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Sunday, June 25, 2017
Art Every Day, June 25 2017
Yesterday, I started playing catch-up with my art every day restart. Today, more images, this time, items 9/365 through 17/365.
Item 9/365: A photograph postcard for one of my Postcrossings mailings. Postcrossings is a worldwide exchange center of for postcards that is fun for all the participants. This particular card is of a road going up a canyon just a couple of miles from my home. This card went to Germany.
Item 10/365: This is another postcard for Postcrossings, one that went to a young girl in Russia. She was very interested in fairy tales and I found this unicorn image and made a postcard from it. Hope she likes it.
Item 11/365: This postcard went to the Netherlands. Brusho was my choice for the background, this time both painted and sprinkled, then I added gold embossing paste through a stencil.
Item 12/365:Watercolor crayon for the 1st layer, then Brusho and finally, acrylic gloss medium. This postcard went to Australia and I wanted to make sure it was waterproofed for the trip.
Item 13/365: Ths postcard is a collage of many types of hand painted and distressed papers. It went to Germany.
Item 14/365: I created this postcard using inks for the background, First I added the inks, then while they were still wet, I covered the inks with crumpled up saran wrap and let the card dry. Then, I added a fern leaf created from translucent embossing paste which I had tinted green. This card went to someone in the US.
Item 15/365:Another photograph of a mountain road near our home. This postcard went to New Zealand.
Item 16/365: This card uses a rubber stamp from Wplus9 designs. The first layer of color in the flowers and leaves is from alcohol markers. After that I did all the shading with colored pencil (one of my favorite mediums). This card went to Taiwan.
Item 17/365: The last entry for today is a journal page. I finally discovered my bird feeder and hung it this week, so this page celebrates that milestone.
Item 9/365: A photograph postcard for one of my Postcrossings mailings. Postcrossings is a worldwide exchange center of for postcards that is fun for all the participants. This particular card is of a road going up a canyon just a couple of miles from my home. This card went to Germany.
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| Indian Creek Road |
Item 10/365: This is another postcard for Postcrossings, one that went to a young girl in Russia. She was very interested in fairy tales and I found this unicorn image and made a postcard from it. Hope she likes it.
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| Unicorn Card sent to Germany |
Item 11/365: This postcard went to the Netherlands. Brusho was my choice for the background, this time both painted and sprinkled, then I added gold embossing paste through a stencil.
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| Art Card sent to the Netherlands |
Item 12/365:Watercolor crayon for the 1st layer, then Brusho and finally, acrylic gloss medium. This postcard went to Australia and I wanted to make sure it was waterproofed for the trip.
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| Art Card sent to Australia |
Item 13/365: Ths postcard is a collage of many types of hand painted and distressed papers. It went to Germany.
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| Art Card sent to Germany |
Item 14/365: I created this postcard using inks for the background, First I added the inks, then while they were still wet, I covered the inks with crumpled up saran wrap and let the card dry. Then, I added a fern leaf created from translucent embossing paste which I had tinted green. This card went to someone in the US.
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| Art Card sent to USA |
Item 15/365:Another photograph of a mountain road near our home. This postcard went to New Zealand.
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| Road in the Big Belt Mountains |
Item 16/365: This card uses a rubber stamp from Wplus9 designs. The first layer of color in the flowers and leaves is from alcohol markers. After that I did all the shading with colored pencil (one of my favorite mediums). This card went to Taiwan.
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| Postcard sent to Taiwan |
Item 17/365: The last entry for today is a journal page. I finally discovered my bird feeder and hung it this week, so this page celebrates that milestone.
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| Bird journal page |
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Quiet Day to Play
Today is really quiet, after the hectic, nearly manic pace of the last 6 weeks. I have been frustrated in not having time to do anything creative. So when I finally have a quiet, rainy day with no demands on my time, I ran wild.
First, I did a bunch of Suminagashi prints using Sumi ink on rice paper to create some wonderfully swirling black and white images. Then, I cut them into smaller pieces, mounted them on black cardstock and then white cardstock to create 25 postcards from the group. Here are a couple of the group:
Then, I wanted to work in bright color for a while, so I did more postcards in some shiny acrylics - Maya Golds -- and stenciled some black dots on them.
The next two also used Maya Gold paints, but in this case, I first texturized the background using gesso through a piece of plastic grid from a bag of Stump Chunks.
While I had the gesso out and a messy palette knife, I applied some gesso to two watercolor paper pieces, and let it dry, then used watercolors over the top and spritzed black watercolor through a stencil. I then turned the ink-covered stencil upside down and printed the excess watercolor on the other card.
The next two are totally abstract color studies using watercolors and the little bit of black Sumi ink still remaining in my cup. I rather like the odd, ink-blot images that happened.
Two more, this time from some new sprays that I just got and wanted to see how they looked on paper. Some of the color formed pools, which I then moved around a bit, and finally accented with a bit of Stickles glitter glue.
I took the very last of the Sumi ink and covered a final piece of watercolor paper. I then did some "subtractive" stenciling (lifting color back off the paper through the stencil) painted the revealed areas a lime green in sort of a haphazard way, and finally created fireworks with some rose-colored Stickles glitter glue.
Sum: 36 postcards ready to go. Whew! And it is amazing how quickly the day passed here in the studio.
First, I did a bunch of Suminagashi prints using Sumi ink on rice paper to create some wonderfully swirling black and white images. Then, I cut them into smaller pieces, mounted them on black cardstock and then white cardstock to create 25 postcards from the group. Here are a couple of the group:
Then, I wanted to work in bright color for a while, so I did more postcards in some shiny acrylics - Maya Golds -- and stenciled some black dots on them.
The next two also used Maya Gold paints, but in this case, I first texturized the background using gesso through a piece of plastic grid from a bag of Stump Chunks.
While I had the gesso out and a messy palette knife, I applied some gesso to two watercolor paper pieces, and let it dry, then used watercolors over the top and spritzed black watercolor through a stencil. I then turned the ink-covered stencil upside down and printed the excess watercolor on the other card.
The next two are totally abstract color studies using watercolors and the little bit of black Sumi ink still remaining in my cup. I rather like the odd, ink-blot images that happened.
Two more, this time from some new sprays that I just got and wanted to see how they looked on paper. Some of the color formed pools, which I then moved around a bit, and finally accented with a bit of Stickles glitter glue.
I took the very last of the Sumi ink and covered a final piece of watercolor paper. I then did some "subtractive" stenciling (lifting color back off the paper through the stencil) painted the revealed areas a lime green in sort of a haphazard way, and finally created fireworks with some rose-colored Stickles glitter glue.
Sum: 36 postcards ready to go. Whew! And it is amazing how quickly the day passed here in the studio.
Friday, June 7, 2013
Back in the Studio
It seems like it has been a year since I had some decent studio time. But the last two weeks have allowed me to grab two full days for the studio, and I've had a very relaxing time. I'm planning a lot more studio time in the next few weeks, now that I've caught up with all the stuff I postponed while on vacation.
A friend gave me a gallon zip-lock bag of quilting scraps. She knows I really enjoy working with scraps, and they are always a challenge for me. This time, I made 31 strip-pieced postcards first. This is one of them:
After finishing them, I had some small scraps still leftover, so I made some crazy-patched postcards from those. Both the strip-pieced and the crazy-patched ones are machine embellished with Superior Threads' Glitter Hologram. I used a about 1 1/2 spools for these cards. I love this thread. Used correctly, it stitches like a dream -- no kinks, no shredding, no breaks. Here is a picture of one of the crazy-patched cards:
Today, I needed some invitations to a party, so I rubber stamped some watercolor paper and hand-painted the stamped image. I made 16 of these:
Isn't this just a delightful stamp? It was a fun way to spend this rainy afternoon, with Tropical Storm Andrea making its way through the region.
A friend gave me a gallon zip-lock bag of quilting scraps. She knows I really enjoy working with scraps, and they are always a challenge for me. This time, I made 31 strip-pieced postcards first. This is one of them:
After finishing them, I had some small scraps still leftover, so I made some crazy-patched postcards from those. Both the strip-pieced and the crazy-patched ones are machine embellished with Superior Threads' Glitter Hologram. I used a about 1 1/2 spools for these cards. I love this thread. Used correctly, it stitches like a dream -- no kinks, no shredding, no breaks. Here is a picture of one of the crazy-patched cards:
Today, I needed some invitations to a party, so I rubber stamped some watercolor paper and hand-painted the stamped image. I made 16 of these:
Isn't this just a delightful stamp? It was a fun way to spend this rainy afternoon, with Tropical Storm Andrea making its way through the region.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
A Few New Pieces
I've had very little time in the studio this week, but I've managed to do a few cards and sketches.
My friend, Nina, got a shipment of inks from Dick Blick, so we got together to do some creative stuff with them. We both worked on a scrap of paper, and at the end of the day, it was quite a mess. But a mess with some potential....
Nina had painted large blocks of copper in two areas to test the opacity/sheerness, and we had both used a calligraphy pen to test the inks. But I liked the scrap of paper and after she left, I played a bit more with it. I added some trees with watercolors and tried out some new Old World Oak Gall Ink I'd gotten from John Neal Booksellers. That made some fairly credible rocks, so I turned the biggest of the copper block areas into a not-very-realistic, but fun, spirit bear walking down the rocky slope. I actually think the bear looks a bit more like an elephant (note the ink dribble by his muzzle/trunk), but what the heck -- elephants don't live on rocky slopes with birch trees. A few blotches of green served as leaves and here is the result:
Another day, I was looking out the studio window and saw a clump of birch trees half-buried in snow. I am so tired of winter, that I decided to make a bit of spring. So...out came the tags, my brushes, some watercolors, and this was the result:
I was working with some Silks Acrylic glazes one day, and decided to stop wasting the beautiful paint that was left on my brush when I changed colors. I got out a piece of 90# watercolor paper and started cleaning my brush off on it. I liked the result, so when I was all done painting, I had a big enough piece of "cleaner" paper to make these two postcards. I know I will be doing this again!
I'm always finding ways to make postcards (yes, I mail a lot of them) and if I can use pieces that didn't work out as planned, I'm even happier. I was working on a watercolor background for my March Calendar Journal pages and it was darker than I wanted, so I put it aside. Then, I decided it would be good as postcards if I added more paint. Layers later, these postcards were the final product.
I got some fantastic new stencils from Joggles, and used one of them, with a couple of colors of Lumiere paints, to liven up this leftover hand-dyed scrap of fabric. Naturally, it is another postcard!
And, last but not least, I have a new book that is great fun. It is called "Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals: A Mixed-Media Workshop with Carla Sonheim" and today I tried my first drawing from the book. I dropped some yellow liquid watercolor onto paper and when it was dry, dropped some blue-green on top of it. After both were dry, they seemed to suggest bird shapes so I gave it a try. It was fun! And totally silly!
I really wish I had more studio time. But then, don't we all?
My friend, Nina, got a shipment of inks from Dick Blick, so we got together to do some creative stuff with them. We both worked on a scrap of paper, and at the end of the day, it was quite a mess. But a mess with some potential....
Nina had painted large blocks of copper in two areas to test the opacity/sheerness, and we had both used a calligraphy pen to test the inks. But I liked the scrap of paper and after she left, I played a bit more with it. I added some trees with watercolors and tried out some new Old World Oak Gall Ink I'd gotten from John Neal Booksellers. That made some fairly credible rocks, so I turned the biggest of the copper block areas into a not-very-realistic, but fun, spirit bear walking down the rocky slope. I actually think the bear looks a bit more like an elephant (note the ink dribble by his muzzle/trunk), but what the heck -- elephants don't live on rocky slopes with birch trees. A few blotches of green served as leaves and here is the result:
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| From Nina and my ink testing experiments on a scrap of paper. |
Another day, I was looking out the studio window and saw a clump of birch trees half-buried in snow. I am so tired of winter, that I decided to make a bit of spring. So...out came the tags, my brushes, some watercolors, and this was the result:
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| Wishing for spring. |
I was working with some Silks Acrylic glazes one day, and decided to stop wasting the beautiful paint that was left on my brush when I changed colors. I got out a piece of 90# watercolor paper and started cleaning my brush off on it. I liked the result, so when I was all done painting, I had a big enough piece of "cleaner" paper to make these two postcards. I know I will be doing this again!
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| Cleaned my paintbrush on watercolor paper...now it's a postcard. |
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| This is the other half of the watercolor paper...another card from just cleaning my brush. Silks Acrylics are so much fun to use. |
I'm always finding ways to make postcards (yes, I mail a lot of them) and if I can use pieces that didn't work out as planned, I'm even happier. I was working on a watercolor background for my March Calendar Journal pages and it was darker than I wanted, so I put it aside. Then, I decided it would be good as postcards if I added more paint. Layers later, these postcards were the final product.
I got some fantastic new stencils from Joggles, and used one of them, with a couple of colors of Lumiere paints, to liven up this leftover hand-dyed scrap of fabric. Naturally, it is another postcard!
And, last but not least, I have a new book that is great fun. It is called "Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals: A Mixed-Media Workshop with Carla Sonheim" and today I tried my first drawing from the book. I dropped some yellow liquid watercolor onto paper and when it was dry, dropped some blue-green on top of it. After both were dry, they seemed to suggest bird shapes so I gave it a try. It was fun! And totally silly!
I really wish I had more studio time. But then, don't we all?
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
A Quiet Week is Such Fun
When things are quiet around here, I have time to work on projects. But sometimes it is a long time between the last time I painted/stitched/dyed/doodled and the next time. To "limber up" my hands, I always do some practice projects first. This week, I've had some quiet time and I have spent some time doing watercolors.
First, here is the cover I made for my journal. I prefer a larger format for my journal, so the cover measures 9 x 12 inches. Since I actually started the journal last fall, I did the cover in autumn colors with drifts of rubber-stamped maple leaves floating across a watercolored rusty palette.
Next up, a more spring-like page. A pair of watercolor plants in early spring greens, graced by a paper butterfly.
I went back and finished the painting of the stargazer lilies that I posted for Easter, added the ombre band of pink on the right, and the hand-lettered name.
I did this batch of watercolor postcards all in one afternoon. First, a whimsical splash of colors to celebrate my GD discovering that she likes watercolors.
Next, a watercolor abstract map.
Then, whimsy took over, and I doodled this card, which simply started as a rubber-stamped hydrangea blossom on a twig.
More whimsey and rubber-stamped work, bits of writing, a few circular stains, and some blobs of pale green gesso.
While I had the gesso out, I did this grove of birch trees.
After that afternoon of drawing and painting, I'd better get back to work while it stays quiet.
First, here is the cover I made for my journal. I prefer a larger format for my journal, so the cover measures 9 x 12 inches. Since I actually started the journal last fall, I did the cover in autumn colors with drifts of rubber-stamped maple leaves floating across a watercolored rusty palette.
Next up, a more spring-like page. A pair of watercolor plants in early spring greens, graced by a paper butterfly.
I went back and finished the painting of the stargazer lilies that I posted for Easter, added the ombre band of pink on the right, and the hand-lettered name.
I did this batch of watercolor postcards all in one afternoon. First, a whimsical splash of colors to celebrate my GD discovering that she likes watercolors.
Next, a watercolor abstract map.
Then, whimsy took over, and I doodled this card, which simply started as a rubber-stamped hydrangea blossom on a twig.
More whimsey and rubber-stamped work, bits of writing, a few circular stains, and some blobs of pale green gesso.
While I had the gesso out, I did this grove of birch trees.
After that afternoon of drawing and painting, I'd better get back to work while it stays quiet.
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