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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.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Yupo Again: Content

I think Yupo is my favorite to work with.

I can use it all the time.

This piece started like this.

Then I started mark making, using baby wipes to take some paint away, then added more paint.

TCW Balzer Bits - Paint Strokes

In the end I just covered it with black ink and started again.

It ended up like this.

TCW Mini Circle Grid

Seth Apter Numbers Stencil (Content)

Thank so much for taking the time to stop by!

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

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

Yupo and Orange Slices

Here is another painting I created with a new 2016 The Crafter's Workshop stencil.

The stencil image is orange slices by Carmen Medlin.

You can see all the new 2016 stencil designs on TCW's blog if you click HERE

Yupo, India Inks, Acrylic Paints

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Textures Backgrounds and Acrylic Inks

Hi!!!

I can't wait to show you these background I made.

I love making cards but I don't like to make them so three dimensional that it costs more to the mail them.

Using Liquitex Super Heavy Gesso and Acrylic Inks I created really cool textured backgrounds in some fun colors. 

 

I don't have step by step pictures because I was playing and didn't know if it would work.

 

I cut mixed media paper to fit the front of the card.

I added the Believe Script stencil to the background with black acrylic paint.

Using a texture tool I spread super heavy gesso on the card and while it was still wet I dropped paint on and let it do it's thing.

 

Here is a close up.

 

On each card I added:

Mini Shadow Tree Stencil from The Crafter's Workshop

Raven stamp from Stampers Anonymous-Tim Holtz Halloween Blueprint stamp set

 

The Raven I stamped on mixed media paper, cut it out, used paint to add color and to add something different I used TCW stencils (sorry don't remember which stencils I used) to add designs to each bird.  I used a stamp from Red Lead Paperworks called Scary Stories with black archival ink and cut out the words and attached them to the card.

 

 

This one I dropped the inks and used the texture tool though the gesso.

 

 

 

This picture shows you the super heavy gesso still wet with inks.

If I remember I sprayed this with water to see what would happen.

 

 

 

They were so much fun to create.

Not at all my spooky colors I like to use.

 

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