Original art, tutorials, and more. One, former number cruncher's journey to find her own unique artistic style. I'm going to try it all and see what sticks!
Sometimes, it's difficult to come up with a project for the Monday videos. My husband and I were waiting in the doctor's office earlier this week, and he said "hot air balloons". I haven't any idea, what inspired this thought, but......hot air balloons it is!!
Here we go........
Supplies
11" X 14" Bristol Mixed Media Paper
DecoArt Americana #201412 Stencil
Acrylic Paint - Titanium Buff, Cerulean Blue, Teal
Golden Glossy Gel Medium
Prints made on the Gel Press plate
Black Charcoal Pencil
White Sakura Gellyroll Pen
Today, we are transforming a plain, thrift store, tray into a mixed media art piece with
Gel Press prints. If you would like to see the "Gel Press printing" portion of the video in "real time" click here!
Here we go....
Supplies
12" X 14" Gel Press Plate
Glass Bottomed Tray
Canso Bristol Mixed Media Paper
Matte DecouPage
American Paint - Titanium White, Chiffon Blue, Bahama Blue, Peacock Blue
Golden Fluid Acrylics - Ultramarine Blue, Phaylo Turqouis, Green Gold
Liquitex Basics - Mars Black
Stencils
Miscellaneous Mark Making tools
Black Faber-Castell Pitt Pen
Black Charcoal Pencil
Interior Semi-Gloss Paint - Teal
If you would like to see a "real time" version of the printmaking, check out the link
Today, we have a mixed media piece, using a double canvas, Gel Press prints, and an Elephant Stencil.
My friend picks up canvases for me at thrift stores. This one is really two canvases attached. It was one of those printed canvases that you see at Kirklands, TJ Maxx, Target, etc. I like to get used canvases and gesso over them....which is what I did here.
About a year ago, I discovered Diane Salter on Pinterest. She is fantastic. I thought I would try something kind of Diane Salter-esqe. You will see that mine turns out kind of "wak", but, hey, they can't all be winners.
Here we go................
List of Supplies
Black Gesso
DecouPage
Gel Press prints
DecoMedia Fluid Acrylics - Cobalt Teal Hue, Titan Buff, Raw Umber
DecoArt - Titanium White, Chiffon Blue, Sea Glass
Faber-Castell Pitt Pen - Black
Faber-Castell Big Brush Marker- Black
Black Oil Pastel
I mentioned in the video that I would explain the "elephant" a little better. However, I forgot to take some "still" shots. Anyway, this is what I did.
I used an elephant mask from StencilGirl, traced around in on a piece of paper, made a, reduced, copy on cardstock, so that it would fit the canvas. I drew lines, dividing up the elephant, cut them out and number them. Then, using the cut up pieces at stencils, I cut the shapes out of Gel Press prints (and numbered them on the back). This made it easier to piece the elephant together on the canvas. I hope that this makes sense. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
