{Backyard Art Studio} first piece of artwork

This past week was kind of a busy one and by the time Saturday rolled around, between all the rain and pollen and everything I wasn't sick per say, but I wasn't feeling the greatest either and so even though I had a ton of housework to do, I sat down with my pastels and drawing board to do a little art instead.  I was originally planning on working on a piece that I'd been wanting to do for a week or two now for real life.  It is a scene I saw one night heading home (or somewhere anyway) from my parent's house, looking from driving over one bridge down the Rappahannock River towards the railroad bridge at sunset.  The sky had a peachy/pinky glow and the river was reflecting it back and the bridge and trees along the shoreline were almost completely dark in silhouette.  I would have liked to have gotten a photo of it to work from, but like I said... driving across the bridge.... couldn't really just stop in the middle of the road.

Once I was finished with the real life one though I thought it might make a good piece of dollhouse art as well.  For the miniature version I did 1"x1" so it's much larger piece in dollhouse world than in real life (the original is 2.5"x2.5"), but I wasn't about to try to get it that small in 1:12 scale lol!  I was debating whether I wanted this to be a finished piece of art in the Studio or have it be a WIP, but I had a little white frame that worked nicely with it so I went ahead and made it a finished piece.

I actually really like how it looks in its little itty bitty chunky frame.  I don't want to do too many that are too much alike/framed the same for the Backyard Art Studio but I do have some more frames in different shapes in this teeny size, so I'm thinking about doing a whole series of teeny tiny art just for somewhere in my real life house (although I may do one or two of them for the Town House Dollhouse in a Dresser).  I'm sure I have some little corner or area of wall somewhere that a grouped collection of tinsy art would look good in my house.  If I do them I'll post pictures of them on the blog even though they won't be strictly speaking dollhouse related (but they will be dollhouse sized and miniature..... lol)