Weekend fun

Here are some things I've been working on this weekend...

A cute little doodle tag. Lots of time for such a small piece, but it was very fun.

I planned on turning this canvas into a similar piece – doodles and dots and swirls...

but it's kind of calling me in a different direction. I'm going to sit with it some more and see where I decide to go with it.

This is a work in progress from my art journal. I glued a magazine ad to the page, covered it with gesso and then painted over it using my fat Pitt pens/brushes and some black ink. Not sure what else I'm going to do to it, but I really like how it looks. 

And here's something I've been working on for a little while. 

This is before I messed with the hair/circles area. I'm not happy with what I did, so I'm going to fix it, but I love love love how it looks here. The texture is from tissue paper. I LOVE what that does to the painting. I think it adds an incredible amount of interest. 

I hope you did something fun this weekend!

Expressing my Inner Jackson Pollock

A.K.A Making a Mess:

I was in a "smear a bunch of thick paint on a canvas" mood then followed it up with a "how about flinging some paint" mood.

This is what I like to call the Full Of Possibilities stage.

Oh who am I kidding? This is just me making a mess. It's fun; you should try it some time!

WIP – Messy Daisies and Poppies

16" x 20" canvas

I put the book paper on this canvas last night using matte gel medium. It's from a really old copy of the works of William Shakespeare. For real. Making art with art. I just blew your mind.

ANYway.

Tonight I picked some inspiration images and started finger painting. It's my favorite way to paint... except when my favorite way is with brushes. Or watercolor pencils. Or... You get the idea.

But honestly, I love freedom and messiness of painting with my fingers. It was a great way to spend an hour on a Friday night!

Making a Mess

Sometimes winging it means making a mess. Eh, it happens. I wanted to play with modeling paste and a sketch I'd scribbled out months ago, so I did. And it got ugly. I tried to cover things up, add, drip, shade, but it just never came together.


Getting started. See my sketch reference to the left. That cardboard ring is from a roll of stickers from work. I used it as the template for the face. I used the green circle thingy as a stencil for the modeling paste.


I used my water soluble wax pastels to color in the face and hair.


You can kind of see where I'd randomly placed some masking tape before I gessoed over the top.


Modeling paste applied. Not loving it at this point... and it all went down hill from there...



Sometimes you just end up with a mess. And have a lot of fun doing it! Sure, there was some frustration, but mostly I just laughed about it. Enjoy the process, learn, move on. YAY, ART!