Imagine: Mixed Media on Paper

I'm up on The Crafters Workshop blog today. I created a multi-layered piece using the new TCW845 Wisteria designed by Carmen Medlin.

Using TCW Light & Fluffy Modeling Paste I added layers of Wisteria on the paper. The secret is waiting for it to dry before adding any more layers to the piece. Here you can see I added the 12x12 and 6x6 sizes of this stencil.

When you the modeling paste is wet again either with water or paint it soaks it up so you can add great depth of color.

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.

I hope you head over the TCW blog to see my post and check out the rest of the Design Teams Projects.

You can see all the New TCW Winter 2019 stencils on Scrapbook.com.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Butterflies 2: Mixed Media Canvas

Sometimes creating art and blogging don't mix. I'm creating lots of art but I don't have pictures of my process so I feel like I shouldn't share it. I know...share it anyway.  But today's post I have a few pictures of my process YAY!!!

   

I started this piece using a 12"x 12" cradled wood panel. Almost all my art starts with painting the substrate black. I love the way the colors pop off black so that why I start this way. This piece I painted over the black with green, white, and yellow. The globe is from a napkin and the hot air balloon is a stamp on tissue paper I found in my stash. The bottom is a mixed of book pages, music paper, tape, and scrap paper.  

I used The Crafters Workshop (TCW) Matte Gel Medium to adhere all the bits and pieces of paper. All the other marks were created by using TCW stencils: Ornate Border TCW785 and Distressed Details TCW754.

In the photo below the paint was dry and I started adding rub-ons. I believe they are from Tim Holtz but I don't keep any of my packaging so I'm not sure. I also added more yellow paint and my favorite color, black. I love the darkness and looking up to the top of the canvas to the light.

With the addition of black paint I decided to add more from the Ornate Borders stencil and added more rub-ons.  If you notice I used all the words from the rub-on page. I love to do that although its expensive having to buy them all over again.  I also use TCW gel medium over the rub-ons so they stay on permanently.  The butterflies are from my stash.

Here is the finished piece again. The only change I'm going to make is to add shadows to the butterfly wings.

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop and read to the end of this post. I truly appreciate it. If you have any questions, please leave me a comment.

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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BEGIN, You Just Have to Start

Today's mixed media painting I completed a while ago. I remember in the beginning I didn't know what I was going to do. I felt completely lost and uninspired.

It started by painting a wood panel with TCW Black Gesso. Let it dry and that's where it stopped for the day.

The next day I came back and added leftover scrap papers and monoprints in blues and blacks. I pulled out all my metallic paints and then inspiration hit.

Searching through the sale racks in my local arts and crafts store, I found these metal wings. To add texture to them I added a layer of metallic embossing powder and while the embossing powder was still hot I added a few tiny metallic beads.

To add more texture to the background I used a stencil from The Crafters Workshop called Geo Landscape (TCW673) with TCW Black Modeling Paste. When it dried I added more metallic paints.

I auditioned the wings to see where I wanted them and adhered them with E6000.

I used Seth Apter's Word Circles1 stamp and die set by Spellbinders to create the center. Around the "begin" circle I used wire, beads, stars and in the what glue I added tiny metallic beads.

I also added a few pearls glued on top of tiny washers.

On the Geo Landscape stencil there are circles and I used one for behind the wings.

I always try to make sure my sides are finished too.

Here is the center piece showing you the wings and stencil.

 

The finished piece was very hard to photograph with all the metallic paints and embellishments.

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.

 

 

I have two more wood panels to finish using Seth Apter's Circle 1 stamps and die. Hopefully, I'll finish them in 2018!

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

 

 



Mixed Media Painting - TCW Design Team Project

Hi Everyone!

Just sharing my Design Team project for The Crafter's Workshop.

It was created using their new stencil called Rose Garden and it's on mixed media paper. 

You can see my tutorial on The Crafters Workshop Blog.

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.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

12x12 Canvas: Squared

Hello.

I love Abstract and I've been creating quite a few mixed media Abstracts.  Here is one called Squared. It is very dark with splashes of color.

As you can see I used crackle paste at the bottom and the paints seeped into all the cracks.

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.

I used TCW561, Square Scrolls to compete this canvas.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

It's Time for Spring! Let's Make a Birds Nest!

On The Crafter's Workshop blog I have a post on how I created these two pieces.

Head on over and take a peak!

Thanks so much for stopping by TCW Blog!

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.

Numbers: A Mixed Media Canvas

This post was going to be a before and after.

I guess I hated this canvas so much I never took a picture of it so I don't have the before.

It was in browns and blues. It was originally created for Donna Downey's 10x10x10 Online Workshop.  I kept to her colors because those were outside my comfort zone.

There are a few canvases that I love and some I've been slowing repainting them.

I decided to keep it to black and white.

I love how the ink spreads around the numbers.

I added some scribbles.

Scratched and wiped on and off paint.

Lots of layers.

Now I love this canvas.

It's more me.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by!

Landscape, Trees and Texture

Hello!

Today I'm exciting to show my newest painting.

You can see from the picture that there is lots of texture.
I painted over another painting.
It just wasn't working so gesso to the rescue!

The trees is a stamp from StampinUp.
I stamped them on tissue paper and cut out what I didn't want.

Here is the list of all the DecoArt Products I used.
You have to try these products! Love them.

DecoArt Media:
Modeling Paste
Crackle Paint
Fluid Acrylics:
Titanium White
Primary Cyan
Dark Grey Value 3
Carbon Black
Burnt Umber
DecoArt Traditions:
Raw Umber

Here are some close ups of the texture and colors.

You can't even tell there is tissue paper on the painting.

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A Fun Collaborative Piece

Hi Everyone!

My god-daughter, Cassidy, was here and we had a few hours to hang out and create some art.

Once we stopped talking, we decided to do a collaborative piece.

We have so much fun with it.

This was the first time we kept to the same colors and I didn't paint the whole thing black.

 

 

We created it on a piece of 11x14 mixed media paper.

She took it home to have framed to hang on her new bedroom wall.

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!