New art supplies to play with: sea sponges!!!! Great for creating texture, either using the sponge as the stamp and putting ink on it, or dabbing the sponge into wet ink or paint
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What would you do with your time if you didn’t need money or attention?
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24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas Update: now happy with sky (again)
Had a really good art session last night, where I reworked the sky to a state I’m happy with (again)
24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas Update: image transfer tests
Day 4 & 5 of the #The21dayProject
I watched a video by Laly Mille, my favorite mixed media artist, on how she uses
24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas Update: spray fixative
Day 3 of the #The21dayProject
My canvas on my little easel* and the can of fixative. It doesn’t say “workable fixative” but I
24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas Update: stop messing with it and let it dry overnight
End of Day 2 of #The21dayProject
How this evening ‘s session ended
How this evening’s session
24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas Update: more black edges and ink …. Which takes FOREVER to dry 🤣
Also …. when you keep breaking the regular All Black pencil so you bring out the big
24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas Update: Distress Ink
Day 1 of #The21dayProject to finish this canvas.
Started experimenting on the hills.
Outline edge with a Stabilo All Black. Love this pencil. It
24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas Update: paint sky (again), adding paper
More acrylic paint on the sky, a dark blue stencil that barely shows up, some blue Posca pen, and origami paper.
24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas Update: base colors on canvas and beginning layers
Painted in the main color blocks with the acrylic paint. A lot of this will get covered up, but
24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas Update: selecting colors
In the reference photo, it’s day. I want to put in stars, so my art will be a version of night. That means
24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas Update:
I took the colored sketch I drew in Procreate and divided it into a grid of 6. Printed these out and used them with carbon paper
Opened up my gelli plate box and am reviewing current supplies and tools AKA cleaning up causes a mess. 😬
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A 12” x 12” mixed media on canvas board. This was the one piece I finished in 2023 for the Undying Tales art challenge I mentioned yesterday.
The mountains are
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This is another fabric art on an 8” x 10” art board. Acrylic background, Mom’s quilt scraps for fabric. I love the patterns and colors of fabric, I just
I drew the concept sketch for my mixed media art in Procreate today. This concept is what I’ll grid out and transfer to the 24” x 30” canvas (future notes).
For this
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This is 5” x 7” piece I did in 2020. The background is acrylic paint on art board. The cactus is from scrap fabric from my mom’s quilts. This
Have in mind a mixed media piece I want to create based on a photo a friend sent me. Went to the art store and looked wood panels and canvases.
Apparently my years
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One of the mixed media 1920s French Fashion nostriches I created for last year’s Nostrich November art challenge.
I drew the nostrich based on a vintage fashion catalog. Printed
YAMA (mountain) - the first final collage 4” x 4” 🎉
Tried so many ways to use that white wave washi tape as an obi and none of them felt right. Turns out it was
