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

Painting in progress

I finally watched the August Canvas Create class

 by Donna Downey. I am working on a 12x36 Canvas

and loving it. Here a few photos of the process so far. 

Hopefully more painting this evening!!

Step one, paint on a big canvas with your fingers

And here is the first layer of paint

And now a second layer of paint

And a third layer ...free hand drawing with ink 

and then more paint with stencils

Hope you are enjoying your long Labor Day weekend
 (for those in the US).
Hugs, Erin

New Canvas Painting - Untitled - Inspired by Donna Downey Canvas Create series

Donna Downey is very inspirational and I just love her Canvas Create series. 

One class per month for a whole year.  Woo Hoo!

Below is Donna's piece for the May - Canvas Create class

Below are photos of my version for the May Canvas Create class.

I used similar colors and started with a black canvas.

I used black acrylic paint as my base as

I didn't have black gesso on hand.

I wasn't sure I would like the black base

so didn't want to buy more supplies until I tried it out.

I was very happy with the final piece and like working over a black background. 
The black definitely gives dimension and depth to your paint.
These classes are helping me develop my own style. 

Hugs,  Erin

New Painting - 8x10 Canvas Panel- Happy Growth

New Art - 8x10 Canvas Panel- Happy Growth, 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