I Heart Bears
There's a new baby in the family so it's a perfect time to have fun with art. The layers were built up using paper scraps, acrylic paints, colored inks, stencils, and a lot of finger painting. 16"x 20" on paper.
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some girls love pink
This small (8×10) painting began with cutting small scrapbook papers of different sizes, adhering them with gel medium. Adding white gesso with a pallet knife gave the background texture. Acrylic paints applied with water were allowed to drip and pool. After allowing that layer to dry the next layer was created by adding paint applied…
Mixed Media Painting
The painting was done over a used canvas I wasn't happy with by first covering it entirely with white gesso. I had a textured base to build new layers on. Using acrylic paints, I added new colors and vinyl letters.
mixed media painting
Mixed media painting using hand carved block printing,acrylics,gesso for texture, charcoal,oil crayons,bubble wrap,
Mixed Media Owl
Bright oranges,pinks and yellows using acrylic paints. The textured areas were constructed with tissue paper and gesso. 11" x 17 on paper.
Be My Valentine
Inspired by those cute little candy conversation hearts.
Valentine Love
I like Valentine's Day. It's a cheerful pick-me-up in the middle of winter. For this project I started with a base of heavy watercolor paper and applied acrylic paints for the background. For depth, I stamped with bubble wrap using white gesso, then using a sewing machine zig-zag stitched around a small watercolor heart painted on…
Art Journal Flowers
My first attempt at art journaling. This mixed media page was created using gesso and acrylic paints with hand cut foam stamps and hand lettering with an ink pen.
Celebrate winter
Second in a series. Mixed Media using gesso,acrylic paints,waterproof ink, on discarded chunky bookpage. Living in a cold climate with little sunshine and very short days I often use bright colors in my work this time of year.
Celebrate Winter Solstice
Series of 2 mixed media paintings to celebrate the coming of winter. Painted on discarded chipboard book pages using acrylics,ink,typed text, and gesso. I welcome your input.