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Faux Finish Powder Room – Antique Bronze

June 21, 2010 By Colleen Jorgenson 8 Comments

Don’t forget the Fab Finds for the Fourth party this Thursday! What have you been up to? Or what are you planning? Link up any craft, decoration, recipe or red, white & blue!   I’ll admit it – I have done any faux finishes for quite some time. I don’t market myself as a faux […]

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Sweet Sunflowers

May 3, 2010 By Colleen Jorgenson 4 Comments

I know it’s not the season for them, but the bright sun streaming in the windows this morning made me think of sunflowers. Then I realized I had painted sunflowers in a few different ways and thought it’d be fun to do a collection. This is my favorite – just because of the detail. It […]

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Painting of Disney’s “Iridessa”

April 30, 2010 By Colleen Jorgenson 14 Comments

I was thrilled when I got the commission to paint one of Disney’s fairies. Who doesn’t love Disney? And now that they’ve included characters of color, all little girls have princesses & fairies that look like them. Some of you know my husband is black, which means all of most of our huge extended family […]

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How I work . . .

April 13, 2010 By Colleen Jorgenson 7 Comments

Well, I mean, when I’m doing a commissioned painting, that is. Usually my clients have some sort of idea of what they want. Maybe they know the colors, or maybe the image. Although sometimes they really don’t have any idea. For the wall hanging above, this is how we started. She wanted something for her […]

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How to make an easy Window Mural

April 1, 2010 By Colleen Jorgenson 9 Comments

This project was such fun! I used Plaid’s Gallery Glass. It’s a great product line to use on any glass – windows, mirrors, glass tabletops and even lampshades.Light still filters in, but you get decoration & privacy, which is what my mother wanted in her side light. Here’s what it looked like before – just […]

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Feng Shui Art Canvases

March 30, 2010 By Colleen Jorgenson 8 Comments

My mother turned 82 Saturday. 82! And she still teaches 3 step aerobic classes a week. Not ‘senior’ step classes – full blown, get your pulse pounding, aerobics. I know. I’ve been taking them from her since last summer and I still have to modify my moves. I generally make or paint something for her […]

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Bunny Paint Kit – Instructions Are Up

March 5, 2010 By Colleen Jorgenson 2 Comments

I finally got the instructions written, posted, published . . . done! From now on, it shouldn’t take me as long to complete them. Click here for the full set of instructions. The pictures are in full color, of course, but you should only have to print the pattern, which is at the back of […]

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Daisy Paintings

February 22, 2010 By Colleen Jorgenson 6 Comments

I guess I’m really ready for Spring because it seems everything I’m painting lately has a daisy in it. They’re so fresh and bright and just make me happy. As I written previously, I’m striving in my artwork to paint faster and more loosely. I can easily take weeks to paint one simple flower. Not […]

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