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Celebrate Challenge: June Recap

June brought yet another awesome month of subject matter for paintings! Here they all are, along with a few of my favorites shown larger, below! Bring it on, July! Almost officially half way through!

Here are a few of my favorites from June!

Insect repellant awareness day

Donald Duck Day!
Superman Day

Blood Donor Day

Flip Flop Day

American Eagle Day

Paul Bunyan Day
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Celebrate Day 181: “Meteor Watch Day!”

Happy meteor watch day! The funny thing was I didn’t intend on even putting this one under blacklight until I was done, and then thought hey, I used some UV stuff, maybe it’ll look cool! So we tried it and it turned out pretty cool! If I were planning it for UV from the start I’d have made the earth glow more. But, I think it turned out fun and that’s the whole point of this challenge…to learn stuff!

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Celebrate Day 179: “Paul Bunyan Day!”

Happy Paul Bunyan Day! Being a Minnesotan, Paul Bunyan is near & dear to my heart…so I painted this boy who is even more near & dear to my heart!! Sam was such a great sport letting me transform him into Paul Bunyan!

I had a lot of fun with this one! The flannel, the curly chest hairs, the textures…..

Of course I had to paint a little bit of his thumb to get the desired effect of him holding the axe! The texture on the suspenders was done with a BAM 2032 stencil.

The bushy eyebrows and beard really made it, when combined with the stocking cap!

Thanks again to Sam for being my awesome model!!

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Celebrate Day 178: “Pineapple Day!”

Happy Pineapple Day! The texture in this one came from the HAS “Design” set! It’s the same one I used to add a little texture to the sandal straps on flip flop day!  First I laid down an oval of FAB steel black shimmer, and then created the texture using a TAG Tropical one stroke cake with a round foam dauber.

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Celebrate Day 177: “Canoe Day!”

Happy canoe day! Well, as you can see I can’t seem to get enough of our new exclusive split cake, Ocean Sunset! This one works great for lake scenes, too!  I love doing silhouette designs like this…they always end up looking impressive but are super simple, forgiving, and this only uses two cakes of paint!

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