rustypuppyart

A collection of 34 posts

Sep 19, 2024

24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas…

24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas…

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

Sep 19, 2024

24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas…

24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas…

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

Sep 18, 2024

24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas…

24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas…

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

Sep 17, 2024

24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas…

24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas…

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

Sep 14, 2024

24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas…

24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas…

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.

Sep 13, 2024

24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas…

24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas…

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

Sep 11, 2024

24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas…

24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas…

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

Sep 10, 2024

24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas…

24” x 30” Mixed Media Canvas…

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

Sep 5, 2024

Sharing Past Art… this is an…

Sharing Past Art… this is an…

Sharing Past Art… this is an acrylic painting from a BYOB group painting sessions I attended in 2015. It was interesting to see how everyone interpreted the same image. Thanks to decades of

Sep 3, 2024

Sharing Past Art ……

Sharing Past Art ……

Sharing Past Art … Little 3” x 3” pencil and watercolor piece I did for an online class. #art #artstr #rustypuppyart #watercolor #🖼️…

Sep 2, 2024

Sharing Past Art ……

Sharing Past Art ……

Sharing Past Art … 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

Sep 2, 2024

Did my 60 minutes of walking.…

Did my 60 minutes of walking.…

Did my 60 minutes of walking. Wanted to do a quick sketch of a tortoise to commemorate. Decided to use Procreate on my iPad for more practice with the app. An hour later,

Sep 1, 2024

Sharing Past Art…

Sharing Past Art…

Sharing Past Art… 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

Aug 31, 2024

I drew the concept sketch for…

I drew the concept sketch for…

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

Aug 31, 2024

Sharing Past Art…

Sharing Past Art…

Sharing Past Art… 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

Aug 30, 2024

Have in mind a mixed media…

Have in mind a mixed media…

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

Aug 29, 2024

Sharing Past Art…

Sharing Past Art…

Sharing Past Art… 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

Aug 27, 2024

Sharing Past Art… 7/7

Sharing Past Art… 7/7

Sharing Past Art… 7/7 Last note about these past collages. There’s more in the book, but the ones I’ve been sharing represent the range I had at the time. It