Creative Heart Monday - "Friends" Mixed Media on Wood

Happy Creative Heart Monday!

It's been a long time, but I finally got around to making a video!!  The past month has been filled with art festivals and preparing for art festivals.  Today, I'm doing a little mixed media piece on a wooden panel.  This piece is for sale in my Etsy store, as well as, several other similar pieces.

Here we go............................




Supplies

6" X 6" X 1/2" mdf panel
Miscellaneous papers
Acrylic Paint
Dr. PH Martens Bombay Ink
FW Daler Rowney Acrylic Ink
Handmade stencil
Graphite pencil
Faber-Castell Black Pen
Jane Davenport Mermaid Markers

Thanks so much for watching!!  I'll try to get back on track.

Check out all of the new things that I've added to my Etsy store.  I'm also happy to take special orders!

Have a great Monday and a wonderful week.

PEACE!

Cyndi

Creative Heart Monday - Mixed Media Wall Coat Rack

Happy Creative Heart Monday!!

I went to the thrift store last week, looking for canvases, and found this, wall-mounted, coat rack.  The panel popped out, so it was easy to "mixed media" it up a little.

If you would like to see the video in "real time", click here.

Supplies

Coat Rack

Liquitex White Gesso

Book Pages and Ephemera

Matte DecouPage

Golden - Quinacidone Magenta, Teal, Cerulean Blue, Green Gold, Primary Magenta, Permanent Rose, 

Americana - Titanium White, Bahama Blue, Blue Chiffon, Sage Green, Titan Buff, Black

Fineliner Bottle

Miscellaneous Stencils

Gel Press Prints

Black Faber-Castell Pitt Pen

White Sakura Gellyroll Pen

Black Charcoal Pencil

Black Oil Pastel

Have a great Monday and a wonderful week.

PEACE!!

Cyndi

Creative Heart Monday - Tiny Dancer

Happy Creative Heart Monday!!

Today, I'm creating piece that is very similar to a larger piece that I did several months ago.  You may have seen the similar piece at the beginning and end of a few videos.  I wanted to do another one.....and I plan to do a series of these dancers (in different poses, of course).

Here we go........



List of Supplies

8" X 8" cradled wooden panel
Gel Press prints
Decoupage
Faber-Castell Big Brush Marker - Dark Grey
DecoArt Media - Paynes Grey, Titan Buff, Cerulean Blue, Cobalt Teal Hue
Americana Acrylics - Neon Pink
Golden - Quinacridone Magenta
Liquitex Gesso - White
Faber-Castell Pitt Pen - Black
Sakura Gellyroll Pen - White
Black Charcoal Pencil

Here's another that I did a couple months ago.

Check out my Facebook Group - Mixed Media Passion.  I would love for you to share your art, or just enjoy the art of others.

Have a great Monday and a wonderful week!

PEACE!

Cyndi

Citra Solv - You can actually use it for cleaning too!

I had never heard of Cita Solv prior to seeing a tutorial on Youtube.  There are so many articles and tutorials about using Citra Solv as a tool for creating some really beautiful art.

I had a hard time finding the right kind of Citra Solv at first.  I finally ordered it online.  I have spent hours pouring and brushing it on National Geographic magazines to alter the photos, turning them into beautiful papers that can be used for collage and other techniques.

A few days ago, I decided to tear my bedroom apart because I had seen 2 spiders and I thought a major cleaning might help.  Did I mention that I HATE spiders?  Anyway, behind my nightstand, I found some kind of disgusting, sticky mess - obviously the remains of something that I spilled a long time ago.  I tried the OxyClean spray, nothing.  I tried to scrape it off and it was so hard that it wouldn't budge.  I was going to go with the, majorly, toxic Goof Off next, but then - wait a minute - Citra Solv practically eats thru paper, maybe I should try it.  I barely touched it and it came right off.  That product is a miracle!  I went through my house like the white tornado.  The stuff smells great.

Who would have thought that you could actually use the product for it's original purpose.

and make art....................................

If you want some, you can buy it online here. 

Collage Couture

I've seen the work of several artists who do collages of women in pretty clothes made out of paper, fabric, flowers, little gems, etc.  So when I was in the bookstore the other day and saw Collage Couture: Techniques for Creating Fashionable Art, I had to get it.

It starts at the beginning teaching you how to sketch a fashion figure (you know, those tall, skinny figures that fashion designers draw for their creations).  Then she moves into drawing clothing, painting backgrounds, choosing colors and styles for clothes, then putting it all together into a piece of art.

The hardest thing for me was choosing the papers.  Then the only scissors that I could find were huge, which made it very difficult to cut out the body and dress.  Next time, I will make sure that I have some very small, very sharp, pointy scissors.

Here's my first attempt.  This was the first project in the book.  I made a couple changes.  She made her background by rubber stamping flowers and the word Vogue.  I didn't have a flower stamp that looked right, so I stenciled some leaves with a few small flowers.  I added a couple silver skeleton leaves.  I used bubble wrap to make the little white cirles and fine black marker to outline the stamped areas and add a couple more flowers.

Here's the most recent art journal page and some zentangling that I did while I was keeping my parents company in the hospital.  Actually, the girls face couldn't be consider zentangle - it's just doodling.

3/12/2013 Art Journal Page

Zentangle

Three Tears

New Collage and Two Girls

My sister came to visit the other day.  She spent the night because her husband was doing a sleep study.  This gave us the opportunity to gossip and create some art.

She taught me how to draw cats and I taught her how to do gel transfers.  She's writing a children's book about a cat that finds a home.  My sister has always been able to paint.  A couple years ago, she gave  me a beautiful hat box that she had painted.

While we gabbed, I taught her about gel medium and she transferred a photocopy of an old map onto a canvas.  It turned out perfectly.

Here's the collage that I just finished.  I started out with two transfers on the blank canvas, then started layering on top.

Last night I did some doodling while watching "Girls" and "Enlightened" on TV.  I'd like to add these girls to a collage.

No Paint? Grab a Flower!

I have been so happy with my azalea bush.  My husband transplanted an azalea bush from a friend's yard, about 7 or 8 years ago.  It usually has a couple little blooms in February each year.  But this year it's in full bloom.  I should say that it WAS in full bloom.

A couple nights ago, the temperature went down to 28 degrees.  The next morning all of the blooms were shrunken and limp.  It was really disappointing.  I decided to pull off all of the dead blossoms when I noticed that my fingers were turning pink from the flowers and I couldn't rub it off.

The light bulb went off in my head and I went running for some water color paper.  I placed a few limp blossoms on the paper and sort of pushed them around with a sponge brush.  The flowers leaked a beautiful pinkish/purple liquid onto the paper.  It looked just like ink.  I kept squishing it around and I think the paper will make a pretty background for a collage, water color, or some other type of mixed media.

I'll post the finished project when I decide how I'm going to use this homemade, flower-ink, background.

Poor, limp azaleas!

Squish the flowers around.

Not bad, no paint, just flower "ink"!