20 March 2012- Stencilled Butterflies

Another sample, this time I mixed Pebeo Modelling Medium with 3 colours of Pebeo Studio Acrylic Paint. I stuck the stencil to the background with masking tape and scraped the coloured medium over the stencil until there were no gaps. I removed the stencil and washed it straight away to remove the excess paint. I [...]

27 February 2012

This little painting was done with Koh-I-Noor dye watercolours , Zig felt pens and Lumiere metallic acrylic paints. I think that it has a lovely depth about it.

31 January 2012

This background was originally created with acrylic paint and a credit card. I took several photos and this was the result of playing with the “100 Cameras in 1″ app. I love the way it looks like painted glass.

25 January 2012

I really love this shot of my bedroom wall in the sunshine. It shows the copper acrylic paint wash to perfection. The artificial flowers look almost real in the suns glow.

23 January 2012

Today I am featuring the last close up of the altered painting. I’ve been living with it for the last fortnight and it’s still not gracing the wall. In fact there is an increasingly large number of pictures stacked against walls etc waiting for me to get my act together and hang them all. When [...]

18 January 2012

Here is another close up of my altered painting. All my students  have been very complementary about the finishing touches I have used to enhance it. I love the stenciled hearts the most I think, I did contemplate stenciling all of them but decided against it….. I’m glad I did.

14 January 2012

Here is a close up shot of the top section of the painting I altered recently. I love the blend of colours and the richness of the gold leaf which  I have tried to balance by adding Gold Touch around each heart. I also used Pearl White Touch to give dimension to the white lettering. [...]

15 February 2011

I made 5 Dream Journals today between 5pm and 7pm. I had great fun scrapping acrylic paint onto thin card. I used the left overs to cover the spines. There are only 3 pictured as I gave Leigh and Ann one each. We had great fun with Jade who joined us in a Dream Workshop [...]

5 February 2011

This little canvas is a work in progress. I started by stencilling some mid green acrylic paint through fine sequin waste over a paler yellowy green background followed by stencilled metallic acrylic leaves. I then painted some other complementary colours on top. It hibernated for a while until I had some snippets of organza and [...]

26 January 2011

Jade and I went shopping this afternoon to look for oil paint and glass cups for my liquorice tea, but somehow we ended up in a new KFC restaurant at Killingworth. I had some chips and a rather tasty chicken leg. Must say in comparison, McDonalds chips are much better.

20 January 2011

This is in contrast to yesterdays photo of the moon. Whilst talking to the lovely Linda this afternoon the sun was making it’s way across my newly painted bedroom wall. The beautiful painting was a gift from Linda when we first met whilst demoing  at an art materials show. It has adorned my headboard for [...]

18 January 2011

These are the finished art journalling diary pages. I used a punch for the scalloped circles of fairly stiff watercolour type card. It was actually a DIY calendar for 2009 that I failed to have ready for Christmas presents. Whoops! I did the same acrylic paint scrapping technique to create my journalling spots as I [...]

17 January 2011

Whilst teaching today I’ve been scrapping lots of different colours of acrylic paint into my new diary journal (it’s  ring bound A4 cartridge paper that I bought  in Paper Mill last year). I was browsing the net and I came across the idea of diary journalling which I thought would be fun. I have been [...]