Just a quick update before I dash to serve up dinner. My mermaid painting from this sketch last week which I did some more of during the week and today.
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Mermaid still in progress
Mermaid in progress
This is a follow up on my mermaid sketch from last Sunday.
I've started painting.
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S is for Stencil
I had a good time playing around in my journal and talking art today. Of course, instead of tackling my planned blog topic for today which had been 'sgraffito', I contented myself with playing with yesterday's embossing and stencilling experiments and arranging them in my journal.
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R is for Rubbing and Recycling
Several days ago I was rifling through the Net looking for a way to make my own stencils. My sister has been experimenting with stencils and moulding paste and has gotten some interesting results, so I wanted to try it out for myself. But although I have a handful of stencils here, mostly...
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P is for Passion (and Pastels)
How do you describe passion in art? How do you see it in a work? It is easy for me to see in writing. The words grab you and sweep you off to the world they are weaving...but art...how do I put passion into my art?
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M is for Mosaic
Do you remember those Butterfly Paintings back in B is for Butterfly? This is the next stage. Basically I created the butterfly painting in blues, let it dry, cut it up randomly with a pair of scissors, sorted the pieces by tone, painted a small canvas with graduated colour (see below for an in...
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K is for Knife
Yet another project I have stirring at the back of my mind. I have impasto gel, modelling paste and now seven new painting knives. Yes, seven, I don't do things by halves...especially when they are only $1 each - I didn't say they were expensive painting knives :D
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J is for Jewels
Jewels, glass beads, rhinestones or whatever you would like to call little bits of shiny glass, they are something I've had a recent interest in gluing to my artwork.
It started with a handmade book I made for my eldest daughter.
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H is for Happy
And Happy is exactly what I've been for the majority of this long weekend :D I've been merrily arting and blogging away on various projects and it has been great fun.
A couple of days ago I posted G is for Graffiti where I mentioned my first art journal page. It was based on street...
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G is for Graffiti
I had some great fun yesterday. Now considering the title of this post, you might wonder what I have been up to. But no, I'm far too much of a goody-two-shoes to actually go out and graffiti anything. But what I can do is a piece of artwork in the graffiti style...well, as close...
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