SERENITY NOW!! canvas by Linda Pearson

Hey there, Bee Arters ....  

A quick post to showcase using the Buddha 2 – A4 mask and stencil from Michelle Grant's Silhouette collection.

Bee Arty Products used:  Buddha 2 – A4 mask and stencil and Life of colour pens - black

Other materials used:

30 x 40cm canvas

Large and Small  -  Flat artist brushes

Large and Small  -  Round artist brushes

Paint Palette

Acrylic Paints:  Violet, Magenta, Cool Red, Warm Red, White, Light Yellow, Black

The background requires lots of blending (large flat brush) starting with cool red across the top third of the canvas working down the canvas adding the warm red to the brush.  You may work in some white paint to the blending mixes to create lighter hues on the background.  Continue to work the magenta and violet/white mix colours blending as you go.  

Add some random blends of purple  and cool red over the canvas to create a textured look.  Dry off completely.

Moon - block in a circular moon shape, top of canvas, in white paint, dry off.  Next block in the moon shape with light yellow, dry off.   Mix white with light yellow add some texture to the moon,  swipe a touch of warm red to the light yellow mix.  With a flat brush drag  a small amount of yellow/red mix across the moon and spread past onto the sky.

Mountains - Violet mixed with a little black on small flat brush drag the brush across the middle of the canvas from left to right to create some mountain shapes.  Dry brush some light violet and magenta to create depth in mountains.  Dry off completely.

Foreground (Buddha and bamboo foliage) - Place the Buddha 2 – A4 mask and stencil onto the canvas then use the black Life of colour pen to trace the shape onto the canvas. Place the mask from the Buddha stencil, trace in the arms of the buddha.  Fill the silohouetted shape in black paint. 

Ground/bamboo - Add some rocks/ground around the bottom of the stencil and fill in with black paint also.  Use the small round brush loaded with black add bamboo stalks, add leaves to the stalks and grass strokes along the ground.  

Thanks for stopping by ...

Linda Pearson

linda@yourcreativepalette.com.au

Blue Eyes with Selena Stevens

Todays post is putting together an art journal page using only 5 colours, a couple of stencils and some collage.

Here is the video if you would like to watch a time lapse of me making it.

So, lets begin …

I started by applying the top layer of tissue paper to the journal page with matte medium.  Ensuring that there are no air bubbles.

I applied Black Heavy Gesso with a pallete knife through a stencil randomly over the page.

Using one of my new designs of stencil, I used a sponge to dab Black Heavy Gesso through the stencil to create an eye on each page.  When I flipped the stencil to do the opposite side I wasn’t too worried about the extra paint that may have been left behind on the page at this stage.

Colour Spray Lagoon was sprayed where the darker areas of the face would be.

White Heavy Gesso was applied to the lighter areas of the face with a brush and blended out to the darker areas.

I gave the face some pink cheeks using a small amount of paint with water added and blending it out to the side of the face and the nose.  I didn’t want the layers underneath obscured to much so I made sure that it was a thin layer.

A watersolouble pencil in a black was used around the eyes to add some depth and shading.  The pencil was activated with water and blended in.

To define the eye some more since they got lost a little with all of the layers, I placed the stencil over the eye again and went over it with Black Heavy Gesso daubed with a sponge.  This time I did make sure that the stencil was dry before flipping it over for the other side.

The last step was to add highlights with the white heavy gesso.

I hope that you enjoyed this.

Until next time

Selena