it.  Too bad it will probably melt away by the weekend, but I'd rather have the warm weather!

Woil Teaser

This is one of the paintings I will be including in my class schedule.  I painted this over Christmas when I was visiting with my mom.