Art Video #2 Flowers

I finished my 2nd art video.  I'm beginning to like this.

Heres' a list of supplies that I used for this piece:

10" x 10" canvas
Liquitex Gesso
Donna Downey Studios Scribble Script Stencil
Ranger Alphabet stencil
2 stencils from The Crafters Workshop
Golden Fluid Acrylic Paint in Green Gold, Torquoise (Phaylo), and Titan Buff
Americana Paint - Citron Green
Cereamcoat - White, Purple, Black
Dina Wakely Paint in Pink and Purple
Charcoal Pencil
Derwent Inktense Pencil in Deep Purple

I think that's it.

Peace!

Cyndi

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

Such a Pretty Girl Collage

I wanted to make a little plaque.  Here's my step-by-step process.

First a painted a wooden plaque with gesso.  You can get these little plaques in different sizes and shapes at Michaels for a dollar or two.

I ripped up some decorative paper.

I glued the paper to the surface with matte medium.

It's hard to  see in this next picture, but I painted around the edges of the paper with Golden Fluid Acrylic in Titan Buff.  It just sort of blends the papers together to give it kind of an aged look.  I use Titan Buff A LOT when I paint.

Next, I started spraying and stamping.  I used Dylusions Spray inks.  The Tim Holz Distress Paint Dabber bottles are great.  I used them with the stencils.  The arrow-type stamp at the bottom is one that I made out of adhesive foam sheets.  One of these days, I'll take pictures of all the stamps that I have made out of foam.

I kept working on the background, adding a lot more ink, then I started on the girl.  In Suzi Blu style, I drew the face on a sheet of regular paper, then shaded it with Prismacolor Colored Pencils.  I cut the dress pieces out of decorative, scrapbook paper, and attached paper arms.  I glued the girl to the background with matte medium.  I sculpted the hair with Golden Molding Paste.  I wrote the words with a Micron marker on regular white paper, cut them out, rubbed black ink around the edges, and glued them with matte medium.

After allowing the hair to completely dry overnight, I used craft paint in brown and glittery gold to paint the hair.  I added some ornaments in the hair and on the dress, painted gold around the edge of the plaque and VOILA, finished!!

This is a great book if you want to learn how to draw faces.  I had never drawn a face before I got it.

Egg Timer

It was so windy today that I wasn't able to let my chickens out of their coop. I guess that's why I was thinking of eggs when I started today's art journal page.

For this page I used Golden acrylic paints, stencils, rubber stamps, Stazon ink, Gelatos, charcoal pencil. I copied the map from a book, the eggs from a Clinique ad, and for the large symbols in the upper right corner, I just typed on my computer then enlarged it on the copier.

I also started working on a collage today.  I'm really into doing transfers with gel medium.  It is the greatest thing. Even though the ink from the photocopy transfers onto the canvas, you are still able to see the paint through the transfer. I like the way it looks so aged.