Creative Heart Monday - Spring Flowers Mixed Media

Happy Monday to all of you Creative Hearts!!

Today's project is really colorful and really textured.  I wanted to use some molding paste....so I did...and, quite honestly....I didn't know where to go from there.  This whole thing was kind of a "winging it" piece.

So here it is!




List of Supplies

Golden Hard Molding Paste
Dylusions Ink Sprays - Bubblegum Pink, London Blue
DecoMedia Misters - Primary Magenta, Purple
Golden Fluid Acylic - Black in a Fineliner bottle and, later, in a squeeze bottle
Gelatos - Pink, Orange, Yellow, White
White Liquitex Gesso
Montana Paint Pen - White
Oil Pastel - Ultramarine Blue
Faber-Castell Big Brush Pen - Light Grey, Blue
White Sakura Gellyroll Pen

I forgot to mention this in the video, but I sprayed the piece with a Fixative after I added the Gelatos, because I knew that I would not be able to add the Gellyroll Pen or the Big Brush Markers over the Gelatos or the Dylusions Ink.  Dylusions bleeds thru everything.  This is, actually, a wonderful thing if that is the look that you are going for (which I did want to a certain extent).

For those of you that subscribe to Creative Heart Monday, but do not subscribe to my blog.....I'll give you a "head's up".  I have another video that will go live on March 30th.  I really like this piece.  I wish I could show you a picture of it now, but I have to wait until the 30th.  So, either subscribe to my blog, subscribe to my YouTube Channel, or, just remember to look for me on the 30th!!!!

PEACE!!

Cyndi

Thinking About Flying

Inspired by the works of Kelly Rae Roberts and Susie Blu, I spent this Sunday afternoon trying another face.

I was very patient this time.  I started out with a piece of cardboard (OK, it's the back of a cereal box).   I tried something that I saw in a video by Samantha Kira Harding.  I put gesso on the cardboard, then wrote all over it with Prismacolor Premier markers (she used Copics, but I don't have any), then brushed gesso over the writing.  It smeared some of the marker which looked really pretty and you  could see a sort of ghost image through the gesso.  Then I used stencils and spray ink, acrylic dabbers, and ink dabbers.  I collaged some torn book pages, decorative tissue paper, and a lacy rice paper.  I went over everything with watered down Golden Titan Buff to calm it down a little and make the papers more integrated.

I drew the girl with a charcoal pencil, then painted her face, arms and hair.  After it dried I used a charcoal pencil, Pitt markers, and a white gel pen to draw her facial features.  After I painted the dress, I stamped a butterfly on regular white paper, reduced it, then colored it with markers and glued it to the dress.  I added the wings, some more stamping, and a little molding paste through a plastic grid.

I just need to brush a layer of gloss medium and it will be finished.

You know it's hard to develop one's own style.  I watch a lot of tutorials on Youtube and am addicted to arts/crafts magazines.  When someone is showing you how to do something, naturally, your piece is going to look quite a bit like theirs (just not as good, of course).  I'm guessing that many people gain inspiration and technique from others, then eventually develop their own style.

I'm working on it!!

Spring - When Everything Old is New Again!

Here's last night's art journal page.  I started out by painting some pink flowers with watercolor.  They make watercolor look so easy in the videos.  But no...........it is not easy!!  I decided to add some birds to hide some of my watercolor mess.  Then I kept adding and adding, and it just kept getting worse.

Never one to give up, I decided to start putting glitter on it - hey, what could it hurt?  Then, finally, I reached for the Dylusions spray inks and Liquid Pearls and figured it may not look like what I was going for, but at least it would be colorful.

Spring is a time for starting over.

Material used:
Artists Loft Watercolor pencils
Pigma Micron pens
Rubber stamps
Stickles by Ranger
Liquid Pearls by Ranger
Dylusions Spray Ink
Stencils
Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber
washi tape


Watch how easy this girl makes it look.