Friday, September 23, 2011

Watercolor Alphabet Cards & Seasonal Paintings


I've been working on my goal of painting our watercolor alphabet cards to correspond with our stories.  I wrote more about that here.  I'm running a little behind on them but this what I've done so far.  I'll be drawing something from our story on the T and I'm not very happy with my S. I'd love the S to be white and the swans to be more prominent as our S story is The Six Swans by Brothers Grimm.   I may redo it but I don't want to get too precious and picky about them because when I do that then I don't finish things.  Some of you may now how that goes, perfectionism can lead to procrastination! 


Happy first day of Autumn by the way!  This is our first year of including Michaelmas within our festival year. Painting this painting of St George and the dragon helped me to internalize a bit of what this festival means to me.  Fall is by far my favorite season of the year.  I've always felt a little left out since moving here to the Southwest.  Our Autumn is just not the same as up north or back east where I'm from.  NY in Autumn is a thing of beauty!  I'm working on being happy where I am and noticing the way that Fall arrives in our desert. However, I just had to paint my beloved maple tree.  


a detail.


This is another Michaelmas painting that I made to fit this frame. It is exhibited on our rather unkempt nature table.  The crystal is there because of our story "Pebble" from a Donsy of Gnomes.  I wrote about that here. 


I look forward to our first festival week of the year, next week!  We plan on making dragon bread, I have a stuffed dragon in the works for a story, a few more crafts and I think a fun bonfire night is in order. Nights are getting cooler now so it should be lots of fun! 

If you haven't entered my giveaway of an Autumn peg doll, please do so here.  I will anounce the winner October 1st.

Until next time...
Posted by MamaWestWind at 2:47 PM
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17 comments:

  1. PipSeptember 23, 2011 at 2:51 PM

    stunning painting. we too have started our Michaelmas activities and are loving the start of Autumn. such a stunning time of year! fINDING IT GIVES ME LOTS TO BLOG ABOUT!! LOL

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  2. CarrieSeptember 23, 2011 at 5:12 PM

    Oh, wow, I love your paintings! This will be our first year of Michaelmas - other Waldorf friends celebrate it, but so far we haven't.

    (I'm also so inspired by your Pebble....that's our kindergarten story this week. I'm hoping to pull together a simple puppet show for the girls on Sunday. I think it would be a nice way to wind down after a busy weekend celebrating the arrival of Autumn.)

    Warmly,
    ~carrie~

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  3. LynnetteSeptember 23, 2011 at 6:14 PM

    What amazing watercolor work! You should make some copies and put them in your shop! Happy Autumn... we are leaving on a trip but I am still trying to celebrate a bit on the road with little stories and road friendly activities.

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  4. LauraSeptember 23, 2011 at 11:15 PM

    wow that painting is amazing I also really love the one of the tree. Very beautiful, x

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  5. April's HomemakingSeptember 24, 2011 at 12:31 AM

    Beautiful alphabet cards, and I love your Michaelmas painting!! Almost time for some Dragon bread :)

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  6. momma raeSeptember 24, 2011 at 12:37 AM

    wow!! you are amazingly talented. you should sell those michaelmas paintings!

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  7. twolittleseedsSeptember 24, 2011 at 1:10 AM

    I am inspired , you are very talented! We have been doing watercolour rainbow alphabets which I am going to post soon but these are gorgeous!!! xxxx

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  8. AnonymousSeptember 24, 2011 at 8:15 AM

    These are gorgeous! WOW!

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  9. erinSeptember 24, 2011 at 12:13 PM

    wow Becca! Your paintings are so awesome! Love your inspiration my watercolor friend. Seriously, I think I'm going to make Cami some watercolor cards. They are just so happy. :-)

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  10. BelindaSeptember 26, 2011 at 6:05 AM

    These are really beautifully done! Nice work Becca, I'm sure they'll be a big hit with the stories! I wish I could find the time to paint a seasonal picture...but I haven't even found time to paint my own header for Little Wool Maus...

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  11. dionneSeptember 26, 2011 at 6:37 PM

    That dragon painting is gorgeous! I think you should color copy it and put some up for sale. There are so few nice Michaelmas pictures around. (Let me know and I'll be your first buyer!)

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  12. BetsySeptember 26, 2011 at 7:22 PM

    I love your Autumn table, it really seems to represent what the season means to you and your boys.

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  13. scraps of starlightSeptember 27, 2011 at 11:09 AM

    Those watercolours are simply stunning!
    I love the idea of alphabet cards.

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  14. JulieSeptember 29, 2011 at 10:21 AM

    Your paintings are beautiful! I seriously envy those who can paint and draw.

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  15. MamaWestWindSeptember 29, 2011 at 10:57 AM

    Thank you so much all! I'll have to look into making some prints for the store.

    Becca

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  16. NadjaSeptember 30, 2011 at 2:29 PM

    Those are so beautiful! They make me want to pull out my paints and play!

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  17. UnknownOctober 3, 2011 at 6:06 AM

    They are wonderful! I wish I could paint like that! I especially love the dragon and the tree :0)

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