Thursday, March 12, 2015

Blue Beatrice Painting Step by Step



I wanted to paint something a couple days ago, but I didn't have any ideas. So, since I haven't played with my Molding Paste (Golden) in a while, I laid some mesh and a stencil on the canvas and pushed the paste thru with a pallet knife. I forgot to take a picture of this step.  It takes about 24 hours to completely dry. I let it dry overnight.

Still, a day later, I didn't have any firm concept, so I just started by slapping some blue and white paint on a 12" X 12" canvas. I started dripping, thinned, fluid acrylic and airbrush paint along the top of the canvas, just letting it go wherever it wanted.

I've been organizing my art supplies recently and have come across many, many things that I haven't seen in over a year. I have a rubber stamp by Pam Carriker (I love her art).  The stamp was 4" X 3", so I made a copy, enlarged it, cut a rough stencil out of cardstock and sponge the paint thru.

I can't stay away from the dots, lines and circles so, of course, I added them using the top of a small plastic container, a stamp that I cut out of an eraser, and stencil with dots.

I cut a, sort of, starburst stencil out of cardstock and added the rays with Golden Quinacridone Azo Gold.  I went back with some black gesso and re-painted the face.

Supplies:

10" x 10" canvas
Golden Molding Paste
All paint by Golden - fluid acrylic, unless otherwise noted)
Turquoise (Phthalo)
Ultramarine Blue
Green Gold
Manganese Blue Hue
Titanium White
Carbon Black -airbrush paint
Phthalo Blue - airbrush paint
Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold
Black Gesso (bob Ross)
Miscellaneous stencils and texture items

That's it.

Peace!
Cyndi


Monday, March 2, 2015

Handmade Cards

I made a couple cards yesterday, using some papers that I printed on the Gelli Plate.

On this one, I cut out the flower petals and leaves, then collaged them on with gel medium.  I ripped up some handmade paper that I bought a long time ago with the Japanese writing.  Outlined everything with a Pitt pen and added some white gesso circles with the end of a straw.  I added some washi tape at the bottom.


For this one, I just cut three strips from papers that I made earlier.  Printed the word "Love" on the computer, then cut it out and glued it to a scrap of Gelli print.  I used gel medium to attach everything, then added more gel medium to the top.  I also, outlined everything with a black, archival pen.


That's it!

Peace,

Cyndi