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April 2, 2014 · 5:12 pm

Feeling Springy

Are you with me? Feeling springy yet? It is happening slowly but surely in my area–a day of sunny gorgeousness and then a few days of the dreary clouds. I see nature changing her coat from brown and drab to colorful and light and it does my spirit good. How does the change of seasons affect your art and creativity?

For me I notice my color palette changes to more brights and even more sparkle. I always love flowers but I love them even more in spring and summer.

I did the art journal page above for my last video as Swirlydoos Guest Educator for March. I really wanted to use one of the feathers from the art journal starter kit and some of the printed pages included in the Finnabair art journal. This was a simple page and it was the first time I’d ever colored a feather (I used a Lindy’s Stamp Gang mist held high above the feather so it didn’t get too saturated). Here is the facing page I did simultaneously with this one.

I used a lacy leaf and many layers of mediums for this page. I really like the symmetry of this leaf facing the feather page with their similar sizes and spine down the middle. I cross-pollinated colors from each page to the other as well. Here’s a pic of the pages next to each other.

Here is the next page I did in this particular journal–can you tell the season has been changing?

I had a great time playing with deli paper and various dry and heat embossing techniques, paints, and glazes. Those bright colors energize me!

Here is a page out of my usual art journal–

One of my internet friends is Patti Tolley Parrish of Inky Obsessions. I really like her art endeavors and her videos brighten my day every time I watch them. She recently released a new line of her own stencil designs from istencils.com and they are FAB! I used the Infinity design for this page with both spray mist (bottom right) and with glass bead gel (top left). The background was done with all Gelatos and the flowers are embossed and inked deli paper.

Lastly, I went to a paint and sip painting party a few weeks ago and did this painting. It was hugely fun to go with some girlfriends and follow along the step by step process. Don’t look too closely or the illusion that I am any kind of painter will be broken–haha!

Thanks for visiting and sharing part of your day with me!

Art Out With Your HeART Out

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March 18, 2013 · 8:49 pm

Spring Has Sprung

Well at least in MY art shack! I am loving that there are warmer and sunnier days popping up more often. It has put me in the mood for vibrant colors and fresh new starts. I am so energized by sunshine. After the shorter and darker days of winter I love the renewal spring brings in nature and in my spirit as well.

Recently I created a mixed media canvas. The first one I’ve ever done completely on my own. I created one other mixed media canvas a couple of years ago at an art retreat class I attended, but that one was under the guidance and supervision of a wonderful and talented instructor (Kim Geiser of Persimmons Studio). This time I was under the influence of only myself and my sunshine energized spirit…. and, well, some chocolate. Rich, creamy dark chocolate….but I digress–back to the story of my canvas. A few months ago I was introduced to the Faber-Castell Gelatos by the Swirlydoos Kit Club (swirlydoos.com). I’d heard of gelatos and actually even had one in my possession from a gift bag I’d received at an art retreat, but I’d never actually tried it out. I received several gelatos in the kit from Swirlydoos and I’d had a chance to experiment with them and had fallen in love with them. Gelatos are water-soluble creamy crayon-type yummy goodness that come in many colors–many rich, vibrant, and very tempting colors. I knew I wanted to use gelatos to make a background for whatever I was going to do on my small (half-off clearance bin) canvas and I knew I wanted to use a particular flower stem that I had in my stash–again from Swirlydoos–so I set about working on my canvas. I primed my canvas with white gesso and used a combination of coloring and spritzing with water and blended with a brush.

I had no firm plan so I kept experimenting with the water and combining the different gelato colors and was finally satisfied with my background.

I wanted to add some texture so I got out my Golden Crackle Paste and a couple of Crafters Workshop stencils and some Luminarte Silks acrylic glazes. Here is the result:

I liked that the elements of the stencils I chose were of similar size and had a similar pattern.

Once I finished my background setup I wanted to incorporate my flower stem inspiration piece, some textured packing material, and some delicate butterflies I had previously misted. Over the next few days I worked on my canvas off and on in between other projects. I arranged, I rearranged. I added, I subtracted. I adhered my flower inspiration but I just couldn’t decide WHAT NEXT??? So I did what I often do when I’m troubled by ~~anything~~ a major dilemma—retail therapy. Art supply retail therapy. During the course of my “therapy” I found some really gorgeous and so so so beautiful trims in the color palette I was using on this project. It was the inspiration I needed and my project FLOWED!

I added my packing material.