Back to the Paint Party, that is. Paint Party Friday! It’s been quite a while since I participated. My painting interest tends to go in fits and starts, mainly in the summer for some odd reason. But with my recent foray into mobile photography and the discovery of painting apps, I have a new-found obsession. I’m painting almost every night. It’s digital painting but I love it the same! I contacted Kristin and Eva to see if I could participate in Paint Party Friday with some digital entries and they said, “Sure!” So here I am!

After being inspired by my friend Kim’s fingerpainting on Instagram, this week I purchased the PhotoViva app. I played around with a lot of different things, but I was most happy with exploring this idea of painting one element within the photograph, having it go off the edge into a frame. I’ve always loved art that goes off onto the frame or mat, breaking the boundaries and expectations. Both of these began as an image of a single leaf photographed on wet pavement. I explored different brushes as well as seeing how much to overlap the frame.

There is definitely a learning curve with these apps, but it’s a blast. I can’t get enough. I even (gulp) bought an iPad this week so I could have a larger “canvas” to work with. The iPod Touch screen is just so tiny. Yeah, just call me “Ms. Obsessed” at the moment. But I’m happy as a clam!

I hope you have a great weekend! I’m going to have fun with more painting…

PS – I’m in the midst of drawing the winners for my big 1000th post giveaway. I’ll announce them here tomorrow!