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I actually tried my hand at this ‘layering’ business. I’m pretty pleased with the result!

The idea for this painting started when I found a bunch of slides and wanted to do something with them. I sketched the girl and sheep when I was on holiday in Wales (how appropriate).

Materials used (LOADS! I’m sure I can’t remember all): Slides, plastic embellishments, acrylic paint, Mod Podge, scrapbook paper, tissue paper, beeswax, embossing powder, stickers, thread/wool

This girl, I want to learn from her and be as amazingly creative & dedicated!

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Just me rambling about this painting

The plan is to put these 35mm slides (that I painted and put little hearts and flowers on) in a row at the top and bottom of the painting.

Any suggestions on making the background more interesting/textured are welcome!

I did a few sketches and this was the one I liked best. Have already sketched it on a canvas as well (although I can never reproduce the same sketch twice!! And annoyingly enough I always prefer the original sketch grrr. But I’m over it). Hadn’t done much art for a few weeks (motivation is a big issue for me) so I’m pretty excited.

Andrew and I have been working pretty hard (last holiday we had was in October 2007!!) so we’ve been talking about going away for a week or so. I’d just LOVE to rent a cottage in the Lake District or something, bring all my art supplies and just spend some days making art, maybe watch some films and talk to Andrew. Just thinking about it makes me more relaxed and fills me with a sense of calm!

I’m gonna send this one to my gran as a present.

Click the pics for a bigger version!

I’m kind of experimenting with different ways of drawing. Trying to find my own ’style’ or something like that hehe. Haven’t got any ideas for a next painting yet but I know I want it to be more messy and have more materials incorporated!

I need to get some new acrylics though. The ones I have are about 4 years old and my favourite colours are starting to dry out. I think I want to try fluid acrylics (since I always mix mine with water anyway) but my art shop only sells Golden and that’s a bit outside my budget range! I think I’ll do some internet shopping, as I also want to get beeswax and mica powders. Can anyone recommend a good online place to order art supplies in the UK?

I finished a little painting the other week which I have yet to take pictures of. It’s a girl on a swing. Coming soon, I promise!!

I got some new canvases today! I got four, two are the same size as Girl and a Frog and two of them are slightly bigger. I am addicted to working on canvas now! It’s so freeing.

I did a little sketch of a boy & a girl who are getting married (because I’m getting married in a few months and we just got the invitations done so it’s on my mind!!) and that will be my next painting. I’m a bit scared of drawing a boy though.. eek.

If I’ve got a camera available I will be recording myself when I do that painting.

Also also, I asked at the art store for Mica powders and beeswax but they didn’t have any! It’s a bit of a straight laced store, not very mixed media friendly, much more focused on ‘traditional art’. I will do some internet searching for these goodies and order them soon as I especially can’t wait to try out some beeswax.

Started this on Saturday and finished it yesterday. This is heavily inspired by two lovely ladies, namely Suzi Blu and Miss Wonderful Tam!! Their videos and art have inspired me so much and without them I probably wouldn’t have made this big step of working on canvas! Thank you!

Materials used: Acrylic paints, watersoluble oil pastels, watercolour pencils, water colours, craft papers, foam, rubs ons and probably more but I can’t remember right now!!

You can click each picture for a bigger version.

For my next piece I’ve got this idea of a girl on a swing. I’m so motivated and inspired right now and I’m loving it!

Let me know if you have an art blog/website so I can link you!

Inspired by Suzi Blu’s prompt to ‘Start with a Flower‘.

This one doesn’t feel finished yet but I ran out of ideas.

Started a while ago, still in progress. I’m thinking of adding a little pocket where I can insert the little cardboard bit.

Andrew gave me a watercolour Moleskine and some awesome watercolour pencils (Faber-Castell. Love them, they are so soft) for my birthday. So I’ve been trying those out. I have to say I LOVE working on watercolour paper. It feels a lot more versatile than regular sketch paper.

Googly eyes!!

I’ve done some more art over the past few weeks. Not been too productive but I have some stuff to show you. I’ll post them as soon as I’ve managed to take some pictures. I got some new art supplies for my birthday so I’ve been playing with those. Fun!

I get annoyed with myself for not creating art more often but I guess doing it once a week is better than not at all! Hopefully I’ll get another video done sometime as well but I keep getting stage fright. Not about talking on camera but about recording my art, I feel too much pressure!

I also feel like I don’t have time. I know that’s bullshit, but you know how sometimes you know something in your mind but you don’t feel it in your heart? Well that’s what this is like. In reality I have heaps of time, but it feels like I hardly ever have time for the things I want.

So yeah, now I’ve got all the excuses out of the way I’ll go to bed and upload my art tomorrow!