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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A New Mixed Media Painting with Monoprints

Hello!

Do you have routine when you create a painting? I paint 98% of all my substrates with black gesso. I like the peak through of the black (if it shows) and the way it makes the colors pop.

 

 

95% of the time I cover the black with a color and scribble in the wet paint.

Love to scribble!

 



 

Then I start adding more texture. These lines were created with black paint on cardboard.

After that its whatever my muse wants me to do. This time I chose from my stash some leftover monoprints to add to it. I usually keep to a favorite color combination.

Of course, I had to add more scribbles and it's done!

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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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