Baseball Nut Icecream Bubbles

June 24, 2012
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30 days of creativity

On Friday July 6, 2012, 10 – 11.30am, I will be holding a bubble painting workshop at the Unley Town Hall, Oxford Terrace, Unley, South Australia. I’ll be there in my daggy painting clothes with a bunch of 7-13 year olds exploring bubble printing and the art we can create from it. It is part of a school holiday program, but for those of you don’t have children in that age bracket, you are surely welcome as spectators. Drop in and say hi :D

I preparation, I’ve dragged out the bubble paints and started creating again (after last week, which was pretty much a waste of space on all fronts, fall out from the nasty bug I had the previous week, I think) and since it is the Summer of Color and this week’s colour is due tomorrow, I chose to play with a deep purple, purple-pink, red and white – Baseball Nut icecream colours apparently (you guys in the US are spoilt for icecream flavours, I envy you this luxury :D ).

They were definitely fun colours and I’m happy with the prints I made. I haven’t done any final artwork on these as yet as it is so cold here, they are taking forever to dry properly. As it was I had to drag out my hairdryer to touch dry each layer before I printed the next. It turns out that air temperature and humidity are crucial factors in getting a good bubbleprint. An Adelaide winter appears to be not conducive to sharp printing.

I’m quite happy with my haul from today’s experiments. I plan to do more, plus attempt a large bubble painting, so more to come, but for the moment, here are my submissions for the Baseball Nut challenge over at Summer of Color.

Purple-pink-red 1 bubble painting

Purple-pink-red 2 bubble painting

Purple-pink-red 3 bubble painting

I definitely have some ideas for the second one. The others I’m still pondering. I quite adore the colours.

Here are a couple of close ups that caught my eye.

Purple-pink-red 1cutout bubble painting

Purple-pink-red 1 verso

This last one is from the back of the first bubble painting. It is caused by the card sliding across the top of the bubble pile. I think I’m going to have to have a go at creating such marks on purpose and see what I can do with them, because some of them are very interesting.

There is more to come in the near future on bubble painting here on this site. I have plans, so stay tuned :D If you are interested in the technique used in creating these paintings, here are several posts on that subject – Bubble Painting.

Best wishes,
Liz

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29 Responses to Baseball Nut Icecream Bubbles

  1. Paula McLane Jennings on June 25, 2012 at 1:14 am

    fun pieces! great job with the color inspiration!
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  2. Diana Taylor on June 25, 2012 at 6:12 pm

    Wow, great results and it takes me back to my childhood! Hope you have fun at your class.

  3. mandy snow on June 25, 2012 at 7:18 pm

    THIS IS BRILLIANT…I WILL CHECK OUT HOW YOU DO THIS I THINK COZ MY KIDS WOULD LOVE IT…THEY CREATE BEAUTIFUL PATTERNS…I LOVE THE BACK TOO…SORTA LIKE SUNRISE…XXX
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  4. Jan on June 25, 2012 at 7:23 pm

    Oh…these are amazing bubble prints ..you did a fantastic job with this weeks colours!! Jan x

  5. Virginia on June 25, 2012 at 7:30 pm

    Oh that’s beautiful, loving the colours such fun!

  6. BJ on June 25, 2012 at 7:58 pm

    Cool bubbles. BJ

  7. Mynx on June 25, 2012 at 8:52 pm

    I love your bubble painting and when the weather warms I shall give it another try.
    Oh I wish I wasn’t working when you are doing your workshop. Would be so much fun to sneak a peak of you at work getting messy
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    • Liz Powley on June 25, 2012 at 10:25 pm

      When the weather warms, we can get bubble paint together :D (and I reeeeeally wish the weather would warm, it’s frickin’ freezing at the moment…so bad that the bubble paint takes days to fully dry).

      Oh, and by the way, I’m loving your shed scene. You’re kinda challenging me to try a landscape. Other than one seascape sketch last year, I’ve never done a landscape and certasinly not in paint. Your’s is looking fab. Cansider me in the front row cheering with a couple of big ra-ra pom-poms in my hands :D

      Liz
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  8. pointypix on June 25, 2012 at 10:04 pm

    these are gorgeous – they remind me of some kind of exotically alien frog spawn!
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  9. Ritu Dua on June 25, 2012 at 10:16 pm

    Absolutely stunning work …the final result is gorgeous!
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  10. Caz on June 25, 2012 at 11:43 pm

    I’ve always wanted to try bubble painting! It looks amazing!!

  11. Bleubeard and Elizabeth on June 25, 2012 at 11:58 pm

    I am in love with these pages and am off to see the technique. I’m a background junkie, so you have truly piqued my curiosity. Since it’s HOT here, I think it’s the ideal time for whatever you must do to achieve success. It is gorgeous, however you make it!!
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  12. Shahrul Niza on June 26, 2012 at 12:38 am

    Super neat artwork!. Love how the bubbles of lovely colors captured on papers. IS it easy to make this? I love to try sometime :) . TFS.
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  13. Lisa WrightStuff on June 26, 2012 at 1:06 am

    Bubbalicious!
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  14. Marja on June 26, 2012 at 1:23 am

    This is so beautiful. LOVE the structure AND the colors. Marvelous work.
    Lovely greet
    Marja
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  15. Annette G on June 26, 2012 at 2:14 am

    Loving your beautiful backgrounds. Happy SOC, Annette x

  16. Valerie-Jael on June 26, 2012 at 2:58 am

    Wonderful bubble artwork! Valerie

  17. Kristin Van Valkenburgh on June 26, 2012 at 4:30 am

    xo!
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  18. MissyK on June 26, 2012 at 6:43 am

    Stunning and great fun too!

  19. Diane Salter on June 26, 2012 at 7:06 am

    Oh–I just love these!

  20. Carolyn Dube on June 26, 2012 at 7:28 am

    Oh, I wish I lived near you- this looks like it will be such fun!!! Love the patterns in these!!!

  21. Linda Breshears on June 26, 2012 at 10:06 am

    I saw this technique on Pinterest and have been wanting to try it out. I love the way yours came out. Beautiful colors, interesting design. I especially love the bottom one, it looks like boiling bubbles. ha-ha
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  22. Tracey Fletcher King on June 27, 2012 at 7:14 am

    bubble painting is such fun and I had forgotten all about it… a perfect way to use those pesky week three colours… xx
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  23. linda on June 27, 2012 at 9:59 pm

    These are amazing! Such color!
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  24. denthe on June 27, 2012 at 11:19 pm

    This is amazing! Beautiful results! thanks so much for the tutorial, I’ll have to try that out!

  25. Elisabeth R on June 28, 2012 at 5:10 am

    Hm…! This is very interesting and fun! I like it a lot! :)

  26. Kathy on June 28, 2012 at 10:57 am

    This is an awesome technique!! That third photo really speaks to me…

  27. Jo (fiddlesnips!) on June 30, 2012 at 3:24 am

    Oh yes, I like these!! These are a fab interpretation of this week’s SOC flavour. I will have to do some of these now, they are all brilliant and you’ve totally inspired me :o )
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  28. Stephanie Corder on July 1, 2012 at 12:37 am

    I LOVE the richness of color you achieved here- beautiful!
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