My Creative Endeavors: Liquitex high flower acrylics

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

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!

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Thanks so much for stopping by!

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

THINK SUMMER! JOYFUL SUNFLOWER

Hi Everyone!

Long time no post!

I thought I would share with you how I created this Sunflower painting on Yupo. This stencil is called Joyful Sunflower from The Crafter's workshop. I used Liquitex High Flow Acrylics and Liquitex Fluorescent Soft Body Acrylic paint. All the stencil used are from The Crafter's Workshop.

When I start a new painting I really don't know where it's going.

I don't have a plan. I just paint and see what happens. So I may not remember some of the steps I took even with the pictures.

First I started using gray on the background and wiping some of it away.

Then I decided to add some blue and white and scratch in some swirly circles and it looks like a used a alpha stencil too.

I don't know what I was trying to do here LOL!

I didn't like it so white paint always saves the day!

Covering the white paint I used this stencil to add more texture to the background.

Plus a little silver too.

Here I used a Fineline bottle with a standard tip to add more swirls plus added this stamp with archival inks.

As you can tell, it doesn't look like sunflowers.

Here are the inks and paints I used for this painting.

I love using a brayer on Yupo.

Here I added some greens and blues.

Remember the step when I used the standard tip of the FineLine paint bottle (buy it empty and fill it) and made these swirls? Well, this is what it looks like up close. Cool, right?

I decided to use the brayer on top and it pulled some of the paint off. I love when that happens.

Then I started adding the sunflowers.

I used both the 6x6 and 12x12 sizes.

Love the fluorescent colors!

Here it is finished before I pulled off the tape.

I thought you would like to see some of the texture and color.

The finished painting.

Now to find a frame!

I hope you enjoyed my weird process.

Because I never know where my paintings are going, this one too about 7 hours to complete. I do take breaks to let parts of it dry before I add more. This is 11x14. I would love to do one much larger.