Art journal illustration - Words & Paintery

Hello peeps,

Happy happy day today. Kids are back at school and finally found time to sit on my laptop and edit photos and videos.

The first piece I want to share is my DT inspiration as part of the Words & Paintery Team.  I love the reason behind this blog challenge and being a mixed media lover at heart, I really wanted to be part of this community and am very thankful to Marie Johansson for giving me this opportunity.

Considering how cold it has been here, I'm quite happy to be creating layouts about the beach and sunshine :) This journal entry started off with a collage on a piece of canvas, gesso on top and images from the Graphics Fairy. This site offers plenty plenty of free printables that you can use in your artwork.

Here is the challenge promt

you need to use both the inspiration words and the colours in the graphic.

The challenge starts mid month so you have until 15th of August to submit your entry.

Head over the Words and Paintery blog to see some mind blowing interpretation of the colours by the DT.

Thank you so much for visiting me today.

I hope you will drop by later this week to see the video that I'm editing today.

Cheers,
Kripa

Seahorse Monoprinting using Primary elements and silks

Hello friends,

Kripa here sharing the outcome of my playdate with the GelPress, so much fun and so addictive!

Here are the supplies used:
NEW Vivid Ultra Metallics- Silver, Jade
Silks: Azurite, Autum leaf, Bolivian blue
Primary Elements: Autumn Skies, Indian copper, Teal Zircon, Violet pearl, China black

Monoprinting is one of the most relaxing and enjoyable forms of art Ive come across. You can never predict the final outcome and that element of surprise is part of the joy of pulling a print.

For a tutorial of how to make this head to the Colourarte blog.

Have a great weekend,

Kripa

(VIDEO Tutorial) - GDT ARTastic June Challenge

Hello peeps,

I'm on the ARTastic blog today as Guest Designer sharing my take on their June challenge. For those if you that haven't visited ARTastic before - Jane Howden scores the web and shares one amazingly talented artist's work every month. This piece serves as inspiration and the basis of the challenge prompt for that month.

This months image is

The challenge prompt this month made me want to scrap a special photo. I've made layouts of this photo before, yet I want to make more. This photo is from the day my older son met his younger brother for the first time.

Let me try and explain how I’ve tried to express my emotions through colour & texture in this layout. When I look at this photo, time just stops for me (depicted by the black and white background) and I’m taken over by a feeling of love, joy and amazement (soft delicate – hand drawn flowers, lace, hearts, vellum) , probably similar to what my boys experienced that moment! The stars are my prayer to God to shower his blessing on my boys and our family.

Here is a video of how the page came together. The whole page came together in a couple of hours which is a first for me..... I take days to complete my layouts. My favourite part of the layout was making the puffy stars, the photo doesn't do justice to the gorgeous texture it created in the background.

Hope you enjoy watching. Thank you for stopping by today.

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Happy creating!

(VIDEO tutorial) : Mixed media Scrapbooking layout - Imagine

Hello friends,

I had a blast this long weekend and managed to make 3 layouts with videos....... eeeks!
I share one video today, the other two need to be edited.

This layout is based off inspiration from More than words

Word Inspiration - IMAGINE

Creative Challenge - GET MESSY

 and the color combination based on Lindy Stamp Gang mood board.

My son is a big time dreamer, loves pretend play and thankfully for the moment imagines more than monsters under his bed! So, I used it as the title for my page.

There are a lot of Crate Paper products in here - papers, chipboard, vellum and amy tan rub-ons and stickers. The colours are LSG magicals - Shabby turbine teal, rusty lantern lime and mist cotton candy pink. Ive also used Faber Castell gelatos in coordinating colours.

I hope you enjoy this video, would love to hear what you think of it. 

Cheers, 
Kripa
 

                                                 

Mixed media Canvas tutorial for Colourarte

Hello friends,

I have very happy news to share with you all - I will be designing for Colourarte for the next few  months! Here is my very first project with a tutorial on the colourarte blog.

Altered paintbrush using Colourarte primary elements

Off late, Ive been wanting to make projects with more meaning than just aesthetic appeal and so here is the story behind this canvas. There was a time when I would find inspiration in a lot of things around me and painted everyday. Along the way life happened (thread embedded in the texture paste) and I lost that mojo. This piece is a reminder to not given up and strive to find that part of me again (represented by the gears and clocks) , to create (paintbrush) and stay true to my inspiration (the markings on the butterfly) 

 

Its amazing the different shades of colour that can be made with just 4 pigments depending on  what medium you mix it with. The patina colour on the gears and the blue butterfly are made with same pigment - Autumn skies. 

I hope you take a few minutes to read the tutorial on the Colourarte blog and leave me your comments.

Thank you,

Happy long weekend NSWers 

&

Happy Creating,

Kripa

Mixed media canvas - Video tutorial - FLY

Hello Creatives,

Earlier this month, I decided to make myself a set of affirmation cards (it being my birthday month annal) and jotted down what to write on each card. Some were lengthy, some just a single word. Over the next few days/months the plan was to include them into ATCs or cards ...but instead, looks like I've created two canvases now (you can see the first one here).

Take1 of this canvas didn't quite turn out the way I wanted, so I started over and definitely like this one better. The good thing about take2 was I finally got the time (& courage) to ditch my DSLR and shoot with the iPhone instead. Lol. Here is the canvas made with pretty Maggie Holmes Bloom pattern papers, design memory craft gelato, a whole heap of blue mists and inks. To finish my current favourite- the fine line applicator to write 'fly' , which stands for First Love Yourself!

I hope you can spare a few minutes to watch me create and let me know your thoughts. Thank you :)

Linking this project to
All you need is love - Scrapki Wyzwaniowo


Words & Paintery - Design team call and challenge submission

Abstract lotus canvas / painting

Hi folks,

Last weekend I decided to try my hand at painting again and have actually given myself a little (huuuuge) challenge of making  100 paintings.. I may not be able to complete a painting a day, but the idea is to paint something every day - watercolour, acrylic, oil anything really. Inspiration for this piece started on ISD from this post on Finnabair's blog and I decided to paint a lotus because of the deep meaning it holds - rising above the mud to bloom requires great faith in oneself.

As luck would have it, when surfing the net for lotus stencils / sketch I came across Donna Downey's huge lotus canvas and also her '40,000 Facebook fans video' available in her store for free. Equipped with a whole heap of techniques, I began my painting on a 12inch x 16inch canvas (primed with gesso).
Painting the lotus was my biggest challenge - wanted to give the feeling of light falling from the top. This close up was taken on day2 towards the final stages of completion, you can see a lot of turquoise in the background which I later painted over.

The canvas started off with seemingly random strokes and splashes of paint and Finnabair modelling paste (coloured with acrylic paints). When I was happy with the mess, I wrote these words from the poem 'A Psalm of life' by H W Longfellow using a fine line applicator and blue India ink.

Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!

   Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Act,— act in the living Present!

   Heart within, and God o’erhead!

Let us, then, be up and doing,

   With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

   Learn to labor and to wait.

Then one part at a time I drew circles using the base of a mist bottle, the cap of a gesso tube and whatever circular stuff was on my table, covered the rest of the area in shades of blue. I also wanted the word act to show through, just lucky it happened to be near the lotus.

To finish , I highlighted some of the raised areas using gold acrylic paint and the same paint was used in a fine line applicator to write this on the lotus stem.

Act,— act in the living Present!

   Heart within, and God o’erhead!

Linking this project to Finnabair's ISD celebration - making a project with a quote.

Supplies from ItsyBitsy - Camel paint, fevicryl pearl paint, blue India ink