Vintage patterns-digital images and art-art quilts-mixed media
I had a blast with this piece … playing with acrylics … mixing, spreading, spraying, spritzing, brushing, stenciling all in one piece. Mati used gold leaf for her boat but since this is a practice piece I used a piece of gold Mylar from a package of tea bags instead. I glued it onto a pattern of the ship and then glued that onto the piece to give it a bit of solidity. One word of warning … don’t use a heat gun near it … it will shrink.
Faces …. I need a whole lot of practice with faces … I have been sketching them since my teens but painting with acrylics is a very different technique. But I love my background using Violette’s cloud technique. I tore my arcs out of a piece of scrap watercolour paper rather than cutting them to give them a fuzzier outline.
This little book was a lot of fun to make. We were to pick 4 people as our support group to highlight on the book. I chose my two sons and their wives. They spoil me rotten and I let them. Thanks guys and gals :). The original book had doors at crotch level and I decided to change that so made doors to their wonderful large hearts instead.
Fun, fun, fun … seeds of love on Life Book 2015 …. this is my page with lights and darks. I loved this lesson with it’s mix of bright and muddy colours. I’ve included a black and white version to show the tones and values. I used ombre tissue in the background and picked up those colours into the painting itself. The tissue also gave me some wonderful surface texture. Great lesson from Tamara LaPorte.
After finishing this piece this morning I had an epiphany … I am still stuck in the era I stopped painting. I switched to quilting art quilts, mainly landscape which kept up my sketching and drawing skills along with creating my own cross stitch and embroidery patterns. I then moved on to mixed media and digital and designing scrap book kits. I created many a background but have not done any serious painting in a long long time … thus the reason I am stuck. I want to redo many of these pieces and will do, but only after I have enough lessons done to feel mature in that area. It really is a shock to me to find my brain/hand co-ordination is not up to what my mind sees…. humbling is the word. I also feel a need to be wilder and more adventurous. Here is my dream catcher. I love the lace and the feathers and bird in the middle but my background and feathers need to be bolder and wild. I wasn’t going to post this piece and then thought … “It is part of my journey” …so it is here although it feels unfinished.
This was a fun lesson but obviously painting with acrylics is still an issue with me, always has been. I tend to make acrylics into paint book figures and that is what has happened to this little girl. She has a sweet face but there is no maturity in the piece. Practice, practice, practice with acrylics. She reminds me of one of my paper dolls.
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