Tag: mixed media

  • Layers and Glazing

    Layers and Glazing

    Continuing on with the piece I started yesterday, adding layers of marks, symbols and glazing. Always make notes about how you did things, because the piece that inspired this is a spread in an art journal that I cannot remember for the life of me how I did it, but I’m having fun trying to…

  • Layering Not Myself

    Layering Not Myself

    I had a little more time in the studio today, so that was good. I have a block of watercolour paper that doesn’t like watercolour so I going to see how much of a beating it can take with mixed media. This has four layers before I got to the face, and it hasn’t rebelled.…

  • Saturday Storm

    Saturday Storm

    Storm Bert upended all the plans for today, and we haven’t departed yet. This meant I had time to put the finishing touches to this one, and although it’s not my thing, I like the end result. Til the morn, Suzanne 280/300

  • Watercolour and Mood

    Watercolour and Mood

    I was not in the mood today. I didn’t sleep very well, and I am minorly distracted by an upcoming wee trip, and knuckling down to anything wasn’t happening today. I did do a couple of rounds of fixing all the charcoal, pastel and graphite drawings I have done recently. Luckily it was dry outside,…

  • Grungey

    Grungey

    I finished the art journal spread with the abstract collage that I started yesterday. I made good use of the vermillion soft pastel that I bought recently to top up an order so as to get free postage. I’m a big fan of vermillion. This spread was inspired by a Jerney Marisha Let’s Face It…

  • Abstract Collage

    Abstract Collage

    Today was one of those days where I got up to lots of different things, but none of them are at particularly photogenic stages of development. I’m not averse to putting up bad art, but boring in-between stages where things are drying isn’t inspiring to blog about. So, here’s a bit of an in-progress art…

  • Foreshortened

    Foreshortened

    I have a stack of unused canvases that should be embarrassing, but they’re not. I do seem to have acquired an excess of little 6″ square ones, tho. I think they are a nice size for friends and family to pick up as gifts for me, and I am never, ever going to say no…

  • Let The Paint Flow

    Let The Paint Flow

    I’m firing on all cylinders today, and I’m thoroughly thankful for such a productive and enjoyable day. I painted all day. I painted all day. I’m savouring that, it was perfect. I prepped four wood panels that are potentially going to become paintings for an art call. I have no idea what I want to…

  • Feet

    Feet

    I did not spend a lot of time on art today, but I did bring this little project along a bit. I was hoping to get it finished, but that didn’t happen. I had to laugh tho, because the other day I prepped a bunch of surfaces for painting, and today there’s an artist call…

  • The Pixies Were Here

    The Pixies Were Here

    I spent today doing lots of surface prep, which means there’s basically some substrates with gesso, medium, or tinted gesso, which aren’t very exciting to post on a blog. I also spent a considerable chunk of time hunting for a small stash of collage pieces that I mislaid at some point. They’re for a specific…

  • Layers

    Layers

    I did not have a lot in the tank today, and just did a bit of work on this mixed media on cardboard project. Til the morn, Suzanne 259/300

  • Second Pass Colour Play

    Second Pass Colour Play

    I continued playing with this little painting, adding some colour in a very limited palette, and using fluorescent magenta as the mother colour. Til the morn, Suzanne 242/300