Gabs and Mama combined art

Let's take a break and look at mine and Gabbi's latest joint venture.  We've been creating art together.  Gabbi Lou does the background (above note the hot pink, purple in the bottom left hand corner and of course, her favorite... black!  I come in and paint on one side while she continues the background somewhere else.  I added scallops, feathers, and circles in this particular painting.  Then, I help her load a sponge brush, and she makes her "drips".

I gotta tell you... I am IN LOVE with the outcome.  It was hard to believe in the above painting that she didn't add some black.  I think I hid it from her.  She still went with a dark brown!  And on this one, we used a circle stencil (see above right and left hand corners), which I held while she spritzed with a tinted ink.

I love that there are often little surprises in her paintings.  Can you find them in the one above?!

If you've seen Brave, you know that the red-headed heroine is Merida.  She is the smiley facey figure at the midto upper left side, of course in black.  And below her to the left is Merdu, the mean ol nasty bear who is depicted by Gabs with a frowny face.

I guess I felt the need to lighten the mood with a few flowers and happy circles.

When I tell you she gets all ZEN like, I mean big time!

This is how they start.  See that black zigzag "Z" above?  and note the royal blue strip just to the side of it.

Can you locate it in this picture too!?  I got a little flower crazy on this one!!  But, I L.O.V.E. that it is our work combined!!  And I really like that she did all the drippies in coral.  I loves me some coral!

I guess for every time Gabbi chooses black, I probably choose turquoise.   So, to each her own.

And here's another... purple and black as her go to background colors, apparently.

I've been posting them on Instagram, so for some of you, this is a repeat showing!

And here's another one.  I intended to use this one as a gift for a fundraiser. See all those cool shapes Gabs gave me to start working around?  As she continued to paint, I started choosing a "blob" to paint OVER.

And just to the right of the heart, well, I think that she said that was me.  See the light pink!?

It started coming together slowly, but we haven't quite finished this one.

Yo, Trey.  In the case that you ever read my blog, had I not had to go out of town before the donation was required, this was going to be at YOUR auction!

I had so much fun with this that I actually thought it would be fun to have an art night for about 6 or so mama/ daughters. I think it would be awesome bonding time, and what a fun finished product to hang in your home!  I haven't been able to get rid of any of these yet, because I love them too much, but I am working on getting an art show set up for this cute little project.

I'd thought tentatively Friday, September 6th.  If anyone is interested, let me know. I am thinking $60/couple.  If you are an out of towner and want to stay the night, make it $100, and you can have food and a warm bed too.  This is a small price to pay for all your art supplies and a masterpiece such as this. As you can see, I don't think that there is such a thing as too young.  Gabbi's "blobs" are perfect background material.  And I will also have a variety of ideas for mamas who are already worried about the foreground.  You can do it! So... anyone interested?!

Tomorrow, I'll show you some of the Gabster's independent works!  :)

MO