it's a Frida Friday!!!

over at atcsforall, i'm a part of a frida swap and it must be hand drawn/hand painted. the cards were due in her hands today. ooooooooppps!!!! so after i finished moving in all of my stuff to the boys' house, watched the last half of Big Fish, and ate dinner: i sat down in my new studio space in our bedroom. i decided to go with watercolors because i haven't used mine in ages. ages, i say. so i put on some jams and came up with this set:



also, on amusingmuses, this week just so happened to be F postcard and frida does start with an F so i kept the ball rolling and made this:



she is more detailed because the card size is bigger. i used some of my new sumi ink or her, as well. all of the fridas i made last night start off with watercolor and then i inked the details. i highlighted and low lighted using pastels and crayons. yes, i use lots of crayons. then i went in and added some gold touches to all of them to give it sort of a latino, religious guild feeling.

i know that i'm happy with pieces when i realize that i don't want to let them go. that i feel i want to make more because i'd like to keep some of these for myself. oh well.

oh! and almost right after posting my fridas on AFA, i was asked if one of them could be used in the July ArtTrader magazine! what!? how sweet is that?