I sketched this one out last night, and painted today. Not my usual style at all, but the husband said 'stick with it' which I think meant he liked it. Its a mixed media piece on A4 mixed media paper. Last night I caught up on Art Geeks with Gulfsprite, I am a member of Art Geeks as I have been for some time and also take part in many of Christy's classes, she is a super teacher you can find out more on the website here Gulfsprite
As usual I was very inspired last night, and discovered one of my problems of late was my dislike of my current art journal, there is nothing wrong with the journal itself, but as I am so far through it now and the paper was not really meant for so much heavy collage and paint it had got really hard to work with due to the bulk. Human nature says its such a waste not to use up all the paper in the book... but my total dislike of the whole thing was stopping me bothering at all. So, today I threw all caution to the wind and got out a new journal. This one is 40 sheets of 'kraft paper' so a different substrate to work on, but its spiral bound so hopefully will do better.
Gives me a good excuse to decorate the front..
Just need to varnish and then good to go. I am hoping to continue in my new style in here before 'maybe' moving back to the canvas again.
So, first of all here is my new canvas I began yesterday, just a few layers of paint, spray ink and pattern. The light has done it no favours.. but here it is today..
This is the cool layers of blue's and greens I used acrylic inks which are nice and bright, think I am in shadow here though, then started with some white ready to do some white and black mark making next.
Also still working on the HUGE one, this is how it looked yesterday..
..and then today added quite a bit of water spray along with the cool colour inks to see how it went.. I can see a few idea's forming here...
Also started a couple of 9" x 7" Acrylic paper pages.. there is no waste paint or ink here!
Notice my colours seem to be getting a lot bolder?
Had a very productive day today, now usually Thursday is not one of the good days - have a lot on in the 'real life' thing and not so much free time, but less time on PC makes for more time in art room, as does salad for tea (again) LOL.
Finally, if blogger will let me.. I have done the first 2 layers in this weeks Lifebook lesson with Effy Wild.. enjoying this one too.
Planning to watch the next video tonight ready for phase 3 tomorrow...
So, there is nothing actually finished as yet but plenty going on and lots of fun being had. I will be adding my 3rd little painting to my Etsy shop (see right) tomorrow too, I sold yesterday's art postcard along with a bag too so that was a good day.
Better think about feeding the husband soon, good job he does not mind salad and pasta..
I had a finishing off day today. This page was almost done, just a few finer details. I like the hair and love the quote and the coloured background.. so this is going to find its way onto a canvas at some point in the future. In case you cannot make out the writing it says "I am one of those people who just cant help getting a kick out of life, even when its a kick in the teeth" by Polly Adler. This really made me smile.
Also finished off this page today in my smaller dylusions journal - I do prefer to work on a larger scale as a rule but the variety is often a good thing I find.
I do like the faces on these two, plenty of practice is always a good thing. I was going to show the progress I am making on the HUGE canvas, but alas I forgot to resize the photo I took so that will have to wait for another time - reading Flora Bowley's book I got a new tip on the paints I was using that were not really flowing as I had hoped, so I did a new layer or two today with different paints and had much better progress. So much so that I began another canvas too, this one is 20" x 16" so not as big, but enough for me.
Many of my new pals in the Art101 group find the free painting difficult to do.. I totally love it, I feel I was just born to do this, shame I didnt discover it over 40 years ago really, life would have been a lot different. I am far happier now than I have been in a very long time and I do believe it shows in the art works I am producing. Joy really does show on a page...
Yes, its just an art postcard, but its now in my Etsy shop - the first of my artworks for sale. From joining the Art101 group this was the intention and with the encouragement of the wonderful artists in the group I have made a start, you can find my very first item here Etsy Shop Link
My prices are very good as I just want to share my art and would be totally thrilled if anyone loved it enough to want it too. But be warned, when I am a household name I will of course be adding 'zero's' to those prices. I cannot sell canvas as yet, as need to raise some funds for proper packaging - I am also starting to reduce all the prices on my bags to 'next to nothing' to make some space in the spare room, and free up the boxes they are kept in.
Here is one of the canvas I made a very layered background on before finishing her off, she just needs some varnish now then she is good to go..
Of course it is that time of year where I cannot do as much art as I would like as the room is just too hot to work in for long, and I am STILL waiting for the work to be done on my ceiling and decorating, now 'meant' to be next week but I wont hold my breath - only waited since February for this..
I know most people in the UK love the warmer weather but afraid I do not, my house is like a small furnace and my 'quiet' morning dog walk isnt so quiet, which is not an easy walk with a difficult dog. In an ideal world I would either move out to the top of Scotland from June - September or just go live there for good, damn those lottery numbers!
