I’ve used this method many times, and it always is fun, easy, and looks great when finished. It is quick, and easy to create something last-minute. My hope is that if you have some last-minute gifts to create, you might consider this technique.
Cigar boxes, regular boxes, maybe glass jars, this could be used with just about anything. Step outside the box, and let your must enter…… The sky’s the limit!
Bits & Pieces 2 – Mixed Media
After creating several pieces for the last month or so, today I find myself with a lack of inspiration. I’d love to be cutting, ripping, glueing, and piecing things together, but for now I’m out of inspiration. It won’t take long I’m sure, but I feel lazy. This must be a day for replenishing inspiration, and the energy for creation.
Monday is a free day for me. Nothing goes on the first day of the week, except…..art! So, I’m thinking of looking through the YouTube videos for ideas and inspiration in hopes of finding something that will trigger my imagination.
The piece above is one of the last few things to be created. I have to chuckle at how I start something with the intention of going in a certain direction, and before I realize it, I’ve made a turn, and the direction has changed 360 degrees. This is one of those pieces. After dragging out all the “stuff” for the intended piece, I now have to put it all away. The only thing that was intended was the color. Yay for me!
If you get a chance check out Zebra Designs & Destinations… see what they have been up to in Equador.
A collage of scraps
These last couple of weeks, I’ve been spending time gathering my embellishments. This really means that I’ve been stamping deli paper, layering the best paper towels, & starting to put papers together so when I start assembling the mixed media piece, I’ll have choices!
Paper towels colored, & covered
What do you mean choices?
Skins
Since I’m work intuitively, as most abstract artists do, I never know what direction I’m headed until the piece tells me the direction! This could mean it pulls together fast and easy, or…..it could mean hours of agonizing decisions. This is usually determined by my brain; you know right brain, or left brain. The minute I start analyzing my work, I might as well stop. I’ve slipped back into my left brain, and it’s all over for the day!
Stamps on Deli wrap
Somehow, when I’m just playing with embellishments, in my mind it doesn’t matter. It seems easier to create something that may or may not be used. Or, it may be used in part, the rest being left for another creation. See…easier!
Soaked egg carton, flattened for texture…..we’ll see!
All this has been created in the name of embellishments. Even at that, it may be covered with gesso, or a semi opaque color so just a little will see through.
These six squares, all painted on brown paper, is in part my attempt at playing like a kindergartener! Will it work, we’ll see. It looks a little rippled. When torn up , or cut up depending, it will probably lay flat. But, it’s not finished yet. I’m just getting started, and I never know where I’m going until I get there!
A cold wax, and oil paint demo from Kim Sobat. I have looked all over YouTube for a simple explanation of using these two mediums together, and this is it. I hope you find it interesting, and useful. So far I’ve tried it on a watercolor painting I just finished, an acrylic abstract, and recent oil painting to help preserve it. The watercolor painting, and the oil did well. However it seems to me that it just presents more problems for an acrylic painting. The one thing I haven’t tried is mixing the cold wax with the acrylic as I’m using it. Rather than trying it on a painting, I think it might be better trying it on a small sample of watercolor paper. What do you think?
As Kim’s work continued, I slowly began to see what he was trying to achieve.
Each time he put another color on his paper, I thought….hell no! But as it progressed I could see where he might be going with it. Then as Kim finished it up, I began to really like the completed piece.
Maybe it’s worth trying cold wax again!
20 x 20 canvas
I just finished my latest painting… It started out with the intention of being rocks, and before knew it, the painting was telling me this wasn’t rocks, but people. Every intuitive artist knows, they don’t know what a painting is going to look like when it’s finished. For that matter, they don’t know if it’s even finished. We can always go further, or go too far, and that I guess is up to the artist.
Presently I have another on the easel, and it’s telling me to STOP! So, I’m watching it to see if it tells me anything else. They are so picky, and bossy these paintings.
If any of you have ideas about the title, please let me know. I need to name it!
After searching around YouTube for a bit, I ran into this video, and it sparked my interest. I thought the artist that paints the dogs was amazing. Although I don’t paint like this, & I’m not really shure what my style is, it triggered my interest, and I thought you might be interested as well. I hope you enjoy.
Old as Dirt and Proud of it! 
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