Creating a Koi Pond with Stencils

One (there are many) favorite artist is, Claude Monet. I am so drawn to his paintings especially his water lilies. I could stare at them forever and so I decided to create my own water lilies painting.

I started with a 11x14 cradled wood board and painted in with TCW Black Gesso. Then using acrylic inks and water added green, yellow and some blue to the background.  When all the paint dried I used TCW433 Wildflowers stencil to the background.

Using modeling paste I added the fish from TCW499 Koi Pond stencil. 



 

 

 

 

After the modeling paste completely dried I painted the fish and then added the lily pads.

 

 

 

Here is a close up of the fish. 

 

I also added flowers to the lily pads with modeling paste and painted them in magenta.

Here is the finished piece. I really enjoyed creating this and there will be more in the future.

 

This painting was put up for a Breast Cancer auction where one lucky winner took it home.

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Purple Water Lilies - SOLD

Hi Everyone!

I created this 12x12 canvas for a breast cancer event that was held in October.  The wonderful thing is that I sold it before the event.

It was very exciting for me and the event!

 

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.

 

Created on a 12x12 stretched canvas, acrylic paints, modeling paste, and The Crafter's Workshop stencils (Koi Pond, Wildflowers, Lotus Blossom, Messy Script Bit)

 

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Monet Water Lillies - MY WAY

Hi Everyone!

I'm very excited to show you my latest painting.

I've always loved Monet's Water Lillies paintings and could stare at them forever. Being on The Crafter's Workshop Design Team I have lots of stencils and decided it's time to create my own.

 

 

Using the Koi Pond  and the Wildflowers stencils, I created this painting.  The lilies are from the Whimsical Shrooms stencil and I added them with modeling paste.

 

This piece was created on a Birch wood cradled panel.

 

 



I lightened up the photo so you can see all the lily pads.

 

I'm now working on a series of these paintings.

I think I'm addicted.

 

Thank you so much for stopping by!

 

 

The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with stencils to create these projects.

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

 

 

 



What would you put in your pond?

Koi.

They come in such lovely colors but very expensive.

So I put painted my pond and chose the colors of my Koi.

This painting was created in Yupo with

Liquitex High Flow and Fluorescent Soft Body Acrylics

TCW499 Koi Pond stencil by The Crafter's Workshop 

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.

Sorry no step out pictures.

I was lost in the painting.

You can see all the new Crafter's Workshop stencils HERE!

And buy them at Scrapbook.com.

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One Fish, Two Fish, Pink and Orange Fish?!?!

Hi Everyone! 

I've always be fascinated with Koi.
I love looking into the water and see all the colors.

This piece was created on mixed media paper, acrylic inks, water, and Koi Pond stencil from The Crafter's Workshop.

The background was created by spraying the paper with water and dropping acrylic paint into the water and watching it spread. I just continued until I like how it looked. Drying the layers in between.

Anytime I'm putting a focal image from a stencil on a cool background, I start by adding it with white paint. I do that so the colors on top remain nice and bright.

Before painting the Koi, I added the lily pads.

I'm hooked on fluorescent colors (Liquitex Soft Body) and these are the colors I used for the Koi. 

These fish have about three layers of paint.

I kept changing the colors back and forth.

I finally settled on these colors.

You see more of the background in this picture.

This piece is 11" x 14". 

I still have a few more things to add before I can say it's complete.

I do love it.

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A Fish Pond: Koi

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I've been playing in my art journals lately.

I like to use them for idea and just play time.

 

I started with this journal page.

The background was created with DecoArt's Misters.

 

This is another page I created with DecoArt's Misters and TCW Stencil #242 Damask.

 

 

I decided it was a great color for fish.

I took my TCW Stencil #499s Koi Pond and traced the fish onto the paper.

I decided not to do anything more to them but just cut them out of the paper.

 

 

Once I was all done cutting, I added them to the journal page.

 

Here is a close up of  the background.

 

Fish

 

Very different for me lately.

I usually have lots of layers in the background.

 

 

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