painting, sewing and more roses

On this gorgeous Sunday that's what I've been busy with.  Painting.  Sewing.  Roses.  Feeling full of energy waking up without a trace of the migraine I'd been fighting with yesterday, I was ready to dive right in with my projects.

I returned to a couple paintings I've already shown you.  The stem of rosehips finally got its thorns.

 

The field with the uncooperative grass got some Queen Anne's Lace skeletons.

The tree got a trunk, some more color and a friend.

 

The tree branches got three little birds who still need a little color help.

 

I added stems and bottles to my blobby roses.

 

I'm much happier with that experiment now that the roses aren't just blobs of color floating in the middle of the paper.

I worked on my tomatoes and their bowl, but am still not happy with that one.

I also revisited the rosehips and tried painting them bigger.

The hips on my model are starting to shrivel a bit, but I ignored that as I painted.  Creative license, right?

The barkcloth purse I'm working on is coming along well.  I'm very happy with the combination of exterior and interior fabric and am glad I decided to line the strap, too.

I was planning on using a maroon-ish broadcloth to make an interior pocket, but decided to just use the lining fabric instead.  Here you can see one side of the lining complete with said pocket.

I hope to finish it in the next day or so.  

I also spent some time photographing the roses basking in the sunshine coming in the dining room windows.

 

Not a bad day, even if I did not get to some of the projects I thought I would.