For Christmas this year I decided to you my employee discount at Michaels to get myself some art supplies and make a few of my gifts. I did three different canvas multi-media pieces.
The first one I made was for my sister. Her favorite place in the entire world is Cape Cod; she was given the opportunity to go there for a week a couple of years ago. While she was there, our uncle told Savanna that she needed to memorize a quote, to this day it is her favorite quote by Eudora Welty. I brought these different experiences together to make this for her.
I also made two others for two girls I babysit. For Sadie I made a pretty glitter rainbow and had sparkly butterflies going up the side.
For Taylor I was inspired by Van Gogh’s flowers, I did a splotchy background with yellows, reds, and oranges. Then I shattered a terracotta flower pot and used some of the pieces to recreate a flower pot along the bottom edge, and then I painted in a variety of different flowers.
Finally, I made one for my friend Katie at the College of St. Scholastica. I knew exactly what I wanted to do for her, one day she was flipping through my sketch book and found a painting of a flower I had done that was very brightly colored. So, this is what I made for her. On top of the layers of paint in the flower I used colored pencil to help bring out more of the color in the petals. 
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