Tinkering

 My friend Paula gifted me with two new tubes

of acrylics: Golden's cp cadmium yellow and Windsor & Newton's

quin. magenta. I have had a great time

tinkering with a new, (for me) pallette.

Thanks Paula!

Tinker Toys, 9by12 canvas, acyrlics

I started out playing with a soft edged

background. (Next photo)  A tiny bit of both of thes paints

goes a very long way.

I wanted to add a few marks and started scribbling.

I am not happy with it, but had some fun

using the photo for digital alteration. (See below.)

Entanglement is 9by12 on watercolor paper, acyrlics, ink.

Since the painting is on paper,
it will probably end up somewhere cut up
for collage. So all is not lost cousins!

 This was the original. (Sigh!)

I'm glad I took a picture of it before the mark up.

It looks like Halleluia to me.

 I layered this photo with a copied page of my

latest estate sale acquisition: it is an original
journal written in beautiful calligraphy

 by one Flavius Augustas  Affleck in 1867.

Penmanship was once an art in itself.

This is pure digital delight, transforming

my  hard scribbled lines into a graceful dance.

Tinkering at its best!