New Art 8x10 Mixed Media Canvas- The Owl Family

The first 2 photos are how this canvas started.

 So awful (in my opinion) but you have to go

thru the ugly phase to get to the end result. 

 

Below are the paper owls at the beginning,

cut out of patterned scrapbook  paper. 

I found templates online (Pinterest - love, love, love) 

for various Owls and modified them to make them my own.

Here are close-ups of the individual Owls.

 

And then the final piece.  Not my favorite piece but it was fun.

 

And of course I didn't realize the photos were

a tab blurry until uploading today, sorry.  You get the idea.  :)

Hugs,  Erin

"You Make Me Smile" - New Art Work on Canvas

And finally, the last of my set of three new pieces. 

"You Make Me Smile" is listed for sale in my Etsy shop.

 

 

 

 

Lots more art in progress to show you soon.

Hugs, Erin

Polly Red Owl - New Art on Canvas

This is the second of the three new pieces I completed in December 2012. 

This one is called Polly Red Owl.  She is listed in my Etsy shop.

 

 

 

 

Check back tomorrow for more...

Hugs, Erin

Melody Blue Owl - New Art on Canvas

 Happy 2013 Everyone!  I have taken a much needed break from doing too much over the last few months.  Work has been too busy, home life too busy and the holidays....well, you guessed it.  Too busy!!  I took a vacation from work and life to spend 2.5 weeks at home with my kids.  they are 15 and 18 yrs old now, they will be off on their own before I know it.  It was a lazy, sleep late, movie watching, book reading, game playing, shopping, organizing and crafting vacation.  Lots of quality time with the kids which was a just perfect.

 

One of the things I did was some new artwork.  This is the first in a set of 3 new pieces.

This one is called Melody Blue Owl.  She is listed for sale in my Etsy shop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check back tomorrow for more....

Hugs, Erin

Mixed Media on Canvas - Paint on Waxed Paper

A new mixed media piece done on a 8x10 canvas.  This piece was inspired by yet another online class I'm taking with Junelle Jacobsen. 



Close up of my new piece



Acrylic paint in varying shade were painted on wax paper

Wax paper was then cut into flower petal shapes (and leaves, not shown)



Corrugated paper was cut into vase-type shapes



Vase shapes were adhered with glue; flower petals and leaves adhered with gel medium;
vases painted with blue acrylic paint

 

Close up of a flower - this was stamped with word text, button glued to the middle,
black pen lined the petals and leaves for dimension with white paint pen added for highlight



Final piece - No title yet

Hope everyone had a lovely November (while I was busy with teenagers and chaos)!
Check back for tomorrow.  Hugs,  Erin

New Art Piece on Canvas- "Pink Lotus"

My New Art Piece on a 12x36 canvas called "Pink Lotus".  This was created as part of the Donna Downey "Canvas Create" workshop, which is a monthly art class for one year.  This was the session for August 2012.

This is the largest piece I've completed to date.  Most of the background was completed with Golden Fluid Acrylic Paint, Gesso and my fingers.   The black is Ink, drawn by hand with the dropper.  Probaby would be better to use a paint brush next time but oh well.

I absolutely love all I learned!

And the final piece!

Hope you are having a great week.  Tomorrow is Friday.........happy day!

Hugs,  Erin

Your Living Canvas - Art Journal - New Pages

This double page spread is part of Christy Tomlinson's Your Living Canvas Workshop.  It is about finding balance with our 6 F's- Family, Friends, Faith, Finance, Fun, Fitness.  I haven't really had time to do all the work for the class but love watching the videos from Christy and Art and learning new art techniques.  More soon my friends.

Hugs,  Erin

New Mixed Media Canvas - Red Blossoms

This is my newest Mixed Media 8x10 Canvas art piece.

Enjoy...I sure enjoyed creating it.

Hugs,  Erin

Mixed Media 10x10 canvas #1

Inspired by a Christie Tomlinson online tutorial which can be found here...

 

Mixed Media 10x10 canvas #1, originally uploaded by frenchieredhead.

New Mixed Media Painting - "Believe"

As part of the year long class "Create Canvas" by Donna Downey, this is my March canvas inspired by Donna.  You can check out her version of the Canvas for this month at Simply Me.



12x12 Canvas board
Board covered with gel medium and strips of torn unbleached muslin
Then covered with acrylic paint and then brushed with gesso

Fluid acrylic paint was added at top of canvas, water was spritzed to create drips
Mini pom-poms were hand-made then adhered with glue
Magenta fluid acrylic paint added to pom-pom's
White paint was dabbed in flower center, stems added with green paint




Added paper flower petals and buttons to pom-pom
Flower stem created with tightly rolled damp paper (then set to dry to hold twisted stem)
Once stemmed are dry, adhere with glue and then green paint added



Masking tape added for leaves on stems, covered with green acrylic paint
Words printed on standard copier paper, cut apart and adhered with gesso
Letter and words outlined with Faber Castell PITT black artist pen
White paint added to bubble wrap and pressed to canvas
Button middle created with black artist pen

Then the canvas just needed something else.....
Black India Ink was then splashed on canvas (a bit more than I planned)

I hope everyone is enjoying this lovely spring weather.  It sure is a mood-booster for me and makes me want to do some spring cleaning and reorganizing.

Hugs to all,  Erin

New 18x 24 Canvas Painting- in Progess

New 18x 24 Canvas Painting- in Progess, originally uploaded by frenchieredhead.

Be True to my Heart - Finished Canvas's

Here are photos of my creative process...Inspired by Donna Downey's Canvas Create series for February 2012.

The 3 photos below show:  

• addition of water-thinned Indian Yellow acrylic paint (on top of the original Magenta colored base) giving the background a funky orange with deep burnt orange undertones
• then Magenta acrylic paint was added to ridge around the heart and a water-thinned wash over the body of the heart
• then I made a circle template from a scrap piece of paper and painted the circle openings with Blue Green acrylic paint

The next two photos include:  

• the addition of masking tape
• white acrylic paint rubbed over the raised textured areas on the background
• a word stamp with white ink pad
• a flower/heart/butterfly image stamped first with black ink, then a white ink pad

Hmmmm....dislike those circles and the color of the paint in those circles, blah

And......also dislike the image stamp, ugh

In the photo below, I painted over the parts I disliked with a Turquoise acrylic paint mixed with gesso.

I was happier with the Turquoise color but added more thinned white gesso to lighten up the color a bit (see below).  I decided the masking tape looked too plain left untouched so that got a wash of Indian Yellow paint (below).  That made the tape perfect!  And I couldn't be finished there....

To add additional dimension I painted bubble wrap with black ink and pressed it down on a corner section.  Then I stamped the bubble wrap with a white ink pad and added that to each canvas. 

I added Indian Yellow paint over the white ink to one word on each canvas.  Then I added some blue liquid ink on an edge, turned the canvas so it would drip/run but I only ended up with a single line of ink.  Then I remembered seeing a video about blowing air through a straw to move ink around so I tried that (only without the straw - didn't have one) and look what I got....a cool scattered paint blotch.  

I am so happy with how these pieces turned out and am glad I did more than one so these can be sold as a set or separately. I am especially pleased with learning to use molding paste, gel medium, mixing color with gesso, fixing mistakes and how you can use masking tape and bubble wrap in the creative process.

So a big thanks to Ms. Donna Downey......she is a great teacher and inspiration.

Hugs to all,  Erin