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YUPO + BLACK GESSO = HAPPINESS

This piece of Yupo originally was another painting.

When I'm not happy with a painting, I put it to the side and eventually I finish it or BLACK gesso to the rescue.

 

TCW's Black Gesso is matte opaque so it's a perfect medium to use to start fresh.  Also, remember when you cover over a painting it gives you extra texture from the original painting which I love.

 

I used TCW's Mini Cactus and Live Laugh Love stencils. 

 

 

 

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JEALOUSY - A Painting on Yupo

Hi. I as in my art room this weekend and loving every minute. My back is finally starting to heal and I can play a lot longer.

Today I took a painting on Yupo that didn't work out and painted over it with black Gesso by The Crafter's Workshop. Slowly started adding paint with a brayer. Green seemed to be the dominant color and the word Jealousy came to me as the title.

 

You can see that I used the Daisy Chain stencil on the left hand side. Just the center of the stencil. I love using just a portion of a stencil in my art. Its very rare I use the whole stencil.

 

The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with stencils and mediums to create this project.

The opinions I share are solely my own because I do love to use them.

 

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The Crafter's Workshop has Mixed Media Goodies!!!

Hi Everyone!

The Crafter's Workshop has new Mixed Media Mediums and they are lots of fun to work with.

I used the gel for an image transfer. I printed out my photo of a ferris wheel, added gel medium to my canvas and adhered the photo. When it was dry, I sprayed it with water and gently rubbed off the paper.

Although the gel medium is gloss it doesn't come through that way with the image transfer.

You can also use it as glue. Its what I used to attached the birds.

You can see more uses for the gel medium by reading my post on The Crafter's Workshop Blog.

Here is the finished piece.

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Don't forget to checkout more uses for the gel medium by clicking HERE!

The Crafter's Workshop provided me with stencils and mediums to create this project.

The opinions I share are solely my own because I do love to use them.

DecoArt Under The Sea Challenge

DecoArt Under The Sea Challange.

This was so much fun to create and so far outside my comfort zone. 

Here are the products I used.

DecoArt Products: Americana Multisurface, Media Fluid Acrylics, Americana Decou-page, Liquid Glass, Gesso, Dazzling Metallica.

Graphics by: Laura Carson of Artfully Musing and Alphastamps 
Freubels-freebies, and DigitalCollageSheets.com.

I would have never been able to finish this if it wasn't for a great teacher, Jackie P. Neal. 

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Oh Crap, She's Up!

Hi Everyone!

I wanted to share a canvas panel I created with a new stamp from Yvonne Blair Designs for Impression Obsession Rubber Stamps.

 

Sorry to say I don't have any step out pictures. I was in the zone and it just happened. I think many of my favorite pieces are made that way.

 

I can tell you I used the ColourArt Silks Acrylic Glazes on this piece. The vintage image was a gift from my art sister +Jackie P Neal.  I added little gold beads to her gown while it was still wet and pressed them in a little. So far they've stayed on.

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Be Weird, Be Random: An Art Journal Page

Hi Everyone. Happy July!

Today I'm showing you what I created for The Crafter's Workshop.

 

You can see my post HERE and while you're there check out the amazing art the Design Team is creating!.

 

I love this spread and now have an idea for a canvas.

 

 

 

 

 

The blue on the Flamingo was completely by accident.

 

 

 

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The opinions I share are solely my own because I do love to use them.

 

 

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YUPO: Black, White and Red All Over

I'm almost positive that Yupo is my favorite substrate. 

When I take a piece out I can start right away.

No thinking.

Start with black and scrape in some writing.

Add white and some more writing.

More black, writing, and then use a handmade stencil and take off some paint. 

Now add a red, well it's a hue of red.

I just couldn't use a true red, not yet.

And more writing plus used Balzer Bit - Messy Script from The Crafter's Workshop with a baby wipe and take some of the red off.

Finished.

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The Crafter's Workshop provided me with stencils to create this project. 

The opinions I share are solely my own because I do love to use them.

uP cLoSe AnD pErSoNaL

For me, as an artist, the hardest part of creating art is letting someone have or buy one of my paintings.

My art are like children each created differently.

Can't be duplicated.

So it's hard to let them go.

I love looking at close-ups of my paintings.

The layers and brush strokes or in this case brayer strokes give me more inspiration.

Most of the time I paint intuitively.

I lose complete track and time.

This year I let four paintings go for a good cause.

They were put in a raffle.

It felt good.

It felt even better that those who won my paintings actually loved them.

Yes, I was afraid no one would like them.

I may let more go to new homes.

My mother was an artist.

Although she's no longer with us, she's my biggest fan along with my daughter, of course.

Sometimes she had a hard time letting her art go.

This is one of her paintings called The Ugly Duckling.

She painted this piece by a photograph she took.

She worked full time and during her lunch time she took pictures for inspiration.

This was damaged during an art show.

It started to rain and she didn't get it out of the rain fast enough so it's a little water damaged.

These small paintings I have in my house.

This one was painted on black paper with only white paint.

She loved painting animals.

When she started selling her art again, she wanted to find something different that she can sell but didn't take a lot of time to create.

She started painting on milk bottle caps.

My father would wash the caps, sand the inside of the cap, and glue the magnet in place before she started to paint each one.

She started selling them at the church's craft show.

People loved them so much they would come to church on Sunday giving her baggies full of caps.

She even painted special orders.

Customers would give her photographs of their pets.

This was the first one she tried.

This was my dog, Heidi, as a puppy.

As you can see her art work was amazing.

Have you sold your art?

Was it hard to let it go?

Where do you sell your art?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Me too!

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I can't wait to read your comments!

A Do Over. Before and After

Hi Everyone!

One thing you don't know about me.

I repaint finished paintings.

Yes I do.

When I don't like a painting once I finished it, I usually put it aside and leave for a while.

This painting I completed in October 2014.

I don't like it.

I didn't like all the blue. 

At the time, I didn't know what to do next.

Well, I could have just painted the whole thing white but decided to just wait.

To change it, I added some light blue, white and black.

The changes made all the texture pop.

I love it.

Stayed tuned for me Do Overs!

I've been changing many paintings.

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Flowers in my art journal

Hello.

Today I have a couple of pages from my art journal to show you.

I worked on both pages at the same time.

When something was drying on the left, I worked on the right.

I saw a photograph of flowers in a field and trying from memory to recreate it.

Not sure if I was completely successful but I love this page.

This flower was created because I spilled paint on the page.

I used an old credit card to spread the paint.

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